one begins to feel old when their own history becomes "forgotten history that deserves to be remembered"
@johnc7512
2 жыл бұрын
Truth. Lol..
@AngiesCousin
2 жыл бұрын
Oh my lands, you're right.
@JeepWrangler1957
2 жыл бұрын
Word.
@btonedefable
2 жыл бұрын
I felt the same when I went to an antique store and most items were from my childhood. I was like excuse me these aren't antiques... They looked at me in that way and reality slapped me
@sportdriver
2 жыл бұрын
For me its when I hear "my music" referred to as classic rock...
@crustycurmudgeon2182
2 жыл бұрын
My first 8-track player (bought for way too much money!), was a used unit from a friend. I stuffed it into my glove-box. One day, rollin' down the road, it started sounding funny... then... a thick plume of smoke poured out of my glove-box. Both player and tape were now toast. And that's history that IS remembered!
@dhart28
Жыл бұрын
As a teen in the mid 70s, my cars had 8 track stereos. They would occasionally unwind inside my players. I guess I was cheap, and liked a challenge, so I began opening up the cartridges to see how they worked. It didn't take me very long to figure them out, and begin repairing my tape cartridges.
@craigschneider1820
Жыл бұрын
Replace "occasionally" with "frequently".
@gregh7457
Жыл бұрын
you must have bought the pirated $1.99 specials at the convenience stores. those things were so cheap
@nommadd5758
Жыл бұрын
Same here. I went on to repairing the playback decks as well. A lot of dirty heads and drive parts, broken drive belts, burned output circuits and so on.
@semperfi-1918
Жыл бұрын
I had one in my 77 mercury couger with 100 8tracks. This was 2005-2006
@bobblowhard8823
7 ай бұрын
You are THE MAN !
@pamelasmith7740
Жыл бұрын
My Granddad Robert Howard Lane came home from Germany after WWII and worked with his Father in construction. Great Granddad Howard owned a machine that manufactured concrete blocks. While working on a scaffold, it collapsed and he became paralyzed from the waist down. While recovering he took mail order lessons on radio and television repair. Once he became mobile driving his station wagon with the aid of a yard stick, he opened his own business Lane's radio & television sales & service. He also partnered with Bud Harrison selling television towers while Bud handled installation. Before 8 tracks became available in home stereos he built a portable 8 track player for my Mother that she could plug in to a 110 outlet anywhere she wanted to go. Thank you for sharing this bit of history. Granddad would have loved your channel. With every new innovation in broadcast technology I see, I always wish he could be here to see it too. He lived a good life despite being paralyzed for 61 of his 89 years.
@johnwhitley2898
2 жыл бұрын
OMG dude 😎!!!!! Dad and I had an 8-trak player in every car, truck, camper, travel trailer, and motorhome he owned as well as a "BOX" of tapes....!!! What a crazy Time! I had a stash box of recorded and custom tapes when my buddies and I blasted away from the house on our own!!! I still have the car player and I gave one of the house units to my brother (his was broken...) , and the older brother found a retired electronics specialist that repaired his and our brothers unit, just to keep the music going!. I led the change though and bought a serious AM/FM cassette unit and then another and both brothers followed the trend....CD players next, and so on. However, we kept our maintained 8-Trak car players in our HotRods, just for the sake of nostalgia. Nothing says "Tunes" like that big ole tape! Of course we all bought quick release slide mounts, plugs and a fitted box for taking them out of the cars, along with the tape box. Keeps them working and safe. This is a blast! Thanks for doing this episode big chunk of our lives!👍👍👍
@RockinRobbins13
2 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid all my friends had 8-track players in their cars, mostly that really cool Craig floor mount player. Me? I had an 8-track, but instead of buying tapes I bought a Radio Shack tape splicing kit. When my friends' 8-tracks ate the tape they'd give it to me when they bought another tape. I had a great collection of free music, thanks to a sharp eye, a Radio Shack splicing kit and the ability to resurrect dead tapes. Some of them worked for years after I fixed them.
@goodun2974
2 жыл бұрын
Tape has become something of a lost art except for aficionados who keep the format alive. As an electronic technician and (very) amateur guitarist I still think that a tape echo device such as an Echoplex, Eccophonic, or Roland Space Echo are the coolest sound processing devices ever built. Where would rock and roll be without Scotty Moore using a tape echo device for the slap-back sound on all those old Elvis Presley records?
@thetrumpnewsnetwork7503
2 жыл бұрын
yeah everyone wanted a Craig
@ronfullerton3162
Жыл бұрын
I had a Craig unit also. Never really had as much problems as others had. Just took some extra precautions that seems to save having problems later.
@stuartriefe1740
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in ‘58 and my first car was a ‘68 Pontiac LeMans, bought in 1975. I immediately bought an 8 track player and installed it on the hump between the bucket seats, on a wood base I made to fit the contour of the hump. I LOVED that player and that car. The only drawback is that I still remember the exact spot on several longer songs where you heard the “clunk” as the machine switched tracks. They just became part of the song in my brain 🧠 and my brain still expects it!
@bloodybones63
2 жыл бұрын
I too, was born in 1958, & my first car, in 1974 was a 1968 SS 396 Chevelle. My friend's mom owned an electronics store in our little town. He sold me a new Craig 8 track player for $10. Installed it in the knee beater position, & had some great tunes! I hated the pause & clunk right in the middle of 'The Bitch is Back.'
@PetCactusA_HarmlessLittlePrick
2 жыл бұрын
Do you add the "clunk" to those songs on karaoke night?
@bloodybones63
2 жыл бұрын
@@Chuck_W59 I read your comment & glanced over at my BTO & Grand Funk Railroad cassettes in the corner.
@michaelparks3106
2 жыл бұрын
The mastering of 8 tracks was pretty spotty back in the day. Sometimes they would re-arrange the song order into 4 even groups to fit the 4 channels, which ruined concept albums where the songs, in order, told a story. Sometimes they would just fade a song out in the middle, change channels, then fade it back in, which pretty much ruined whatever song got chopped in half.
@newmanoutdoors1564
2 жыл бұрын
Born in 62 first car was a 67 turtle green mustang and the first thing i got for it was a 8 track player . that was i think 1979 guys .
@tadroid3858
2 жыл бұрын
"Switched on Bach" was the 1st 8-track I listened to, and I've purchased it on every format since!
@paulthepainter2366
2 жыл бұрын
I've recorded over that reel to reel tape
@TheRealBrook1968
2 жыл бұрын
My favorite LP was A Fifth of Beethoven. I had my own wooden cabinet stero from the 60s in the basement but turned it up to 11 on my father's forbidden Solid State wedge shaped player when left alone at the house. Almost 50 years later and they still have the same stereo.
@michaelbrooks9647
2 жыл бұрын
E Power Biggs is smiling at you, while playing Joy
@nofaith5994
2 жыл бұрын
On the Moog synthesizer - a GREAT album. Had it on vinyl.
@jacksoncz8536
Жыл бұрын
@@nofaith5994 Me too along with the same album done by instruments It was great
@CheckThisOut77
Жыл бұрын
Bonus: There were also 4-Channel Quadraphonic 8 track tapes. This was the ULTIMATE car audio experience. There were FOUR different sources of music for the same musical piece. This did mean that there were 1/2 as many songs/selections on a single 8-track tape…but it was worth it!!
@JW6512-y2w
Жыл бұрын
I had one, they were great!
@timengle9518
Жыл бұрын
And before the 4 track there was morello record player
@tobyihli9470
Жыл бұрын
You have a great way of telling these stories. Your story is “History that deserves to be remembered!” Best of luck, to you!
@AngiesCousin
2 жыл бұрын
After my dad passed in 2017, we found many 8-track tapes (one was Santana) and player. He had CD's, cassettes and vinyl but forever loved his 8-track.
@jamesslick4790
2 жыл бұрын
Cool! I have Santana's "Abraxas" on both 8-Track and LP! Your dad had TASTE!
@imir8atu321
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent
@stubryant9145
Жыл бұрын
I knew about the four track, have actually seen and heard them. But I had mistakenly thought Lear invented them, had no idea Muntz was the actual inventor. I stand corrected.
@richardmartin7824
Жыл бұрын
Angie, I understand well.
@DeereX748
2 жыл бұрын
I had a Chevy van when I was in high school. The radio didn't work, and I installed an 8-track with speakers in the front and back of the van. I eventually had three big 24-cartridge boxes to hold all my tapes, and always had something good to play. I bought a new car at 19 that had neither a radio or tape deck, installed the deck but never messed with the radio. 8-track tapes defined my music life as a teenager. There are songs I listen to today, 50 years later, where I still anticipate the fade-out-*click*-fade-in of the track change that I was so used to back then.
@ronfullerton3162
2 жыл бұрын
I still expect that click or warble on a tape when listening to a favorite song. Funny how that stays with you.
@boblangill6209
2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't a click but a CLUNK on the 8-track player I had. Never did develop a tolerance for it. In fact, it actively irritated me that the companies who recorded them couldn't be bothered to tweak gap times so switching occurred between songs instead of the middle of them.
@geoffallan3804
2 жыл бұрын
@@boblangill6209 - like in the middle of Hey You on The Wall...
@judsonr1
2 жыл бұрын
We didn’t always have money for family trips, but when we did they were memorable. One such trip found us driving to New Mexico, three teenagers in the back seat of my dad’s Bonneville, and the 8-track of Dueling Banjos stuck in the player. It was either us complaining, or the 8-track; that was it. After two days, and my father basically disassembling the dash as he drove, the tape ejected! It was the only time I saw my father litter. Somewhere along I-25, near the Colorado border, I’d like to think that bit of our family history, is just waiting for its next family. Love the car history stories; my day is already better because of this one.
@clark9992
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, something you used to see frequently back in the day, was yards and yards of audio tape on the sides of roads. Although I seem to remember they were usually attached to cassette cartridges, as opposed to 8 tracks.
@donalddodson7365
2 жыл бұрын
@@clark9992 Yah, the 8 tracks flew further from the road when hurled out of a moving automobile. 😎
@TheAnimeist
2 жыл бұрын
It's not litter, when it's for your health and sanity.
@1joshjosh1
2 жыл бұрын
Let's go find it!!!
@Dr_Reason
2 жыл бұрын
I got Boston's and Alabama's first albums from the roadside store. Rewound them both. Nice finds for a kid.
@johnburris7711
Жыл бұрын
No doubt about it. Top 40 hits with LOTS of commercials gave way to Bob Seger Night Moves, or The Cars first album without interruption. Or Billy Joel’s 52nd Street… So pleased with my player in 1979!
@urbanurchin5930
Жыл бұрын
side note : I seem to recall that Billy Joel's "The Stranger" was the first album commercially released on CD !
@someguy2135
Жыл бұрын
No interruptions except when the track changed in the middle of the song- "Ca-Chunk!"
@izzzzzzzzzzzie
Жыл бұрын
@@urbanurchin5930 Pirates by Ricky Lee Jones may have soon followed, it was an all digital recording, Ry Cooder I believe one of the first artists to use digital.
@eddieboggs8306
Жыл бұрын
@@someguy2135 Hated that!
@someguy2135
Жыл бұрын
@@izzzzzzzzzzzie Sounds right. Dire Straights too, I think. I don't remember the title, but the cover had a photo of a Dobro.
@matthewcrowley9204
2 жыл бұрын
My first stereo (a Soundesign unit - there's a name you rarely hear nowadays) had an 8-track player/recorder in it; I used to record LPs (sometimes a whole LP, sometimes specific songs) onto 8-tracks I could then play in my car or at home when I felt like listening to a mix. The thing I remember about 8-tracks is that from a physical design point of view, after many playings one of two things had to happen: (1) the tape had to stretch, thus affecting (negatively) the sound, and/or (2) the tape had to break. The reason being that as the spool of tape spun to let out tape from the spindle, it was taking up more tape on the outer edge of the wound tape with each revolution. I think the record companies would wind them loosely so as to lengthen the time before that would happen, but if played enough times the stretch and/or break would occur. I fixed a number of 8-tracks where the tape had broken by opening them up, splicing the tape, and reassembling the case. (My splice was really high-tech: scotch tape on the back side of the 8-track tape where it was broken... LOL).
@lucianprescott8357
Жыл бұрын
I had a Soundesign as well in 1972.
@Perfusionist01
2 жыл бұрын
That brought back a lot of memories! I lived through the revolution. I was a teenager to early 20's during the rise and rule of the 8-track and my father was a early convert to the medium. I went through after-market players, to built-in types, and through home recorder/players. Thanks for the nice episode.
@HemlockRidge
2 жыл бұрын
I can remember my Dad getting an "Auto-Reverse" cassette player and gleefully junking his 8-Track. He let my friends have whatever 8-track tapes they wanted. He had a Kenwood cassette recorder on our home stereo, and made all of his cassettes. It was MUCH better.
@thumbwarriordx
2 жыл бұрын
Auto-seek was a massive feature for cassettes when it became cheap. But for all our autoshuffle technology these days there's something to be said for pushing the listener to just play an album in order.
@psikeyhackr6914
2 жыл бұрын
Did he have the record bias adjusted for the tape he used? It could make a big difference.
@spikespa5208
2 жыл бұрын
My older brother had a 4 track. Odd lever to pinch tape between rubber roller(in the machine) and drive capstan. Had about 8 tapes. Wish I still had it.
@tarstarkusz
2 жыл бұрын
No it wasn't "MUCH better." People trash 8-track because it's ugly. All those freaky colors and the bubbling glue just makes it ugly. But the sound quality was excellent and sounds better than a type I cassette (with or without Dolby). It moves twice the speed as a cassette and has much less hiss. The main weak point of wow and flutter inherent in a never ending loop was FAR less an issue back then because the tapes were new. There are several inches of difference between where the tape pulls off and where it is pulled back onto the reel. This differential causes the tape to tighten, which is why they had a graphite lubricant on them.
@psikeyhackr6914
2 жыл бұрын
@@tarstarkusz Cassettes were much better. Most people did not get the high frequency bias adjusted for their tape. Wow & flutter was always crappy on 8-tracks and since there was no rewind trying to adjust the bias was nearly impossible.
@ralphmills7322
2 жыл бұрын
I added an 8-track stereo player in my first car (post HS) an 8 year old dodge. I remember having to mount it under the dash along with the two speakers. The build in AM radio only had one speaker that opened thru the top of the dash. I ran the 8-track system for four years all that time I only had eight tapes (the tape box had ten slots and one slot held the cleaner/demagnetizer cassette and another held the cleaning fluid bottle.) Most of them were compilation/greatest hits albums I bought at yard sales. I learn quickly to bring the tape box inside if parked at home/school/work anytime when outside temps were below 40*F or above 90*F. Also in winter I learn to run the car heater at least twenty minutes before even attempting to insert a tape.
@dave3657
2 жыл бұрын
I ordered an AM/FM/8-track in dash unit for my Pontiac from JC Whitney. Then I bought an. 8-track/cassette adaptor so that I could play everything.
@Trygon
2 жыл бұрын
@@dave3657 I've never heard of cassette to 8-0track adapters, but it makes perfect sense and I can see pictures on EBay. I wonder if the cassette is the most-adapted format? Might be a worthwhile bit of history for our host to explore.
@lancerevell5979
2 жыл бұрын
In the late 1970s, I put an adapter in both my AMC cars -1968 Javelin and 1968 AMX 2-seater. It connected to the AM radio and converted it to FM. I also had separate Cassette players under the dash.
@coleparker
2 жыл бұрын
I had one in my 66 Mustang. Tape stretch or breaking was a main problem back then.
@coleparker
2 жыл бұрын
@@dave3657 I had an adapter myself for my 66 mustang. I loved the cassettes as they could hold more songs, but I did not like the fact that unlike my 8 track, I could not skip to a different track, but had to listen to a whole side.
@AbbyNormL
2 жыл бұрын
I added an 8-Track player and FM converter to my first car in 1977, along with another iconic staple from the post “Smokey & the Bandit” era, a CB Radio. Of course, my back seat was full of those huge 8-Track tape storage cases. I didn’t feel old until you said your first memory of the 8-Track was in your MOM’s car. I served on a submarine and when the Sony Walkman came out I would buy albums, copy them to cassettes and would take about 100 on each patrol.
@fredmartine674
Жыл бұрын
I remember when the rock band KISS was on 8-Tracks. Life was simple and fun during those times, I would go back to that era if there was a time machine..
@discodirk48
Жыл бұрын
Because the period between 64-84 was the summer of our generation and when the illusion of freedom was at it's highest. Every generation is made of 4 turnings or cycles or seasons where spring and summer are all about growth and prosperity and fun and fall and winter are about receding falling and death. All goods things must come to an end they say and now we are the end. Show is over say good bye.
@ApolloCDR
8 ай бұрын
My first rock album was a Kiss album (their first self titled album) my mom got for one Christmas. It was a two 8-track cassette set that she purchased to go along with the turn table, cassette, radio player my father got for me that same Christmas.
@ronkemperful
2 жыл бұрын
My first experience with 8-track tape was riding with a neighbor to church in his Cadillac, listening to Johnny Cash. It was a marvel to hear stereo music for the 1st time… in an automobile!
@chrisvandecar4676
2 жыл бұрын
Ah, the time and money I spent recording albums to cassettes, cds to cassettes (for car use) and so on. Finally have everything on a $10.00 usb drive that fits into my truck stereo. Sad? A bit but also amazing!
@neilschlemeel5751
2 жыл бұрын
I only use android phones so I can stick a 256 gb micro SD card in it with 900 CDs worth of music on it. I still have 3 nice cassette decks & a couple turntables but I'll take the quality of CDs & 320kbps mp3 files over them both
@johndunkle472
2 жыл бұрын
@@neilschlemeel5751 I have a Ipod classic 160 GB with 18,000+ songs. It is still going strong. I like collecting music. I try not to think how much money I have spent over the last 13 years on I-tunes. Now when I put a want list together on I-Tunes and spend too much money buying the music I swear I need to stop buying music. I wait a month or so and get bored. I go on I-tunes just to check it out and before I know it I have another want list with 200 dollars worth of songs again. I think I have an addiction. But an addiction buying music is a lot healthier than if I was addicted to drugs or alcohol.
@johnnyd63
2 жыл бұрын
BUT...a USB in nowhere near the fun of playing 8 tracks.
@chrisvandecar4676
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnnyd63 Nothing quite like jamming to your favorite tune and having to wait for the track to shift right in the middle of your jam!😀
@mikes4357
2 жыл бұрын
I’m embarrassed to admit how much money I spent on my first home CD player😢
@PlanetEarth3141
2 жыл бұрын
That brings me tears as I think of my happy youth of freedom and fun. Now a happy day is one that doesn't start with an aching back and an aspirin. Then again, I've already out lived most of my peers.
@FeatnikSF
Жыл бұрын
My mother used to tell me "first you outlive your friends, then you outlive your money". She lived to be 97.
@PlanetEarth3141
Жыл бұрын
@@FeatnikSF That's long time to go without money. I'm going to assume her children took care of her as should happen in a family. After all, if you had no mother you wouldn't be alive and she assumably took care of you first. Hopefully she also had many friends.
@danielperry6692
2 жыл бұрын
At 51 years old, I was weened on 8 track. My older brother cranked lots of Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath etc, in his old Torino. I still listen to 8 tracks today! Definitely a nostalgic format but I still love that analog sound. Great video History Guy!
@fatalcoolfatalcool
Жыл бұрын
Me too. I have hundreds of them. A bunch of players too.
@JimDean002
Жыл бұрын
61 here. I wore out the heads on at least one eight-track deck in my charger
@PoesRaven73
Жыл бұрын
You don’t get weaned ON to something. The definition of “wean” (the correct spelling) is: Wean is also used figuratively to mean to acclimate someone to doing without something that they have become dependent on.
@talon1706
Жыл бұрын
@@PoesRaven73 Lol.
@Mick_Aus
Жыл бұрын
@@PoesRaven73 You must be fun at parties... 🎉🪅🎈
@bobblowhard8823
7 ай бұрын
I had a Pioneer 8-Track player in my 1968 Mercury Montego MX station wagon. I had quite a selection of 8-Track tapes too. To this day, I have no idea what happened to my tape collection. Of course, once the cassette player was introduced, that was the end of the 8-Track.
@FusionMonkey847
2 жыл бұрын
I remember my parents buying a Quadrophonic stereo in 1971. It had a built in 8-track player and the sample they gave us was "Big Band Moog". I will never forget that music! Later my dad added an 8-track player to his custom 1976 GMC van. And then when I got my first car at 16, the first thing I did was slap an 8-track player in it. My car was littered with 8-track cartridges, on the seats and under the seats. Those were some great years!!
@r.blakehole932
2 жыл бұрын
I installed an 8-track player in one of the vehicles we owned in the 1970's. I loved it. As long as your speakers were decent it played great music. The only problem was the occasional eaten 8-track tape when required a lot of fine needle nose extraction of consumed 8-track tape.
@nancyk3615
2 жыл бұрын
Those 8-tracks were the "thing" when I was in high school in the 70's The better quality ones had felt instead of a cheap piece of foam on the heads. The iconic "click" between channels was cool....I've come across them at estate sales, along with 78's.
@RonSparks2112
2 жыл бұрын
I well remember that KER-CHUNK in the middle of a long guitar solo.
@jamesslick4790
2 жыл бұрын
@@RonSparks2112 I play keyboard and sing (Definity NOT professionally, More like high-level Karaoke,LOL) I once recorded a song and while editing it, I faded the audio about 2/3rds in, Then I dubbed in the sound of an actual 8-Track deck switching the channels with a nice, healthy ker-chunk. Then a faded the remainder of the tune! All for my own silly amusement! I wonder if any REAL recording artist thought of that or even has done it. Would be perfect for a 70's tribute band!
@MrNeptunebob
2 жыл бұрын
We had a Chevy Nova with an 8 track and the click was more like a "thud" that actually shook the car! My sister had a Sears at home 8 track tape player and when you would pull the tape out it went "wing" because it felt so cheap.
@Pootycat8359
2 жыл бұрын
Remember "Loctal" tubes? They were used in car radios. The tube base was similar to that of the Octal, but the center post had an indentation that snapped into a retaining clip in the socket, which securely held the tube, so it wouldn't work loose when the car went over a rough road.
@awolfalone2006
2 жыл бұрын
Bill Leer is worth an episode himself. Had his hands in a lot of things.
@brucelytle1144
2 жыл бұрын
Lear
@timothykeith1367
2 жыл бұрын
Bill Lear and friend Elmer Wavering of Quincy, Illinois developed a car radio just for their own entertainment . Lear was from nearby Hannibal MO. The two approached Paul Galvin with the concept. Wavering remained with Galvin and eventually became president of Motorola. When you listen to radio in your car today, chances are the radio broadcast equipment was developed in Quincy Illinois. In the early years of radio the cost to enter the manufacturing side of the radio business was relatively low. Few big companies initially saw radio broadcasting as anything than a fad
@LatitudeSky
2 жыл бұрын
@@timothykeith1367 Motorola deserves a huge place in history for doing things nobody else even thought of, and yet once it had been invented, nobody could imagine not having.
@scrunchgumpgins4711
2 жыл бұрын
I read on some website that he tried developing an endless loop wire recorder, don't know how true that is though.
@glassdave
Жыл бұрын
absolutely. Bill Lear could comprise an entire series. I have a forward nose hatch cover hanging in my shop from a 23 that was born in the same time frame i was. 😁
@skyden24195
2 жыл бұрын
My dad had a home 8-track player that he had bought before I was even born (mid 1970s.) Since my dad had a respectable library of 8-track cartridges, he would play them on a fairly regular basis throughout the 80s and 90s, eventually even allowing me to play the classic audio device when he felt assured that I wouldn't wreck it, lol. He did refrain from playing his 8-track as the years got on due to the noted risks associated with the aging device. For the most part, he kept his 8-track and cartridges for reasons of nostalgia.
@jamesengland7461
2 жыл бұрын
I'm a car buff, and yesterday I was taken aback by a beautiful classic convertible I'd never seen before. I chased it down and took pics and asked the owner what it was. A Muntz Roadjet. And today, this video featuring Muntz. What a cool world.
@richardcoram1562
Жыл бұрын
I have a cool table model BEST ONE 8 TRACK tape player, I thoroughly enjoy listening to.. Lots of cool mixed genre stuff, but my favorite tape is Led Zeppelin., fifty year old tape that has moved someone with a good head many miles down the highway. I found my unit and tapes in the attic of a house I bought 12 years ago. It takes me back to 1969, when I bought my first 8 track portable player.
@keithdmaust1854
Жыл бұрын
Bought the Muntz 4-track and a carrying case of all the top songs - installed it in my 64.5 Mustang with four speakers. Later, I moved it into my 67 Camaro RS and added 4 headphones.What a party-mobile. Those were the daze;)
@dennisdemark8151
Жыл бұрын
I still play these tapes to this very day... Love it 😍
@bobolink39
2 жыл бұрын
Our vocation agriculture instructor in high school each year took the junior class to Mexico over the summer. We took the back seats out of a 64 passenger bus and put mattresses on the floor. For our trip my friend put a Craig Power Play floor mount 8 track in with 3 ft tall home speakers. We listened to The Eagle’s Hotel California amongst other hits all the way down and back. Best times ever. The 70’s were the best times ever.
@keithweiss7899
2 жыл бұрын
Before the end of 8 track I bought a Quadraphonic 8 Track system for my car. For youngsters out there, that means 4 channels instead of 2. It worked great! Made by Motorola, of course. It still works perfectly. One of the many problems with 8 track was the tendency of the little conductive strip that triggered the switching to the next track, to fall off and get caught inside the machine. I repaired many machines with that problem. And the fact that the tape was pulled from the center of a spool of tape meant that it was constantly rubbing against itself. That wear would degrade the quality of sound and put oxide dust inside of the player. But for a time, if you had an 8 track in your car, you were top cock on the block!
@kevinkennedy7237
2 жыл бұрын
I installed a Quad deck in my 1970 Mustang Mach 1 (in about 1977) and it was great. It had separate volume controls for each channel going through 4 speakers and depending on how the tape was recorded you could often turn off the front 2 channels (speakers) and listen to just the vocals through the back 2 channels (speakers) essentially making the song a cappella which really let you know how good the singers were! The vocals from the group "Bread" were some of the best by far.
@m1t2a1
2 жыл бұрын
A friend had one. The only quad tape he could find in stores around us was by Bread.
@keithweiss7899
2 жыл бұрын
@@kevinkennedy7237 A 1970 Mach 1! I’m very jealous! Mine has front/rear and left/right. Back in the 70’s I wanted a Pyle-driver amp/speaker setup and couldn’t afford it.🤣 I didn’t know a lot about audio stuff back then and didn’t realize that that amp used transformer coupling to get it’s high power output. Eventually, when I got a good job, my friend sold me a Pioneer system with two GM-120 amps. That was outrageous power in those days! But by then I had switched to a Pioneer cassette deck with Dolby and a metal tape mode. It had the Supertuner system with remote control. But I never threw away my Motorola 8 track player. Quad tapes are still found on eBay. The quad demo tapes are incredible! Thanks for the memories!😊
@jrgenholteng1529
Жыл бұрын
Did any of you have Black Sabbath - Paranoid Quadraphonic Mix? People say 8 track sound quality was bad, is it true?
@keithweiss7899
Жыл бұрын
@@jrgenholteng1529I didn’t have those tapes. The quality wasn’t great. And as time went by, it got poorer as the oxide wore off. At the time we thought it was great. Then we got cassette tapes, which were an improvement. Then Dolby noise reduction came out and I really loved that. But for the time, 8-track seemed great!
@wexplo15
2 жыл бұрын
YES! 8Tracks are still around! I have three decks in my apartment. THANK YOU for this video. You and TECHMOAN could team up!
@AaronOfMpls
2 жыл бұрын
😎 I figured Techmoan would be mentioned here! Among other things, he does videos about old audio formats and players/recorders, including some _extremely_ obscure ones.
@rinardman
2 жыл бұрын
Techmoan just did a video about an early Panasonic portable 8-track player, and its history. Coincidence? 🤔
@davidkane4300
2 жыл бұрын
Came in here for this... Great timing that they both put out videos in the same topic, seemingly unaware of the other's... Techmoan went into how Japan was basically the only other country to widely adopt 8 track, but not in cars, for karaoke 🎤
@alfredodedarc
Жыл бұрын
What? And why? The sound is equivalent to AM and songs fade out halfway through?
@jjojo2004
Жыл бұрын
@@alfredodedarcProbably for nostalgic purposes, kind of like how vinyl is popular now. Both mediums sound like crap to me. 😂😂
@voiceofjeff
Жыл бұрын
When you said "Fidelipak", my ears perked up. Yes, I remember the old gray-bottom, clear-top "carts" we used in radio stations. For me, it was the late 70's when I first got to use "carts" and I immediately loved them. Later, there were Audiopak carts, and 3M came out with a padless cart. When I went to a station that used stereo carts, I thought I'd arrived in heaven. And, the first time I used an ITC 99-B cart recorder, it was orgasmic. Funny thing is, I never got into 8-track tapes. Some in my family did, but I didn't. Still, a cool idea. Thanks for the memories. There was an episode of the old Mission Impossible where Peter Graves gets into a car, puts a cart in a mobile player, and listens to his instructions. I always wondered if there was such a thing as a mobile cart deck.
@DocBain1
Жыл бұрын
I still have my 8-track collection, many of which came from the Columbia Record Club. My 75 Malibu, which I am restoring, still has the Sears AM/FM/8-Track stereo. My favorite tape was a mix tape I recorded on my Soundesign 8-track recorder. Those were some great days.
@seanbatiz6620
2 жыл бұрын
My grandparents’ 1970 Ford Mach I GT w/351 Cleveland, had factory a/c and an 8-track player installed.. they had a couple adapter carts that remained in the car, one being an FM band tuner, since the stock radio even in ‘70 was only AM &, an adapter cart to play compact cassette tapes IN THE 8-track player! Years later, @ 1994-ish, I scored an all chrome Pioneer/Craig 4 & 8 track under-dash mounted player that I had installed in my 1971 Ford Torino Ranchero GT w/351 Cleveland… mounted it adjacent too my Citizen Band radio… My Grandparents sold their ‘70 Mach I @ ‘94 to, in my Grandma’s words, “prevent any family fighting over who gets to inherit that car!” I saved and continued using those adapter carts for my car 4-8 track deck. Worked great for many years following, without issues
@superdupercooper5826
2 жыл бұрын
Born in 75. First car was a 79 olds. First 8 track from a yard sale was “ days of the future passed” by the moodies.
@noreligion2
2 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!! A Moodies fan!!👏👏👏❤️❤️
@wendellkelley3890
2 жыл бұрын
Awesome, another 8 track and Moody Blues fan still today. Moodies were so unique 👍👍👍
@noreligion2
2 жыл бұрын
@@wendellkelley3890 Yes they were Windell!!!! Very Cool!!! Should have been in the Rock and Roll HOF a year or two after the Beatles and Stones, not decades after!!😡😡😡😡
@grapeshot
2 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was real young in the late '70s my parents having an 8-track player.
@mistiroberts1576
2 жыл бұрын
Me too; I know they had a ton because my parents loved music but the two I specifically remember were Freddie Fender and Jackson Browne lol
@robertewalt7789
2 жыл бұрын
By the early 1980’s, I had started working for Sony’s Tape Division. We sold only a small amount of blank 8-track tapes, but based on sales forecasts, I ordered more blank 8 tracks. My first decision was a disaster!
@donalddodson7365
2 жыл бұрын
My parents were still thrilled with the new fangled AM-FM-Stereo radio in their 1963 Bonneville, I don"t think they ever had any tape players in their cars until AM-FM-Cassettes became standard.
@lorenrickey5481
Жыл бұрын
When I was young and in high school, I used to babysit. One of the parents had the Beatles Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on 8 track. I spent the whole time listening to this tape. If I started to feel sleepy the tape changing channels would startle me awake. Those were some good times.
@graylion72
10 ай бұрын
I had so many 8 track tapes. The last one I ever bought was AC/DC For Those About To Rock. Had 8 tracks until I went in the Navy in 93. Only then did I convert to cassettes due to limited space in the racks.
@daveallen8824
2 жыл бұрын
When I was in Vietnam, joined Columbia - they GAVE you an eight track player with speakers; yo just had to keep paying for the tapes they sent you every month. Also, FYI, there was an adapter for 4-tracks that allowed you to play them on an 8-track.
@johnchildress6717
2 жыл бұрын
Cool Thanks for your service.
@MayheM_72
2 жыл бұрын
I remember 8-track players very well. My Dad had one in his '73 El Camino, we had one in our living room console TV/turntable/8-track, and my brother's and I had our own players in our rooms. I have fond memories of listening to Sonny & Cher, the Grateful Dead, Deep Purple, KISS, etc on 8-track.
@charlesnolan7602
2 жыл бұрын
I was in a used reclrd store yesterday. They had a few 8-TRACKS for sale ( Oh, the horror!) Thank god for the Phillips company who invented the Cassette!
@goodun2974
2 жыл бұрын
The cassette was originally intended for office dictation purposes and wasn't really intended as a high fidelity audio format, but advances in tape head technology (by companies such as Nakamichi and even Voice of Music), along with Dolby noise reduction, allowed cassettes to become a hifi music format ---- assuming you made your own recordings at home with a good quality deck and source, using better quality tape than that used for record-company issued, mass- market pre-recorded cassettes, which were duplicated at high speed and not in real time. usedreproduction from cassette
@OYDavis
Жыл бұрын
1976 Chevy impala wagon with the speaker on the rear wheel wells playing the Eagles with all the window down and the volume blasting crossing the desert on route 8 to Yuma. Best moment of my life!
@howardskinner4916
2 жыл бұрын
A bit of terminology that deserves to be remembered: Though we commonly refer to albums by their format (record, tape, CD) an album is the work of the artist, usually in a collection, sometimes meant to be played intact. Thus, an album is not just a vinyl record. It is the work of the artist whether it be on record, tape, CD, or other media - it's still an album, regardless of media.
@colonialstraits1069
Жыл бұрын
The original albums were a collection of 78 rpm discs, in a bound book-like cover with record sleeves, like pages.
@stephendavidbailey2743
Жыл бұрын
@@colonialstraits1069 I remember those!
@johnburris7711
Жыл бұрын
@T Raybern that’s what 45s we’re for.
@stevencooke6451
Жыл бұрын
I still say "album" to refer to a collection of music released together. I'm glad that I am being accurate as opposed to quaint.
@mattkaustickomments
Жыл бұрын
@traybernThe Truth: “Greatist Hits” albums nullify your scam theory. So do some all-time classic studio albums that were all killer and no filler. But I agree, the earlier albums of the 60s weren’t as consistent quality-wise.
@vwestlife
2 жыл бұрын
A little correction: while FM car radios were first introduced in the 1950s, they didn't become commonplace until the 1970s. Even as late as 1990, you could still get some General Motors and Ford vehicles with an AM-only radio! In the late '60s and early '70s, quite a few car radios had a stereo 8-track player, but only an AM radio tuner -- no FM yet.
@beeleo
2 жыл бұрын
My '71 Cougar and my brother's '73 Mach 1 came with factory AM/8-Track radios. It made no sense but that's what Ford did.
@bhzaddybhzolby1705
2 жыл бұрын
I daily a 72 Coronet with an AM radio and an 8 track player that was installed at Kmart.
@hiitsstillme
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, the Danforth Ave. used car salesmen called them AM/AM radios...
@jackwezesa1081
2 жыл бұрын
Remember FM converters in the mid 70’s?
@Fektthis
2 жыл бұрын
Because GM was ran by nitwits. They were still putting in cassette players well into the 2000's as well. Because they'd order thousands of units and had a huge backstock they had to get rid of. So they'd stick out of date tech nobody wanted into their cars.
@christalbot210
2 жыл бұрын
We had an 8-Track in my dad's car (I believe that was the Ford Fiesta; it was after market) and added to our house stereo. The latter could record, so we recorded our choice Christmas albums. There were one or two songs which had the track change in the middle of them that we always laughed at....it was like a hiccup. 😊
@meanderer06513
Жыл бұрын
I'd first heard "Freebird" from the album "One More From The Road" by Lynyrd Skynyrd on 8-track...so when I finally listened to the vinyl album...I was surprised it didn't fade out, click onto the next track, and fade in (slightly before the previous fade out on the previous track) and continue to the end. It was a beautiful medium, the 8-track tape. I learned at an early age how to repair the tape if it got messed up (I was the 'go-to' kid in my family for that!). This video brought back so many wonderful memories, strolling across open fields, at night, playing Steve Miller's Greatest Hits, and the latest albums by Billy Joel and the Eagles....good times! Great video! Thanks for bringing up that bit of nostalgia!
@larrymcgarage2152
Жыл бұрын
I’m 57, I remember having an 8 track stereo in my car, I also remember when cassettes took over and then CDs, mp3s and now streaming. I miss going to the music store and buying my favorite artist and having it whenever I wanted. Most of all the LP vinyls with the awesome cover art. And whatever else they threw in there as a free gift, like stickers, etc.
@SteveAubrey1762
Жыл бұрын
I LOVE this channel! 8 tracks were groovy...in the day, I had tones of them in my 1976 mustang II
@TheDemoDad
Жыл бұрын
Dad's chevelle had an add on 8 track player under the dash. my earliest memories are of Jamin too zz top's cheap sunglasses.
@lorettacaputo6997
Жыл бұрын
My first 8 track tape I purchased for use in my car was a Joni Mitchell recording. Don't have the tape, but I have an 8 track Panasonic recorder / player that I repaired and a stack of assorted tapes that I used for testing the unit. I am amazed at the technology that went into development and building these dinosaurs of audio. They are right up there with rotary phones......amazing things.
@tsot9837
Жыл бұрын
My brother was 5 years older than me. He had a nice collection of 8 track tapes. I got into cassettes based on the streams of 8 track tapes along the highways by frustrated drivers when their tapes got unwound in their players. I liked buying lp’s and recording them onto cassettes for use in my car.
@davidgardiner4720
2 жыл бұрын
Never really took off here in the UK, can only remember seeing one during my mispent youth in the seventies.
@jeg1972
2 жыл бұрын
You're right, they never were really big over here.
@Doc_Tar
2 жыл бұрын
I was listening to "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on the radio the other day. I rolled the windows down because I had mothballs under the hood to keep the mice out and the smell permeates through the passenger compartment if you put the AC on. I hadn't heard Meatloaf sound so right since I was a teenage on a hot summer night and the beach was burning.
@sharondontuse1975
2 жыл бұрын
we still have that 8 track tape lol
@marckyle5895
Жыл бұрын
Bat Out Of Hell was one of the first carts I owned.
@pamelamays4186
2 жыл бұрын
I had one friend who had an 8 track player in his Camaro (well, actually his mom's Camaro, though she rarely drove it). I remember well how five of us, my friend, his brother, me and two more friends would pile into that Camaro, cruising about and listening to either The Average White Band, Slave or The Brothers Johnson on 8 track.
@goodun2974
2 жыл бұрын
Did you mean to write Slade and not Slave? I do remember that the average white band and was once loaded by a music reviewer as being anything but average. They did have some good instrumentals on the radio including "Cut the Cake" and "Pick up the Pieces" at a time when airplay of instrumental music was rare.
@charlesmccormick585
Жыл бұрын
The History Guy reminded me of warm summer evenings, driving through the hills of southern Indiana heading back to college from my hometown with the windows down and the 8-track playing. I miss the ruffled shirts along with the bell-bottoms.
@luiskaj2434
Жыл бұрын
I vividly remember friends of my parent's driving up from Detroit to leave their Lincoln in our driveway in Toronto while they flew off to Europe for a few weeks - their car was outfitted with a Quadraphonic 8-Track, and I would sit inside listening to E. Power Biggs performing J.S.Bach organ works - what a sound!!!
@neeleyfolk
2 жыл бұрын
My Dad used to sell bootleg 8-Track tapes in the package store him and my mom owned. $2.00 in the 70's. On some you could see you ever he bought them from had old labels under the new white generic, having taped over other tapes.
@RobertSmith-nc9sd
2 жыл бұрын
When I graduated from high school, I used the money from my graduation gifts to put an 8-track Quadraphonic tape deck in my car. It was wonderful. I was so disappointed when Quad didn't really catch on.
@zeusapollo8688
2 жыл бұрын
Still into quad
@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823
2 жыл бұрын
We have at least two of those. Betamax was WAY better than VHS, as was laserdisc. Either were extremely impressive (not cheap) for the day.
@zeusapollo8688
2 жыл бұрын
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 selectavision was better than vhs too
@guyalston3092
2 жыл бұрын
@@zeusapollo8688 It was very close. Booth had around 240 lines resolution. VCRs had the killer app being recorders. That and the neighborhood video store killed Selectavision before it even got started.
@GalileoSmith
Жыл бұрын
I had an 8-track installed in my '72 Plymouth valiant. I had a cartridge with Grand Funk's "I'm You Captain", a song that ran about 10 minutes. Halfway through the song the tape clicked to the next track to play the second half of the song. A tape with the band Fever Tree was given to me when I bought the 8-track player. It seems to me the name brand on the player was Majestic, but I find no indication of such a machine on a Google search.
@ronfullerton3162
Жыл бұрын
I bought a Craig brand 8 track in the spring of 1968 and installed it in my 1964 Plymouth Barracuda. Everyone enjoyed cruising with me because of the music. But Friday and Saturday nights the tape player would be shut off and the am radio tuned into the Might ten ninety, Little Rock, Arkansas to listen to Clyde Clifford's Beaker Street. Which sounded good because of a Motorola reverb unit. Yes, I spent money on music instead of racing parts! Oh the memories that this episode brought back!
@wolffmanjac1
Жыл бұрын
You brought back many happy memories of the music format of my youth. I began installing car radios, with and without 8 track players, when I was 12 years old. I would take non-working decks and "Frankenstein" them together, to install in my parent's 1970 VW van. When I began to drive, I had bought a Sears, under-dash, FM radio/8track player, and hooked 8 speakers, that I had pulled from some home stereos, inside my car. I have some major hearing loss, now that I'm in my 60s, but I have no regrets, and I chuckle now, everytime I hear someone's car thumping away, while sitting in traffic. Oh, and I did fix a 4 track home player for a family friend. Unfortunately, the only 4 track tape that they had was of Leonard Nimoy.😮 Thank you for helping reminisce all those memories of my youth.😊
@joshsimpson79
Жыл бұрын
My dad had 8-track players in his car and garage while I was growing up. Probably long after cassettes were gaining momentum, but that’s what we had. I still remember the song breaks in Eagles greatest hits.
@allendyer5359
2 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, many a strand of unwound 8-trac spooled out along the roads of my ole hometown. Sometimes those glitering "tree-decorations" became road-markers to us teens...That's Jim's Kiss Alive tape. Oh and when listening to an album with friends ya do the "Ker-plunk" where tracks changed rather than faded-out.
@andrewfischer8564
2 жыл бұрын
i had kiss alive on 8 track too
@goodun2974
2 жыл бұрын
Festooning the roadside with a Kiss tape seems appropriate considering the quality of the music.....🥱😁
@allendyer5359
2 жыл бұрын
@@goodun2974 Mommys all right daddys all right, We're all all right, Surender...but don't give yourself away eh? away..."
@goodun2974
2 жыл бұрын
@@allendyer5359 , That song wasn't by Kiss. It was from Cheap Trick. Definitely a step up from Kiss in my opinion.....
@allendyer5359
2 жыл бұрын
@@goodun2974 Verse #3: "Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out"
@dabuya
2 жыл бұрын
It’s fascinating to realize that I lived through this period of music history. Thank you for showcasing these technologies.
@robertclark9
2 жыл бұрын
My first 8track was Led Zeppelin one. I wore it out in less than a month. The down side of 8tracks was they weren’t easily spliced. It was nearly impossible in most cases.
@bloodybones63
2 жыл бұрын
If you were as poor as me, & had enough experience at it, you became an expert. lol
@flaken9940
2 жыл бұрын
I spliced many of them back together with tape. Left a little gap in the music!
@timmotel5804
Жыл бұрын
I remember and loved 8 track tapes, listening and recording them. Truly, life changing at that time. Thanks and Best Regards as Always. Excellent.
@mikepaul3959
2 жыл бұрын
We (my Dad) had a Chris-Craft ski boat with a Lear 4 track in 1964. Spent many summer hours in high school drifting around Kansas lakes listening to music.
@kevinellis3509
Жыл бұрын
I'm 57 and still love listen to my 8-Tracks on my Sears 8-Track juck box (holds 5 8-Tracks) through my 40 year old Pioneer home stereo system. When the weekend rolls around, I love listening to the Eagles, Doobie Brothers, Journey and so on. I'll never stop listening to my 8-Tracks.
@arthurchadwell9267
Жыл бұрын
I still play 8-tracks too! And my dad's old reel to reel deck.
@Montyhugo
Жыл бұрын
My 8-track ate my "Kitty Wells " Greatest hits a few years ago 😖 I stopped using it 🤷♂️
@Mountainrock70
Жыл бұрын
Did you replace the pads on your tapes? All mine went bad but they were always in the desert.
@darrellalston3464
Жыл бұрын
I remember 8tracks when I was a kid. Even today I see 8 tracks in thrift stores. I grew up with cassettes
@geoben1810
2 жыл бұрын
My God... has it really been that long ago? It was only yesterday. Yeah those summer nights cruszin' with the windows down and playing the iconic sounds of the 60s and 70s were magical. ✌
@tapehead-jeff
Жыл бұрын
Being born in 1992 in Europe I never knew about the format. I knew cassettes and fiddled with them a lot. in 2013 I made analog media my hobby (playing, recording and fixing them), in 2017 I was given an 8-track recorder coupled with a few carts and fell in love with them! They are durable, easy to use, have long play times without having to flip them for side B. And the sound quality can live up if the cartridges are in good shape (though they usually fall behind a bit compared to other analog media). I also really like fixing them up, the carts and machines are easy to work on and the prerecorded catalog is huge even though I also record my own tapes. Nowadays they are my favorite type of physical media to work and play with. I continue to keep the media alive and rockin', showing them to my friends whom continue to tell the story to their friends and so on. Thanks for this very interesting video History Guy! This one (also) deserves a big thumps up :)
@dralbora
Жыл бұрын
Just as we remember a favorite album or 45 where the song skipped and we knew how many repeats there'd be before we got up and moved the needle, we came to expect the fade out/fade in or abrupt jump when the 8-track changed tracks. It's been four decades since I've heard one of my favorite manufactured or self-recorded 8-tracks, but when I hear the song on the radio today, I still expect the skip. They were fine machines. What a sentimental recap.
@roberthutchins4584
Жыл бұрын
So happy I found this... finally. My friend told me his parents were friends of Bill Lear and he gave them a prototype and ONE tape. Frank Sinatra. His mom played it so much he was sick of Sinatra. 😂
@osagejon8972
2 жыл бұрын
The History Guy never disappoints! Great episode sir.
@jeremyandrews3292
Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1988, and I remember 8-track tapes. My Mom had an old station wagon with an 8-track tape player, and we would always get 8-track tapes from the Half-Price Bookstore. So at least some people with old cars that still had the decks were still buying used tapes, and using them into the early 1990s. Incidentally, our last car with a cassette deck became our reason for doing the same with cassette tapes in the era of the CD. For a while, we were buying CDs for use at home, and recording the music onto cassette tapes so we could play them in the car. I always half-wondered as I was doing that, if people did the same thing with vinyl records back in the day, and now watching this video confirms they did. I still prefer CDs over digital music, though... because I can still rip the CDs if I want a digital copy, but I still have a case to display and a copy that doesn't need to be backed up on the cloud somewhere. I don't like not having a copy to hold in my hands if I am going to pay real money.
@BariumCobaltNitrog3n
2 жыл бұрын
When we moved in 1976 from California to Maine we stopped a lot and camped, it took about two weeks in our 72 GMC pickup truck. We had an 8-track player but our tapes didn't make the move. We listened to the one tape in the player, America's Greatest Hits for about 10 hours a day. "I've been to the desert on a horse with no name..."
@derekmyers3258
2 жыл бұрын
You are a fantastic and entertaining host who presents beautiful information for a guy like me who loves the history of recorded music. I thank you.
@joey1127
2 жыл бұрын
Oh lord, the 8-Track Tape Cartridge. I was fortunate that my Pops was into Audio so we had the really nice Technics Quad player and the Quad Cartridges...which were actually really good. Very short-lived technology but so dang flawed...if you couldn't buy really good equipment and if you took the tapes in the car in the summer/dead of winter, the tapes wouldn't last very long. Was the first incarnation of discrete multi-channel audio.
@frankterrebrood5261
Жыл бұрын
I remember the first 8- track I ever bought was the "Best of The Guess Who volume 2" and I played the hell out of it! I eventually bought more of course and loved every minute of it. Although my favorite format of choice was and always will be vinyl. I also bought cassettes and eventually compact discs. But I'll always have a love for those goofy old 8 - tracks. I still have a good batch of the tapes, and do play them once and awhile (yea I still have a good player) now I'm buying cd's and been told they're a dying format...which only makes me like them (cd's) even more lol.
@pcno2832
Жыл бұрын
The most interesting aspect of the 8-track experience was deciding, for each album, how to skip about among the 4 "programs" to get the songs I liked the best, with little use of fast-forward (which was slow if it was even available) and no rewind. It left me with a strangely fragmented memory of the few albums I played on in the one car I ever owned with an 8-track player.
@josemoreno3334
2 жыл бұрын
Both of my brothers had both 4 track and later 8 track players in there cars in the 60s and and 70s. My dad bought an 8 track and record player combo for the house. I still have a few 8 tracks in a box some where in the garage . Thanks for the flash back History Guy, Peace.
@markklausen813
2 жыл бұрын
I lived in the San Fernando Valley for years. This was the home of Muntz TV, and this is the exact story I heard about the development of the tapes. I also spent time in the local radio station, and have a working knowledge of Fidelipacs. I have a four-track player in my '64 Chevy Impala.
@equesdeventusoccasus
2 жыл бұрын
And I not only recall being excited that my family's car finally had an eight track player in it, I recall being embarrassed that my family's car only had an eight-track player in it.
@silentotto5099
2 жыл бұрын
Now that's the full ride.
@roadmaster720
2 жыл бұрын
i heard that from my kids until my 8-tack car player died in 1990. they were embarrassed by it when their friends rode with us. they were happy-happy when that 8-track died.
@dawnstorm9768
2 жыл бұрын
I didn't think anyone mourned the death of the 8track. My biggest memory of them you'd be listening to a song, you'd hear a click, and then another song. I always thought cassettes where much better.
@NickDalzell
Жыл бұрын
Exceptions though existed. There are some Pink Floyd songs having guitar solos recorded where the program switch occurred and made for a unique experience. Some John Denver albums included smaller shorter musical bits including lyrics where the program switch occurred to ease the experience. Sadly, tons of recordings just faded the song into two parts.
@CineSoar
Жыл бұрын
@@NickDalzell I remember In-a-godda-da-vida spanned 3 tracks (started in the middle of a track, and then fade-continued over two more tracks.
@charlesandrews2360
Жыл бұрын
@@NickDalzell Didn't work out so well for me with China Cat/ Rider on Europe 72 LOL it was my favorite song at the time. It's still my favorite song and I'm still pissed off about it LOL.
@PolPotsPieHole
Жыл бұрын
@@CineSoar ha ha yes I remember that
@freemagicfun
Жыл бұрын
I grew up with 8 track and was so happy when cassettes took their place. I never once missed the 8 track! 😎
@the80hdgaming
2 жыл бұрын
There's nothing as nostalgic as hearing the "kerchunk" of an 8-track changing programs... Edit: Did anyone notice that THG said "highway wifi" instead of "highway hifi"?
@manicabawse2867
2 жыл бұрын
Now you gon make him re upload he is a perfectionist
@mwhyte1979
2 жыл бұрын
Dang! You beat me to the "Kerchunk" memory.
@googiegress
2 жыл бұрын
He also said Lear made Studio 8 tech to avoid having to pay for "Lear's" patent, when I'm sure he meant that other guy.
@rodwaller7214
2 жыл бұрын
Yes, amazing how a simple slip of the tongue can instantly transport us seven decades into the future. How time flies!
@marktatum2592
2 жыл бұрын
I remember that sound even today in the middle of "Lucky Man" by the Moody Blues around 1972.
@walter2990
Жыл бұрын
Down in Florida, the heat inside a closed car rendered most of my 8 tracks unusable fairly quickly. The rule was don't try to play the 8 tracks, until you could comfortably place your hand on top of the dashboard, to keep from stretching the tapes. It worked for a while, then gave into the cassette tapes which you could take with you in those "handy" cassette carrying boxes, when you locked the car.
@lancerevell5979
2 жыл бұрын
My parents got an 8-track player for adding to our home stereo system in the early 1970s. I liked it, but we only had a very few cartridges, preferring the turntable for home use. By the time I got my first car, in 1976, the cassette player was the standard, both for car and home use. Being smaller and able to record, cassettes became king! I would continue seeing 8-track cartridges sold in truck stops, as many old truckers still had the players.
@glassdave
Жыл бұрын
i swear to god to this day the best sounding recording i had of any kind was an 8-Track of Led Zeppelin 3 that was in my 71 Buick Riviera right around 1984 when i graduated high school😃 . . . ok . . . maybe it was just the time in my life i look back on so fondly but that 8 track really did sound good. Thanks for another great history lesson
@badger305
Жыл бұрын
No, the 8-track was that good. The first one I bought was CCR Cosmos' Factory. It was the day I got my permit. My brother and I put a 8-track in our car with two speakers. I still have it and it sounds so much better than the cd I have of the same album. I always hated cassettes, worst format ever made. I couldn't wait for cds to be mass produced. Much better, but stiill, there's my old 8-track.
@mikeseier4449
2 жыл бұрын
History guy, You must be about my age(57).. My mom had an 8 track in her 74 T-bird. I still remember my first cartridge, Nazareth’s “Hair of the dog” album.. Played it all the time!
@johnkoch3176
2 жыл бұрын
And yet somehow my family missed the 8 track revolution almost entirely. Back in the 70's we had records and cassettes. The first time I even saw an 8 track in person was when visiting friends of the family in Wisconsin (we were from Pennsylvania) around 1978 (when I was 13). Noone else I knew had 8 tracks, or if they did it never came up in conversation. Weird.
@TheOtherBill
2 жыл бұрын
I missed the 8 track fad too, installing a cassette deck in my '71 Dodge in 1972. My friends would flip out when I didn't have the ker-chunk in the middle of a song and soon they switched over. Being able to fit 20 tapes in the glove compartment was also a big advantage.
@splicetape9435
2 жыл бұрын
My dad grew up in northern Wisconsin near Lake Superior. His 1977 Firebird had an 8-track player he owned one cartridge and there were no radio stains near him so it was played a lot.
@stevenlitvintchouk3131
Жыл бұрын
I certainly did know about 4-track tape recorders--though for the home, not for the car. My family had a Wollensak 1580 4-track tape recorder. It used tubes, not transistors, and was heavy as hell. But it had some nice features for the day, such as letting you do what we now call karaoke: live voice with a microphone along with taped music.
@fredsvilik785
Жыл бұрын
ALWAYS a treat! Thanks again H.G. 😎👍
@clickbaitcabaret8208
2 жыл бұрын
When I was growing up in the 70's my life was dominated by cassette players. Virtually everyone else I knew had 8 tracks.
@goodun2974
2 жыл бұрын
I was listening to storebought cassettes of Led Zeppelin and Grand Funk on a portable mono cassette player around 1975 or 76..... We already had a Denon 8 track player/recorder on the home stereo system but I didn't use it much. A home stereo cassette recorder came along a few years later.
@Dis-Emboweled
2 жыл бұрын
8-tracks were the perfect technology for the time. The cassette tape for the 80s was the perfect successor. CDs were OK, but MP3 players were fantastically better
@natejennings5884
2 жыл бұрын
I remember still seeing 8-track players in some cars in the early 1980s! By 1987 I only saw 8-track tapes in pawnshops and thrift stores. The audio cassette and later walkman changed portable audio forever.
@petercarioscia9189
2 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1985, my dad spoke so fondly of 8 tracks but to this day I have never seen an 8 track player or cassette in person.
@curtsiekert
2 жыл бұрын
You're discounting the impact that CDs made when they came out.
@garywagner2466
2 жыл бұрын
@@curtsiekert, nope. This story is about 8-tracks. Maybe you missed the point.
@x808drifter
2 жыл бұрын
@@garywagner2466 Go re-read the OP's comment and use your comprehension skills. You will then realize you missed the point.
@larrydlam
Жыл бұрын
The 8-track in my Mustang. Memories!!!
@HM2SGT
2 жыл бұрын
As a kid I remember all the cars my parents had were AM radios. It wasn't until the '80s that FM radios became standard equipment.
@jeffking4176
2 жыл бұрын
The first car mom had with FM, was a 1973 Pontiac LeMans. She bought from Hertz fleet, when it was a year old. While it was not a luxury car, it did have the upscale trim level, so it had the AM/FM radio. 📻🙂
@goldgeologist5320
2 жыл бұрын
I remember my father buying his 1964 Corvair. I recall all the details of his purchase, getting 4 doors, seatbelts which were not common then, and backup lights. Money was tight for my parents then. Dad placed priority on safety. In hindsight funny it was a Corvair! Dad order the car with no radio. But he had a plan. He bought at the time an after market Motorola AM/FM radio! A shocking purchase at the time.
@HM2SGT
2 жыл бұрын
@@goldgeologist5320 my father had the same car. He and my mother were dating and he was teaching her how to drive. He says that one moment they were easing along down the road and she took a hand off the wheel to wave at some friends, and the next moment they were upside down in a ditch and he had a head laceration and many bumps and bruises. Ralph Nader may have been on to something! *UNSAFE AT **_ANY_** SPEED!*
@HM2SGT
2 жыл бұрын
@@jeffking4176 I forgot about buying from the rental car fleet. Not a bad deal. She did well.
@boggy7665
2 жыл бұрын
Our 1973 Chevrolet Impala station wagon had an AM-only radio. I think this was common in that era. To add FM must have cost quite a bit extra. I think History Guy is wrong... AM/FM probably didn't outnumber AM-only radios in new cars until the mid-70s at least. The AM radio was really a utility at the time & almost up to the present day, up until the Google traffic app. I remember riding in that 73 wagon & we'd tune to WBBM NewsRadio 78 in Chicago as we approached the city, to decide whether we'd go 'through' or 'around' depending on the "...traffic n the 8's" report.
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