I can see why you played the Don Ho tape last. The alcohol coming off that recording would have obviated the need for head cleaning.
@KRAFTWERK2K6
Жыл бұрын
HA!!!! Savage ;)
@SonicBoone56
Жыл бұрын
Lmao
@AmstradExin
Жыл бұрын
snrk
@everkief8650
Жыл бұрын
Hahahahahahahahaaa... play me some Dean Martin!
@dashriprock9014
Жыл бұрын
I remember his talk show back in the 70's. He couldn't get two words out without slurring at least one of them!
@5argetech56
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Hearing that Mantovani ( 5:06 )song gave me chills. Reminded me of my father who always listened to 105.1 WRFM New York, beautiful music. We kids used to call it the Daddy Station! Love you daddy!
@brendencarlson5220
10 ай бұрын
In Seattle we had KSEA beautiful music, 100.7 and ditto to dad listening at night before lights out. The strange security in old memories.
@geoffgero6081
Жыл бұрын
It's hilarious how so many "experts" says cassettes will only last 30 years
@RexMundi_UTC
6 ай бұрын
The sad reality is an expert in any field is ultimately only an expert in being wrong.
@thatguythatdoesstuff5899
Жыл бұрын
It's amazing cassettes that are that old can still be found sealed today.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
people hold onto 'stuff' . Ever see those storage locker shows?
@ChristopherSobieniak
Жыл бұрын
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 True. It's not that uncommon people do that.
@applegal3058
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I tend to use things that I buy right away. I wouldn't have bought something if I didn't want to make use if it. I don't believe in buying things to hold onto and not use and enjoy.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
@@applegal3058 I try to as well....but I have amassed stuff that I intended to sell and just haven't had time to list them. Kind of a good catch 22.. :)
@pablorai769
Жыл бұрын
You can buy a shrink wrap machine for about 30 u$s...
@bloqk16
Жыл бұрын
The audio quality of the cassettes sounded marvelous. Whenever I hear of people claiming how audio tapes, or even home recorded video tapes, can deteriorate after 10 or 40 years, yet, I have hundreds of home-recorded tapes that still play fine of the same age, it got me thinking . . . Is it possible that such tape deterioration, that people lament about, resulted from hundreds of replays of those tapes? I bring this up as the tapes in my collection, that have held up well for me, may have been replayed a dozen times over the many years. With my ADHD, I don't have the temperament to enjoy replaying a tape 100 times. But, it is nice to hold onto such tapes as there are no assurances of it being replaceable in the future.
@ScottGrammer
Жыл бұрын
No matter where in the world you go, if you find a collection of more than 10 old records, cassettes, 8-tracks, or open-reel tapes, at least one of them will be a Mantovani recording.
@ivok9846
Жыл бұрын
as a european, i'm wondering who is mantovani? and I have much more than 10
@ZeusTheTornado
Жыл бұрын
Definitetly lol, also Franck Pourcel most probably and maybe Paul Mauriat
@ScottGrammer
Жыл бұрын
@@ivok9846 This from Wikipedia: "Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (Italian: [anˈnuntsjo ˈpaːolo mantoˈvaːni]; 15 November 1905 - 29 March 1980) was an Anglo-Italian conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature." My take has always been that Mantovani was responsible for almost all the music you would hear in supermarkets, malls, and elevators in the '70's and '80's.
@aTrulyPowerfulSpirit
Жыл бұрын
I also live in Europe and I can confirm this as I have bunch of Mantovani records.
@alanrogs3990
Жыл бұрын
@@aTrulyPowerfulSpirit I have a Mantovani LP box set and a few single records and even a reel to reel. I bought them myself in the past year. Sometimes that music hits the spot for relaxing.
@dean6816
Жыл бұрын
I love unwrapping vintage cassettes. I opened a brand new Memorex MRXI S from 1987 and it still had the new smell!
@niafer9444
Жыл бұрын
One of the best and most 'relaxing to watch' channels on the internet. Thank you so much.
@CommodoreFan64
Жыл бұрын
Despite having been born in 81 there is always something nostalgic for me when I hear a Don Ho song, as my parents(mother, and step dad) were big into the beach/Tiki scene, and I still have my late step father's old Tiki bar setup in my game room. 👍
@rwj777
Жыл бұрын
I know that the 8 track format is probably the underdog of all audio formats, but I absolutely love them. I own close to 200 of them and I have a one single cartridge player and two 8 track tape changers that can play multiple tapes back to back, just like a CD changer. They can sound really good on a maintained player, with a high quality audio system. My compact cassette collection is around the 200 mark also. I'm just a huge fan of vintage audio in general.😊
@mikekeech9718
Жыл бұрын
Just curious Ray Williams if the 8track carousel player you have is a Qatron or Telex player. I worked at Telex when they manufactured the Telex 8 track player that held 12 tapes. The models 48H and 48D also have the TMS 101 and The last model built TMS 1000.
@rwj777
Жыл бұрын
@mike keech Hello Mike, I have the RCA Mark 8 eight track changer ( Model VYC - 950W ) that has the removable magazine, that can play up to five 8 track tapes back to back at a time. It also has an Am and Fm turner, with a built in amplifier , so can hook up speakers directly into the player. My second 8 track changer is a Mitsubishi MGA ( Model TD-83 ) that will play up to three 8 track tapes back to back. I don't own a Telex or Qatron carousel 8 track changer, but I would absolutely love to acquire one of those players someday. 🤗
@mikekeech9718
Жыл бұрын
@@rwj777 I also have an RCA
@mikekeech9718
Жыл бұрын
YXC-950W
@DarkMetalSpider
Жыл бұрын
Mantovani!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗 I still have that album... what a beautiful, beautiful album... "Windmills of Your Mind"... truly, so ✨epic✨
@marktubeie07
Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised at how good they sound (age relative) - could early cassettes have been duplicated in real time? Surely not... The collector in me kept saying _"Don't open them!"_ 😜
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
No not real time. It was always speedy duplication but they did it well.
@AndrewHeller-jn7dx
Жыл бұрын
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 Very fascinating! Thanks much!;...I'd always wondered!
@absalomdraconis
Жыл бұрын
@@AndrewHeller-jn7dx : Yeah, audio cassettes spent maybe a decade with universally low audio quality for the transcription & similar markets (reel-to-reel and 8-tracks were the entertainment-grade, because both ran tape much faster), so by the time they started doing music cassettes the industry had been fairly well developed.
@peacearchwa5103
Жыл бұрын
I have a handful of these early ('68 to '72) pre-recorded cassettes in my library. Those early PRCTs sound much like these, which is to say high frequencies vanish above 10k, there's a significant amount of tape hiss, and they are basically listenable. FYI I am guessing that today's National Audio Company (founded in 1969) was one of many companies which was involved in the (then-new) business of high-speed cassette tape duplication. It's conceivable that Ampex outsourced their duplication to NAC's Springfield, Missouri facility. Who knows?
@AndrewHeller-jn7dx
Жыл бұрын
@peacearchwa5103 Thank you so much. Highly fascinating info! However, my memories of the ones, I'd owned back then, seemed more rosy, than you had just painted. Now, I'm awfully confused.
@Apostrophe65
Жыл бұрын
Cassettes took off here in the U.S. when cassette players became available in cars just like 8-track did before it. 8-track stuck around for as long as people still had it in their cars. Once CD players hit automobiles the Cassette slowly died. A lot of what went on in the U.S. revolved around what you had in your car.
@wblynch
Жыл бұрын
Yes, it was all about the cars. My new (2019 😆) truck can’t even play CDs. It’s streaming or MP3’s on usb stick only.
@terencejay8845
Жыл бұрын
My 1998 Passat had a cassette player.
@Astolfo2001
Жыл бұрын
Meanwhile in Japan, it revolved around karaoke. 8 tracks and laserdiscs were huge there (mostly) for that very reason.
@wmalden
Жыл бұрын
I got my first cassette recorder/player for Christmas in 1968. My dad bought me a couple of pre-recorded cassettes a few months later. One was “Diana Ross and The Supremes Live at ‘The Talk of the Town’”. It looked just like those you unwrapped here. AMPEX.
@MartinWolves
Жыл бұрын
I bought Back to the Egg by Wings for 50 pence from a charity shop last year. 45 years old and plays absolutely fine.
@fdouglas5172
Жыл бұрын
The reason for rearranging songs (or reversing sides) is to keep side 1 (A) longer than side 2 (B). this is to avoid a long blank space (break) between the sides of the tape. If there was a 2 minute blank space on side 1 (A) then you would have to fast forward to the end or flip the tape and rewind side 2 (B) to the beginning.
@walkingtheboogie
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation. I has been wondering why.
@CaptainDarrick
9 ай бұрын
When I made home tapes I always tried to fill side A , leaving about 20 seconds of tape before the tape turned round ( I have always had auto reverse machines ) ...At the end of side B , I didn't mind leaving a few minutes of blank tape ( if I had nothing of the same style to fill it with ) . I can't imagine not making home tapes any other way .
@andlabs
Жыл бұрын
Moral of the story: Ampex were really good at making tapes =P I'm impressed by the stereo separation on these (though it was 1969 so I guess they just hard-panned everything and called it a day). Also everyone had to have a crack at Proud Mary huh
@qviewq2071
Жыл бұрын
Back when the MJ album "Thriller" was £14 in the UK record stores, I got a quote from C.O.P.S Limited in the UK to duplicate an independent album on to chrome tape. 1000 tapes duplicated with boxes and colour inserts for £1000 (plus VAT tax which may have been 20% or less) So someone was making a lot of money from 30 million copies of the "Thriller" tape..
@willmatheson
Жыл бұрын
One reason to just flip the sides entirely might be if the leadout on side 1 was going to end up considerably longer. Better to have side 1 be longer and flip right into side 2 rather than having to fast-forward or rewind there.
@KRAFTWERK2K6
Жыл бұрын
I really love the case design of these. That Ray Charles tape would be awesome to have. I LOVE his music. That man was 150% pure talent and is still a pleasure to listen to. The tapes sound pretty well. Sure a little low on the high frequencies but that was to be expected from an older formula Type1 tape and with a few dacades of storing. But i did hear a lil bit of tape aging and slight dropouts on the "the world of Mantovani" tape. It's pretty cool they even wrote on the covers what tape stock they used. Something i NEVER saw on any pre-recorded cassette. Thanks Kevin for doing a sequel to this "50 year old cassettes" video you did a while back :)
@chevycaprice87
Жыл бұрын
I have the same World of Mantovani cassette from 1969, also I have a bunch of cassettes including some early ones from 1967 (AMPEX started to produce pre-recorded cassettes in 1967).
@johnballentine282
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. I love opening old cassettes. You have a great channel :)
@davidtoups4684
Жыл бұрын
It's amazing how good these old cassettes sound, especially when you consider most cassette players back in 1969 weren't capable of producing the sound quality of more modern cassette decks. You wouldn't think they would have been recorded as well as they are.
@bloqk16
Жыл бұрын
From what I recall, pre-recorded cassettes started to get _cheap,_ with its audio and the materials used for manufacturing them, by the late 1970s. Home cassette decks were pricy back in the early 1970s; as the only people I knew that owned them were upscale enough to afford them. When I bought my first home cassette deck in 1977, I paid $150 (US) for it, which would equal over $700 (US) in 2023 (US) dollars. So, for the standards of living in the 1970s (US), they were on the expensive side.
@twocvbloke
Жыл бұрын
If stored right, audio tapes ought to last a long time, though not indefinitely owing to chemicals breaking down and plastics failing eventually, but the fact these ones were still in as-new condition with only the one needing repair, that's pretty good stuff...
@Q80Warlock
Жыл бұрын
The most important factor is exposure to heat, air and sunlight the plastic covers kept the content safe for a really long time.
@JPX64Channel
Жыл бұрын
@@Q80Warlock if stored properly cassete tapes last more than a human lifetime
@Narayan_1996
Жыл бұрын
I would love to have a WAV copy from all of these cassettes, they are incredible for their age, and sound very good still. Nice video, Kevin, thank you for posting it ♥
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
lossless 16/44 or 24/48? I would be interested to see the sonograph results.. I bet they reach up past 18khz in some cases unless they were limited somehow.
@techmaster-ch5yd
Жыл бұрын
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 The maximum frequency for cassette tape "type 1" on non high-end equipement is around up to 12000 Hz, sometimes less, for type 2 tapes you can reach 14000 Hz, and for type 4 (metal tape) probably 15000~16000 Hz, expensive equipements like Nakamichi can reach 20000 Hz if you use this equipement for recording on the tape with correct bias and azimuth.
@juslitor
Жыл бұрын
@@techmaster-ch5yd These definitely struggle in the treble.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
@@techmaster-ch5yd yes .. limited in tape formula. excellent response. I'm still interested in seeing sonograph results.
@christo930
Жыл бұрын
@@techmaster-ch5yd In my experience, it is really hard to hear the difference between 14khz cutoff and a 12khz cutoff or frankly an 8khz cutoff. Most musical instruments never get anywhere near 12khz. There just isn't a lot of music up high. Guitars have a frequency range up 1200hz. Violin can reach 2637hz. 4186hz for a piano. A harmonica can reach 10khz, though that is theoretical. A chart of string instruments shows most top off at a few khz. It might be my hearing, but I can detect a 12khz tone. Apply a filter to whack anything over 8 or 10khz and I just can't hear the difference.
@DanOConnorTech
Жыл бұрын
There was always a rumor back in the day that "Puff the Magic Dragon" was a stoner song.
@vwestlife
Жыл бұрын
And some radio stations refused to play John Denver's song "Rocky Mountain High" because they incorrectly thought it was a reference to drug use.
@RJDA.Dakota
Жыл бұрын
True! Little Jackie Paper loved that rascal Puff. Read the lyrics.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
it is a pagan nod to getting high 100%. It's not a rumor - but it's not about any particular drug.
@allen-rp3gm
Жыл бұрын
That scene from "Meet The Parents" when Greg mentions this to his future father-in-law........"are you a pothead Focker?"
@ABCEasyas--
Жыл бұрын
I remember Windmills of Your Mind from a doctors office I visited a lot when I was a kid. I guess they were playing the “easy listening” music to help calm down anxious patients.
@MT-ll3tu
Жыл бұрын
Always loved how C-60 tapes could outperform Vinyl and sound near-CD(13bit/44.1KHz).
@Markimark151
Жыл бұрын
The oldest tape I had as a kid was Peter, Paul, and Mommy from 1969. My uncle bought it in the 1970s and handed it down. Cassettes have came a long way, I got some new cassettes albums from Record Store Day.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
I used to have that record I think I sold it in a bundle collection 10 years ago.. I never actually listened to it.. just remember the AND MOMMY .. made me laugh.
@Markimark151
Жыл бұрын
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 it’s my introduction to the folk music, I thought they were a Sesame Street group, because they played children’s songs in the late 1960s and throughout the 70s like “If I Had a Hammer” and “Mail Myself to You” those I listened from Peter, Paul, and Mary!
@ESP1138
Жыл бұрын
I love your JVC tape deck. It is an excellent brand.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
Yes JVC can be good - Japan Victor Company. Even the middle of the road dual deck by JVC I have works like a champ - I had another one almost the same but with speed control and it had a ghost in it.
@CarlosEsparza1138
Жыл бұрын
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 ¿Cuál fantasma?
@RichardDzien
Жыл бұрын
It's interesting to see those cases. They seem more robust than the standard Philips case.
@BertGrink
Жыл бұрын
Youre right, the cases seem to be made from softer plastic, so they won't break as easily. What they lack, compared to the PHILIPS ones, is the little tab that prevents the tapes from unwinding.
@AndrewHeller-jn7dx
Жыл бұрын
@@BertGrink Absolutely, which was a real drawback!
@atkelar
Жыл бұрын
"Boss, we accidentally reversed the sides of the tape! - Nevermind, we'll stick the labels on to match." - would be my guess for the swapped sides... 😁
@life5161
Жыл бұрын
Don Hoe SEALED!!! You are a LEGEND!!! A FREAKING LEGEND!!!
@alexxbaudwhyn7572
Жыл бұрын
Remember watching a daily Don Ho variety show mid/late 70s, middays during summer, sick days
@notpsicoh2107
Жыл бұрын
the return of Don Ho!
@AMDRADEONRUBY
Жыл бұрын
The sound of the plastics omg your video bring me memories in the 90 unboxing my first cassette album. Very nice find Kevin.
@TorontoJon
Жыл бұрын
I have a lot of cassettes to this day, including some soundtracks that are still sealed and my tapes from the 70's and 80's still sound great today. Generally speaking, cassette tapes survived much better than 8-track tapes, the latter of which would inevitably have the tape splice snap apart and the foam pads disintegrate, not to mention how practically every artwork sticker on an 8-track tape has bubbling due to the deterioration of the glue. All in all, cassette tapes were generally well-made and built to last.
@douglasallen9428
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! What you did with the pressure pad on that Mantovani cassette is exactly how I repair any of my cassettes when the pressure pads tend to fall out…
@stupidfanboyph
Жыл бұрын
But how about perished ones? I live in a country when it is hard to import those pads. Any alternatives you can suggest?
@douglasallen9428
Жыл бұрын
@@stupidfanboyph Try cutting a piece of felt and glue it onto the metal bit behind the tape itself….
@alphabeets
Жыл бұрын
I would much rather listen to any of these songs over any of today’s music. These tracks just sound so good.
@polaris911
Жыл бұрын
Puff the Magic Dragon hit me right in the feels. I've bought a couple tapes off eBay that snapped on the 1st play, but it's not that hard to fix, even the shells that don't have screws.
@EddieJazzFan
Жыл бұрын
Your channel (and Joe Collins' channel) inspired me to get back into cassettes way back like over ten years ago. It's a fun hobby. I was able to get a nice stock of blanks before the prices got ridiculous. There still isn't anything comparable to cassettes! My current project is to find a NOS cassette receiver to put in my car. Thanks for the fun videos.
@TheOriginalCollectorA1303
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting to see these tapes in action, nice to see that most didn’t even need any repairs! As long as they are stored in acceptable conditions, tapes will just keep on working!
@paulyh4531
Жыл бұрын
Very good , most tapes still sound good if not left in damp places. Good video as usual 👍
@kingforaday8725
Жыл бұрын
WOW!!!! It has been 54 years!!! I remember when these came in long skinny boxes with the cassette sideways at one end. Right next to the record albums! WOW!!! 54 years!!!!! 😐
@HBC101TVStudios
Жыл бұрын
Gotta love that classic 1960’s/1970’s cassette casing labels!
@dean6816
Жыл бұрын
Some of these recordings sound really good!
@ll4680
Жыл бұрын
This video is giving me techmoan vibes ✨
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777
Жыл бұрын
what's that ?
@ll4680
Жыл бұрын
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 another youtuber that reviews old tech youtube.com/@Techmoan
@tomsherwood4650
Жыл бұрын
Some of the early 70s cassettes are not recorded at overdrive high levels like much later. So even with dolby they may be a bit noisier for hiss but the sound quality from cassettes recorded at a proper level is quite good, and enjoyable, accepting them for what they are. They slammed the tapes harder later on becuase some people demanded "louder, LOUDER!!" and also to cover up more of the tape hiss background noise, but ended up with higher distortion and more muffled highs.
@SlumberBear2k
Жыл бұрын
wow I didn't know they sold cassettes in the 1960s. I figured the tech was out there but I didn't realize they were mass marketed. And yeah, as you said it is becaue of the 8 track. I figured that was the precursor.
@nodigital23
Жыл бұрын
love the crackling sound of 50 year old shrink wrap!
@RealEpikCartfrenYT
Жыл бұрын
The fact they were cheapening out on cassettes, even in 1969 (they are glued or sonically welded) though. Another thing I noticed is that they are very quietly recorded, likely due to the equipment used back then.
@AndrewHeller-jn7dx
Жыл бұрын
I love the quietness; &, miss the screwed together cases!
@mushroomsamba82
Жыл бұрын
I found a ton of old southeast asian market cassette tapes at a thrift store and they were in those clamshell-type snap cases. Though, it was mostly stuff from the late 70's to the 80's. Billy Joel, Springsteen, Michael Jackson etc. They looked legit but I'm not 100% sure they weren't bootlegs.
@BessieBopOrBach
Жыл бұрын
Delightful video! The thing about the swapped sides is not that unusual. Well into the '70s, it was common (particularly for jazz and instrumental records) to have swapped sides on vinyl vs. open reel or cassette. I'm not sure why but it's a thing I've noticed a lot. The CD releases as often as not use the cassette running order, and often even the record sleeves have the order different from the discs themselves.
@BilisNegra
Жыл бұрын
With all of that lot being manufactured by the same company in the same year, after the initial pleasant surprise, it's not really unexpected to see them all playing ok after the first one proves to be in perfect shape, but other than that it's an amazing feat!
@raygunpyle
Жыл бұрын
Wow....what a find! Can't believe you got a collection like this!!!! Very Cool!
@MoosesValley
Жыл бұрын
All those cassettes and different styles of cassette case reminds me of my grandmothers cassette collection. Cassettes were popular not just for music of course, at home and in your car, they were used for computer games in the 1970's/80's and even in the 1990's. I used cassette tapes to store my BASIC programs for the first 6 months on my Apple ][ in early-1983 (until I purchased a floppy drive). Some cars still had cassette tape players until 2010 or thereabouts. Ahh the days of the Driving Mix Tape. A friend of mine purchased a brand new Commodore 64 in 1991 and was too cheap to get a floppy disk drive, so he ended up buying a large library of games on cassette (at $0.99 and $1.99) and loaded his games from tape ... and was still doing this well into the mid-late 1990's. On a C=64. He was happy to wait and watch the patterns on screen while the games loaded. Meanwhile, the rest of the world was playing Doom, Command and Conquer, etc ...
@endingman
Жыл бұрын
As if there wasn't a better compliment for the 8-track format, you just had to pick a dirty Certron blank. That's an aesthetic in and of itself.
@WC0125
Жыл бұрын
Excellent find! I wonder if those tapes (minus Don Ho) were part of a package given away when you purchased an Ampex stereo? The Ampex Micro 85 system we purchased in late 1968 came with four pre-recorded Ampex made tapes (including Mantovani), three blank tapes, speakers and microphones all for about $200. Ampex bundled that stuff up to get you hooked on compact cassettes.
@noslost-z7r
Жыл бұрын
These are beautiful ❤️ and they still sound fantastic, at least as good as the technology of 1969 allows! I guess they took inspiration from 8-track with the revised running order. I wouldn’t have minded if we continued doing that.
@PrankZabba
Жыл бұрын
Woah. I listened to it with my headphones on, and it actually sounds pretty decent. Kinda spooky even.
@stereophonicstuff
Жыл бұрын
Maybe I’m getting older, or my standards are getting lower, but those old tapes sounded fine to my ears. Of course my old iPhone’s speaker probably masked quite a bit of the inherent inadequacies of ancient tape-but still, not bad at all.
@andreasu.3546
Жыл бұрын
I remember borrowing audiobooks on cassettes from the local library in the early to mid 80s. They came in a plastic case with a garage door style shutter which you would push to one side to open. I've never seem those again anywhere other than the library.
@agranero6
Жыл бұрын
10:34 In Brazil in the 70s a lot of people used something very similar here: they were called "cartuchos" (cartridges) in cars (and only in cars) though I can't say precisely if they were 8-track but they were endless loops too (my father told me when I was a child). As I was a child I can't be sure if they were 8-track, playtapes of some similar format. So it was not only there that they used this format in cars.
@DanOCan
Жыл бұрын
Puff the Magic Dragon always makes me sad because it makes me think of my old stuffed animals and the adventures we had when I was a kid and how - at some point - I played with them for the last time. My first one is still out on a shelf but the rest are in plastic bags in my crawl space. 😢
@steveoszman8746
Жыл бұрын
Have a few 60s cassette tapes and they sound nice. The music industry in the 60s era was wide open and produced some great stuff, that's a nice score.
@MrGhostown81
Жыл бұрын
I found two used old tapes like this. A Black Sabbath tape and a Moody Blues tape. They both sounded horrible and the Moody Blues' felt pad came loose shortly after playing. But, I keep them as collectables cause they look kinda cool.
@AndrewHeller-jn7dx
Жыл бұрын
Yes!
@allanegleston4931
Жыл бұрын
my late aunt and uncle met don ho at a bar and sat next to him. he said he got tired of singing tiny bubbles. they also listened to him on the radio at 6 am in the morning for a radio program called hawaii calls .
@davidtoups4684
Жыл бұрын
Back in the early 80's I found an original 1974 cassette of Bryan Ferry's Another Time, Another Place in the discount bin at my local department store. I was a big Roxy Music fan so that totally made my day! It was in a black plastic slipcase and the cassette itself was pink! It sounded pretty good then (only about 10 years old at that point) Unfortunately I tossed it along with all my cassettes when I got into CD's in the early 90's. What a dumbass! It's probably a pretty rare tape today.
@gatblau1
11 ай бұрын
Very cool! I remember my parents got a stereo system with a built in cassette player in 1970. It’s cool to see those old cassette tapes.
@michaelmiller641
Жыл бұрын
I've been digitally transferring cassette tape recordings that I made in the late sixties, and the sound is still ok!
@6teeth318
Жыл бұрын
Wow 54 years. I was born 1960, 😃 know them all. Nice to revisit the past.
@perrybarton
Жыл бұрын
Nice job! My dad had that Norelco portable cassette recorder. I immediately recognized the American Pie cassette. I had it! Unfortunately, it contained an edited version of the title cut. Not as truncated as the 45 version, but missing the entire piano/vocal first verse and faded to trim a few seconds off the end. I eventually bought the LP. 🤓
@perrybarton
Жыл бұрын
@@Heike-- It was longer than the radio/45 version but shorter than the real album version. It seems to have been an edit done specifically to make the two sides of the cassette have approximately the same running time. There was also a song on side one of the cassette that was repeated on side two. I think it was “Winterwood.”
@tip-tapsaudio1119
Жыл бұрын
One of the joy and memorable moments of my adolescence that would stay for the rest of my life is opening brand new sealed cassette tapes.
Жыл бұрын
Puff (The Magic Dragon)... Hahaha, I will always remember this songs thanks to the film Meet The Parents.
@eddiewillers1
Жыл бұрын
Incredibly cool! NOS media that's 54 years old.
@jasonwilliams6005
Жыл бұрын
I have a JVC TD-R421. Had it since 1989. Works and sounds great. A little weak with rewinding if a tape has gotten "sticky", but it plays REALLY well.
@Mr._Mints
Жыл бұрын
Watching this while I work. Proud Mary by CCR just so happened to be playing on the office radio at the same time the Proud Mary tape was being tested! 😲
@michael5089
Жыл бұрын
What are the chances!!😊👍❤️🏴
@Foxonian
Жыл бұрын
The only other country the fully embraced 8 track machines was Japan where they used them in Karaoke machines up until the early 90's.
@perlman7376
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. This video initiated a stream of consciousness consisting of my 1968 Mustang and the cassette deck that I installed in it. Not HiFi by any stretch but boy did it leave me with many fond memories that I'll always treasure.
@pcallas66
Жыл бұрын
The reason I believe the tapes are authentic in 1969 Warner Brothers was Warner Brothers, Seven arts and it had the logo on all of those tapes. I think Ampex had the market back then as well. They didn't sound too bad, considering they didn't have all of the electronics that the late 70s through 90s had much better sound quality with Dolby B/C HX Pro, or DBX. That was a real game changer. The frequency response got so much better with the newer tape decks, but in the late 60s I'm thinking the high frequencies didn't go much above 10 KHz.
@danny1959
Жыл бұрын
In the 1970s, 8-track and cassette versions of albums listed at one dollar more than the vinyl.
@MarvelDcImage
Жыл бұрын
I have the exact same suitcase for cassettes. I had no casette tapes that I recorded that worked that were older than around 1986-87 when I played them back last year.
@wblynch
Жыл бұрын
It seems like a lot of them still used cellophane for wrapping instead of modern plastic. I wish we could return to the more enviro friendly cellophane.
@AndrewHeller-jn7dx
Жыл бұрын
>>Agreed!
@d.a.elliottjr.367
Жыл бұрын
In June 2009 I found 3 boxes of cassettes at a recycling center someone left to throw away. They ranged from the 60s to the early 90s. I took them home. One was the Ray Charles tape shown here. Many of the late 60s tapes were still shrink wrapped & still are today. Conditions varied because I found them outdoors on a hot Florida day. I've been afraid to play many of them.
@RoughJustice2k18
4 ай бұрын
One of the inherent problems with 50+ year old tapes that have been sealed and never used, is when you unwrap them and go to use them now, the leader splice adhesive may have dried out, resulting in a broken tape (you won't notice this until you fast-forward/rewind it). Tricky to source a splicing kit for audio tapes these days if that happens.
@theposguy1435
Жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool that there are genuine ampex cassette tapes
@KingFahtah
Жыл бұрын
What an awesome slice of history right there. Great discovery!
@martijnappeldoorn8686
Жыл бұрын
About 8-track: i’m from the Netherlands and before ‘the internet’ i had never heard of , or ever seen an 8-track. When i heard someone talking about an 8 track recorder i thought they meant a reel to reel recorder with 8 tracks 😊
@fallwitch
Жыл бұрын
Wow thanks for the video. The collector in me cringed when you were opening those! But it was amazing they all were mostly still working. I moved to the US (from the UK) in the 80s to go to Uni. My first regular exposure to cassettes was in car stereos and I hated them so much. Back then the players in American cars were awful and would stretch the tapes out really quickly and after a short time they'd sound awful. And the cases were always cracking and breaking and falling apart. I can't tell you how much this caused me to despise cassettes. When I bought my first car in the US it was a 60s Mustang that has an 8-Track player installed and OMG I loved it so much better. I have no idea if the player I was using was just higher quality but to my ears they sounded so much better. And the cassettes themselves were like tanks and nearly indestructible. There wasn't hardly anything being released on 8-Track by then so I was always going to thrift stores, yard sales and used record stores to find stuff I could play. I found so much at the famous San Jose, CA flea market. I never got over my dislike of cassettes (even today).
@SudzBud
Жыл бұрын
You are the second person this week that I have seen say the ball point pen was the official cassette tape winder, but I grew up that the 'official' was the #2 pencil. It even fits way better than bic pens. Another great video!
@vwestlife
Жыл бұрын
No, a pencil doesn't work nearly as well as a Bic pen, unless you live in Japan: kzitem.info/news/bejne/15eJtGiAbJOQaWU
@TorontoJon
Жыл бұрын
5:30 You can't visit a Salvation Army Thrift Store, Goodwill, Value Village, etc. on a regular basis without seeing Mantovani records and I do have a few of his albums while the one I most highly recommend is his 'Gypsy Soul' Phase 4 album on London records (also available on out-of-print CD's). One of the best tracks is from the movie 'Villa Rides!' (starring Russian-born actor, Yul Brynner, playing Mexican revolutionary Poncho Villa. Haha!) composed by Maurice Jarre ('Lawrence of Arabia', 'Doctor Zhivago', 'Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome', etc.) which is certainly NOT a Gypsy tune, but it's great as are the Hungarian tunes on the record. :)
@the_rubbish_bin
Жыл бұрын
Wow! They look brand new!
@allanegleston4931
Жыл бұрын
i still have my tapes . haven't played them in years . good collection there .
@calzonemaniacsvideocorner0804
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. I know that in a few years the earliest VHS videocassettes will be 50, wonder if there are any of those OG 1977/78 Magnetic Videos that are still sealed (not re-sealed). Wonder what it would be like to play those for the first time.
@mojorisen74
4 ай бұрын
Usually the swapped sides because one was longer than the other so they feature the long side first. I do have a terribly edited copy of Todd Rundgren's "Runt" cassette. There were two versions. The first one had side 2 first because it was longer, the second re arranged all the songs, even editing some of the songs(Terribly) if they were longer than 3 minutes. Both sides of the tape are exact but the order of the songs and the editing really hurt the listening experience. I think record companies did this because people were returning 8 tracks and cassettes because they felt like they were being ripped off if there were extended silence at the end of sides or channels, also record companies wanted to save money on tape. In the mid 70's they started putting notices on the cassette or 8 track label "Due to programming limitations, blank tape is necessary to duplicate the sequence of the LP " or "There is an extended silence at the end of programs 1 and 2, this is quite natural and not a defect in the tape"
@mojorisen74
4 ай бұрын
I haven't had luck with old sealed cassettes. The one's I've bought have been made in the early to late 70's and either the sound is muddy and distorted or the tape jams to a stop constantly. These are the second generation of AMPEX tapes known for the chemical binders breaking down. If you have the brown tape you're in the clear, if it's the black tape that's the one they had issues with. Now I've never had issues with sealed 8 tracks. Once I replace the pad and sensing tape(If needed) They sound great
@ConsumerDV
Жыл бұрын
I don't think that most people associate compact cassettes with the 1980s because 8-track held up their adoption in the U.S. As you said, compact cassette and the Philips machine were introduced in the U.S. in 1964, and pre-recorded tapes started to be made soon as well. Maybe it wss LP on the one hand, and reel-to-reel on another, that made cassettes less important. Where I came from, cassettes took up in the late 1970s, my father had two R2R machines. Interesting cases, different from the typical Norelco boxes.
@thomasball3658
Жыл бұрын
Oh how wonderfully satisfying it is to unwrap vintage media.
@samlambert2936
2 ай бұрын
Gotta love how these old tapes feel lip sync-able but modern releases don't (unless you get on something like 439 hz to make it feel real, again). This is because some time down the line the process of up pitching audio by 10 cents A.K.A 0.1 semitones became more and more of a thing.
@-th1rty3-
Жыл бұрын
The Dead Kennedys had a great idea of leaving one side of the cassette tape blank to help kill the music industry.
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