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unusual facts about 4-track


4-track

The 4-track cartridge as an analogue music storage format popular from the late 1950s


15 equal temperament

The American musician Wendy Carlos used 15-ET as one of two scales in the track Afterlife from the album Tales of Heaven and Hell.

25 Miles to Kissimmee

The new version was later included as a bonus track on the band's sixth album Ready for the Real Life.

Aberfoyle Park, South Australia

The Happy Valley sports park, which is located near Aberfoyle Park High School, contains the Happy Valley Football Club who are known as the Vikings, the Happy Valley Cricket Club, the Happy Valley tennis club, a lawn bowls club and a BMX track.

Andrew Loog Oldham

These were rediscovered in the 1990s when the indie band The Verve used a string loop based on the orchestral arrangement of "The Last Time" in "Bitter Sweet Symphony"; in the ensuing court battle, songwriting royalties for the Verve track were awarded to ABCKO Records, the owner of the copyright for "The Last Time".

Anthony Floyd

Floyd attended Chaney High School in Youngstown, Ohio and earned three varsity letters together in football and basketball, and four in track.

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The phrase "Grand Prix Priest" refers to Horan's previous protest, in which he ran onto the track at the Silverstone Circuit during the Formula One 2003 British Grand Prix, intentionally running directly into the path of oncoming cars.

Big Red Letter Day

The leadoff track, "Sodajerk," was featured on the soundtrack for the short-lived television series My So-Called Life and in commercials for Nike and Pontiac.

Castelnau-de-Lévis

The village at the base of the château is the site of a motocross championship, the Championnats du Monde MX3 et d’Europe 125 de Motocross. The track is also scheduled to host the French 2009 Sidecarcross world championship Grand Prix on 29 March 2009, however, this will still have to be confirmed by the FIM.

Cycling at the Friendship Games

The individual road race was held at the Schleizer Dreieck race track in Schleiz, East Germany on 23 August 1984, the team road race was held in Forst, East Germany on 26 August 1984, while track cycling events were held at the Velodrome of the Trade Unions Olympic Sports Centre in Moscow, Soviet Union between 18 and 22 August 1984.

Darren Clark

Clark took a break from the track in 1991, playing a season in the Australian Rugby League for the Balmain Tigers, scoring 11 tries, and also competed in the World Sevens Tournament.

Dave Gunning

The track "A Game Goin' On" from Gunning's album No More Pennies was submitted to the Great Canadian Song Quest (2013 edition: Hockey Night In Canada Song Quest).

Doug Logan

Logan was the CEO of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking from 2008 to 2010.

Dru Masters

Artist: Amici Forever Title: Jupiter (album track) Year: 2004 Label: RCA Victor BMG

End Hits

In addition, the band used electronic drums, synthesizers and the practice of drum-layering for the first time, which is most evident on the track "Closed Captioned." Brendan Canty explained to Tape Op Magazine in 1999 "When "Closed Captioned" was recorded, the basic tracks to it are all a drum machine and then I overdubbed two different drum sets on top of it, which I love doing, it gives distance to a song."

Evelyn Temple Emmett

His father was a pioneer farmer, prospector and track-cutter, a colourful and multi-faceted personality.

Freak In

It was released on the RCA Bluebird label in 2003 and features performances by Douglas, Jamie Saft, Marc Ribot, Karsh Kale, Joey Baron, Romero Lubambo, Brad Jones, Ikue Mori, Seamus Blake, Chris Speed, Craig Taborn, Michael Sarin, with Stephanie Stone contributing vocals on one track.

Fred Humphreys

He attended University of Western Australia, where he participated in track and running events.

Gary Vandy

In the business over 40 years he co-founded Studio Center in 1973 with Steven Cuiffo, a 24 track automated recording, sweetening and digital mixing facility which produced such hits as "Do You Wanna Get Funky with Me" by Peter Brown and "Get Off" by Foxy and other major artists for TK Records and other record labels.

Get Started

Released in 2012 on EMI Sweden, the 10-track album contains collaborations with Khoen, Lazee and Nawuel.

Gil Saunders

The album garnered three Billboard R&B chart hits including "Today's Your Lucky Day," "Don't Give Me Up," and "I Really Love You." Saunders also co-lead with Harold on the track "What We Both Need (Is Love)" which was popular on local Philadelphia radio station WDAS-FM in Philadelphia.

Hits Greatest Stiffs

The other sides of the Motörhead and Elvis Costello track had appeared on the previous compilation album, A Bunch of Stiff Records.

Holly Rowe

Other broadcasts that Rowe has been a part of with her time at ESPN include play-by-play for Women's World Cup matches, coverage of the Running of the Bulls, coverage of swimming, and broadcasts of track & field events.

I'm on Drugs

It contains the title track, "I'm On Drugs" and the death metal version of "Candy" by Ten Masked Men, who won the XFM covers competition.

Jarosław Hampel

He received his speedway license in 1998 with the Polish team Polonia Piła, although he first started racing on a mini-track in Pawłowice, close to the city of Leszno.

Je te donne

The track was produced by Trak Invaders and was released on My Major Company label.

Karanjadi train crash

At 6.10am, the Matsyagandha Express passenger train, transporting commuters between Mangalore and Mumbai, was on a section of the Konkan Railway line between Veer and Karanjadi, when the engine ran headlong into the debris of a landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains, which had collapsed part of a hillside across the track, crushing steel nets put there to prevent such a fall.

Link 1

Link 1 is a point-to-point, duplex, non-encrypted, digital NATO Tactical Data Link (TDL) Standard for the automatic exchange of Track and Strobe data, combined with link and data management messages between ground based ASACS-elements / e.g. CRC and CAOC), specific units (TACCS / MC) and data link buffers (SSSB, CSI).

Mel Pender

What people don't know is he didn't run track until the age of twenty five while he was serving in Okinawa with the 82nd Airborne Division.

Nek'af uzhas, nek'af at

In the first track, Vhod (Entrance), there is a motif from the Judas Priest's anthem "Breaking the Law", expressively added in honour of the British band's frontman Rob Halford.

Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth

As documented in the film Dig!, the song is dedicated to the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends/rivals of The Dandy Warhols at the time, who in turn dedicated their own track "Not If You Were the Last Dandy on Earth" to them; although frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor revealed in an interview that the song is also about his girlfriend at the time who, according to him, had become a heroin addict.

Panic Zone

This track was also the B-side of a split single release with Eazy-E's Boyz-n-the-Hood, which was released in 1989, following the commercial success of Eazy-E's solo debut Eazy-Duz-It and the group's first album proper, Straight Outta Compton, on which a remix of "Dope Man" was included.

Pleasures of the Harbor

The best known track is "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends", a sarcastic jab at the apathetic nature of people in certain situations, at its base the story of the Murder of Kitty Genovese in New York City (which numerous people witnessed, doing nothing to help), set to a Dixieland backing.

Protect Software

It also offers special distribution solutions for software previews and Film screening that utilize Digital watermarking technology to track content.

Quartier Pigalle

The recent album by the American jazz singer, Madeleine Peyroux, entitled "Bare Bones" (2009), contains a track entitled "Our Lady of Pigalle".

Race caller

In track and field, one of the most prominent race callers is Tom Hammond of NBC Sports, who also anchors the network's horse-racing coverage.

Rio Linda, California

This track is noted as the first track that four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon ever competed on.

Rock 'n' Roll Bolero

"Rock 'n' Roll Bolero" was later included as a bonus track on the remaster of the 1977 album Whatever Happened to Slade, the 2006 Japanese Air Mail Archive remaster of the 1979 album Return to Base, and part of the 2006 four-disc box set The Slade Box.

Sasha Lazard

It also features a track entitled Tell My Why, featuring violinist Lili Haydn that was inspired by Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata.

Star Rise

According to the Star Rise liner notes: the Nitin Sawhney remix of Tracery, created after Khan's death, is the only track without Khan's feedback.

Synchronicity II

"Synchronicity II" is covered and appears as a playable track on the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s.

The Felix Culpa

After a long, quiet period, 2009 held the release of a digital EP called SoSo Remission. The release consisted of two re-worked songs and a previously unheard track and was offered up for free; the band also had a link to donate to their paypal if you felt so inclined; it was comparable to the model that Radiohead used for the release of their 7th album, In Rainbows.

The Littlest Orgasm

An excerpt from the track "A Little Orgasm of Disappointment" was used as the soundtrack to one of the five finalist entries to Doritos' 2009 Made to Share competition in the UK.

The Matrix Revolutions: Music from the Motion Picture

The track Navras of Juno Reactor was used by rhythmic gymnasts Simona Peycheva of Bulgaria and Penelope Blackmore of Australia in their respective ribbon routines at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Tomorrow Come Today

The track "High Wire Escape Artist" appeared on the soundtrack for the 2003 movie, Daredevil.

Tony Siscone

Siscone also won the 1984 NASCAR Cardinal 500 at the Martinsville Speedway, only 2 years after receiving serious burns to both hands at the Martinsville track after being involved in a fiery crash with Ray Evernham.

Wake the Dead

The album's main hit, the title track "Wake The Dead", was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Burnout Revenge, and Burnout Legends.

Walking on a Thin Line

The album was also released in a Limited Digipak edition with two bonus tracks: "Electric Nights" (inserted into the track listing between "Diokhan" and "Quietly") and "Counting the Days" (inserted after "Plastic Mouth")

WJRZ-FM

Buck Owens mentions WJRZ 970 AM and its then owner, Ed Nielson, in track seven of his 1966 recording, Carnegie Hall Concert With Buck Owens And His Buckaroos, recorded live by Capitol Records.

Woodlawn trophy

Considered one of the most valuable trophies in sports, the trophy has its roots at the Woodlawn Race Course, a 19th century race track near Louisville, Kentucky.

Yes, No

The first track on this album, Dans Sa Chambre, was used as the theme song for the Japanese talk show Time 3, shown on Fuji Network System.


see also

Aarktica

The outfit's debut album, No Solace in Sleep, was recorded on a dying 4-track cassette recorder in various New York University dorm rooms and released on Silber Records in 2000.

Lo-Fidelity Records

#The 77s - Ninety Nine Live CD (8 track CD expanded from 4 track EP for full production run) (2007)

Nervous System Checking

Nervous System Checking is a 4-track EP, released in 2007 from Infernal Poetry.

Ropes Creek railway line

Between Boxing Day 1990 & 8 January 1991 a major trackwork shutdown that was between St Marys and Glenbrook, the line was temporarily reopened as far as Dunheved to allow suburban trains that normally stabled at Penrith to be stabled in the 4 track yard and on platform 2 or the Down Branch track.

Slayain

Late 2005 they created a 4-track EP entitled 'Pacified Lies' which was widely received with their long stream of gigs all over the Mornington Peninsula and extensive jam nites in The Castle, Dandenong.

Spring of Two Blue J's

Seibert, assisted by Nick Moy and Alan Goodman, brought a portable Ampex 4-track, half inch, tape recorder, mixers, and microphones to capture the performances.

Steve Hackett discography

Playing the History by John Hackett, Marco Lo Muscio & Carlo Matteucci (2013) (4 track: "Hairless Heart", "After the Ordeal", "Hands of the Priestess", "Galadriel")

The Giant Day

"The Giant Day", prelude to the Music from the Unrealized Film Script, Dusk at Cubist Castle, was recorded between 1994-1995 by Will Cullen Hart, Bill Doss, and John Fernandes on a 4-track.

The Graceful Fallen Mango

The album is a collection of tunes recorded in Longstreth's bedroom on a 4-track machine and in his brother's basement on a computer.

The Shadow Project

The 4 track 'Objects Appear EP' was recorded at Sickroom Studios in Norfolk with Owen Turner of Magoo on production duties.

Video tape recorder

The development of the videocassette followed the replacement by cassette of other open-reel systems in consumer items: the Stereo-Pak 4-track audio cartridge in 1962, the compact audio cassette and Instamatic film cartridge in 1963, the 8-track cartridge in 1965, and the Super 8 home movie cartridge in 1966.