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6 unusual facts about 8-track tape


8-track tape

Another is Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Live/1975-85, which was one of the very few boxed sets to be released on vinyl, cassette, compact disc, and eight-track tape.

Here Today, Guano Tomorrow

This is one of the very few late 80's punk albums that was available on 8 track.

Purple Toupee

Bar/None Records promoted "Purple Toupee" by pasting fake labels on 8-track tapes by other artists.

Side Street Ramblers

They also appear on Here's to The Winners (LP, cassette, 8-track) with the Vocal Majority.

The Latest

The album was issued on standard CD as well as limited pressings of vinyl and 8-Track tapes.

Touch Typist Typing Tutor

Microdrive cartridges were small cartridges similar to an 8 track tape, with a continuous loop of tape which could hold 100KB of code.


Fidelipac

Unlike the later consumer-marketed 8-track cartridge developed later in 1964 by Bill Lear which had the pinch roller integrated in the cartridge, the Fidelipac cartridge had a hole in the right-hand bottom front corner of the cartridge, where the pinch roller, built into the player instead, would swing up into place to support the tape up against the capstan.

William Kapell discography

The listing below contains only Compact Disc releases and does not contain 78rpm, LP, Cassette, or 8-track tape releases.


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Casbah Recording Studio

When the Orange County-based producer Jon St. James purchased the studio in the late 1970s, it boasted only a TEAC 8-track tape machine, a mixing console and a few effects.