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unusual facts about cassette tape



A Dear John Letter

The song was featured in a BASF advertisement for cassette tapes in 1980, which was shown mainly in Australia and New Zealand.

Bas Clas

In 1982, author and producer Samuel Charters heard Bas Clas live at Grant Street Dancehall and sent a cassette tape demo of the band's music to his friend, producer John Hammond Sr.

Jen Smith

That summer, Olympia, Washington, students Wolfe and Molly Neuman, editors of Girl Germs zine, to which Smith had contributed, moved to Washington, D.C. Having already formed their band Bratmobile, they asked Smith and Christina Billotte (of Autoclave and Slant 6) to join, and the band released one cassette tape, called Bratmobile DC, with this line-up.

Live at the Marquee 1980

No known live soundboard recordings exist of the 1980 (Crane/Du Cann/Hammond) lineup of Atomic Rooster and the source cassette tape, belonging to Du Cann, was recorded via a single onstage microphone.

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

The next day, he brought to the Montreal Forum a cassette tape with the song on it and distributed among players a small card saying "We're on a mission, nothing's gonna stop us".

Take This to Your Grave

The group's first cassette tape demo was recorded in Rose's basement, but they later set off for Wisconsin to record a proper demo with 7 Angels 7 Plagues drummer Jared Logan, whom Wentz knew through connections in the hardcore scene.

Tara Calico

Pieces of her Sony Walkman and a cassette tape were discovered along the route and Doel believed that Calico might have dropped them in an attempt to mark her trail.

The Majesty of the Blues

The Majesty of the Blues was originally released in the LP, Compact Disc, and Cassette tape formats.

Ventilator 202

During the second half of the 1980s, Ventilator 202 broadcast computer software recorded on cassette tapes for popular home computers Galaksija, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.


see also

Alcopop! Records

Currently on its sixth offering, Alcopopular has been released as a 3" CD, a cassette tape, a message in a bottle, a restaurant menu and fold out 'Hithikers Guide to the UK' and has included tracks from the likes of Freelance Whales, The Xcerts, Unicorn Kid, Pulled Apart By Horses, and many more. Loud and Quiet also suggested "We need labels like Alcopop to offer us something a little out of the ordinary.

Analog-to-digital timeline

December 1975, Still image: Kodak engineer Steven Sasson creates the first digital camera, weighing eight pounds and saving images to a cassette tape.

Birmingham Sound Reproducers

Although BSR McDonald produced tape recording decks in addition to their widely used turntables and changers, consumers had begun to expect portability from their music players, and BSR were not prepared to compete with eight-track and cassette tape players or later, the groundbreaking Walkman from Japan.

Derek Prince

During this time Prince was becoming widely known through his cassette-tape Bible lectures, and he became involved with the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.

Galaksija Plus

The final hardware upgrade was addition of AY-3-8910 sound-generation chip, providing contemporary-standard sound to Galaksija without the need to use tricks such as with the cassette tape port (see original Galaksija).

Jeeves Takes Charge

In 1995 Recorded Books recorded the book onto cassette tape narrated by Alexander Spencer.

Lesser of Two

In 1999, Lesser of Two released a cassette tape version of their self-titled album on one of the oldest punk labels in Poland, Nikt Nic Nie Wie.

Los Ciegos Del Barrio

In 1998, they released their first self-titled demo album on cassette tape, and, in 2000, released their first full-length album, "No Lo Dude," which features their first underground hit "Dime Donde Estas," their first song to get radio airplay, and first to hit #1 on the former MP3.com website.

The Subway Organization

The label was associated with the Indie Pop movement and the seminal NME cassette tape C86, that included the track It's Up To You by the Shop Assistants, from the label's first release (the group subsequently joined the 53rd & 3rd label).

Videosphere

In the 1972 film Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, a black videosphere was shown with a color capable tube and a slot that allowed a cassette tape capable of playing video.

Winley Records

Death Mix was a vinyl pressing of a third- or fourth- hand cassette tape copy of a bootleg recording of a Bambaataa Zulu Nation night at James Monroe High School in the Bronx in 1980.