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What were some classic 8-track tapes you guys had for disco. Where any disco mixes on 8-track? Thanks guys!
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Off the top of my head, I've got
Ritchie Family: African Queens (US)
THP Orchestra: Two Hot For Love! (CA)
El Coco: Brazil (CA)
Donna Summer: Love To Love You Baby (CA)
Donna Summer: On The Radio (US)
Bombers: Bombers 2 (CA)
Musique: Keep On Jumpin' (CA)
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I still have a compilation on 8-track called "Disco Fever" which mostly contains circa 1975 disco classics. Up until a few years ago, used to routinely play 8-tracks in my '76 AMC Pacer prior to its unfortunate drowning. I just LOVE the sound of an 8-track switching to another of its 4 channels . . . something like "Ch-Clunk", and it's especially nostalgic when the switch happens smack dab in the middle of a song, which 8-tracks were notorious for doing.
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My Mom was a huge Disco fan. So, I'd make 8-track tapes for her car, while I was at work.
It was pretty cool, the way she'd ease-on-down-the-road, blastin' her Disco-mix 8-tracks, in her 1977 Mercury/Cougar Villager Station-Wagon (A forest-green aircraft carrier on wheels! Complete with faux wood-panels, on the doors.),
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
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Like this, Stephen ??? But I assume without the mag wheels
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OMG!!!:Originally Written by drlove
Like this, Stephen ??? But I assume without the mag wheelsThat's our car!!!
What a rush! :icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:
Thank you, SO MUCH, for that!
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
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Acetate [Level 1]
For sure I had "Love Hangover" by Diana Ross, but I can't remember what-all else I had, since they all broke so many years ago. (Definitely not designed to be "archival"!) I had quite a few for listening in the car on the way to the club, since there was almost no disco on the radio in the early days. Glad I got a lot on vinyl.
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Unfortunately, 8-tracks were the ultimate in disposable formats. There were several things about the basic design that made them quite prone to failure, such as -
- tape getting tangled inside the cart
- splice breaking (quite likely to happen with age)
- pressure pads breaking down and deteriorating (affects almost all non-RCA carts)
- and most spectacularly, some of the early (late 60s) ones used an unstable rubber compound for the pinch roller, which over time breaks down into a disgusting, sticky, tar-like substance.
All that for a format that barely sounds better than AM radio!
If you want to listen to 8-tracks today, you first need to know how to repair them... which isn't easy, because most of them don't give you an easy way to open them up.
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This made me brush the cobwebs from my mind but I do remember a few.
First, let me say that when 8 track came out I, among many of my friends joined one of those music clubs where you buy one and get like 8 for a penny! Of course I didn't read the fine print! LOL
The disco ones that I remember having:
Disco Dancing (?) I remember it having You Make Me Feel - Sylvester
I Love America - Juvet
Boogie Nights
Chattanooga Disco Band (Mom thought I would like this as a stocking stuffer)
Disco Devil (or Dirt) Can't remember
Disco Rocket (have to love these names) but this one was my favorite I remember playing the channel with Silvetti's Spring Rain over and over gain.
I also used to love when the last song on a channel was cut in half and continued on the next channel! What a mix! :icon_twisted:
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And no real artwork, no infos, no credits...
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True, but cassettes didn't have that either (at least, not at first) and that didn't stop them from becoming the most popular format during the 80s.
And of course, a lot of MP3s have no artwork or credits at all, or are even tagged with the proper artist/title, but that hasn't hindered their popularity. :)
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All I remember about the 8 track tapes is how much I hated the songs cut in half and how I heard the other song in the background while one program was playing...
I was buying progressive rock at the time and those 20 minutes songs were always split in 2 - just when you were about to get into the song.
The only disco one I had was Donna's Once Upon A Time.
KRIS
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My mom bought Donna Summer's "On The Radio" on 8-track.
"Everyone knows the real reason why you got that part it was the time you spent on that casting couch"--Antoine Merriwether
"Excuse me, Miss Thing, but both of us spent time on that couch"--Blaine Edwards
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on topic i bought a Panasonic 8-track player that is stand alone so i could hook it up to my receiver. I also bought some 8-track tapes with it. I got:
A Night At Studio 54
Meco - Encounters of Every Kind
Paralment - Funkentelchy vs. Placebo
Voyage - Voyage
So far I received the Voyage 8-track. Actually doesnt sound all that bad. I recorded it straight to cd and EQ-ed it a little. I think this title is actually on cd tho. LOL
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Ive noticed that all the best disco songs are on discs, whether it be records or CDs.
And tapes generally don't have many good disco choices, whether it be cassettes or 8-tracks
Im referring to pre-recorded tapes only, of course.
WONDERING WHERE MY HOPES AND DREAMS GONE TO
THERE I WAS WITH NOTHING LEFT TO HOLD ON TO
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Ahhhh, yes. I remember it well...
"Ina Gadda Da Vida", with 2 intermissions!!!:icon_lol:
"MUSIC IS AN EMOTION, SEARCHING FOR IT'S VOICE"
...come with me, "BACK TO MUSIC", on DISCOTERIA
http://www.live365.com/stations/cdnbob2
Chart Hit [Level 6]
I also have a comedy 8-track tape of LaWanda Page (who delighted dance fans with "fierce" supporting vocals to RuPaul's "Supermodel" in the '90s). This late "Sanford & Son" actress was ONE BAWDY BROAD . . . .to hear her drop f-bombs and speak of her private parts as a sailor would is an EYE-OPENING experience. Therapy sessions continue . . . .
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Well, there's no such thing as an 8-track single, and cassette singles didn't come about until the late 80s. But most full-length albums came out on 8-track in the 70s, so I find your statement that "tapes generally don't have many good disco choices" a bit puzzling. 8-tracks were the only way you could hear music of your choice in your car (a big selling point in the car-culture of USA and Canada) until the cassette took over. Casablanca and TK has most of their albums out on 8-track. Even smaller labels, like some of the disco ones in Québec, mention on the back that the titles were available on 8-track and/or cassette.
By the mid-80s, cassettes were outselling LPs* in the USA and Canada, thanks to the Walkman. So, if a label wanted to be able to sell an album in large quantities, it had to be available on cassette. Now, you don't see too many of these around today, since both cassettes and 8-tracks are not wanted by most collectors.
* tangent: this fact is lost on the crowd of people who continue to believe the myth that the LP only died because the evil record companies forced the CD upon the hapless, vinyl-loving masses -- the truth of the matter is that at least in North America, the masses had already dumped the LP for cassette years before the CD took over. In the latter half of the 80s, there were many albums that weren't available on CD or LP, but almost everything could be had on cassette.
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