Remember the good old days of taping songs by holding the microphone in front of the stereo speakers? I once taped "Stoney End" thru a telephone thru a heater vent! And taped "Cold Shivers" off a restaurant table-side Jukebox.... ::) The waitress brought our pizza and we had to frantically hush her -- you could hear the cutlery clinking and the cash register in the background of the song.

And remember sitting for hours by the radio with the tape recorder ready, waiting for your favorite oldie to play? Phoning the station over and over to request it? Remember being that desparate to get your favorite music when you didn't have money to buy records?  :)

Yeah !

I have some great old tapes of songs from the early to mid-70's, using the microphone-propped-in-front-of-the-speaker routine  :D

The most memorable one includes "Free Me" by Uriah Heap and "Fantasy" by Earth,Wind & Fire.

And all the songs had the start cut off as you weren't sure what the song was, and then of course the DJ would talk on forever over the start and end of the songs (some things never change...)

FB  :D

And remember when you would be right in the middle of taping the song you'd waited for all day and your mom would suddenly burst into your room and loudly shout "supper is ready!" >:(

I remember having 2 record players and 2 tape recorders....I would cue up a commercial or promo on 1 tape player and then cue the records....I Still have one of the tapes and sure enough, in the middle of a song the phone rings....I can hear my then 17 year old voice answering :D

I remember doing that in the 1970's as well.  When I got a cassette player integrated into my stereo, I even did that in the 1980's!  But what I have left were the oldies I taped off the radio in the 1980's onto cheapo cassettes (and by oldies, I mean songs primarily from the 1950's and 1960's…)

I was psychic. I would think of an old song that I wanted to tape, set up my tape recorder and it would always get played sometime that day, even tho' it was not current! Sometimes it took the whole day sitting there, tho'. ::)

My older sister and I used to tape the bands that appeared on Dick Clark's "New Year's Rockin' Eve"...  somewhere I still have a live recording of Three Dog Night singing "Mama Told Me Not To Come" and Billy Preston's "That's The Way God Planned It" and "Outa-Space"....

You can here the CLUNKS from where we bumped the TV and the mic hit it...  

Ahhhh, ya just can't quality like that anymore.

Hi my first post.

Do I remember taping?  Do I ever. I had 2 Philips cassette recorders with the little vu meters, and I used to connect them up to the speaker terminals of my tranny's and record from 2 stations at the same time. Radio North Sea International and Radio One. Then.....then I would dub   the recordings on to another tape, editing out that flaming chatter and dumb ads.

I still have some of the tapes complete with chatter and ads [it sounds so amateurish now, and only this year ripped them to CD. I'll probably never listen to them again, but it did make me smile to hear them.  PP

;D I remember doing those things. A situation I will never forget is walking the streets with my tape recorder (the rectangular kind) listening to Foghat. Of course that was before boom boxes of the 80's.

Tim