Another Two Hours Digitized
Just completed digitizing two more hours of my friends and I "fake radio show" recordings from the 1980's. I had originally THOUGHT it was going to involve 90 minutes of old recordings, but "Crystal Warrior" had to show up near completion. This evening's project was the "TRS New Years Celebration Sneak Preview" episodes from 1983,1984,and 1985. We did an overnight marathon a few years on New Years Eve of various recordings in the archives. Most years, the same things were repeated as an annual event. The "Sneak Preview" each year was me, as narrator, playing clips from the line-up those nights, in a half hour format, "broadcast" at the start of the evening, to give our "pretend listeners" an idea of what to expect to hear, and when to hear it.
The original card files were "incomplete" as to content to say the least, so I "enhanced" the program descriptions this evening during transfer from the cassettes...
"TRS 1983 New Years Celebration Sneak Preview. Broadcast Friday, December 31,1982 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Theme from "1941"(John Williams). A half hour program featuring excerpts from the first annual overnight "Tape & Record Show" New Years marathon. Hosted by Albert Sims. Excerpts from Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade, Randy Haney Comedy Hour, Oak Ridge Boys In Concert, TRS Jukebox, TRS On Location at Skatetown, The James Stricklin Happy Hour, Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" album, Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever", The last "Gong Show", the movie "The Howling", Not Necessarily The News, and The E.T. Food Palace.
TRS 1984 New Years Celebration Sneak Preview. Broadcast Saturday, December 31,1983 at 6:00pm central.Theme Music: Theme from "1941"(John Williams). A half hour program featuring excerpts from the second annual overnight "Tape & Record Show" New Years marathon. Hosted by Albert Sims. Excerpts from 3D House of Beef, TRS Jukebox 1983 Year In Review, Five Years of The Tape & Record Show, The James Stricklin Happy Hour, Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" album, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" film soundtrack, "Best of The E.T. Food Palace", and Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever".
TRS 1985 New Years Celebration Sneak Preview. Broadcast Monday, December 31,1984 at 6:00pm central. Theme Music: All Night Long(Monte Video). A half hour program featuring excerpts from the third annual overnight "Tape & Record Show" New Years marathon. Hosted by Albert Sims. Excerpts from Chrystal Warrior First Live Recordings, Best of The James Stricklin Happy Hour, TRS On Location at Skatetown, TRS Jukebox 1984 Year in Review, Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" album, Concerts For the People of Kampuchea, Best of The James Stricklin Song Mirage 1984, Best of The TRS Scrap Pile, Best of the E.T. Food Palace, The James Stricklin Song Mirage Redundant Flops, Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever", new E.T. Food Palace episode, and rebroadcasts of the 1983/84 TRS New Years previews. Running "long", the show segways into the actual FIRST appearance of the recordings of local group "Crystal Warrior" "in progress", broadcast for the rest of the first hour of the New Years line-up. The later 90 minute "special" from the recordings wouldn't first "air" until nearly two years later."
It was the last part of that last episode which added the extra half hour to my estimated recording time this evening. On the original file cards, the 1985 preview show was listed as 5:00-5:30pm and the Crystal Warrior thing was listed 5:30-6pm. On that cassette however, the preview ran about 36 minutes, then the Crystal Warrior segment, which was what was recorded next door to James Stricklin at Robbie Danna's house at the time, was joined "in progress" after the preview to complete the first hour of the New Years marathon.
Yes, the three times I recorded Crystal Warrior (first at Robbie Danna's house, next two times at the storage units behind the Shell Station on Well Road), I "sat" on most of the recordings for nearly two years before putting together the "Tape & Record Show" 90 minute special, because, since I wasn't much of a "metal" fan at the time, I had no idea what to DO with the recordings! The small segment on the 1984 broadcast was actually the first time they were heard on "TRSE". I had forgotten about that "airing" until today. Only remembered the 90 minute "Tape & Record Show" from December 1986. One of the band members, between songs, was REALLY intent to play "Wasted" before he had to leave in that excerpt. Practically BEGGING his other band members to play it.
Also, in the first episode, the clip from "TRS On Location at Skatetown" was played featuring Lori Boyd as "Aldo Nova". That clip was also in the "Five Years of the Tape & Record Show" special and "The Best of Randy Haney: An Anthology". As many times as she appeared on Tape & Record Show productions from that ONE clip, I think she should be an honorary member of the organization.
The original card files were "incomplete" as to content to say the least, so I "enhanced" the program descriptions this evening during transfer from the cassettes...
"TRS 1983 New Years Celebration Sneak Preview. Broadcast Friday, December 31,1982 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Theme from "1941"(John Williams). A half hour program featuring excerpts from the first annual overnight "Tape & Record Show" New Years marathon. Hosted by Albert Sims. Excerpts from Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade, Randy Haney Comedy Hour, Oak Ridge Boys In Concert, TRS Jukebox, TRS On Location at Skatetown, The James Stricklin Happy Hour, Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" album, Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever", The last "Gong Show", the movie "The Howling", Not Necessarily The News, and The E.T. Food Palace.
TRS 1984 New Years Celebration Sneak Preview. Broadcast Saturday, December 31,1983 at 6:00pm central.Theme Music: Theme from "1941"(John Williams). A half hour program featuring excerpts from the second annual overnight "Tape & Record Show" New Years marathon. Hosted by Albert Sims. Excerpts from 3D House of Beef, TRS Jukebox 1983 Year In Review, Five Years of The Tape & Record Show, The James Stricklin Happy Hour, Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" album, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" film soundtrack, "Best of The E.T. Food Palace", and Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever".
TRS 1985 New Years Celebration Sneak Preview. Broadcast Monday, December 31,1984 at 6:00pm central. Theme Music: All Night Long(Monte Video). A half hour program featuring excerpts from the third annual overnight "Tape & Record Show" New Years marathon. Hosted by Albert Sims. Excerpts from Chrystal Warrior First Live Recordings, Best of The James Stricklin Happy Hour, TRS On Location at Skatetown, TRS Jukebox 1984 Year in Review, Kool and the Gang's "Ladies Night" album, Concerts For the People of Kampuchea, Best of The James Stricklin Song Mirage 1984, Best of The TRS Scrap Pile, Best of the E.T. Food Palace, The James Stricklin Song Mirage Redundant Flops, Soundtrack to "Saturday Night Fever", new E.T. Food Palace episode, and rebroadcasts of the 1983/84 TRS New Years previews. Running "long", the show segways into the actual FIRST appearance of the recordings of local group "Crystal Warrior" "in progress", broadcast for the rest of the first hour of the New Years line-up. The later 90 minute "special" from the recordings wouldn't first "air" until nearly two years later."
It was the last part of that last episode which added the extra half hour to my estimated recording time this evening. On the original file cards, the 1985 preview show was listed as 5:00-5:30pm and the Crystal Warrior thing was listed 5:30-6pm. On that cassette however, the preview ran about 36 minutes, then the Crystal Warrior segment, which was what was recorded next door to James Stricklin at Robbie Danna's house at the time, was joined "in progress" after the preview to complete the first hour of the New Years marathon.
Yes, the three times I recorded Crystal Warrior (first at Robbie Danna's house, next two times at the storage units behind the Shell Station on Well Road), I "sat" on most of the recordings for nearly two years before putting together the "Tape & Record Show" 90 minute special, because, since I wasn't much of a "metal" fan at the time, I had no idea what to DO with the recordings! The small segment on the 1984 broadcast was actually the first time they were heard on "TRSE". I had forgotten about that "airing" until today. Only remembered the 90 minute "Tape & Record Show" from December 1986. One of the band members, between songs, was REALLY intent to play "Wasted" before he had to leave in that excerpt. Practically BEGGING his other band members to play it.
Also, in the first episode, the clip from "TRS On Location at Skatetown" was played featuring Lori Boyd as "Aldo Nova". That clip was also in the "Five Years of the Tape & Record Show" special and "The Best of Randy Haney: An Anthology". As many times as she appeared on Tape & Record Show productions from that ONE clip, I think she should be an honorary member of the organization.