Classic Radio and A Classic Music Countdown
This evening, digitized another season six Tape and Record Show Enterprises "flagship" episode of "The Tape and Record Show", and the first episode of "The James Stricklin Musical Muse Countdown" from the audio cassette archives...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 431, Broadcast Friday, November 16, 1984 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: One Thing Leads To Another(The Fixx). Night Boat To Cairo(Madness) / "Lux Radio Theater: To Have and Have Not" - Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in this radio adaption of the popular movie about criminal intrigue in a 1940 coastal community. William Keighley hosts.
James Stricklin Musical Muse Countdown: Episode 1, Broadcast Monday, February 18, 1985 at 9:00pm central. Theme Music: Careless Whisper(Wham!). Hosts: James Stricklin and "Calvert Mimms"(Albert Sims). A reformat of the "James Stricklin Song Mirage" which counts down the top ten popular songs of the week, as listed by Billboard magazine. Songs: California Girls(David Lee Roth), The Boys of Summer(Don Henley), The Heat Is On(Glenn Frey), Can't Fight This Feeling(REO Speedwagon), Neutron Dance(The Pointer Sisters), Method of Modern Love(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Loverboy(Billy Ocean), Easy Lover(Philip Bailey, with Phil Collins), I Want To Know What Love Is(Foreigner), Careless Whisper(Wham!)."
Episode 431 of "The Tape and Record Show" is the complete October 14, 1946 "Lux Radio Theater" radio broadcast of "To Have or Have Not". This is the second time the show appeared on "The Tape and Record Show", the first being in season two, split into multiple parts over episodes 169, 174, 180, 186, and 189.
James Stricklin tried a new project in early 1985, putting the "Song Mirage" on hiatus, and substituting the "Musical Muse Countdown" hour in its place, which ran for eight episodes. At the time, I was spending a small fortune on a yearly subscription to "Billboard" magazine, so decided to put the weekly "popular song" chart to good use. Also, thanks to the local "Orbit Records", I was able to purchase the 45rpm singles needed for the show. Remember, this was "pre-internet", so it wasn't like I could just purchase and download the songs. Needless to say, being a weekly countdown show, there was a HUGE amount of repetition from week to week, just the songs in a slightly different order, and a few new songs sprinkled in occasionally. The version of "Careless Whisper" used for the theme music was the instrumental version, which was on the B-side of the original release of the single. I reprised my studio janitor character originated on the "Song Mirage" as co-host of the show. Two songs from the soundtrack album of "Beverly Hills Cop" were in the top ten that week, "The Heat Is On" and "Neutron Dance".
The "broadcast" tape of the first "Musical Muse Countdown" was a pain in the ass to digitize. First, the pressure pad had severely shrank over the years, prompting me to replace it. Second, the tape kept wanting to "hang" for some reason I couldn't figure out near the start of sides one and two, causing the player to shut off, so several seconds are missing from the transfer as a result. Didn't bother taking the tape apart to investigate, since the housing was glued, instead of screwed together. "Memorex" wasn't NEAR as good as they claimed to be with their "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" advertisements at the time, and this particular cassette was one of the more "premium" normal bias tapes they sold at the time in those brown tinted soft plastic cases. Even NEW, their cassettes had a bit of a "flat" sound response in my decent JVC equipment back then compared to other brands.
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 431, Broadcast Friday, November 16, 1984 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: One Thing Leads To Another(The Fixx). Night Boat To Cairo(Madness) / "Lux Radio Theater: To Have and Have Not" - Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in this radio adaption of the popular movie about criminal intrigue in a 1940 coastal community. William Keighley hosts.
James Stricklin Musical Muse Countdown: Episode 1, Broadcast Monday, February 18, 1985 at 9:00pm central. Theme Music: Careless Whisper(Wham!). Hosts: James Stricklin and "Calvert Mimms"(Albert Sims). A reformat of the "James Stricklin Song Mirage" which counts down the top ten popular songs of the week, as listed by Billboard magazine. Songs: California Girls(David Lee Roth), The Boys of Summer(Don Henley), The Heat Is On(Glenn Frey), Can't Fight This Feeling(REO Speedwagon), Neutron Dance(The Pointer Sisters), Method of Modern Love(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Loverboy(Billy Ocean), Easy Lover(Philip Bailey, with Phil Collins), I Want To Know What Love Is(Foreigner), Careless Whisper(Wham!)."
Episode 431 of "The Tape and Record Show" is the complete October 14, 1946 "Lux Radio Theater" radio broadcast of "To Have or Have Not". This is the second time the show appeared on "The Tape and Record Show", the first being in season two, split into multiple parts over episodes 169, 174, 180, 186, and 189.
James Stricklin tried a new project in early 1985, putting the "Song Mirage" on hiatus, and substituting the "Musical Muse Countdown" hour in its place, which ran for eight episodes. At the time, I was spending a small fortune on a yearly subscription to "Billboard" magazine, so decided to put the weekly "popular song" chart to good use. Also, thanks to the local "Orbit Records", I was able to purchase the 45rpm singles needed for the show. Remember, this was "pre-internet", so it wasn't like I could just purchase and download the songs. Needless to say, being a weekly countdown show, there was a HUGE amount of repetition from week to week, just the songs in a slightly different order, and a few new songs sprinkled in occasionally. The version of "Careless Whisper" used for the theme music was the instrumental version, which was on the B-side of the original release of the single. I reprised my studio janitor character originated on the "Song Mirage" as co-host of the show. Two songs from the soundtrack album of "Beverly Hills Cop" were in the top ten that week, "The Heat Is On" and "Neutron Dance".
The "broadcast" tape of the first "Musical Muse Countdown" was a pain in the ass to digitize. First, the pressure pad had severely shrank over the years, prompting me to replace it. Second, the tape kept wanting to "hang" for some reason I couldn't figure out near the start of sides one and two, causing the player to shut off, so several seconds are missing from the transfer as a result. Didn't bother taking the tape apart to investigate, since the housing was glued, instead of screwed together. "Memorex" wasn't NEAR as good as they claimed to be with their "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" advertisements at the time, and this particular cassette was one of the more "premium" normal bias tapes they sold at the time in those brown tinted soft plastic cases. Even NEW, their cassettes had a bit of a "flat" sound response in my decent JVC equipment back then compared to other brands.