1983 Jukebox Retrospective
Tonight, I digitized two more "broadcasts" of the "Tape and Record Show" spin-off series "TRS Jukebox" from the Tape and Record Show Enterprises archives original audio cassettes...
"TRS Jukebox: Episode 34: Broadcast Wednesday, April 18, 1984 at 7:30pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - "1983 Year In Review" - 26 of your favorite songs from the past year. Songs include: Vacation(The GoGo's), Your Imagination(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Gypsy(Fleetwood Mac), Pressure(Billy Joel), House of Fun(Madness), Down Under(Men At Work), I'm Alright(Kenny Loggins/James Stricklin as "Raymond J. Johnson Jr), Mickey(Toni Basil), Greased Lightning(Randy Haney/Barry Bostwick), Family Man(Daryl Hall and John Oates),Heart Attack(Olivia Newton-John), Back On The Chain Gang(The Pretenders), New Frontier(Donald Fagen), Goody Two Shoes(Adam and the Ants), Billie Jean(Michael Jackson), Mister Roboto(Styx), Electric Avenue(Eddy Grant), She Blinded Me With Science(Thomas Dolby), Atomic Dog(George Clinton), Peek-A-Boo(Devo), Rockit(Herbie Hancock), Sweet Dreams Are Made of This(Eurythmics), Saved By Zero(The Fixx), Theme From Rawhide(The Blues Brothers), Safety Dance(Men Without Hats), Can't Slow Down(Lionel Richie).
TRS Jukebox: Episode 37: Broadcast Monday, May 14, 1984 at 9:00pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - Songs include: Young Americans(David Bowie), Wet Dream(Vanity Six), Last Dance(George Clinton), Baby Be Mine(Michael Jackson), This Is The House(Eurythmics), Disco Inferno(The Trammps)."
Episode 34 is a 90-minute retrospective featuring songs culled from the first 24 episodes of "TRS Jukebox" which were "aired" between October 29, 1982 and December 22, 1983, with the only "announcements" being during the opening theme, as with the other "regular" episodes at the time. Some songs sound slightly better on this episode than the ones they were originally "broadcast" on, mainly due to the fact most of the original "airings" used mono audio from the HBO series "Video Jukebox", recorded onto very low end cassette tapes, and by the time the retrospective was recorded, I had purchased quite a bit of the music on LP/45 rpm singles/pre-recorded cassettes, so the special used those sources and was recorded on a decent TDK D-90 tape. Of course, the songs featuring James Stricklin ("I'm Alright") and Randy Haney("Greased Lightning") had to be sourced from the original TRSE "master tapes" for both the original "TRS Jukebox" episode AND the retrospective, since NO record label in their right would have ever signed those two! ;-P
NOTE: I digitized episodes 35/36 a few evenings ago, since the original compiled "broadcast version" of episode 36 was missing in the "archives" had to be "reconstructed" from scratch, and was time consuming as a result. Thank goodness I wrote down program descriptions of the "broadcasts" on 3x5 index cards back then, and those have survived intact, to allow the reconstructions now! However, other TRSE shows can never be reconstructed, if they were "hosted" episodes like the missing episode four of "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade" and episode twenty-five of "Paul's Country Corral", so they'll remain "missing" unfortunately, along with a few of the flagship "Tape and Record Show" episodes from the early seasons, where even though there was no "announcing", the tapes just no longer exist, and the original recorded source isn't available anywhere today, from what I can tell from searches. Still have the "theme music" master tapes, just the "content" for those particular early shows is "lost".
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Not sure if the friends involved in recording back then, or someone major like Stu Shostak, would know WTF I'm talking about in these posts, since the latter said he used to make pretend radio shows also. Thought I was a goof then, but apparently it was common, yet I saved most of the recordings I made at the time, thus the digitizations now.
"TRS Jukebox: Episode 34: Broadcast Wednesday, April 18, 1984 at 7:30pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - "1983 Year In Review" - 26 of your favorite songs from the past year. Songs include: Vacation(The GoGo's), Your Imagination(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Gypsy(Fleetwood Mac), Pressure(Billy Joel), House of Fun(Madness), Down Under(Men At Work), I'm Alright(Kenny Loggins/James Stricklin as "Raymond J. Johnson Jr), Mickey(Toni Basil), Greased Lightning(Randy Haney/Barry Bostwick), Family Man(Daryl Hall and John Oates),Heart Attack(Olivia Newton-John), Back On The Chain Gang(The Pretenders), New Frontier(Donald Fagen), Goody Two Shoes(Adam and the Ants), Billie Jean(Michael Jackson), Mister Roboto(Styx), Electric Avenue(Eddy Grant), She Blinded Me With Science(Thomas Dolby), Atomic Dog(George Clinton), Peek-A-Boo(Devo), Rockit(Herbie Hancock), Sweet Dreams Are Made of This(Eurythmics), Saved By Zero(The Fixx), Theme From Rawhide(The Blues Brothers), Safety Dance(Men Without Hats), Can't Slow Down(Lionel Richie).
TRS Jukebox: Episode 37: Broadcast Monday, May 14, 1984 at 9:00pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - Songs include: Young Americans(David Bowie), Wet Dream(Vanity Six), Last Dance(George Clinton), Baby Be Mine(Michael Jackson), This Is The House(Eurythmics), Disco Inferno(The Trammps)."
Episode 34 is a 90-minute retrospective featuring songs culled from the first 24 episodes of "TRS Jukebox" which were "aired" between October 29, 1982 and December 22, 1983, with the only "announcements" being during the opening theme, as with the other "regular" episodes at the time. Some songs sound slightly better on this episode than the ones they were originally "broadcast" on, mainly due to the fact most of the original "airings" used mono audio from the HBO series "Video Jukebox", recorded onto very low end cassette tapes, and by the time the retrospective was recorded, I had purchased quite a bit of the music on LP/45 rpm singles/pre-recorded cassettes, so the special used those sources and was recorded on a decent TDK D-90 tape. Of course, the songs featuring James Stricklin ("I'm Alright") and Randy Haney("Greased Lightning") had to be sourced from the original TRSE "master tapes" for both the original "TRS Jukebox" episode AND the retrospective, since NO record label in their right would have ever signed those two! ;-P
NOTE: I digitized episodes 35/36 a few evenings ago, since the original compiled "broadcast version" of episode 36 was missing in the "archives" had to be "reconstructed" from scratch, and was time consuming as a result. Thank goodness I wrote down program descriptions of the "broadcasts" on 3x5 index cards back then, and those have survived intact, to allow the reconstructions now! However, other TRSE shows can never be reconstructed, if they were "hosted" episodes like the missing episode four of "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade" and episode twenty-five of "Paul's Country Corral", so they'll remain "missing" unfortunately, along with a few of the flagship "Tape and Record Show" episodes from the early seasons, where even though there was no "announcing", the tapes just no longer exist, and the original recorded source isn't available anywhere today, from what I can tell from searches. Still have the "theme music" master tapes, just the "content" for those particular early shows is "lost".
ADDITIONAL NOTE: Not sure if the friends involved in recording back then, or someone major like Stu Shostak, would know WTF I'm talking about in these posts, since the latter said he used to make pretend radio shows also. Thought I was a goof then, but apparently it was common, yet I saved most of the recordings I made at the time, thus the digitizations now.