Pre-Preparation For Future Edits And One Complete Episode
Spent most of this evening locating and digitizing the "filler material" I'll need to include in the next few complete episode edits of the Tape and Record Show Enterprises "flagship" series, "The Tape and Record Show". As I've said in numerous of these posts, in the "early days" of that fictional radio show, I only had one cheap portable cassette recorder, couldn't copy and compile everything on one tape, so the contents of each "episode" consisted of me switching tapes out for each segment. However, I DID write down on index cards the contents of every "episode" back in the day. It is those cards I'm using to re-assemble the shows from the first few "seasons" today.
For a few episodes in season two, I included the day's local weather forecast (Monroe, Louisiana). I remember I "acquired" the forecasts from a Northeast Louisiana University weather service phone number, recorded onto a cheap cassette with a suction cup device (purchased from Radio Shack) attached to the telephone handset. The "complete episode" transferred this evening didn't include a forecast, but the next one had a forecast listed. I'll unfortunately have to omit that segment from a few episodes which originally included it, because the "master cassette" with the NLU recordings was partially recorded over. Listening to the surviving weather segments after all these decades, I'm amazed how "amateur" the readings were by the persons on the recording. Assuming they were recorded by students at the university. No names were mentioned, but I'm positive the people involved probably never imagined a few of those recordings, even with the terrible sound quality on my recordings, might still exist a little over 40 years later.
Anyway, the completed 90 minute "Tape and Record Show" episode digitized this evening...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 124. Broadcast Saturday, July 19,1980 at 2:00pm central. Theme Music: Imperial March(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). "True Detective Mysteries" - A young couple pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be an escaped convict. / "Sugar"(Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong) / "Mercury Theater On The Air: War of the Worlds" - The classic 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast about invaders from Mars."
For a few episodes in season two, I included the day's local weather forecast (Monroe, Louisiana). I remember I "acquired" the forecasts from a Northeast Louisiana University weather service phone number, recorded onto a cheap cassette with a suction cup device (purchased from Radio Shack) attached to the telephone handset. The "complete episode" transferred this evening didn't include a forecast, but the next one had a forecast listed. I'll unfortunately have to omit that segment from a few episodes which originally included it, because the "master cassette" with the NLU recordings was partially recorded over. Listening to the surviving weather segments after all these decades, I'm amazed how "amateur" the readings were by the persons on the recording. Assuming they were recorded by students at the university. No names were mentioned, but I'm positive the people involved probably never imagined a few of those recordings, even with the terrible sound quality on my recordings, might still exist a little over 40 years later.
Anyway, the completed 90 minute "Tape and Record Show" episode digitized this evening...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 124. Broadcast Saturday, July 19,1980 at 2:00pm central. Theme Music: Imperial March(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). "True Detective Mysteries" - A young couple pick up a hitchhiker who turns out to be an escaped convict. / "Sugar"(Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong) / "Mercury Theater On The Air: War of the Worlds" - The classic 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast about invaders from Mars."