Country Music History and Elvis Presley Gospel
Two and a half more hours worth of episodes of Tape and Record Show Enterprises fake flagship radio show series "The Tape and Record Show" digitized from the original audio cassettes this evening, in order of conversion, "broadcast dates" and details from my original handwritten 3x5 index cards from back in the day...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 299. Broadcast Saturday, November 7,1981 at 2:00pm central. Theme Music: New Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). "50 Years of Country Music, narrated by Lee Cash - Part A" - Songs include: T For Texas, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Worried Man Blues, Slow Poke, Cool Water, Hound Dog In The Window. / Room Full of Roses, Chant of the Wanderer(Sons of the Pioneers) / "50 Years of Country Music - Part B" - Songs include: Star Spangled Banner, Ghost Riders, I'm Movin' On, Yakety Axe, Indian Love Call, This Ole House. / I Love You Because, I Care No More(Hank Snow) / "50 Years of Country Music - Part C" - Tribute to Hank Williams. Songs include: Lovesick Blues, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Your Cheating Heart, I Saw The Light / "50 Years of Country Music - Part D" - Songs include: Cry Of the Goose, Tennessee Waltz, Humpty Dumpty Heart, High Noon.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 367, Broadcast Friday, November 26, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Runaway(Bill Conti). "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" - American Trilogy Thanksgiving Special. Re-edited and expanded version of the half hour 1981 episode. Songs Include: Follow That Dream, Walk On, Peace In The Valley, So High, Where Could I Go But To The Lord, By and By, Amazing Grace, Crying In The Chapel(1st version), Put Your Hand In The Hand, If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side, Run On, I Believe, How Great Thou Art, If I Can Dream, Where No One Walks Alone, Crying In The Chapel(2nd version), In The Ghetto, Graceland To the Promised Land, I Look Out My Window, You Gave Me A Mountain, Sing You Children Sing."
The "50 Years of Country Music" was a "rare" 90-minute episode from "The Tape and Record Show" season three (which became a 97 minute episode after including everything listed on the original "broadcast" card), since most episodes that season were half-hours. The episode contains "volume one" of a radio documentary fully called "Lee Cash presents 50 Golden Years of Country Music". I "stumbled" across it back then after buying a pre-recorded cassette from the local "K & B Drugs", which I assumed was just a standard compilation tape. I remember being surprised it was actually a narrated documentary. My "surprise" might have been the instigator for me to produce an unplanned 90-minute episode at the time. Sound quality is a bit better than some other TRSE episodes from 1981, since I used the original store bought cassette for the digitization, and the original Sons of the Pioneers/ Hank Snow LPs which I used for the songs in the interstitial breaks.
Episode 367 of "The Tape and Record Show" was from season four, when the "flagship" show switched to a weekly one hour series. It contained a special episode of "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" I thought I might have to recompile from master tapes at some point, since I couldn't locate the episode cassette earlier when I was digitizing all the Randy Haney solo projects. Found a tape in the "archives" with no date or episode number today, just the title, and only labeled on one side of the cassette, which I assumed was a copy of the half hour 1981 similarly titled "Life of Elvis" episode. After playing a bit of the tape, I realized it was the episode I assumed was "missing" for the past several months now. My cassette labeling skills were severely "lacking" back in the day. The episode featured content from the 1981 episode, mixed with newer stereo recordings from a later session, after I acquired better equipment. The excerpts from the 1981 special are easily identifiable. Randy doesn't sing with them, and the songs were recorded from his old trusty "Dorchester" branded record player, since he recorded it himself and handed me the cassette later, thus loud record "pops". The later TRSE "studio" recordings are a bit "cleaner" sound wise. Fun fact: Randy pronounced "Trilogy" as "Try-ology".
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 299. Broadcast Saturday, November 7,1981 at 2:00pm central. Theme Music: New Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). "50 Years of Country Music, narrated by Lee Cash - Part A" - Songs include: T For Texas, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Worried Man Blues, Slow Poke, Cool Water, Hound Dog In The Window. / Room Full of Roses, Chant of the Wanderer(Sons of the Pioneers) / "50 Years of Country Music - Part B" - Songs include: Star Spangled Banner, Ghost Riders, I'm Movin' On, Yakety Axe, Indian Love Call, This Ole House. / I Love You Because, I Care No More(Hank Snow) / "50 Years of Country Music - Part C" - Tribute to Hank Williams. Songs include: Lovesick Blues, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Your Cheating Heart, I Saw The Light / "50 Years of Country Music - Part D" - Songs include: Cry Of the Goose, Tennessee Waltz, Humpty Dumpty Heart, High Noon.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 367, Broadcast Friday, November 26, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Runaway(Bill Conti). "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" - American Trilogy Thanksgiving Special. Re-edited and expanded version of the half hour 1981 episode. Songs Include: Follow That Dream, Walk On, Peace In The Valley, So High, Where Could I Go But To The Lord, By and By, Amazing Grace, Crying In The Chapel(1st version), Put Your Hand In The Hand, If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side, Run On, I Believe, How Great Thou Art, If I Can Dream, Where No One Walks Alone, Crying In The Chapel(2nd version), In The Ghetto, Graceland To the Promised Land, I Look Out My Window, You Gave Me A Mountain, Sing You Children Sing."
The "50 Years of Country Music" was a "rare" 90-minute episode from "The Tape and Record Show" season three (which became a 97 minute episode after including everything listed on the original "broadcast" card), since most episodes that season were half-hours. The episode contains "volume one" of a radio documentary fully called "Lee Cash presents 50 Golden Years of Country Music". I "stumbled" across it back then after buying a pre-recorded cassette from the local "K & B Drugs", which I assumed was just a standard compilation tape. I remember being surprised it was actually a narrated documentary. My "surprise" might have been the instigator for me to produce an unplanned 90-minute episode at the time. Sound quality is a bit better than some other TRSE episodes from 1981, since I used the original store bought cassette for the digitization, and the original Sons of the Pioneers/ Hank Snow LPs which I used for the songs in the interstitial breaks.
Episode 367 of "The Tape and Record Show" was from season four, when the "flagship" show switched to a weekly one hour series. It contained a special episode of "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" I thought I might have to recompile from master tapes at some point, since I couldn't locate the episode cassette earlier when I was digitizing all the Randy Haney solo projects. Found a tape in the "archives" with no date or episode number today, just the title, and only labeled on one side of the cassette, which I assumed was a copy of the half hour 1981 similarly titled "Life of Elvis" episode. After playing a bit of the tape, I realized it was the episode I assumed was "missing" for the past several months now. My cassette labeling skills were severely "lacking" back in the day. The episode featured content from the 1981 episode, mixed with newer stereo recordings from a later session, after I acquired better equipment. The excerpts from the 1981 special are easily identifiable. Randy doesn't sing with them, and the songs were recorded from his old trusty "Dorchester" branded record player, since he recorded it himself and handed me the cassette later, thus loud record "pops". The later TRSE "studio" recordings are a bit "cleaner" sound wise. Fun fact: Randy pronounced "Trilogy" as "Try-ology".