A Year End Mirage
In an earlier post a few evenings ago, I stated all episodes of "The James Stricklin Song Mirage" had been digitized. Well, I lied. I had completely forgotten about the two "year end" three hour specials from New Years' 1984 and 1985, in which James re-capped several songs played on the show during the year. So, tonight, I digitized the first of the two specials...
"James Stricklin Song Mirage: 1984 Year In Review. Broadcast Tuesday, January 1,1985 at 12:20am central. Theme Music: Can You Feel It(The Jacksons). Hosts: James Stricklin and Albert Sims. Songs in this three hour year end retrospective include: 1999(Prince), Crime Pays(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Rockit(Herbie Hancock), Freak-A-Zoid(Midnight Star), Heart Attack(Olivia Newton-John), Head Over Heels(The GoGo's), Ghostbusters(Ray Parker, Jr), Stay The Night(Chicago), Infatuation(Rod Stewart), Don't Pay The Ferryman(Chris DeBurgh), Obscene Phone Caller(Rockwell), Let's Go Crazy(Prince and the Revolution), Cleaning Up The Town(The Bus Boys), Rock Me Tonight(Billy Squire), Dirty Laundry(Don Henley), Eyes Without A Face(Billy Idol), Sad Songs Say So Much(Elton John), Hard Times(Run D.M.C.), Valley Girl(Frank and Moon Unit Zappa), Boogie Shoes(K.C. and The Sunshine Band), We're Not Gonna Take It(Twisted Sister), Cruel Summer(Bananarama), Blue Jean(David Bowie), Low Rider(War), You Make My Dreams(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Strut(Sheena Easton), Borderline(Madonna), Jungle Love(Morris Day and The Time), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band(Paul Nicholas and The Bee Gees), Come Together(Aerosmith), Come Together(The Beatles), Working In The Coal Mine(Devo), It's Nasty(Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five)."
This was yet another recording in which the secondary "broadcast copy" seems to be missing from the Tape and Record Show Enterprises "archives" (aka "the bedroom closet"), so I had to use the original "master" audio cassettes for the digitization. However, this was a recording which required no extra editing, so it is exactly how the "broadcast copy" would have sounded. The original recording date on the "master" version was December 21, 1984.
This post kind of reminds me of the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab controversy currently going on. Seems that instead of using all analog masters, they've been cheating on their newer vinyl releases, and using digital masters, and this has audio "purists" highly upset. Unlike MFSL, Tape and Record Show Enterprises has never claimed anything "pure" about our digitizations. You're thinking to yourself, "Well, these digitizations are coming from audio cassettes, so the source is 100% analog anyway". Well... not necessarily. A few early episodes of some TRSE series were re-digitized from CD-R recordings I made around 25 years ago on a standalone Philips branded CD recorder(before I had my first computer) from the audio cassettes, so I guess you could say "digital masters" were used in those cases. Using the already digital CD-R's of those few shows saved some time in the current digitization project, and none of the old recordings are "high fidelity" anyway.
"James Stricklin Song Mirage: 1984 Year In Review. Broadcast Tuesday, January 1,1985 at 12:20am central. Theme Music: Can You Feel It(The Jacksons). Hosts: James Stricklin and Albert Sims. Songs in this three hour year end retrospective include: 1999(Prince), Crime Pays(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Rockit(Herbie Hancock), Freak-A-Zoid(Midnight Star), Heart Attack(Olivia Newton-John), Head Over Heels(The GoGo's), Ghostbusters(Ray Parker, Jr), Stay The Night(Chicago), Infatuation(Rod Stewart), Don't Pay The Ferryman(Chris DeBurgh), Obscene Phone Caller(Rockwell), Let's Go Crazy(Prince and the Revolution), Cleaning Up The Town(The Bus Boys), Rock Me Tonight(Billy Squire), Dirty Laundry(Don Henley), Eyes Without A Face(Billy Idol), Sad Songs Say So Much(Elton John), Hard Times(Run D.M.C.), Valley Girl(Frank and Moon Unit Zappa), Boogie Shoes(K.C. and The Sunshine Band), We're Not Gonna Take It(Twisted Sister), Cruel Summer(Bananarama), Blue Jean(David Bowie), Low Rider(War), You Make My Dreams(Daryl Hall and John Oates), Strut(Sheena Easton), Borderline(Madonna), Jungle Love(Morris Day and The Time), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band(Paul Nicholas and The Bee Gees), Come Together(Aerosmith), Come Together(The Beatles), Working In The Coal Mine(Devo), It's Nasty(Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five)."
This was yet another recording in which the secondary "broadcast copy" seems to be missing from the Tape and Record Show Enterprises "archives" (aka "the bedroom closet"), so I had to use the original "master" audio cassettes for the digitization. However, this was a recording which required no extra editing, so it is exactly how the "broadcast copy" would have sounded. The original recording date on the "master" version was December 21, 1984.
This post kind of reminds me of the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab controversy currently going on. Seems that instead of using all analog masters, they've been cheating on their newer vinyl releases, and using digital masters, and this has audio "purists" highly upset. Unlike MFSL, Tape and Record Show Enterprises has never claimed anything "pure" about our digitizations. You're thinking to yourself, "Well, these digitizations are coming from audio cassettes, so the source is 100% analog anyway". Well... not necessarily. A few early episodes of some TRSE series were re-digitized from CD-R recordings I made around 25 years ago on a standalone Philips branded CD recorder(before I had my first computer) from the audio cassettes, so I guess you could say "digital masters" were used in those cases. Using the already digital CD-R's of those few shows saved some time in the current digitization project, and none of the old recordings are "high fidelity" anyway.