Tonight, I continued the Tape and Record Show Enterprises archives audio cassette digitization project, by converting the next two episodes of the flagship "Tape and Record Show" from season eight, and an episode of the spin-off series "TRS Jukebox" from 1983... "The Tape and Record Show: Episode 463. Broadcast Friday, August 15, 1986 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Portable Radio(Daryl Hall and John Oates). "The Million Dollar Quartet"- A rare early recording session taped at the Sun Recording Studio on December 4, 1956 featuring Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Most songs are gospel standards, except "Crazy Arms" and "Don't Forbid Me". / "Elvis Louisiana Hayride Recordings" - Rare early recordings made of the 1955-56 Louisiana Hayride broadcasts from KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana. Features announcer and founder of the Hayride, Horace Logan, announcing the broadcasts. The Tape and Record Show: Episode 464. Broadcast Friday, September 5, 1986 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Portable Radio(Daryl Hall and John Oates). "The Monkees: Monkees at the Circus" - To save a bankrupt circus, the Monkees pose as a troupe of dazzling high-wire artists from France known as the Mozzarelli Brothers, but get in trouble when their guise requires them to actually perform. / "What Am I Doing Hangin' Round"(The Monkees) / "The Monkees: Captain Crocodile" - The Monkees' appearance on the popular children's program The Captain Crocodile Show is sabotaged by its host, who fears that his guests' popularity is diminishing his own. TRS Jukebox: Episode 16: Broadcast Thursday, October 27, 1983 at 7:30pm central. Theme Music: HBO Video Jukebox Theme. - Songs include: Friend or Foe(Adam Ant), No Parking On the Dance Floor(Midnight Star), Atomic Dog(George Clinton), Return to Sender(Elvis Presley), Rockit(Herbie Hancock), Fake Friends(Joan Jett and the Blackhearts), It's A Mistake(Men At Work), Sweet Dreams Are Made of This(Eurythmics)." The digital conversion of episode 463 might be another timely "coincidence", because of the recent passing of Jerry Lee Lewis, who is heard in the recording featured in the episode, but it was legitimately the next in the list to be converted. In my original narration, I announced the content of the episode as a "TRSE Exclusive", not "broadcast" anywhere else at the time. Ironically, the organization, being a "pretend" radio show, never actually "broadcast" it either. If I were a betting person today, I'd bet some actual radio entity aired the contents SOMEWHERE in the world before "The Tape and Record Show" did in its fake airing in 1986. As for me announcing an exclusive interview eventually with Horace Logan, he and I actually discussed the possibility once at his Monroe, Louisiana record store around the time, but it unfortunately never panned out, mainly because he wanted to be paid for it (amount was never discussed). On a fast food employee salary, who could afford THAT?? For more on "Hoss"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Logan . Episode 464 was the first of three "Monkee-centric" episodes of "The Tape and Record Show" produced in the month of September 1986, for The Monkees 20th anniversary of the TV show. Also that month, Tape and Record Show Enterprises produced four 90-minute episodes of "The TRS Music Show", featuring most of the content from Monkees original LP records re-released by Rhino Records by that time. Those "Music Show" episodes have already been digitized, since they included friends as co-hosts. Guess you could say TRSE had a "Monkees Month", like we had an "Elvis Presley Month" a few times over the years. Paul Morrison and I attended a Monkees reunion concert at Louisiana Tech University that year also. Well, almost all The Monkees. Mike Nesmith wasn't on the tour. However, Herman's Hermits, The Grass Roots, and Gary Puckett were the opening acts on the tour. Unlike the two previous episodes of "TRS Jukebox", which I had to re-assemble from scratch, I had the pre-edited "broadcast" audio cassette for episode 16. Unfortunately, it was on one of the "premium" normal bias Memorex brand cassettes from the era. The pressure pad had become "flaky", like other Memorex tapes from the time, and even after replacing it, the tape still had a muffled, bassy sound quality, so I did what I could with it in the audio software. Pro-tip: If you go back in time to the early 1980's, decide to produce some "pretend radio shows" and want to preserve them long term, avoid Memorex like the plague. Instead of their motto, "Is it live, or is it Memorex?", their motto SHOULD have been, "If it's Memorex, it's SHIT!". This opinion isn't strictly based on the way the tapes aged after nearly four decades, they were "flat" sounding even at the time compared to other brands, recorded on a decent JVC cassette deck. Even those three-pack caseless "Certron" branded cassettes have held up and sounded better than the "premium" Memorex tapes today.