Two More Of The Flagship Series Converted To The Hard Drives
Tonight, I digitized two more "flagship" episodes of "The Tape and Record Show" from the original Tape and Record Show Enterprises archived "broadcast" audio cassettes, from the short-lived 1991/92 revival period...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 483, Broadcast Friday, February 7, 1992 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Diddling(Bo Diddley). "The Concert For Bangladesh" - The special concert presented for the United Nations Children's Fund on August 1, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring such artists as George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Ringo Starr. Musical highlights in part one include: Bangla Dhun, Wah-Wah, My Sweet Lord, Awaiting On You All, That's The Way God Planned It, It Don't Come Easy, Beware of Darkness, While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 484, Broadcast Friday, February 14, 1992 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Diddling(Bo Diddley). "Jerry Sanders' Classics: Love Is In Control(Donna Summer) / "The Concert For Bangladesh" - The special concert presented for the United Nations Children's Fund on August 1, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring such artists as George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Ringo Starr. Musical highlights in part two include: Medley:Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood, Here Comes The Sun, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Just Like A Woman, Something, Bangladesh."
By the time of these "Tape and Record Show" episodes were "broadcast, the Tape and Record Show Enterprises "company" was pretty much on "life support". There had already been a three year gap between "seasons", due to my attentions being directed to a girl I was dating at the time, who wasn't interested in participating in the recordings. The episodes digitized tonight were part of the few "new" episodes produced in the 1991-92 season, which, even though we still had a weekly "schedule", about 90% of the content consisted of repeats from previous years, because after a three year gap, it was hard getting "the gang back together" on a regular basis.
I'll have four more "Tape and Record Show" episodes left to digitize after what I worked on this evening, three officially "broadcast" episodes, and an "unbroadcast" episode on tape which has the same episode number on the cassette as an officially listed episode, but isn't written down in the 3x5 card files from the time. However, I still have the last few episodes of "TRS Jukebox" to finish in this project, along with the rest of "Radio Yesteryear", "TRS Latenight", "An Album In 30 Minutes", "Albert's Album Cuts", "TRS Weekly Top 10 Countdown", "TRS Presents: Soap", and the 30+ episodes of "The Independent Sampler" which were edited for half-hour "broadcasts" at the time, but never "officially aired", yet the tapes are in the archives. After I finish all those "broadcast versions", I'll be going back and digitizing the raw "master recordings" from the very early days with Randy Haney, James Stricklin, Jerry Sanders, etc... in other words, unedited tapes before the theme music was added and things might have been edited out for length for the "broadcasts". After a couple years, the "master tapes" were identical to the "broadcast" versions, since several were recorded "live to tape", so those will be omitted from the project, since the copies already digitized will be identical to the master. Most of the masters to "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade" no longer exist however, since Jerry kept the original cassettes, and the storage unit he was keeping them in at the time was broken into and almost everything was stolen, all episodes exist in "broadcast" versions except for episode four. I'm sure the thieves, if they bothered to listen to the tapes, probably thought to themselves, "WTF is this sh*t???". Thinking back, before returning the original tapes to Jerry, I should have made copies of the raw tapes along with the "broadcast" versions, it MIGHT have increased the chance slightly of episode four surviving. There are other "gaps" in the archives, as recent as episode 25 of "Paul Morrison's Country Corral", where mysteriously both the master and copy are missing, but, hey, I'm not "perfect" in my archiving either apparently!
NOTE: The pre-theme "open" on episode 484 with the Donna Summer song announced by Jerry Sanders was excerpted from episode two of "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade", originally "broadcast" January 16, 1983, but from the "broadcast" copy of the episode in the archives by the time of the "Tape and Record Show" episode editing, so a third(?) generation copy by 1992. Memory is fuzzy that far back, but I THINK Jerry might have already moved to Arizona by that time, so would have been a logistical nightmare to get new content from him by then. It would have involved him recording new content to cassette and mailing it. It WAS "pre-world wide web" however. In modern times, either a file could be sent, or the show could be co-hosted via Skype or something similar. Geesh, after typing that, I feel OLD as f*ck! Wait, I AM "old as f*ck"! Nevermind...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 483, Broadcast Friday, February 7, 1992 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Diddling(Bo Diddley). "The Concert For Bangladesh" - The special concert presented for the United Nations Children's Fund on August 1, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring such artists as George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Ringo Starr. Musical highlights in part one include: Bangla Dhun, Wah-Wah, My Sweet Lord, Awaiting On You All, That's The Way God Planned It, It Don't Come Easy, Beware of Darkness, While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 484, Broadcast Friday, February 14, 1992 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Diddling(Bo Diddley). "Jerry Sanders' Classics: Love Is In Control(Donna Summer) / "The Concert For Bangladesh" - The special concert presented for the United Nations Children's Fund on August 1, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden, featuring such artists as George Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Billy Preston, Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Ringo Starr. Musical highlights in part two include: Medley:Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood, Here Comes The Sun, A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry, Just Like A Woman, Something, Bangladesh."
By the time of these "Tape and Record Show" episodes were "broadcast, the Tape and Record Show Enterprises "company" was pretty much on "life support". There had already been a three year gap between "seasons", due to my attentions being directed to a girl I was dating at the time, who wasn't interested in participating in the recordings. The episodes digitized tonight were part of the few "new" episodes produced in the 1991-92 season, which, even though we still had a weekly "schedule", about 90% of the content consisted of repeats from previous years, because after a three year gap, it was hard getting "the gang back together" on a regular basis.
I'll have four more "Tape and Record Show" episodes left to digitize after what I worked on this evening, three officially "broadcast" episodes, and an "unbroadcast" episode on tape which has the same episode number on the cassette as an officially listed episode, but isn't written down in the 3x5 card files from the time. However, I still have the last few episodes of "TRS Jukebox" to finish in this project, along with the rest of "Radio Yesteryear", "TRS Latenight", "An Album In 30 Minutes", "Albert's Album Cuts", "TRS Weekly Top 10 Countdown", "TRS Presents: Soap", and the 30+ episodes of "The Independent Sampler" which were edited for half-hour "broadcasts" at the time, but never "officially aired", yet the tapes are in the archives. After I finish all those "broadcast versions", I'll be going back and digitizing the raw "master recordings" from the very early days with Randy Haney, James Stricklin, Jerry Sanders, etc... in other words, unedited tapes before the theme music was added and things might have been edited out for length for the "broadcasts". After a couple years, the "master tapes" were identical to the "broadcast" versions, since several were recorded "live to tape", so those will be omitted from the project, since the copies already digitized will be identical to the master. Most of the masters to "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade" no longer exist however, since Jerry kept the original cassettes, and the storage unit he was keeping them in at the time was broken into and almost everything was stolen, all episodes exist in "broadcast" versions except for episode four. I'm sure the thieves, if they bothered to listen to the tapes, probably thought to themselves, "WTF is this sh*t???". Thinking back, before returning the original tapes to Jerry, I should have made copies of the raw tapes along with the "broadcast" versions, it MIGHT have increased the chance slightly of episode four surviving. There are other "gaps" in the archives, as recent as episode 25 of "Paul Morrison's Country Corral", where mysteriously both the master and copy are missing, but, hey, I'm not "perfect" in my archiving either apparently!
NOTE: The pre-theme "open" on episode 484 with the Donna Summer song announced by Jerry Sanders was excerpted from episode two of "Jerry Sanders' Hit Parade", originally "broadcast" January 16, 1983, but from the "broadcast" copy of the episode in the archives by the time of the "Tape and Record Show" episode editing, so a third(?) generation copy by 1992. Memory is fuzzy that far back, but I THINK Jerry might have already moved to Arizona by that time, so would have been a logistical nightmare to get new content from him by then. It would have involved him recording new content to cassette and mailing it. It WAS "pre-world wide web" however. In modern times, either a file could be sent, or the show could be co-hosted via Skype or something similar. Geesh, after typing that, I feel OLD as f*ck! Wait, I AM "old as f*ck"! Nevermind...