My posts have been few and far between around here lately, so I'm going to continue to triple up on my offerings, this week with three completely unrelated items, and a minimum of commentary.
First up, another tape for those of you who have asked for more slide shows. In this case, it's a woman documenting a trip to Arizona in 1966, for 35 minutes. Makes you want to go back in time and visit the state yourself, doesn't it?
Download: Unknown - Arizona Travelogue Slide Show, 1966
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Then I have this oddity, which is admittedly fairly hard to listen to. It is a short tape, and badly recorded, featuring some sort of comedic dialogue. It involves someone portraying a shrill old woman named Muriel, and a man with a dumb-guy voice. Perhaps you can make out more of this than I can - I have the feeling if someone takes the time to decipher this, it might be worthwhile, although you should also know, in advance, that it's incomplete, stopping mid-sentence after just over 2 1/2 minutes. .
Download: Unknown - Comedic Dialogue
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Finally, I wanted to make sure you knew that there's still time to go to to RIVERFEST, '97!!!
Download: Riverfest, '97
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Personally, I cannot wait to see Uncle Knucklefunk.
Turn on the reel to reel tape recorder. Take the tape out of the box. Put the empty reel on the right spindle, and the full reel on the left spindle. Wind the tape through the mechanisms - including the pinch rollers, the capstan and the rest. The tape is pressed against the heads and moves at a certain number of inches per second. Start the machine. And sometimes... if you're lucky... magic comes spilling out of the speakers. That magic is what I hope to share here.
Sunday, September 30, 2018
The Time? 1966. The Place? Arizona. The Event? Slide Show
Labels:
1960's,
1990's,
Advertising,
Audio Mysteries,
Humor,
Slide Show
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Uncle Knucklefunk? He's my Favorite!
ReplyDeleteI'm going out to gas up the car right now. Riverfest, here we come!
Thanks for the heads up, Bob :)
It doesn't sound like he's saying knucklefunk to me.
ReplyDeleteThat combined with the delivery for the first band and the way he says Sponge makes for a very giggly reel for me.
Enjoying getting caught up on the blog!
ReplyDeleteThe second tape sounds like a (very?) amateur performance of "I'm Herbert" by Robert Anderson.
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1872
And...GO KNUCKLEFUNK!