Monday, December 16, 2002

I'm back again to tell you (my imaginary audience) all the rest of the 61 8-tracks I got.

The Best of the Ames Brothers
Al Caiola - Guitar of Plenty
Al Caiola - Soft Guitars
Van Cliburn - World's Favorite Piano Music
Perry Como - Live onTour
Ferrante & Teicher - ABC Collection
Ferrante & Teicher - The Exciting Pianos of
Ferrante & Teicher - Feelings
Robert Goulet - This Christmas I Spend With You
Robert Goulet - Won't You Dance With This Man
Hooked on Classics (2 copies if you're counting.)
Karajan conducts Ravel - Orchestre de Paris
King Richard's Fluegel Knights - Something Super! (Well, it's something...)
Guy Lombardo - Sweet and Heavenly
Claudine Longet - We've Only Just Begun
Mantovani - From Monty with Love
Mantovani - The Magic Of (4 tape Reader's Digest set)
Johnny Mathis - The First 25 Years : The Silver Anniversary Album
Johnny Mathis - Sings the Music of Bacharach and Kaempfert
Peter Nero - The Sounds of Love (You really wanna record that stuff , Pete?) (1987!!!!)
101 Strings - The Soul of Spain
Edmundo Ros - Today
The Three Suns - Pure Gold
Billy Vaughn - Everything is Beautiful
The Lawrence Welk Story - (tape 2 only) The Ballroom Days/ The Golden Hits
Lawrence Welk & Myron Floren - Polkas
Roger Williams - Golden Hits
Roger Williams - Play Me
Roger Williams - Somewhere in Time (1986)

3 tapes from Audiomasters Corp. with nice orange and black sleeves:
The Hollywood Sound Stage Orchestra - Million Sellers Vol. 2
The Velvet Guitars - Guitars for Lovers
The Velvet Piano and Strings - Angel Eyes
(What's up with these things? Studio musicians, I guess.)

Okay all the rest are various artists:
From Columbia House:
The Early Years - Great Stars of the 30s & 40s - Kay Kyser, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Gene Autry, etc.
The Fabulous 50s (2 tapes) - Mitch Miller, Frankie Laine, Rosemary Clooney, etc.
The Great Ones - Patti Page, Doris Day, Dinah Shore, Crosby, Mathis, Harry James, etc.
I Believe in Music (2 tapes) - Mathis, Coniff, Nero, Bennett, Faith, etc.
Let the Sunshine In - Faith, Bennett, Coniff, Mathis, Vinton, etc. (All the usual suspects.)
20 Great Stars Perform 20 Great Hits of the 60s - Nabors, Goulet, Mathis, Bennett, Coniff, etc.
From London Phase Four:
The Best of the 70s - as played by Mantovani, Frank Chacksfield, Ronnie Aldrich.
From RCA:
The Decade of the 50s - Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, Hugo Winterthaler, etc.
From Reader's Digest:
Jukebox Saturday Night (tape 2) - Miller, Kyser, Lombardo, Como, etc. (Already have tape 1.)

Okay that's the lot - whew! Would anyone in the world pay $35.50 for that stuff? Well I believe I could sell them for more, but we don't sell 8-tracks here at the 8-track Museum. No siree!