Oh boy! What a great day for 8-tracks! The 61 8-track lot I bought on ebay (for only $35.50 including shipping) came in. I bought it because of Dick Hyman's The Man From O.R.G.A.N. With a name like Dick Hyman how could he not be the Man from O.R.G.A.N.? One of tracks is called Agent Double-O-Soul!

Then I impatiently waited to see what other gems there might be in the box. Wow, what a bonanza!
I got Hugo Montenegro and Billy May - Popular Classics
Mitch Miller and the Gang - Peace Sing-Along

4 Ray Coniff albums: a double album on one 8-track: Somewhere My Love/ Bridge Over Troubled Waters; I Will Survive (1979); and two 1986 record club only 8-track issues, 30th Anniversary Edition and Say You, Say Me, which covers That's What Friends Are For and What's Love Got to Do With It! Wow! It also has a cool 80s Patrick Nagel-esque girly cover credited to Manuel Nunez. Here's some of his more recent work I found on the web in a similar vein.

3 James Last albums: The Love Album; Music From Across the Way; and Hammond a Gogo (Canadian release with text in french, german and english.)

I just finished listening to The Man From O.R.G.A.N. It plays beautifully even though it's 30+ years old. The previous owner of these 8-tracks took great care of them. Most of them are in their original sleeves.

3 Others have the late (for an 8-track) date of 1984 on them, also from Columbia House:
Julio Inglesias - 1100 Bel Air Place
Peter Duchin - Dance With Peter Duchin
Richard Clayderman - Music of Love

One tape is a four track with one of those converter thingies stuck in with a sticker that says 4/8 converter Remove only when used in 4-track player. This is Danny Thomas presents the Satin Strings. I only have 17 4-tracks here at the museum so I prize them highly.

There's a cool one called Tribute to Getz - by Combo Royale. It's from Certron Corp. Their Vivid Sounds line. So are they a bootleg company? Were royalties ever really paid? I worry about these things.