Just Say More 8-Tracks Please!
What makes these 47 8-tracks worth only $7.99 and that 8-track below worth $365 all by itself?

You are bidding on (47) various BRAND NEW!! UNOPENED!! Jazz & Soul 8 track tapes. Artists include: EVELYN "CHAMPAGNE" KING; ALPHONSE MOUZON; HANK CRAWFORD; LOU DONALDSON; MANDRE; TEENA MARIE; SMOKEY ROBINSON; STANLEY TURRENTINE; DONNA SUMMER; BOBBY HUTCHERSON; THELMA HOUSTON; GENE HARRIS; CHICO HAMILTON; ESTER PHILLIPS; GROVER WASHINGTON; NAT ADDERLEY; JOHNNY HAMMOND; and more!! THESE WOULD MAKE A GREAT ADDITION TO ANY COLLECTION!!

$365 for one 8-Track!
The Velvet Underground and Nico, an 8-track I would probably pay $25 bucks for, which is saying a lot because I don't like to pay that much, just sold on ebay for $365! Here's a picture and some bidding history. Who has that kind of money to spend so frivolously? Makes me wanna give to the homeless or something.



Bidding History (Highest bids first)
User ID Bid Amount Date of Bid
mtoldtom( 156) US $365.00 Dec-19-03 22:19:57 PST
recosukekun( 202) US $360.00 Dec-19-03 15:37:27 PST
poodle_butt( 1176) US $359.08 Dec-19-03 21:14:00 PST
mc51( 236) US $288.00 Dec-19-03 14:08:32 PST
miso8( 306) US $221.00 Dec-17-03 16:00:26 PST

Okay, so that's 3 people willing to pay over $300 and 5 people willing to pay over $200. I can't believe it. Maybe I'd pay $40...after seeing this...maybe...
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Dirty Water
Nuggets, the highly sought-after 60s psychdelic compilation album, sold on 8-track on ebay again for $31. I think a buzz gets started about certain items and then everyone wants one. I do want it all, but I also really want Dirty Water. The Standells' albums seem even harder to come by than Nuggets is. Does anyone know if Dirty Water is available on any other compilation that would be on 8-track?

Yesterday I was walking across the Charles singing it. "I love that dirty water...Boston you're my home. Bwa-Nomp-Nomp-Nomp..." Wotta great song. I feel like it's all mine and I'm the only one who was ever from Boston, and ever loved the Charles, but that can't be true can it? Becoz someone wrote a song about it.

Vivid Sounds
The 8-tracks I won from ebay came. 22 tapes for $5.24 including shipping. That's what I like: a deal. Screw paying a lot for a muffler! Or an 8-track. I bought this lot with this fuzzy picture and no title list because I could see they were Vivid Sounds label and N. A. L. (North American Leisure Corp.) Brands I know and trust! And don't have too many of them already.
Here's what I got:

-Columbia Musical Treasury Orchestra- Moonlight Nocturne, VS-110-8-TQ (Broke already.)
-Columbia Musical Treasury Orchestra - A Very Good Year, VS-103-8-TQ
-Combo Royale - A Tribute to Dave Brubeck, VS-106-8-TQ
-Combo Royale - A Tribute to Stan Getz, VS-105-8-TQ (Have it already.)
-Don Costa and his Orchestra - Hollywood Premier, VS-132-8-TQ
-Don Costa and his Orchestra - Hits, Hits Hits, VS-131-8-TQ
-Bobby Hackett - Plays the Music of Bert Kaempfert, VS-136-8-TQ
-Lionel Hampton - Soft Vibes Soaring Strings, VS-129-8-TQ (Got this one too.)
A couple of these Vivid Sounds tapes have more info than usual.

"Recorded on superior quality Certron polyester magnetic tape using the exclusive full range BIASONIC(R) duplicating process to assure the ultimate in stereophonic sound. Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law. Tapes are sold for consumer use only. Certron Corp., Anaheim, CA."

Another one says "The music contained within is a product of C.B.S. Direct Marketing Services." Must've been a mail order or T.V. sold kinda thing. No dates on them.

The N. A. L. tapes are cool too. They say NAL SUPER STEREO 8 TWIN-PAK and A Subsidiary of Omega Equities Corporation. These have great cover designs.

-George Greeley - Love Themes, NL2-81629
-The Londonderry Strings and Jack Nitzsche and his Orchestra - Liverpool Revisited, NL2-81626
(Covers of She Loves You, I Saw Her Satnding There, House of the Rising Sun, Twist and Shout, You Really Got Me, etc.) Psyched! (Was awesome, but broke.)
-Various Artists - Spellbound, NL2-81613, Exotica-type stuff featuring Les Baxter, Esquivel, Nelson Riddle, etc. Excellent. Best exotica compilation I have yet, I think. Played well.

Already this lot is well worth the $5.24 to me and here's what else I got:

-Dick Feller - Dick Feller Wrote..., UA-EA094-G (Says "The Rainbow Collection" on it too.) 1973
-The Fireside Singers - Goodtime Songtime, Reader's Digest RD5-171-1, 1976
-Stan Getz and Arthur Fiedler at Tanglewood Boston Pops Orchestra - RCA, R8S 1082 W/Steve Swallow on bass, Roy Haynes on drums, Gary Burton on vibraphone and Jim Hall on guitar.
-Homer and Jethro - The Old Crusty Minstrels, RCA P8S 1080
-Bert Kaempfert- The Famous Seven of Bert Kaempfert. Front label says it's the Greatest Hits. Polyband, Altone CS 152
-Happy Louis and His Polka Band - Red Hot Polkas, MGM, GRT 8130-4331 (I have so many copies of this!)
-Rod McKuen - Very Warm, Decca 6-4969
-101 Strings Orchestra play the Romantic Melodies of Victor Herbert, Alshire S8-5209, 1972
-Boots Randolph - Homer Louis Randolph, III, Monument, GRT 8041-30678 (Have it.)
-The San Sebastion Strings - Home to the Sea, music by Anita Kerr, words by Rod Mckuen, Warner Bros., Seven Arts, 8WM-1764 (Have it already.)
Various Artists - Pianos Galore, P8S 1215 w/Peter Nero, Floyd Cramer, Earl Hines, etc.

I also got three sealed Scotch 90 Minute blanks for .49c each at Global Thrift in Waltham, MA. Yay!

More B-Day 8-tracks and Ebay Outrages
My Friend Churchill gave me 2 8-tracks for my birthday.
Television - Adventure
Bob Dylan - Planet Waves (sealed)
They are wicked nice. He works in a record store part time. The rest of the time he works with me at the book store.

Stupid Ebay sold this Pogo 8-track for $39.89. I think it was a bidding war among Pogo collectors rather than 8-track collectors. Sure would love that tape. I was thinking of getting a Pogo tattoo.

Birthday 8-tracks!
My dad sent me some birthday money and I got a bunch of 8-tracks at In Your Ear Records. I tried a lot of new groups I haven't heard before. I love to be able to do that because 8-tracks are so cheap. (The links are mostly to an annoying, but useful site called Fuzz, Acid and Flowers that will NOT let you press your browser's back button to get out of it, so be warned.) Here's what I got:
Gregg and Duane Allman - S/T
The Blues Magoos - Never Goin' Back to Georgia
Brand X - Livestock
Brotherhood of Man - United We Stand
Brooklyn Bridge - S/T
Odell Brown - Plays Otis Redding
Al Caiola - The Power of Brass
Walter Carlos - By Request
Cold Blood - Lydia
The Cuff Links - S/T
Daddy Dewdrop - S/T
Lou Donaldson - Live Fried Buzzard
The Electric Flag - The Band Kept Playing
Herb Ellis and Joe Pass - Two For the Road
Bill Evans - Trio, Duo w/Paul Motian on drums, Gary Peacock on bass and Jim Hall on guitar.
Gil Evans & Gary McFarland - The Great Arrangers
Gil Evans - There Comes a Time
Family - Fearless
Ferreante & Teicher - Dial M for Music
Ella Fitzgerald - The History of Ella Fitzgerald
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play On
Urbie Green - The Fox
The Best of Herbie Hancock
The Happenings - Greatest Hits
Harper's Bizarre - The Secret Life of Harper's Bizarre
Eddie Harris - The Exciting Eddie Harris Vol. 1
The Hello People - Fusion
The Jazz Crusaders - Lighthouse '68
Wes Montgomery - Down Here on the Ground
The Youngbloods - This is the Youngbloods

So far I have listened to the Allmans and the Hello People. The Allman album is so poorly produced, it sounds like a scratchy record, but I like it. The Hello People is fantastic. Very eclectic, cool flute playing. I had to replace the pads and respool some tape. These audiopak late 60s carts have weird spools. They are two separate pieces. The small ring in the middle is just resting lightly on the big round base. I think as a design it didn't work well, because I always find they need to be respooled a lot. The tape slips up onto the top ring and spools around up there instead of going back around the outer edge of the tape on the bottom where it's supposed to go. Anybody who followed all that and knows what I mean, you are a true 8-Tracker!