So my friend bought this cassette, thinking it would be a greatest hits album. It's not. It's an 80 minute mashup dated July 18th 1953. It's a mashup of ambient jazz, plunderphonics, biblical and political preaching, and songs (from artists like the Byrds) all mashed together. They also reference drugs a lot and some portions sound like they were taken from a radio show.
I would guess it is something someone put together from other tapes and sound recordings that was about things/songs/events they (and friends maybe) wanted to listen to and maybe have a record of these events/happenings.
This was done a lot because not everyone likes every song on an artist's tape so they pick out the songs they like and record it on another tape.
I do not think you will find another like it.
You can always post your question on the following site and see what they can tell you.
Thanks for the responses, I actually figured it out (After lots of research). Its a tape from the band Negativland, but Im pretty sure the audio is from the radio show Over the Edge.
Cassette tapes were invented in 1962 so it can't be as old as 1953. It's possible that they recorded it from a different medium, or several as you say there is a radio program on it. I concur about the mixtape idea.
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I have a cassette with some of the title 20 ........ artists anything else except for the songs. The songs are:
I can see clearly by Johnny Nash
I believe you may have a tape made from Rainbow's CD release of "20 Golden Oldies"
Looks like the 20 Golden Oldies.
I also have this on CD. My cassette has 1986 on papers.
Check this to see if it matches.
www.discogs.com/
I have a cassette labeled Maybe/Definitely without anything else execept for the songs. The songs are...
Let Me In
A Little Closer
Understand I'm Free
Here is an article about your band, from 1992. I'm guessing this is the next release.
There was another article from 1993 but it was behind a subscription paywall. It doesn't look like they are still around, but there seems to be another band called Definitely Maybe who started in 2003 and is located in Dallas, TX.
So when I was a kid I had this children's Christian story/musical audio cassette tape that I would listen to every night. I really wanna find it again or at least know it's name. The story was about this kid who didn't want to play with this other kid because he thought he looked weird. So the kid gets grounded for being rude and while he's asleep he gets washed away onto this island. On this island there are a bunch of beings who kinda look like Bone from the graphic novel series Bone, but fuzzy and each one's fur was a single color. They tell the boy to avoid the one with the plaid fur because he was abnormal and strange and a bad person. The boy avoids him and even runs away from him until he finds himself talking to him. He finds out he's nothing like the other beings said, he's just avoided because he's different.
He finds out that none of the others had even gotten close enough to even get to know him. The boys learns that it's wrong to judge people on looks alone and when he goes home/wakes up he apologises and decides to actually get to know the other kid. I remember one song from it called, "Time In My Room" and I can even sing a single line. It went like this: "Spending time in my room, filled with stress filled with gloom, did a bad thing and then boom, I'm doing time here in my room." Yeah weird right. Anyway does anyone remember this or know where I can find out? I drew a pic of what I kinda remember the beings looking like. I don't think it's accurate, but maybe it'll help jog someone's memory. I've been looking for ages, but it's like it never existed.
I have used this site to help find Christen children's songs from the past so maybe you might ask your question here.
You seem to remember a lot about the story so that will help (even the color of the cassette may help) and approximate year.
christianity.stackexchange.com/
I am not sure if this is the right site to ask this, but I'm desperate so I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm in search of an old cassette tape that I used to listen to when I was a kid. I lost it about 15 years ago and I've totally forgotten the name of it. I'm pretty sure it came out in the 90s, but I'm not 100% sure, it could have been in the 80s. I've been searching for so long trying to find more information about it. All I can remember is a few song titles/lyrics. I can still hear the tune in my head, but that's all. I know its not much to go by, but this is what I have.
*What would Noah say today
*How do you do Mr octopus
*The boy who wouldn't share his toys
*Daisy dog superstar
I think it is this company that made the cassette you are looking for:
weesing.com/
I can't find the exact lyrics but this looks like the most likely option.
Good luck in your search and let us know what you find out. :)
I agree with Jess as I have had several of these tapes/books over the years and I can remember similar songs.
You may be able to contact them with your question to see if they have a recording with some of these lyrics. It will be in CD form most likely.
I used to listen to a children's cassette when I was young and I am trying to find out what it was. It was a story, rather than music, and considering my age it would have to have come out in the mid-late 80s or possibly early 90s. I will recreate what I can recall here, but my memories are foggy at best.
"Walking like a neighbor should,
Talking like a neighbor should,
and smiling saying neighborly, Hello!
Everyone's so glad to see you,
that's the way it is in ****, you know!."
I cannot remember the **'ed out part, but I remember it was the name of the place the story took place (I want to say Woodland, or Woodville, or something, but those bring up nothing when I look for them.)
The story was a Winnie the Pooh-esque story about animals living in a forest/city and going about their lives. The actual story completely eludes me at this point.
I have been searching for several days about this and I know the story you are talking about. My daughter had this set of books and one other that had a tape recorder she could listen to them on. I do remember that the book she had came in a collection and there were several tapes for different stories.
Ive been searching for this childrens story/cassette for years as well and cannot find it anywhere when I search for it. This thread is the closest Ive gotten! I do believe the *** word is Woodland. There were at least two stories on the tape: the first one was about one of the animals wanting to perform either in a circus or as a trapeze artist and the other animals thought it was a silly idea.
This tape came with my mother goose lamp I had. Ive been looking for it as well!!! The other side of the tape was lullabies.
Its called: Storyteller bedtime stories ; A child's gift of lullabyes
And yes, the tape came with the Mother Goose Storyteller Lamp/Cassette Player. Theyre hard to come by now!! But you can find the album as a CD on Amazon etc.
