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This Mondays topic is Remembering 8-track. I had to look it up, and as 8-track just never reached Denmark, I have no memories of it.
My early recording memories were the big, heavy reel-to-reel tape recorders lugged around by professionals. Then came the endless loop cassettes - soo smart - and just maybe those actually were 8-tracks? As I wrote in the comments section, they were not in personal use, but used by shops, ferry-lines and so on for announcing of offers, practical notices and so on.
Later the small dictaphones entered, and finally - wonder of wonders - the compact cassettes. We had an early prototype with mike and all, and me and my sister made mock radio-reportages from wannabe jungle expeditions in our backyard. Waterfall and insect sound effects in the background were made by inventive procedures.
The Walkman only joined the party as I was almost grown up. My sister, 3 years younger than me, had one, but I never bothered.
As you see from this, I was not much into listening to music all the time, although I remember one very long holiday by car where we had forgotten the tapes at home, and only had one music casette to listen to all holiday!
In Danish there's a song about the joys and sorrows of owning a Walkman - I'd like to translate it, but I'm not sure I can do it - or that I can do it without being chased by copyright-owners. Danish music-copyright-rules are tough and meticulously upheld.
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I don't remember 8-tracks either and neither does River. I wonder whether they made it to Australia.
SvarSletWikipedia says that itt was known in: United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Japan. But if you read on, the article mostly speaks about USA; so I suppose it was bigger there than anywhere else.
Slet8-tracks were big in Canada but only for a brief space of time. If you blinked you'd have missed it. It was a very, very short-lived piece of music technology.
SletI have no memory of 8-tracks either. We had radio and record player and when I was a mother, my teenage children had cassette players and then cds, then mp3 players. now everyone has their music on their i-phones. Except me.
SvarSletCount me to the ones not having an iPhone or SmartPhone with music ;) We're more.
SletAnd agtually I think now after reading some more, that the too smart endless loop cassette actually was an 8-track. It was not in use privately, but was used for the announcemet of arriwal of ferries and advertising of seasonal offers aboard the ferries. My mother had a nice voice, and was often the speaker on these tapes.
SvarSletHow interesting about your mother!
Slet8-tracks were a fad that came and went so fast it was funny. It was a lesson to me to not get too caught up in one new thing, as the next would come along soon enough.
SvarSletHehe, yes so true.
Slet