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Lou Ottens - Compact Cassette inventor - dead at 94

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In some other discussion forums, many people are posting their fond memories of recording songs off the radio onto cassettes (generally because they didn't have the money to buy the songs/albums).

I recorded a few songs (back in the early 1970s) for this reason, and in one (more recent) case, the song was being played on the radio a few weeks before the single/album was for sale.


Kirk Bayne
 
I remember thinking because of the name "compact cassette" on the cassette that it must be a new thing. And I did have an old style tape recorder.

I recorded the weather off my local stations and I sent copies of my recordings to someone who used to post here who still lived in that area, but so far no response. I was hoping he would post my recordings online somewhere because I don't know how to do that. Recording the weather was a big deal because the same man did it first on one station and then after he no longer worked at the one station he worked at another. He gave us lots more detail than any TV weatherman would give us, and more detail than anyone would provide in the days before The Weather Channel.

I realize now what I did might not have been ethical. But my seventh grade teacher, before we went to a concert of a string quartet in the school's auditorium, played a recording of what woodwind instruments sounded like. Apparently it was supposed to be a woodwind quartet. I went to the library looking for her record. It was a branch library and under "instrumental" it did not have that. But I checked out what I did find and discovered a new artist I never hear of named Al Hirt who I really liked. I didn't even know I could go to the record store and buy this, or maybe I couldn't. I recorded the songs on cassettes. Later I found out one of his biggest hits was familiar because Captain Kangaroo used to use it.

Eventually I did find a recording of what different musical instruments sounded like, including strings, woodwinds and brass. I recorded that on cassettes.
 
When I first got a cassette recorder ~50 years ago, I recorded quite a few TV show theme songs, Mission Impossible, Hawaii 5-0, Medical Center (the siren sound at the beginning that changed to playing part of the theme song was actually a synthesizer), etc.

(In the 1980s, several CDs were released containing TV show theme songs)


Kirk Bayne
 
kfbkfb said:
When I first got a cassette recorder ~50 years ago, I recorded quite a few TV show theme songs, Mission Impossible, Hawaii 5-0, Medical Center (the siren sound at the beginning that changed to playing part of the theme song was actually a synthesizer), etc.

(In the 1980s, several CDs were released containing TV show theme songs)


Kirk Bayne
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I did the same.
 
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