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Jun 30, 2011 - 8:15 AM
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jkannry
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You've set me off now Graham 
I remember taping the opening titles of The Reivers straight off the telly, while it was showing. I'd managed to explain to my family, several times, that they needed to be real quiet otherwise any sound they made would be picked up on my tape.
My dad was my biggest worry. No matter how many times I explained it, I didn't trust him to forget and blurt something out.
Sure enough, after the prologue, when the titles kick in, doesn't he just go and say "Oh, Burgess Meredith, I like him".
At the time, I had murder in my mind!!
Now he's gone, it's funny to hear him upsetting his teenage son without really being aware of it. It's funny how life moves on.
Ah this reminds me of two adventures involving the time machine with blurting out while trying to record the opening music. Of course there was a local revival and brought machine into theater to tape movie as there was no way to get movies on videotape(hadnt been invented). At end someone makes a great joke about one of the leads being from mr ed and yells out hey willlbbbur. Still on recording.
I thought my fascination with taping film and tv music was odd till one of my childhood colleagues taped every network promo of all their moves for the fall and was obsessed back in the day when these promos were with music and big productions.
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Kev, cinemascope, graham
I regularly used to have ask the family to be quiet while I recorded with microphone at the end of a film/Tv show. The lounge TV was colour and therefore gave a good recording, the one in my room was old black and white and it hummed and whistled!
My mate had a great recording off the TV of Gunfight at ok Corral - in the middle of the gundown music and while Kirk was stalking Johnny Ringo, he shushed his mum for talking and she shouted back louder: "Don't you tell me to shush!!!!"
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i remember purchasing ONLY 3 titles after i got my first portable stereo/cassette player:
WHO'S NEXT
AQUALUNG
MAYBE TOMMOROW (jACKSON 5)
IT WAS a cool thing thing when it came out but then i went back to lp's
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The announcer telling you whats on next is a much more recent thing. Back in the 70s and early 80s, we got full end credits without interruption.
Thats when the entire planet didnt have the attention span of a gnat.
And didnt need to be told what was coming next or next week while the viewer savoured the conclusion of the film.
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I get the impression, Bill, that you feel the same way as me about this relatively recent UK TV phenomenon ... it annoys me no end! 
Similarly the way they shrink the credits to approx. 50% of the screen so as to advertise something else.
too right, its infuriating.
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Interestingly, I never did that "tape off tv or vhs" thing that many others did.
I did that, but the soundtracks I listed in my previous post were copied from the soundtrack albums. In most cases from friends who had them.
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Yeah musicmad - tape to tape - whether it was built-in or you used two decent cassette decks and used leads - it watered down the clarity each time you transferred it. I did do some compilation tapes from full scores I had recorded on cassette, - I guess it depends on your definition of quality.
For rare main titles that you didnt have in any other format, it was listenable. but compared to current digital clarity, tape to tape sucked and the more you stepped on it, the more muted it became. Because I grew up with hisses, hums and whistles, even crystal mono sounds clear to me!!
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Interestingly, I never did that "tape off tv or vhs" thing that many others did.
I did that, but the soundtracks I listed in my previous post were copied from the soundtrack albums. In most cases from friends who had them.
Copied from LP, CD or other cassettes? I can't remember ever having copied a cassette from another cassette.
From CD. I guess I may have copied some pop/rock albums from cassette to cassette, but the examples are indeed few and far between.
D.O.A., Dreamscape and Metro I used to have on CD, but I got some really good offers from people who wanted to buy them (hi Roger Feigelson and Daniel Schweiger!), so I decided to part with them after I had copied them to tape in the late 90s. I think I sold Metro for a crazy prize to Feigelson after I had an auction, more than $100!
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And the Outland movie novel too, and the Star Treks, and on and on. Loved those books back in the 70s !