*gives you a big ol hug* SQUUUUUEEEEEZZZZEEEEEEE

any Lawrence Welk in there?

No, but I do have some epic 70s Cajun music and some Arthur Fiedler

*licks your face*

Party.

Party like it's 1979!!

70s?! Ill by the whole set. *shoves money.......in your sandals*

*gives you some Englebert Humperdink*

Not his real name! LOL!

GIMMIE!!!!

:-D You obviously have good taste, my friend

yeah I got a bunch myself
btw? What are the K-tel ones?

Oh geez, no idea

go find out please
Also I looking for a certain 8-Track Player

hehe no, but I do have some of those at home :-P

Can i have the collie instead? ;3

*jumps in your arms* Well helloooooooo nurse! :-P

Uhhm hey! :D
*holds tight*

Groovy, baby! Shall we shag now or shag later? :)

Oh, behave!

Like most 8-tracks, it either got eaten by the player, or its holding up a table somewhere :-P

Got "Green Tamborine" in there? :- )

No, but I do love that song :-D

I am surprised that you know of it. It's a blast from the past!!!! :- )

Are you kidding?! hehe, I grew up on the oldies..love it!

Oh....Motown! Some of the best music ever made!! :- )

LOL my parents used to have a tape box like that.. mostly country, though my mother liked The Cars for some reason.

Hey man, can't beat "Drive" by the Cars...and for some reason thinking of country I am now thinking of "Islands in the Stream" :-P Our neighbor found this and most of the 8 tracks at a yard sale for $1 back 20 years ago. Some of them even have the original paper packaging still on them. But my favs have always been The greatest of the Guess Who, Arthur Fiedler, and Organ Magic (pun obvious) hehe. Our player still works great too, gotta test it out every year.

My mom really liked the first album except for "that weird song" (aka I'm in Touch With Your World"). But thats one of the advantages of that format. It forced you to listen to the whole tape. It wasn't the greatest sounding but it was a fun format for that era.

True. Although having the ability to rewind with a cassette was much nicer :-P

I think that was the #1 reason why the 8-track died!

One fun story was when I got my first stereo in 1975 with a 8-track recorder. My dad came home from a garage sale and picked up Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and "The Best of Steppenwolf"..he hated rock so he never knew what he bought..

Ahahah awesome! I was in an antique store in Nebraska recently and saw that they were selling some 8-track mixed tapes...looking back I should have bought some, I can only imagine how terrible they might have been :-P

These things were never made to last 30-40 years. I've transferred a few of my homemade 8-tracks (of radio stations) to cassettes over the years, The biggest problems I've had were:

1) The foam pad behind the tape has deteriorated over the years - they sell replacement pads on ebay.
2) Or if the tape uses leaf springs (RCA and Ampex tapes), the pads have fallen off. If they are still in the 8-track you can carefully glue them back on.
2) The sensing foil splice that makes the player change tracks has dried out. It needs to be replaced but the tape is hard to find.
3) On some 8-tracks the pinch roller has deteriorated to goo.

omg !!!! my parents had a dinosaur of a stereo that played those as well i can recall a certain Barbra Streisand Christmas album as a pup that squeaked when played ugh it was awful it was like nails on a chalkboard bad enough listening to Barbra but the squeaking too ughhhh the torture

Yeah that is pretty bad, never could understand the draw to her singing..she is as annoying as Ethel Merman

I'm the only one on here with 10 different players... :)

Knowing that you have one of mine makes me feel good Hopefully it's still working and your rocking out to that groovy 8track

Yep! It's great!!

LOL "Acht-Fährte" is great. *giggles* Actually, it's named "Achtspur".