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The Cassette Tape Turns 50

The cassette tape has hit a milestone.......

The History Of Cassettes

http://historysdumpster.blogspot.com/2012/07/history-of-cassettes.html

More

http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-musics-worst-format-has-found-a-new-life,102531/

http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/entrepreneurs/2013/09/06/cassette-tapes-at-50-alive-and-kicking/?intcmp=obnetwork

The Ediphone

 Whilst on a visit to my friend's house, he had something in his yard he (and no one else) could identify. Only that it looked like a "typewriter with no keyboard" But what was it?

It was an Ediphone (or what remained of it.)

The Ediphone was an early dictation machine like the Dictaphone that used wax cylinders (cylinder records were considered obsolete by 1912. But Edison made commercial music cylinder records up until 1929.) But beyond that into the '30s and even as far as the early '50s. The wax cylinder was used for office dictation before it was replaced by belt machines and a few years later, tape - even The Edison Company eventually got into tape.

 ..........until the 2000s when digital took over.

The Ediphone was electrically powered, but strangely recorded acoustically.

The Perfume Counter: Fragrance Commercials of The '70s

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Then And Now: Band Names You Only THOUGHT Were Original

Nirvana

You know them as a famous grunge rock band that put Seattle on the map for a few years as the rock 'n roll capitol of America.

Hold on to your dirty flannel......Because Nirvana was originally the name of a British '60s psychedelic rock group

Skid Row

You know them as a classic American hair-metal band of the late '80s/early '90s

.....so I take it you don't remember the early '70s Irish rock band called Skid Row.

True Fact: In the embryonic days of Nirvana (the Seattle band) in 1985, when they were trying to come up with their band name, one of the suggestions was Skid Row!

Scorpions

You know them as a good efficient German heavy metal band of the '80s.

....but there was a UK pop band called The Scorpions in the early1960s......

The Eagles

Best known as an American rock band......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjIJGxULpgo

The Eagles were originally the name of a British surf-guitar band in the early 1960's

The Knack (Thanks to raybearokc for reminding me of this one...)

You know them as the biggest power pop band of 1979.....

.....but in the 1960s, there was a band called The Knack (ironically signed to Capitol Records, the same label as the 1979 Knack!)

Coincidence?