Who Taped the Charts????

[solatude]

Whatever happened to listenng to the charts on a Sunday night?, Listening to Bruno Brookes running down the charts. It was always a pain stopping the tape deck at the right time to cut out his voice on the end of a song. Did anyone else do this??? or am i the only sado.........:D

[Heather74]

No I did it too. :)

[SpiralCoolStuff]

No, i believe i did that once. The charts used to be great but now...just not the same.

[solatude]

A sign of us getting old or the fact we have timeless taste in music!! maybe a bit of both:p

[Mulletino]

I also remember taping the Star Wars radio serialisation off the radio as it was before video tapes and there was no way the film would have been on the telly. Films also seemed to take forever to come out on video when they finally materialised but it was nice to have seen nearly all the films in the local video shops, no chance of that nowadays!

One of the local video shops here has the best name ever - "Planet of the Tapes" - how good is that? :D

[SG1973]

Oh yes, Sunday's wern't Sunday's without taping the charts. :D

[Stockcarfan]

I used to listen to the 'top 5' on a Tuesday lunch time (thats when the new chart used to be out) to hear what position one's I liked were. The on a Sunday I would tape them I liked from the postion I heard on Tuesday. Totally illegal but everyone did it.:)

[steve edwards]

ok it wasnt the charts , but my mate used to tape the music from the professionals and the dukes of hazard on a tape recorder whilst knelt in front of the telly and then used to play the music in his addidas bag on the way to junior school every day.

[HG]

I used to listen to the 'top 5' on a Tuesday lunch time (thats when the new chart used to be out) to hear what position one's I liked were. The on a Sunday I would tape them I liked from the postion I heard on Tuesday. Totally illegal but everyone did it.:)

Ditto, used to come home from school at lunchtime and listen to the charts. Also used to record on a Sunday nights, "ssshh I'm taping" was a regular expression in my household :)

Sometimes we even used to take a radio out with us on a Sunday evening to listen to charts whilst we hung around the street corners.

[sixtyten]

Yep,I did it too, but long before the days of Bruno Brooks:D
I can remember taping the Friday Rock show on a reel to reel recorder!:)
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[bumblelady]

yep i did the sunday taping also

[stevef]

Yes, I used to tape my favourite songs off the charts on a Sunday night. Used to have to make sure nobody flicked the light switch in the middle of recording coz of the interference.:mad:

[PWC1973]

Yep,I did it too, but long before the days of Bruno Brooks:D
I can remember taping the Friday Rock show on a reel to reel recorder!:)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/dagga36/cassette-1.jpg

Hey Daz I've got my eye on a Reel to Reel recorder for my eldest lad to do some experimental work with his Band..
I work as a Volunteer in the Chirty shop that it's at,so I should get it on the cheap......:D

As far as taping the Charts on a Sunday Teatime goes I think we have all done it one time or another,I know I did......

[sixtyten]

Guess this campaign was pretty much ignored then:p
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[sixtyten]

I will get one of these one day..despite it being "old technology",
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/dagga36/19633856_o.jpg

[PWC1973]

I will get one of these one day..despite it being "old technology",
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COOL....:cool:

[Mulletino]

I had to throw my old 8-track player away. :(

[PWC1973]

I had to throw my old 8-track player away. :(

My Dad had one of those in our old Vauxhall Viva when we were younger and some GIT :(, nicked http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w311/PWC1973/8-Track.jpgall the 8-tracks.........

[pedro]

Yep taped the charts too although Radio 1 DJ had an annoying habit of speaking over the end of the song arghhhh!. Like TOTP's the charts on sundays were a must see/listen unlike today when just about any dross gets to No1 from all sorts of down loads and air plays What's that about? Gone are the days when you had to sell a zillion singles to get to the top of the charts.

[deejayk2]

Me too !!!! me too !!!! I remember hovering over the buttons ready to push pause button as soon as the DJ cut it, and then rewinding and trying to edit it out... over and over again !!!!

I remember my Dads 8 track in the car as well, we had Queens Sheer Heart Attack, Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells, Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Pink Floyds Dark side of the moon ........ many a holiday down to Cornwall listning to them on the journey ......ahhhh memories !!!:rolleyes:

[absinthe_boy]

I pretty much gave up on the charts when I was around 10 (1983) but I did tape the chart rundown. I was lucky enough to have a dad into hi-fi...so I would tape the charts on my own cassette deck (in mono) then later use his two decks to cut out the announcer etc and produce an edit....or a mix tape of my favourite tracks.

I think most of my mates in the early 80's taped the charts at some time. I remember one of my parents friends leaving a stereo radio/cassette machine with us for a few weeks which I used in favour of my mono machine.

[rossobantam]

not charts, but TOTP...radio/cassette machine, on floor in front of telly...two fingers hovering over play/record buttons....song taped, ready to pause before applause/cheering kicked in

made worse by sound of open fire in our front room crackling & spitting :rolleyes:

[absinthe_boy]

I remember Grease was on TV some time in the mid 80's and I hooked up a cassette deck to the "audio out" on the VCR...to get the soundtrack...

[Wil]

made worse by sound of open fire in our front room crackling & spitting :rolleyes:

And telling everyone to 'ssssshhhhhhhhh' just before you started recording.

The amount of times I tried to tape tv themes just to get the sound of the door from the kitchen opening and Mum say 'oh, sorry' in the middle :rolleyes:

[yelever]

Used to tape the charts myself with an old tape deck pushed closely to the radio and telling everyone to shhhhhhh. Eventually got a midi system and recorded straight from the radio and edited it out via tape to tape so we had tunes in a mates dad`s old Austin Maxi. Mate was 3 years older then us so he was the first to drive but the car stereo was rubbish lol. Year later he got his gran`s Fiesta and put a Denon stereo which sound excellent plus by then I had Technics 1210s so everything came from 12 inch vinyl.

[Mulletino]

I definitely remember taping the serialised radio broadcasts of Star Wars to listen to non-stop as there were no videos back then.

We had a nice music centre with touch sensitive buttons, it was magic.

[Wil]

I definitely remember taping the serialised radio broadcasts of Star Wars to listen to non-stop as there were no videos back then.

We had a nice music centre with touch sensitive buttons, it was magic.

I've still got tapes of those original Star Wars radio broadcasts! By then I think we were onto a Sanyo music centre. A mate and I had a long-running battle to get the perfect pause join so you couldn't hear the click.

[pedro]

taping the charts...don't let the "download police" know !!!!!!!

[Fred Focus]

Yeah, I used to do this. I was clearing out some tapes from the loft a few months ago and listened to a couple. I occasionally used to tape TOTP too.

[Richard1978]

Occasionally I recorded the charts, though mostly I left the tape running because I was worried about stopping & starting.

A couple of years ago I transfered all the tracks I didn't have on CD from the tapes onto my computer & converted them to MP3s. After 20 years the sound quality of them was fairly good.

[moonvisage]

i remember listening to the charts when i hung out with my mates in a local park.One guy would have a massive radio cassette,and record them as the records got played.That was the only time i ever listened to the charts.It was when Iron Maiden had a hit with Number of the Beast.

[Trickyvee]

I was always taping the charts. Most annoying thing was trying to second guess when my favourite songs would come on. I'd glue myself to the hi-fi for an hour or so listening to all the dross, then I'd rush to the toilet for a minute and come back to the second verse of my favourite song. Grrr, foiled again and I'd have to wait until the following week to get it! I also remember frequently ushering people out the room as they were creating interference, and editing out the DJ afterwards.

[poppicker]

amazing to think it all started with the Sound of the Swinging Symbol back in the 60s and still was being used in a different form in the 90s.

[shilton dipper]

I remember sitting with my tape recorder praying that no one would come into my bedroom so that I could have the Top 20 on tape for the week

3322then I progressed to a radio cassette and the noise problem went as you could make as much as wanted while you taped




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[Trickyvee]

I started off with a tape recorder held up to an old radio. With the poor, tinny sound of the radio, background noise in the room and the whirr of the tape recorder you could hardly hear the music on the tape! My tape recorder also had an annoying tick that I could never get rid of. Every recording had this quiet tick... tick... tick... all the way through it.

[stud1al]

I 3322then I progressed to a radio cassette and the noise problem went as you could make as much as wanted while you taped3323And then there'd be some ratbag causing electrical interference.

[darren]

i did do it a few times but i wish id done it far more.
and i taped top of the pops quite a lor.
wish id kept them.

[shilton dipper]

And then there'd be some ratbag causing electrical interference.

yes the guy next door with his drill usually GRRRR!!:mad:

[stud1al]

LOLTell me about it :)

[bakermuk]

I have still got quite a few from 1977/8/9/80 with Simon Bates and Tom Browne doing the Top 20s and 40s. Quite cool!

[bakermuk]

ah yes...and Tony Blackburn!

[agfagaevart]

And then there'd be some ratbag causing electrical interference.

I have tapes, where you can here cars going past, making a buzz sound. :D
Happy days eH?

didn't they put suppressors in cars to stop this?

[Roxxy]

My sister used to do so regularly in the late '70s, but then just re-recorded over the tape a week or so later so none of her recordings survive. I only did so once, on 13th January 1983, BUT my recording of that DOES still survive. I did so because I loved the Laura Branigan song 'Gloria' but was too shy to go out and buy a copy (and in any case, in those days I had no record-player of my own). So I ended up capturing the Top 6 for that Sunday, which was:

6 - 'Gloria' Laura Branigan
5 - 'Change' Tears For Fears
4 - 'Electric Avenue' Eddy Grant
3 - 'Sign Of The Times' The Belle Starrs
2 - 'Too Shy' Kajagoogoo
1 - 'Down Under' Men At Work

It was presented by the late Tommy Vance (who went on to do the Friday Rock Show on Radio 1), and gives a run-down of the Top 20 before playing the No.1 record. 'Hold Me Tighter In The Rain' by Billy Griffin was at no.20, and 'Wham Rap' by Wham! was in there somewhere as well.
I recorded it at my grandparent's place in the Cynon Valley towards the end of the Christmas holidays, and radio transmission in South Wales at the time was lousy, so the recording is blighted by occasional bursts of loud 'muzzing' when the songs get much louder and fuzzier for a few seconds now & then.

My ex-girlfriend used to record from Radio Caroline in the late '70s and gave me a load of her old tapes from those days a few years ago. Must be collector's items now, I won't be getting rid of them in a hurry!!

[battyrat]

Giggles to myself as I also recorded some of the charts from the late 70's and early 80's.It was the only way to get music when pocket money did not stretch that far.Always got annoyed at the presenters for talking over the tracks.It was one of those risky things to do as no matter how hard you tried it was garenteed that somebody would start to make a noise in the house or mother would call up for something.I also recorded over the older tapes as new tape was expensive for me,so I had to make do.I have a feeling my old tapes were liberated from somewhere secondhand anyway so the quality were pretty bad.I lost track of the charts when I stopped recording them in the early 80's,I sort of went more underground from there in music tastes.

[Richard1978]

I really liked Gloria as well.

A few years ago I bought a 12 inch single of it 2nd hand, & more recently a CD with it on.

[matt1968]

I would spend most Sunday evenings (1980-1983) listening to the chart show, with a blank C90 ready to go!
@battyrat -apparently the DJs deliberately spoke over the tracks to discourage pirating.

Its also easy to forget that this was the only Radio 1 show broadcast on FM in stereo - for the rest of the week we had to listen to MW, where every song came mixed with a spooky backing track of hisses, crackles and whistles!