Who Taped the Charts????

[moonvisage]

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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.

[Richard1978]

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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.

[Fred Focus]

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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.

[pedro]

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

[Wil]

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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.

[Mulletino]

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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.

[yelever]

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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.

[Wil]

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

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

[absinthe_boy]

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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...

[rossobantam]

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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

[absinthe_boy]

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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.

[deejayk2]

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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 !!!

[pedro]

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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.

[PWC1973]

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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 all the 8-tracks.........

[Mulletino]

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