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.

[Trickyvee]

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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]

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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]

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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

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

[Trickyvee]

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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]

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

[darren]

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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]

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

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

[stud1al]

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LOLTell me about it

[bakermuk]

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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]

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ah yes...and Tony Blackburn!

[agfagaevart]

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

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

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

[Roxxy]

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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]

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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]

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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.