Cassette Singles

[Twocky61]

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Dad worked for Rank Xerox in the 70's part of the Rank Organisation which also had a hi-fi division. With staff discount Dad bought a 50watt per channel Leak amplifier & record player and Akai Auto Reverse tape deck complete with Dolby. The Leak amp even had inputs for extra speakers to go into quadriphonic mode blasting out 4 speakers at 50watts each lol My brother Peter & I played David Bowie's album Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders From Mars which said on the sleeve to be played at maximum volume. Well we cranked it up as far as three quarters and the windows were vibrating but fortunately for the neighbours they were all out at work lol

[Twocky61]

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Yes but if you had an auto reverse deck cassettes would play on a loop Some car cassette players had this feature and even some hi-fi's

[Richard1978]

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Dolby noise reduction helped but not too much!

[Chris-T]

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Never liked any pre-recorded cassettes the sound quality always sucked in my opinion. Not that I objected when I got the 'Breakin' soundtrack and 'Thriller' albums on cassette for Christmas of course :-)

[adz]

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I remember getting a "Bush" HiFi one Christmas (don't laugh!) and it chewed up many a cassette single, I found bic Biro's the best for winding them back again and scotch invisible tape for the ones it quite liked the taste of and fancied a good "chew". I remember being quite heartbroken at my snapped Whigfield Saturday night tape!

[DaysWentRollingBy]

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I bought them in the 90s. I don't remember my first one though.The ones in the card sleeve were annoying as they'd skuff so easily. I liked the look of them though. I had loads back in the day, but gave many to charity shops. I still have some, about 20 or 30 maybe ?
My oldest one is from 1987 (The Slightest Touch by 5 Star), but I didn't buy that 'til I went to a car boot sale in the '90s . I didn't even know cassette singles existed in the 1980s, always thought they were a 90s thing !

[Richard1978]

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I remember someone at school saved up enough tokens for one of those Weetabix tapes.

My cousins might have had some, as my Uncle worked for Weetabix they sometimes could get the offers as a perk.

[jb7]

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anyone else remember Weetabix (sometime in the 80s) had a token thing to get two different cassettes.
I just remember, I think it was two artists on each side including Thompson Twins, Kirsty MacColl.... cannot remember who else!
But they also sent postcards of the artists with the cassettes.


I got them, or at least I got one the two!

[branny]

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I bought a few around 2000/2001, mainly because CD singles were about £4 to buy and cassettes cost either £1 or £2. I used to transfer them to a blank CD and then give the cassettes to a charity shop. Have still got a few knock5ng about though.

[Marine Boy]

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...'Hazard' by Richard Marx,

One of my favourite songs, but alas, i dont think I ever had the cassette single.

[Agnetha352]

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I have 4 cassingles 'Hold On My Heart' by Genesis, 'Hazard' by Richard Marx, 'Regret' by New Order and 'When You Walk In The Room' by Status Quo.

[csld]

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I always used to keep receipts inside my new cds...for some reason i wanted to prove i liked a band more by buying the cd and proving i bought the cd on the release day...

I used to do this too and still have a couple.

[Richard1978]

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Once or twice I did that with CD's & videos.

[RetroAEROSMITH]

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I always used to keep receipts inside my new cds...for some reason i wanted to prove i liked a band more by buying the cd and proving i bought the cd on the release day...

[wispa lover]

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I bought a few cassete singles from local charity shops, one was Erasure, one was Duran Duran. But one tape I bought (not a single, an album) still has the Woolworths receipt inside the case, it was originally bought on 31/10/87.