Ok, how many of you have an 8-track unit as part of your collection, just for laughs?

I've found that it's a thing that non-audio-geeks are the most amused with. First question after they find out that I like old audio gear is, "Do you have an 8 track?"

I have an early Panasonic (Pre-Technics, when the logo was all caps P A N A S O N I C 8 track recorder and player with lovely green vu meters.

Whatchoo got?

I have an 8-track in my 1978 Grand Marquis which I still use. We get customers in our shop for repair of and to buy 8-track players.

I don't have a player but I do have a lone 8 Track tape. You wanna know the title? Do ya really? Ok......


It's.....



"Big Band Disco" Performed by the Chattanooga Disco Band of course.

I shat you not!!! It says both Polygram and Polystar on the label with no credit given to the producer (what a surprise, eh?). Found it at a yard sale (I think) probably for less than a buck. It cracks me up just looking at it........the copyright is 1979, the end of the disco era......just goes to show you how perverted disco had become in the final days.

Would anyone be interested (or twisted enough) to transfer this to CD for me? They could keep the 8 Track as payment. Thanks!

Anthony

I don't have a player but I do have a lone 8 Track tape. You wanna know the title? Do ya really? Ok......


It's.....



"Big Band Disco" Performed by the Chattanooga Disco Band of course.

I shat you not!!! It says both Polygram and Polystar on the label with no credit given to the producer (what a surprise, eh?). Found it at a yard sale (I think) probably for less than a buck. It cracks me up just looking at it........the copyright is 1979, the end of the disco era......just goes to show you how perverted disco had become in the final days.

Would anyone be interested (or twisted enough) to transfer this to CD for me? They could keep the 8 Track as payment. Thanks!

Anthony

I'd do it, but to do it RIGHT, you need a CD changer and 4 CD's, so I can make it switch CD's right in the middle of the songs. I'll even sample the "ka-CHUNK" and add it to the end of each CD...

I have the MAC Daddy of 8 track players an RCA 5 tape changer in working codition. I came in 2nd or 3rd in the low fi contest a while back with it. One day it will be in my showpiece system for all to see and lust after.

Oh...that reminded me, we have a Telex carousel 8-track player that we bought at the shop, it seems like it can hold 10 or more 8-tracks. It is mounted in a console cabinet with the carousel arranged vertically behind the doors. It seems like a problem occured with it soon after we got it so we have not got around to fixing it yet.

I have a couple of Panasonic's and one working in my car. :sing:
Here's my collection of tapes: :nerd:
Urban Cowboy / Soundtrack
Tanya Tucker / TNT
Marty Robbins / Some memories just
Joe Stampley / Greatest Hits
Waylon & Willie / Waylon & Willie
Carlos Montoya / Malaguena
Merle Haggard / The Best of Merle
Grease / Soundtrack
Loretta & Conway / Country Partners
BW Stevenson / BW Stevenson
Juan Salazar / Los 15 exitos de
Various/ Country Christmas
Neil Diamond / Hot august night
Rufus / Rags
Mantovani / Golden Hits
Queen / News of the world
Queen / Night at the opera
Eddie Rabbit / The Best Of
Johnny Paycheck / Greatest Hits
Journey / Escape
Various / Country Duos
Sonny James / NO 1
Areosmith / Dream on
Queen/ The game
Yes / Yes Songs
Simon & Garfunkel/ Current Event
Linda Ronstadt / Simple dreams
The Allman Brothers / Fillmore East
Don Williams / Expressions
Tanya Tucker/ Here some love
Roger Miller / Country
Lake / Paradise Irland
Conway Twitty / The Greatest Hits
The Statler Brothers / The Best of
Chubby Wise/ The Golden Rocket
The Letterman/ Going out of my head
Lynn Andersson I love what Love is.
Neil Young/ Zoma
Gene Watson/ Reflections
Kenny Rogers / Ballad of Calico
Marty Robbins/ The Best of
Gary Stuart / Little Junior
Various / Disco Dynamite
Pure Prarie Leque/ Live
Neil Diamond / You don't bring me
Statler Brothers / Best of
Neil Diamond / Love at the Greek
Oak Ridge Boys/ Y'all come back
Ted Nugget/ Scratch Cat Fever
George Jones / All Time Greatest
Donna Fargo/ Happiest Girl USA
Journey / Departure
Various/ Hits of the 70
Jaws / Soundtrack
Aerosmith / Toys in the Attic
Various / Country Line




Larry Gatlin / Greatest Hits
Waylon Jennings / Live
Waylon Jennings/ The Outlaw
Waylon Jennings/ Dreaming my dreams
Tanya Tucker/ Here some Love
Mac Davis / Texas in my mirror
The Doobie Brothers / The Best of
Various/ Kicking (country)
Billy Cradock / Greatest Hits
Donna Summer / Live
Sonny James / Close up
Johnny Paycheck / Song and Dance man
Marshall Tucker Band / Searching for a Rainbow
Don Williams / The Best Of
Larry Gatlin / Straight Ahead
Leon Redbone / On the track
Foreigner / 4
Tammy Wynette / One of a kind
Various / Top 20 Country
Boots Randolph / Greatest Hits

Billy Joel / Glasshouses
Kenny Rogers / 10 Years of Gold
Kenny Rogers/ The Gambler
Kenny Rogers / Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers/ Eyes that see in the dark
Styx / Paradise Theater
Bread/ The Best of
Marty Robbins / The Performer
Marshall Tucker Band / Carolina Dreams
Colman Hawkins/ Portrait of
Various / Disco Fever
Prisom/ Prisom
Paul Simon/ Still Crazy after all these years
Moe Bandy& Joe Stampley/ Just Good Ole Boys
Statler Brothers/ Best Of
Van Mc Coy/ Disco baby
Tom Jones/ Say you stay until tomorrow
Bobbie Vinton? My Elusive Dreams
Queen/ Jazz
Dave Brubeck Quartet/The Last set
The Police/ Ghost in the machine
Village people/ Go west
Mel Tillis/ Greatest Hits
Ann Murray / Greatest Hits
Doug Collin/ Doug
Ronnie Milsap/ Only you in my life
Yes/ YES Songs
Styx/ Grand Illusions
Styx/ paradise Theatre
Heart/ Greatest Hits
Johnny Rodrigues/Just for you
Jesus Christ Superstar/ A rock opera
Mickey Gilley/ The songs we made love to
Helen Reddy/ Greatest Hits
Mel Tillis/ The Best of
Glen Campbell/ Southern Nights
Journey / Evelution
Johnny Paycheck/ Everybody got a family
Chicago/Transit Authority
Cryan Shames/Syntesis
Roy Drusky/I'll make ameens
Ten Years After/ Live
Cadillac 1979 / Testtape
Charlie Rich/ Very Special Lovesongs
The Knack/Get the Knack
Crystal Gayle/ When I dream
Nazareth/ No mean City
Bob Seeger/ Against the wind
Conway Twitty/ Biggest stars
Johnny Paycheck/Slide of your satin Sheets
Crystal Gayle/Crystal
Slim Boyd/ Hank Williams Greatest Hits
Mickey Giley/First Class
Asleep at The Wheel/ Father& Son
Merle Haggard/ If we make to december
Jimmy Buffet/A white Sport Coat
Bad Company/Desolations Angels
Kenny Rogers/ 10 years of Gold
The Who/ Who are you
Moody Blues/ Search of the last cord
Neil Diamond/ I am glad you with me here tonight
Linda Ronstadt/Prisoner in Disguise
Bee Gees/Living Eyes
Billie Holiday/Pickwick
Randy Newman/ Good Ole Boys
Neil Diamond/Gold
Willie& Ray Price/ San Antonio Rose
Danny Davis & Nashville Brass/Country Gold
Lou Rawls/All things in time
Emmy Lou Harris/Pieces of the Sky
John Denver/ Rocky Mountain Christmas
Ray Price/Greatest Hits
Shubert/Sympnoy 1+3
Sviatoslav Richter/Tchaikoysky
David Cassidy/ The Partridge family
Village People/Crusin
Neil Diamond /Greatest Hits
Statler Brothers/ Country America Loves
Deep Purple/Machinehead
Jackson Browne/Running on Empty
Buffy St Marie/She used to want to be a ballerina
Gilleys /greatest Hits
The Kendalls/ Just like real people
Sonny& Cher/ All I ever need is you
Tammy Wynette/You and me
Don Williams/You are my best friend
Chuck Mangione/Feel so good
Dire Straits/ Dire Straits
Jimmy Buffet /Changes in Attitude+ Latitude
Supertramp/Supertramp
Joe Walsh/The Best of
Emmy Lou Harris/Elite Hotel
Freddy Fender/If you don't love
Joe Stampley/ Red wine and blue Memories
Jefferson Starship/dragonfly
Barbara Mandrell/ The Best of
Chubby Wise/ Grassy Fiddle
John Denver/ evening with
Johnny Paycheck/Take this job and show it
Neil Diamond/The Jazz Singer
Artur Fiddler/Music of paul Simon
Neil Diamond/Do it
Sonny James/Here comes honey again
Gordon Lightfoot/Gords Gold
Curtis Mayfield/Superfly
Donna Fargo/ The Happiest Girl
ELO/A new world record
Charlie Daniels Band/Saddletramp
Lynn Anderson/Lynn Anderson
Barbara Streisand/Memories
Saturday Night Fever/ Soundtrack
Tchaikowsky/Shubert
Simon&Garfunkel/Bridge over troubled water
Christopher Cross/ Christopher Cross
Freddie Hart/ Greatest Hits
Queen/Hot Space
Charley Pride/Burgers and Frice
Merle Haggard/It'sall in the movies
Marty Robbins/Good'n Country
Waylon Jennings/Lonesome Onry and Mean
Gospelmusic/He touched me
Waylon Jennings/Music Man
Bachman Turner Overdrive/Bestof BTO(so far)
Country Chart Buster/Volume 7
Fiddler on the Roof/Soundtrack
Steve Martin/A wild and Crazy Guy
Moody Blues/On the threshold
Bobby Goldsboro/Honey
Doug Clark & The Hot Nuts/ FREAKOUT
Teddy Pendergrass/Life is a song worth singing
Lynyrd Skynyrd/One more for the road
Don McLean/American Pie
Jerry Jeff Walker/A man must carry on
Buddy Holly/A Rock and Roll Collection
Ray Price/Greatest Hits Vol 3
Tip Top Tunes/Country & Western Vol:11
Buck Owens/The very Best of
Country/Country Portraits
Charley Pride/Did you think to pray
Rod Stewart/A night on the town
Duke Ellington/Sophisticated Lady
Various Artists/20 original Hits of the 70's
Mel Tillis/Mels Favorites
Curzon Strings / Volume 1
George Benson/Breezin
Charlie Rich/Greatest Hits
Peter Paul & Mary
Billie Holiday/The Real Lady Day sings the Blues
Joy of Cooking/Closer to the ground
The Dave Brubeck Quartet/25th Anniversary
Jerry Lee Lewis/A taste of Country
Jerry Lee Lewis/Touching Home
Jerry Lee Lewis/ The Greats of
Jerry Lee Lewis/ Would you take another chance
More American Graffiti/ Soundtrack
Conway Twitty/You never been this far before
The Captain & Tennille/Make your move
Tommie James&Shondells/The Best of
The Police/Zenyatta Mondatta
B.W.Stevenson/We be Sailin'
Eddy Arnold/The Best of
Norman Luboff Choir/Christmas Carols
Charlie Daniels Band/Million Mile Reflections
Glen Cambell/Greatest Hits
Kenny Loggins/Keep the fire
Crystal Gayle/We must believe in magic
Lynyrd Skynyrd/Nuthin Fancy
Los Angeles Philharmonic/Metha Bolero,Zubin Mehta
James Gang/ Thirds
Anne Murray/Let's keep it that way
Bob Seger/Live Bullet
Crystal Gayle/Classic Crystal
Michael Murphy/Blue Sky-Night Thunder
Here's Charley Mc Clain
Rock Nov 1973/Hits of the month
Peter Paul&Mary/Album 1700
Bob Dylan/ Nashville Skyline
Eagles/Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975
James Gang/ Straight Shooter
Anne Murray/Christmas Wishes
Leon Russel/Will o'the wisp
Peter Paul & Mary/10 years together
Barry Manilow/Greatest Hits
Rufus/ Rufusized
Carl Simon/Spy
Barry Manilow/Live
Mc Davis/stop and smell the roses
Eagles/One of these nights
America/Live
Larry Gatlin/Oh Brother
Three Dog Night/Cyan
Pete Fountain/Mr New Orleans
Sergio Mendez/Greatest Hits
Apollo 100/ Masterpieces
Kenny Rogers& Dottie West/Every time two Fools
Gene Oliver/Stay the night
Conway Twitty/Greatest Hits
Queen/ Greatest Hits
Sound of music/Soundtrack
Kool and the gang/ Lights of worlds
Kenny Rogers/Daytime friends
Prison/ Armegeddon
Barry Manilow/ Even now
Bobby Vinton/Melodies of love
Go Gos/ Beauty of the beat
Peter Yarrow/ Peter
Nashville Sound/Volume 1
Donnie Osmond/Too Young
Guess Who/ The Best of
Johnnie Rivers/Golden hits
Kenny Rogers/Kenny Rogers
Statler Brothers/On and off the record
Charley Pride/ Sunday morning
Waylon Jennings/ Waylon and Willie
Olivia Newton John/Let me be there
Dave and Sugar/ That's the way love should be
Freddie Hart/ Country Heart and Soul
Charley Pride / Charley
Ronnie Milsap/ 20 20 Vision
Tanya Tucker/ Tanya
Waylon jennings/ The Rambling man
David Houston
Ronnie Milsap/Only one love in my life
Freddie Fender/ Are you ready for Freddie ?
Statler Brothers/Short Stories
Floyd Kramer/Country
Stella Parton/The Best of
The Kendalls/Heart of the matter
Helen Reedy/Greatest Hits
CW Mc Call/Black Bear Road
Eddie Rabbit/ Best of
Eddie Rabbit/Loveline
Tanya Tucker/Delta Dawn
Barbara Mandrell/Just for the record
Moe Bandy/I am sorry for you my friend
Tanya Tucker/Greatest Hits
Tanya Tucker/Here is some love
Helen Reddy/No way to treat a lady
Donna Fargo/My second album
Kenny and Dottie/Classics
Urban Cowboy/Soundtrack
Moe Bandy & Joe Stampley/Good Ole Boys
Mel Tillis/ Heart Healer
Eddie Arnold/ World of hits
Johnnie Rodriguez/ All of ever meant
Johnnie Rodriguez/My third album
:nutz: :withstpd: :king:

I have 2 8 track decks hooked into my system right now.. Ha...

A small Zenith player / recorder and what a workhorse it is.. I've had it around 3 years alot of days it cranks the the tunes for 6-8 hours straight.. Imagine That.. Ha.. My daily driver...

The other deck is an Akai player / recorder I believe the first model Akai put out.. It's truely a high end deck and the best I've heard.. But it's a little on the touchy side.. Which kinda reeks...

If you have the right set up this format can be quite nice.. I run my tapes through a Pioneer EX-9000 Dynamic Expander I bought from TA and this little unit really improves the sound quality.. You also need to be willing to give your tapes a good tune-up when first getting them..

My tape collection exist of a little over 500 and you can view my list here.. My List... (http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/bkville/my_collection.html)

And a few 100 for sale... For Sale.... (http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/bkville/index.html)


Later, Brent

What is this "TA" that everyone hath spake of?

I do have an 8track! even worse I have the casset adaptor made by sparkomatic!!! I don't use it :)

I have an old sears car 8 track deck(it says 4+8, can use a four track tape). it is a BIG unit, with to-3 transistors in the amp. hasn't been fired up in over 15 years or so, for some reason I just didn't part with it(maybe I figured someone out there would need it sometime).

as for TA, I am not sure what it means,maybe the AK'er Toasted Almond, but I KNOW what T&A means!!

Got an early-ish Ampex deck in my system, prolly 1971 or so if i had to guess, along with a few tapes to go with it... I actually do use it once in awhile although I need to lube the rollers before I play it anymore cause it binds up frequently. Plus it is great for s**ts and giggles, and for some reason girls are quite impressed that I have one. (College is great.) Can't go wrong with that.

Yeah, I've got one. It's a little GE stereo that looks like it was made in about 1977 or '78. Got a little storage bin for mics (included!) and funky blue speaker cloth! Picked it up for $10 at a flea market. Did I mention it's a recorder? With fast-forward? :yes: And a broken power switch? :no:

Every once in a while I happen upon 8-tracks. A guy gave me a bagful of about 40 or so because he was tired of having them clutter up his store. I've got about 50 now.

My pride and joy (you can't get any more '70s than this) is called All Ears. It was released by Radio Shack and it's 10 songs all about CB Radio! I've also got it on vinyl. Great stuff (but prob'ly not as great as Anthony's Big Band Disco).

Omigawd ! I remember at McCallie back about 1974, some brilliant idiot decided we were all hiding our dope in 8-tracks. So, a bunch of the teachers went around & everybody HAD to open up ALL their 8-tracks for inspection. A buddy of mine, Jack Allen, musta had 250-300 of 'em, a lot of 'em got ruined being opened. I don't think the fool-asses found any dope, either. But the school administration was CERTAIN we were all hiding dope-apparently "The Caine Mutiny" was lost on them...-Sandy G.

I have several boxes of 8-track tapes, but I havent even taken a look at them; I don't have an 8-track unit...yet...

I have to wait till the "electronics" area opens april first; it closes for snow-related reasons every december 1st

I think you win Rolf :)

I almost bought an akai 8 track today,just for the great meters on it.17 bucks at the thrift.But everytime I buy one,it just sits.8 tracks sound like ca-ca.
jimmy

I have a Sony (TC-288, I think?) recorder, a relatively 'late-model' (1979 or so?) Monkey Wards recorder, a GE player that matches my first receiver system I got back in 1974, and my grandaddy of-em-all 8-track, an Akai CR-80D-SS quad (!) recorder. Apparently made of lead, cuz it must weigh 30 lbs all by itself.

I have a collection of about 100 tapes, I'm guessing.

Haven't had any of them in my systems since about a year and a half ago, when I used a P A N A S O N I C recorder (since been sold).

Oh yeah, and another Akai, a CR-83D, I think their last 8-track unit. Cool round 'clock hand' elapsed time counter...

Yea, I too have one, a rather nice Pioneer HR-100 recorder deck. It does Dolby even which takes out most all the 8 track hiss, although I have found only a couple of prerecorded carts that were Dolby encoded. I guess Dolby was too late to save 8 track as cassettes were coming on strong by the time.


Lefty

Lets see I have:

PIONEER:
H-R100 Rec/Player in my SPEC rig
RH-65 Rec/Player also in SPEC rig

H-R99 Rec/Player in my SA-9500 rig

An extra not in use RH-60 PIONEER version not the Centrex Labeled one!

Also an old GE portable 8 Track/Radio boom box stored in my garage
all in working order.
Last year sold my AKAI GX model after having it since 1986.
Have also owned a Craig model along with a J C Penny unit.
I still own around 300 to 400 8 tracks I bought during the 70's and early 80's
Tho I won't list them here they are mostly Rock/Hard Rock
Anything from:
Angel to Budgie, Boston, Fleetwood Mac, Ted Nugent, KISS, REO Speedwagon, to ZZ TOP etc....
My friend's thought I was crazy buying all those carts! They said vinyl was the way to go. Since I was poor and could not afford a really nice TT I decided I liked the fact that you could just insert the cart and listen to repeated plays while crashing out. Plus no turning over of LP's or loading the second disc for a live album. Tho I sacrificed sound sonicly and great art,pics and inserts I thought it suited me for that time of no $$$.
Now it brings back the memories to those times. If a cart is in good shape and not all eaten up my 99 and 100 models play the things great and sound very good and clean for and 8 track anyway! No where near the sonics of LP or CD for sure but still its nostalgic non-the less!

i have a rca xrossx 8 track player and some 8 track tapes chews them up though

I have a Sony (TC-288, I think?) recorder, a relatively 'late-model' (1979 or so?) Monkey Wards recorder, a GE player that matches my first receiver system I got back in 1974, and my grandaddy of-em-all 8-track, an Akai CR-80D-SS quad (!) recorder. Apparently made of lead, cuz it must weigh 30 lbs all by itself.

I have a collection of about 100 tapes, I'm guessing.

Haven't had any of them in my systems since about a year and a half ago, when I used a P A N A S O N I C recorder (since been sold).

Oh yeah, and another Akai, a CR-83D, I think their last 8-track unit. Cool round 'clock hand' elapsed time counter...

YEAH!The Akai I saw had that elapsed time counter!Awesome looking unit.But kind of like buying a gold plated Dot Matrix printer. :D

I am pretty seriously into 8 tracks. I have a small home player, but it is the ONLY thing I have to listen to in my car-a '99 Bonneville. I mounted a special rack into the floor just to hold more tapes, plus I have a couple of cases in the trunk that I can break out for longer trips. At one point I probably had about 400 tapes, but I realised that I just didn't need that much Mantovani. I probably now have about 100 tapes.

I'm proud to have a few tapes that my dad bought for his '69 mustang fastback. That was the first car he bought new, and he went all out with the tape player upgrade. Sadly, he melted most of his tapes by keeping them in the backseat. That huge rear window in the fastback let in the fierce summer sun and toasted many of them. For some reason, he saved them and I managed to get a few running after thirty years.

I have a Panasonic and a Realistic TA-882, both with FF and recording capability. I own 3 or 4 tapes and never listen to any of them. I also have 2 Soundesign stereos that have radio, cassette, 8-track and inputs for aux. which you can use for a cd player. These I use every day because they also have a digital alarm clock built-in.

I've got a couple of 8 track players. My main one is a Realistic TR-801 which records as well as plays and has a couple of nice VU meters up front, plus it actually sounds quite good playing tapes that have been properly refoamed. The other is an Amerex TX-800 which is a cart and receiver in one. Not such good performance out of this one so I keep it as a curiosity more than anything.

I find it fun collecting my favourite stuff on 8-track. It's amazing how much NOS tape there is around the place. Still needs refoaming and sometimes re-foiling, but it makes a nice noise on a nostalgic night :)

I have some 8 track players. One for home use, and a few car players. I have many cartridges too. My latest bargain was Gram Parsons GP. Sealed.
Was found on ebay in Great Britain.

Don't be afraid to start new threads, this one is almost 4 years old...

I have multiple players/recorders as well as tapes. It's a part of the past that was fun for me so I like to keep it around for a smile or two!

Somewhere lurking in my closet is a mighty Akai Quad recorder -- it is built like a beast.

I have a JC Penny receiver that has an 8 track player and a cassette player/recorder in it. I probably have about 50, 8 track tapes. Actually have a Dire Straits album on 8 track.
I was looking at some 8 track tapes yesterday that just came into the GW. A man was standing there and asked me if I had something that still worked to play them on. I said yep, sure do!

Love my 8-Tracks! I have recordable decks on all my systems. My favorite is my Wollensak 8056. I also modified the storage cubby in the dash of my '03 Ram pickup and installed an 8-track player. When people ride with me, they never want to hear the CD player.

man those 8 track days, yes- tales of topographic oceans ..i bought that 8 track 4-5 times it was so long the tape would stretch...i remember the tapes screwing up and then them bouncing on the hwy (yeah i know..i don't litter anymore)