Radio Carts
DrJoel
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I recently came upon a good source of 60s / 70s soul radio carts and am wieghing my options on what to do about it. I grabbed a couple that i didn't want to see get away from me, but there at least 50 more sitting there. I pulled JB, Betty Wright, etc. It was a new basement flea that just opened last weekend and wasn't very well attended. They aren't cheap enough that i'm going to buy them all up just in case, so i am curious as to whether or not there's a decent market for them. Anyone sold carts before? Pics when i get home from work.
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When I was a DJ during high school, we used those carts, and I used a few of them to do promos, radio spots, ID's for my own show, etc. I don't think there's much of a market for them, but you could probably make one. Sometimes you can find some nice radio ads on there, and while it may not be of monetary value, you can transfer them over to WAV files, then MP3 them and have some kind of audio archive on a website.
I don't suppose they play on standard 8 track, do they?
They do, actually. It's the machines that they were normally played on that were different, in that when it read that silver splice/header tape, the machine would stop. On a regular 8-track player, it will just jump to the next channel and loop until you take out the tape.
So yeah, if you have an 8-track player, you can transfer it over to your computer.
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Looks like it just has the songs, but still, it's cool to see that the station listed the intro time, length of the song, unless the time is the point in the song where it fades ("F").
If I'm guessing correctly, "Cold Sweat" seems to have two intro times. Would the 3.3 be the one where James Brown gives his first shout, and 8.1 would be when he starts to sing? It might, I'll have to check.