Saturday 28 February 2015

a compilation tape from the 1980s

I started making compilation tapes of tracks from my record collection on 90 minute cassettes in the early 1980s.

Unfortunately I've lost all of the many I made and didn't keep any record of the tracklists.

Recently through I found one of those tapes, which I think dates from 1983/84.

This is the tracklist:

Side 1

Foolkiller - Mose Allison
Autumn is a Bummer - Gordon Alexander
American Gothic- David Ackles
Nothern Boundary - Gregg + Duane Allman
Archy the Robot -   Amon Duul 2
Good Vibrations -   The Beach Boys
Golden Lion - Bloomsbery People
Alligator Man- Boa Constrictor + Natural Vine
You are My love - Bobbi Dazzler
Green Onions Booker T + the MGs
Banana Republic - The Boomtown Rats
8 Miles High - The Byrds
Fool On The Roof - Guy Clark
Prolathamium - Judy Collins

Side 2

Those were the days - Cream
Find the cost of freedom  - CSN+Y
Four Horsemen - Fable
Chalk on the wall - Fairfield Palour
Fight on xtians, fight on - John Fahey
House on the Corner - Fat
Oh Well - Fleetwood Mac
Elephant Candy - The Fun + Games
Single Saddle-the Dillards
Hippies Graveyard-Johnny G
Tinkerbell's Mind - The GlitterHouse
Why We Came-Gospel Oak
Spirit In the Sky-Norman Greenbaum
King Midas in Reverse - The Hollies
Now and Then - Arlo Guthrie
My Animal - the Human Beinz