Direct mp3 download or play:   BRM 11-19-2006 (Quack)

Here is another baby room monitor (BRM), I recorded from inside my house. For more details on how I received these signals, check out my other posts on baby room monitors. I don’t have much else to say about this except Quack Quack Quack!

Direct mp3 download or play:  K-Mart is Coming

This is the radio commercial, probably from the early 1970s, for the grand opening of this and other Kmart stores. The tape is from a collection of radio commercials I found at a radio station in the late 1970s.  This store is located at the intersection of Contra Costa Boulevard and Chilpancingo Parkway in Pleasant Hill, California, and was a favorite shopping destination of my parents. Often on Saturday afternoons, my parents baby blue 1974 Ford Maverick would be present in the parking lot, usually on the north side of the store in the lot adjacent Chilpancingo Parkway. They would enter the store using the garden shop entrance. My father thought that by parking in this parking area rather than the main parking lot, there would be less of a chance that someone would ding the finish on the Maverick.

Kmart-Pleasant Hill, California

Kmart-Pleasant Hill, California (garden shop entrance)

Kmart 1970s

Kmart Grand Opening Tape

Direct mp4 download or play:   Tulip Tree Sound

MY TULIP TREE IS BLOOMING, HAPPY EASTER

Now with the sound of a strange bird in my neighborhood.

Direct mp3 download or play:   Easter 1986 Part 1

Part 1

Direct mp3 download or play:  Easter 1986 Part 2

Part 2

Now, for your listening pleasure, I have an entire C-60 cassette tape of my family and myself on Easter 1986.  I recorded this on my Sony TC-D5M cassette recorder using a Sony ECM-939LT one point stereo electret condenser microphone. This get-together took place at my grandmother’s house in Santa Rosa, California. I know this was source material for “The Willsaphone Stupid Show,” because of a short piece of splicing tape is still attached to the tape box. I’m quite sure it was placed there by Don Joyce when “The Willsaphone Stupid Show” was being worked on years ago to show the tape had been copied. There are lots of toilet flushing noises and other odd sounds as well.