Paper tape? Yeah.

Dick Landberg had a wire recorder that he'd loaned me for awhile back in 1954 or so, and I had seen an open-reel tape recorder or two (complete with mylar-backed tape) and I lusted after one, but didn't have the money at the time (pricy!!).

Then, when I was in Denver in 1955-56 and Patti was in Chicago, she sent me a tape of a whole bunch of songs she had learned recently (many from Bob Gibson, I think, whom she knew). I didn't have anything to play it on at the time, so I took it with me back to Seattle, then bought my first open-reel tape recorder. The first thing I did was to play Patti's tape, and noted that the backing of the tape was paper! New to me!

It played okay, and I learned a bunch of songs from that tape. The tape itself seemed kind of flimsy to me and I was real careful handling it.

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure I still have it around here someplace!! Along with some other tapes, stashed in a closet somewhere! Good stuff as I recall. I'll see if I can find them.

Just what you need, right!?? Another bloody box of tapes!!

Don Firth