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Favoriting June 27, 2023: 100,000 K-Mart shoppers can't be wrong

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Tape-A-Thon  Kmart May 1988 Reel to Reel   Favoriting Kmart May 1988 Reel to Reel  Tape-A-Thon  1988  Reel tape 
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Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 12:20pm
WR:

The first 100,000 shoppers will receive a free flyer listing all the specials selected specially for the first 100,000 shoppers to purchase.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:35pm
Otis:

I found the blue light special!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:01pm
MHLee:

I arrive
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:05pm
MHLee:

This tape would be quite desirable for someone making vaporwave i think
Avatar 1:12pm
Miss Mei:

Afternoon all <3
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:18pm
Krys O.:

Hello!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:20pm
Krys O.:

We sang Laughter in the Rain in junior high choir. Very bizarre for youngsters.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:24pm
MHLee:

This feels very surreal but also like what my grandmother uses her television for
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:26pm
Krys O.:

Lots o' 1974 hits.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
WR:

↳ Song: "Kmart May 1988 Reel to Reel" by "Tape-A-Thon"
Tape-Athon is new to me. Ironically, "after my time" rather than before my time. Hah!
Avatar 1:30pm
Mr Fab:

Attention K-Mart shoppers!

Spent a good deal of my childhood being dragged thru these polyester aisles by Mama Fab.
Avatar 1:31pm
Miss Mei:

↳ WR @1:27
The oldest Tape-a-Thon media online is from Dec '74.
Avatar 1:31pm
Mr Fab:

At the time, I never gave any thought to the music, but now I find it quite lovely.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
MHLee:

We had a Kmart I have vague memories of existing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
Krys O.:

We had Caldor's and Korvette's in my hometown in Westchester County, NY in the 60s and 70s.

Caldor's was the "Bloomingdale's of discounting"

en.wikipedia.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:37pm
WR:

Seems that Tape-Athon was around since the 50s.
reel-reel.com...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:39pm
WR:

some good detail:
microchop.substack.com...
Avatar 1:40pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @1:33
looks like Caldor had 145 stores, and 22,000 employees. How do these places go out of business? Like K-mart, who are almost extinct now, but used to be all over.
Avatar 1:41pm
Miss Mei:

I got a leather jacket from Kmart that I gave to my GF. I miss Kmart, it was the place to be
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:42pm
MHLee:

Classical Gas is so good
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:44pm
MHLee:

We are grooving now
Avatar 1:44pm
Mr Fab:

Well, my sweet lord, if it ain't George Harrison's "What is Life."
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:50pm
WR:

Lots of Tape-Athon ephemera via a recorded sound museum:
museumofmagneticsoundrecording.org...

Surprised I didn't become aware of them during my 1970s life in radio and retail music biz.
Avatar 1:52pm
Mr Fab:

That announcer sounded like some random guy. Like, they grabbed the security guard and said, "Here, read this."
Avatar 1:53pm
Mr Fab:

What IS this tune?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:53pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @1:40
The answer at the time had to be Walmart.
Avatar 1:54pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @1:53
Oooh, yeah...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:54pm
WR:

↳ Mr Fab @1:53
Something from the back of my brain says "Summer of '42" Now will look to see if I can find a same.
Avatar 1:55pm
Mr Fab:

↳ WR @1:54
Could be. Listening thru headphones, so I couldn't shazam.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 1:58pm
WR:

↳ Mr Fab @1:55
Quick listen to theme of "Summer of '42" theme (by Michel Legrand) and think I'm wrong. But there was some well known theme floating in there for a bit.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:59pm
MHLee:

I wonderwho much muzak has decreased in profits in the last couple decades
Avatar 2:01pm
Mr Fab:

↳ MHLee @1:59
Maybe they moved into the lucrative hit-pop-song in-store music trend...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:04pm
Krys O.:

The songlist:
archive.org...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:07pm
WR:

↳ Krys O. @2:04
Thank you! Krys!
  2:09pm
Miss Georgia Peach:

This is amazing
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:11pm
MHLee:

Diamonds Are Forever might have been the theme
Avatar 2:14pm
Mr Fab:

So the best time to go shopping would have been the end of the month, when the tape was all warped from constant play and sounding kinda trippy.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:14pm
Krys O.:

When I was a bank teller in college during the early 80s, we had Muzak throughout our workday. The tempo started slowly during the morning and increased through the afternoon. It was the aural equivalent of No-Doz.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:20pm
WR:

Catch you folks later, gotta go vote.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
Krys O.:

Take care, WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
Otis:

I do miss the 80s piped-in sounds. Today in the shops it's just top40 and throwbacks. Reminds me listening to this to read Joseph Lanza's Elevator Music book again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
Otis:

Cheers WR!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
WR:

Will be listening but writing my thanks, Miss Mei, for re-opening us to the sounds of shopping yesteryears.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Krys O.:

↳ Otis @2:21
Ooh, need that. I recall an extensive history on Beautiful Music stations online, but I haven't been able to locate it again.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:27pm
Krys O.:

Having said that, I think I just found it: www.percyfaith.info...
Avatar 2:28pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @2:27
Wow! Quite the in-depth examination. And that's only part 1.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm
Otis:

↳ Krys O. @2:26
Fantastic book and I am on my 3rd copy. Passed previous ones to friends over the years. Pulled it out and it will go well while playing Mauriat and Faith.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm
Otis:

↳ Krys O. @2:27
Fantastic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:30pm
Otis:

Xanadu Muzak!
Avatar 2:35pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Otis @2:21
I believe I first heard about that book in a "Twin Peaks" fanzine.

Why they were reviewing it, I dunno, but seems appropriate for a book with "Surreal" in the sub-title.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Otis:

Darn, was looking for shoulder pads on sale. Maybe next time.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
Otis:

I wish WFMU had a 5th stream and it was just like this. Beautiful Muzak all day.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
MHLee:

I used to have a vaporwave radio app where you could select different sorts of ambients
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
MHLee:

Shopping mall music being one of them or some microgenre with a similar name
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:42pm
Otis:

↳ MHLee @2:39
That sounds nice.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
Krys O.:

HA! Money, Money, Money!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:45pm
Otis:

Last time I was in a K-Mart, late 80s maybe. Probably around the time of this music buying batteries probably or developing film (I recall one in the SF Bay area I could take my film into for processing).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:46pm
Otis:

Thanks Mei, off to get ready for top of the hour. Lovely reel today.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:47pm
Krys O.:

The last time I was in a Kmart was about ten years ago buying a gift for Toys for Tots.
Avatar 2:48pm
Mr Fab:

i wonder if any Muzak programmers ever used Devo's "EZ Listening" album.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:49pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @2:48
That's a great one.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:55pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, Mei!
Avatar 2:56pm
Miss Mei:

Thank you for listening today, all<3
Avatar 2:59pm
Mr Fab:

Thank you for shopping at WFMU!
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