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If you are old enough to remember your parents having an 8track player...

or you eat a lot of butterscotch hard candies so had your own, what song do you most associate with that ugly as' thing? 

https://youtu.be/IyFlkqQH3vI






Posted - September 1, 2017

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  • 5808
    Parents???hahahaha
    I remember them
    even had one once
    Remembering you could switch
    between four different songs at any time
    within the 8 track cassette
    ...now that was advanced tech for you...LOL
    ...yep
    I'm ancient.
    oh yeah, remember a song...
    Canned Heat, "On the road again".
    Played it on my way to India,
    driving across the States 1968
    in my VW van...YIKES
    long time ago.
      September 2, 2017 12:14 AM MDT
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  • Lol:) only thing I remember about them is freakin conway twiitty :)
      September 2, 2017 10:44 PM MDT
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  • That was right in the middle of the Beatles' Era, but there was no Rock & Roll on that player!!!

    Roger Whittaker - "The Last Farewell"




      September 2, 2017 2:53 AM MDT
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  • You're one of the few people who post songs I've never heard before :) I like that one, thank you :)
      September 2, 2017 10:58 PM MDT
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  • My pleasure. The only person that was a bigger fan of Roger Whittaker than my Mother was ... was Roger Whittaker.
    Hundreds of his songs, I've listened to, and the thing that always amazed me ... he made them all sound the same!! (just my opinion)
      September 2, 2017 11:08 PM MDT
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  • I've never heard about him before :) thanks introduce me .... i find lately all the new music is crap for me ... so I enjoy find " recycled"  songs.
      September 2, 2017 11:11 PM MDT
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  • 11002
    No, my parents had one of these:

      September 2, 2017 4:59 AM MDT
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  • 7126
    Let's hear it for the Victrola!
      September 2, 2017 5:33 AM MDT
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  • Ohhh fancy :) guess you didn't have carpet on walls :/ we did
      September 2, 2017 10:44 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    Such a delicate looking piece of equipment.


      September 2, 2017 5:35 AM MDT
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  • I  had my parents' and aunt's old players and tapes to doink with.  They were horrible and a pain to que tracks and rewind.  
      September 2, 2017 12:08 PM MDT
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  • What the hellz a doink??
      September 2, 2017 10:45 PM MDT
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  • in the form of a noun I suppose it would be like a tiny choad.  As a verb it meanslay around or waste time with.
      September 2, 2017 10:56 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Thanks Glis and Jamie....myvocabulay is increasing day by day;))
      September 2, 2017 11:01 PM MDT
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  • You know what's a cloads?? yeah .... I do too :)
      September 2, 2017 11:02 PM MDT
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  • Interesting fact about me.  Whenever I teach you something.....  You actually become less intelligent.
      September 2, 2017 11:10 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Ha ha ha ha oh Glis;))
      September 2, 2017 11:20 PM MDT
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  • oh okay :) I totally know what a choad is :/ why YOU USE BIG WORDS WITH ME! 
      September 2, 2017 11:01 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    I luv learning..;))
      September 2, 2017 11:02 PM MDT
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  • yay!!! We learning new words! But we don't know the meaning.... I'm gonna use that word seven times tommoz randomly and see what sticks ;))
      September 2, 2017 11:05 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    LOL I luv Glis and his mystique;)$
      September 2, 2017 11:09 PM MDT
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  • He is special yeah? And I don't mean in  a ride short bus wear a helmet kinda way .... well maybe sometimes but that's cute too :)
      September 2, 2017 11:13 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    I've never seen anyone in luv with fossils and bones...we have had many interesting conversations...I like things which puzzle me;))
      September 2, 2017 11:18 PM MDT
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  • Lol :) being puzzled can be good at times :)  you must learn so much here! 8tracks and fosssiles and bones ... OH MY :)
      September 2, 2017 11:21 PM MDT
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  • 7683
    Indeed Jamie....like Buddha..I've attained enlightenment on AM;))
      September 2, 2017 11:23 PM MDT
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