The ULTIMATE Music Challenge
Category: Just Plain Silly...
Posted Friday, May 06, 2005 at 02:27 PM [GMT-6]

OK, well...it seems that family isn't quite as time-demanding as I expected, and so I'm able to turn my attention to [at least] one more post. This is another highly-anticipated music-related quiz, and I expect it to take at least a week for someone to solve.

This quiz was actually conceived during an exchange of emails with Jim, the admittedly obsessive winner of the previous quiz. When I heard the lengths he went to in identifying the mystery album cover, I told him that the next quiz would consist of a scan of the album itself, with the objective being to identify it based solely on an analysis of the grooves in the vinyl.

But, in thinking further about it, I realized that this was much too easy. What we needed was a real challenge...one built around a bit of cultural footnotery. So, I give you "The ULTIMATE (you know it's hard because it's in all caps) Music Challenge"! All you have to do is identify the recording to which the following belongs, the following being a real-life sample of that recording as it resides on the original Eight Track Tape...

You do know what an 8 track tape is, don't you?

OK, that should do it. I eagerly await your answers. Google help us all.

Here's a skill that seems to stick with you like riding a bike: the ability to snap a length of tape pulled out of the 8 track cartridge so that it neatly retracts back into the case, ready to once again jam your player at the most inopportune time.

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"Mama Mia" by ABBA !!!

Posted by: Jeff at May 6, 2005 03:27 PM

Missed it by that much!

I couldn't remember when 8 tracks began to fade from the scene, but according to this article, it was well after 1975, when Mama Mia was released. So, it could have happened.

But it didn't.

Posted by: Eric at May 6, 2005 03:37 PM

"Time" by the Chambers Bros.

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at May 6, 2005 09:17 PM

Someday I'm going to run a contest where "Time" is the right answer, just to see if you even know the song! ;-)

Posted by: Eric at May 6, 2005 10:33 PM

Morris Day and the Time

Posted by: denise at May 7, 2005 12:01 PM

"TIME in a Bottle" by Jim Croce?

"TIME Tunnel Theme" by Johnny Williams?

"TIME Passages" by Al Stewart?

"All the Hard TIMES of Old England" by Steeleye Span

"As TIME Goes By" by Dooley Wilson?


:-)

Posted by: Jeff at May 7, 2005 02:09 PM

Wow! This is the only blog entry in the world with the Technorati tag of "8-track tape"!

Posted by: denise at May 7, 2005 03:27 PM

What were you doing in 1968? That looks strangely like the Jimi Hendrix, "Are You Experienced" 8 track stolen from my '67 Chevy Nova [along with the 8 track player] at the North Star Mall in San Antonio in 1968.

I had had that player a grand total of two weeks before it was ripped off...the last 8 track system I ever owned. That Chevy Nova, although sounding cheesie, was a hot little car, a 307 c.i. engine with a 3 speed "Hurst" shifter on the floor. For those not around in '68" Hurst" shifters were cool .

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at May 7, 2005 05:21 PM

"This Old Guitar" by John Denver. I'd recognize that anywhere.

Posted by: Brian at May 7, 2005 05:22 PM

Brilliant new web technology, Eric! How did you do that?

As I clicked and dragged my mouse pointer from left to right over the image, I distinctly heard a snippet of Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4" in stereo through my headset.

It took a little practice to get the speed right, but man, I haven't heard THAT one for a long time.

Kewl.

Posted by: Larry S at May 7, 2005 09:01 PM

I think I've got! It's Hugo Montenegro's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" soundtrack!

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie at May 7, 2005 10:44 PM

Running 'strings' on this in a Terminal window, all I get is:

JFIF
Ducky
Adobe

and a buncha garbage.
JFIF is the format, and Adobe is the software... but maybe "Ducky" is a clue?

Posted by: Brian at May 8, 2005 10:23 AM

I should sit this one out I think, though I can think of any number of duck related songs that might have influenced Eric.

For starters, there's that one by a certain group of young people that had a TV show in the 50's.

There's that other one from the mid 70's dance fad that spawned a famous movie and birthed a film career for a certain well known Scientologist.

Or maybe it's a deliberate ruse to throw us off the trail... I mean, ducky tape? Really, now.

Posted by: jim at May 8, 2005 12:08 PM

Well, I'm glad to see that you guys stayed productively employed in my absence!

Wallace, you gave me a scare there for a minute. I still have "Are You Experienced?" on 8 track and almost pulled it out of the case for this bit of fluff! (I'm pretty sure I bought that tape; that's my story and I'm sticking to it!) And you're right about the Hurst shifter...my pal's "new" SS 396 sports one.

"Ducky"?

Posted by: Eric at May 8, 2005 10:24 PM
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