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8-track tapes on the stove in an abandoned San Joaquin Valley farmhouse.  A few favorites, cherry picked from a box of cheesy EZ listening tapes and staged, titles include Flip Wilson’s “The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress”, a couple of K-Tell AM hits albums from about 1970, and two really unusual demo tapes for your new car: a 1968 Buick, and one covering the entire Chevy brand from about the same year. The idea of easily playing whatever music you wanted in the car was still a new concept in ’68, so they came with these tapes . . . to blow your mind with the  hi-fi potential. “That’s right, the dentist’s office isn’t the only place where you have to hear Mantovani anymore, now you can enjoy his lyrical strains, any time you want, in the car!”  White Protomachines LED flashlight from one direction in total darkness.

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