• Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Streaming music was available back in the 1970s. It consisted of you and your friends sitting on the floor with an AM radio and a portable cassette recorder and hoping the local station would play your song you wanted to hear and record. And IF your timing was right, you could get the whole song recorded. All so you could play it back on that cheap tinny sounding recorder. Such recordings were often used as a gift to your latest girl/boy friend with “Our Song” on it.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Hmm. 1970 is a little early for a kid to have a portable cassette recorder. Transistor radios were just getting affordable enough to give a kid.