Posts: 74
From: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Jan 2007

posted 02-24-2007 07:16 AM               

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From my late Dad's audio cassette archives, here are NBC News anchor, John Chancellor, and veteran space correspondent, Roy Neal (both unfortunately deceased), offering a retrospective of the U.S. manned space program. This broadcast was on the occasion of the Skylab 4 (Carr/Gibson/Pogue) splashdown, 8 February 1974.

(RealAudio format, 2.16 mB)
http://members.aol.com/smokymountainrr/chan_neal.rm

My apologies for the audio quality, but Dad's mono cassettes ARE 33-year old originals. They have been stored at his house in Claxton Fruit Cake boxes all this time.

Hey, whatever works, right?! Enjoy.

[Edited by Joe Holloway (February 24, 2007).]

Posts: 74
From: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Registered: Jan 2007

posted 02-24-2007 07:46 AM               

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Here's a bonus cut from Florida's Space Coast that will make you hungry (WAV format):
http://members.aol.com/smokymountainrr/bakery_jingle.wav

I sure do miss original radio jingles.

Breakfast, anyone?

[Edited by Joe Holloway (February 24, 2007).]

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From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006

posted 02-24-2007 09:08 AM               

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Thanks for this slice of history, Joe! It's interesting that the Claxton Fruit Cake box survived longer than the fruit cake itself. That must be a first!

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b i l l

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From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006

posted 02-24-2007 05:30 PM               

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Thank you very much for posting that -- and as you discover more, I hope you will keep us posted. I've often wanted to go back in time with a VCR and a truckload of videotapes and capture this stuff as it aired....

jodie

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From: San Francisco, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2006