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Topic: Help me out of a Jam anyone? Just a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

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Dave BFeb 23, 2011
 

 

 
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Topic: Re: Help me out of a Jam anyone? Just a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

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Mark HushFeb 25, 2011
 

 
Dave,

Would be happy to help,  I live across the Pennines in Huddersfield.

Cheers

Mark

On 23/02/2011 18:17, Dave B wrote:

 

Hi Folks,

I have searched my house and must have thrown out my cassette player assuming I would never need it again. Internet prices for players which convert to MP3 are over £30 and I think I would rather do a tape to tape copy first as the tape has been trapped in a jam (1) more than once.

So any chance any of you jammers who can help transfer my cassette tape to a MP3 lives anywhere near Manchester, UK? It would be nice to collaborate on getting this lost gem into our archives.

That said anyone who has experience of sorting out this problem is welcome to contribute.

Thanks,

Dave

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Subject: [just-a-minute] vJust a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

 

Hi Folks,

Just to report that I have the cassette tape and the partial transcript here with me safe and hopefully sound. I still need to track down my cassette player to find out the sound quality.

Da

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Subject: Fw: [just-a-minute] Just a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

 

We should have the answer to whether or not I have 259 in my loft or garage within two weeks. I am returning to the UK and finding this tape, if I still have it, is my top priority.

Dave

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Sent: Thu, 21 October, 2010 5:56:34 AM
Subject: Re: [just-a-minute] Just a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

 

I've never heard of anyone who has this Dave, so if you think it may be somewhere in your home, well, you may have undiscovered gold...

 

dean

 

 

 

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:51:14 -0700 (PDT), Dave B <pondydave@...> wrote:

 

 

Hello Jammers,

I have been sorting out my JAM collection recently and exploring some of the links on this excellent yahoo group looking for gaps or finding better copies. Thanks to the uploaders!

I note that Episode 259, Getting Wound Up, starring the 4 boys, appears hard to find.  Episode 173, with Andree Melly, appears to masquerades in its place as it too commences with the subject Getting Wound Up.

As someone has already pointed out, Dean does not appear to supply a transcript.

If anyone has an electronic copy that they could upload that would be really great, as I think this was one of the best shows of the late 1970s.

I know I recorded it on cassette tape back then. The show was so good I even wrote half a transcript (hence my memory of it). Both these things may survive somewhere in my house in the UK, though over the years I lost several recordings from my cars.

If the episode is required I could get it uploaded, though I would need help. However it could be some months before circumstances land me back in my homeland.

Best regards,

Pondy dave

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Topic: Re: Help me out of a Jam anyone? Just a minute 259 Getting Wound up with the 4 boys NOT Andree Melly earlier version

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Espen KrømkeFeb 25, 2011
 

 
You do not need any special "tape-to-mp3"-type equipment (do they really
sell that? Geez...!), a regular cassette player connected to the input
socket of a audio card. Better with a direct transfer than making tapes
of tapes, for each generation copy of the old magnetic tapes there are
significant quality loss.

Whats of critical importance is to use audio card of decent quality
during the transfer from analog to digital.
Cheap pc hardware may sound ok when you play your cds or mp3's, but they
are useless as recording devices. Due to poor shielding and cheap parts
they add an unavoidable digital noise and a poor "translation job" of
analog to digital.

I've got a friend with cassette player in his hi-fi setup, so with his
assistance I could do this transfer for you.
However I live in Norway so the tape will have to be shipped over here
if I shall do the transfer. And that is all up to you of course.

And whoever ends up with the mission, if I could please ask to be sent a
copy of the raw, digital recording (before mp3 encodnig etc)? The reason
is that in addition to some personal audio work experience I got a buddy
that is a professional sound engineer, and I'm pretty sure I can get him
to do some post-production magic on this gem.



Den 23. feb. 2011 19:17, skrev Dave B:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I have searched my house and must have thrown out my cassette player assuming I
> would never need it again. Internet prices for players which convert to MP3 are
> over £30 and I think I would rather do a tape to tape copy first as the tape has
> been trapped in a jam (1) more than once.
>
> So any chance any of you jammers who can help transfer my cassette tape to a MP3
> lives anywhere near Manchester, UK? It would be nice to collaborate on getting
> this lost gem into our archives.
>
> That said anyone who has experience of sorting out this problem is welcome to
> contribute.
>