I was going through some of my old stuff the other day, the couple of boxes that I salvaged when Mom and Dad brought ALL the stuff from my old room down to FL when Dusty and I got married – Dusty made me throw most of it away (there was a LOT of stuff…mostly stuffed animals…) and I found a cassette tape titled “The Hint Mix I” 
(sorry my camera isn’t better – I was trying to get the handwriting – is that yours Ben??)
I have no recollection of making this mix tape, which doesn’t really surprise me – I was the 4th kid to move into the much coveted (smaller) corner bedroom in my parent’s house, sometimes things just surfaced out of nowhere. This tape made it all the way to Florida, AND survived the strict save-nothing-our-house-cannot-be-cluttered hand of Dusty! (this is good – we balance each other) So obviously I was curious what was on the tape. I popped it into the tape deck player in our car (the only one we have, who has cassette players anymore?). And it. Is AWESOME. It’s a lot of Paul Simon, Jimmy Buffett and other random awesome artists/songs, plus every other song is an old commercial tune, like this one:
And I really don’t think I’ve ever heard this tape before now. Who made this tape??? And if you want it back…is there still a way to copy tapes? Because I’m really loving this one :)
By the way, I owe this random digging up of my past to my sister-in-law Natalie’s recent gallivantings around Europe, looking at her amazing pictures has inspired me to find my pictures and souvenirs from France (I’ve had them in a shoebox all this time!) and put them (rightly) in a scrapbook.
So whose tape is this?
4 comments:
Jules,
I wasn't much of a tape mixer, so I can't take credit. Also, since we can make out, even in the out-of-focus picture, that the tape is called "The Hint Mix 1," this most definitely was not written by my hand.
But I think I have an idea of where the tape came from. I was clueless until you mentioned the old commercial jingles thrown between songs. I remember Charlie having a mix tape with commercial songs (some of them REALLY OLD) that he got from the Hoegers. (Am I spelling their name right?) That's right, the Hoegers. The Hoegers, from my recollection, always had a very good and somewhat eclectic taste in music, so I think it may be from them.
Wow, how do I remember these things?
Kind of like how my Street Fighter DVD!! I still can't believe you still had that after all these years. And I think Dusty needs to come over and do some organization boot camp with us because I hate clutter and I'm dying. Yes. Dying.
wow the Hoegers?! Well that makes sense because I thought I didn't recognize the handwriting. I think Weezy is in Mish's ward. Crazy that it survived and still even works!
I'm starting to think that tapes are longer-lasting than CDs. They don't skip, they don't get scratched. But I do remember them getting eaten by tape players. And the sound isn't that great compared to CDs and MP3 players...
So, Mish, are you going to find out if that mix came from the Hoegers?
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