I just got this double CD (yes I said CD) in the mail. I had bought this brand new in 2003 while in the UK and lost it about 6 years later while moving and what not. I have searched for it on and off over the years but with no luck. Finally the other week I found it on Amazon by a reseller in England. I was so thrilled to see it had finally arrived in the mail today. I promptly burned it to my computer for safe keeping and I'm listening to it now.
Does anyone else have any similar stories of lost music that was hard to find after loosing it?
YouTube has been my friend for locating lost songs from my past. The find I've been most pleased with is the obscure "Did You Ever Get My Letter" by the Liverpools. Aside from YouTube, the best physical record I was able to find was the even more obscure original record by a fellow named Roger Hopkins. I forget the name of the song at the moment but its value is the fact it's the first recording my two brothers performed on.
We uploaded over 450 CD’s and some old vinyl and cassettes to our iTunes account years ago. It was tedious (particularly digitizing the vinyl/cassettes) but we now have everything that was meaningful to us uploaded (and backed up on HD’s). We also have the library on a iPod in our vehicle should we be traveling in an area where poor cellular service prevents streaming from the iPhone. This consisted of around of around 9,000 songs. So we are good.
We uploaded over 450 CD’s and some old vinyl and cassettes to our iTunes account years ago. It was tedious (particularly digitizing the vinyl/cassettes) but we now have everything that was meaningful to us uploaded (and backed up on HD’s). We also have the library on a iPod in our vehicle should we be traveling in an area where poor cellular service prevents streaming from the iPhone. This consisted of around of around 9,000 songs. So we are good.
Aside from YouTube, the best physical record I was able to find was the even more obscure original record by a fellow named Roger Hopkins. I forget the name of the song at the moment but its value is the fact it's the first recording my two brothers performed on.
That's very cool. Glad you were able to find that meaningful recording.
The Lubbock, Texas apartment complex I lived in in 1976 had thin walls so I could easily listen to my neighbor's music just as my neighbor could easily hear my music. We constantly exchanged albums, reel to reel tapes, eight track tapes and cassettes to enlarge our respective music collections.
He had an eight track of an album called "Guaranteed" by Red, White and Blue (Grass). The eight track dragged so you had to position the cartridge just right using cardboard or folded paper to get the cartridge to play correctly.
Two songs stand out, "Linda Ann" and "Nine Years Waltz". I finally found the album CD and ordered it from the record company about two years ago so it took me about forty years to find the music. Now, it's available on Amazon. +++ HERE +++ are 30 second excerpts.
One of the first records I ever got, as a kid at about 6 or 7 years old and played on a kiddie record player with probably a 2 pound stylus, was a record called "Batman And Other Themes" by Maxwell Davis. It was jazzy organ-based collection of songs with brass backing that was based on the popular Batman TV show. I loved that album and literally wore it out (you could see the wear in the grooves. I kept it until young adulthood, but it got to the point where it wouldn't play anymore without skipping about every few seconds and I ended up throwing it away. It held (and still holds) a lot of nostalgia for me, being my first album.
Anyway, about five years ago, I found that it had been re-released on CD and quick like a bunny, I bought it. It's also available on YouTube. Cheezy sounding, I know, but it was the sixties and I love it.
And I too have been busy digitizing all my audio content to MP3. It's a slow process, but I have been going through and ripping all my CDs to MP3 files (I do it twice, once at 128 so I can max out my iPod Classic 160GB mainly for listening in the car) and at 320 for higher fidelity to listen to at home. I am also recording all my record albums and cassette tapes, then cleaning out the surface noise and ticks and pops, slicing and dicing the tracks, running a little bit of audio enhancement, and then creating MP3s from them as well.
I've got about 4500 total (2000 CDs, 1500 vinyl record albums, and about 1000 cassettes). I'm currently about 2300 into the project and expect to be done in the next three years or so.
I also create virtual CDs of each of them that can be mounted and played from the computer as if they were physical CDs, but it's just mounting a file from hard disc. If anyone is interested in my process, I'd be happy to share.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 2x2TB, 1x4TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 2x1.5TB, 2x2TB, 1x4TB SATA
Congrats on the find! I definitely have experienced this before.
Showing my age a bit here, but in my early teens it was the beginning of the age where people were downloading music and burning their own CD's. I'm talking about LimeWire and Napster, if anyone here ever used that. Anyway - I used to download toooons of music and burn numerous CD's. At the time iPod's were very expensive, so I was just using an old portable CD player. This was around 2004/2005.
I had burned all these CD's, and when CD's became less and less relevant I moved over to using an iPod. I had a major computer crash in 2007 and had to build my music library up from scratch again. After a move, my piles of burned CD's ended up in a box in a crawlspace at my parent's house. I totally forgot they existed, and was content with my newly built music library.
Fast forward 5 years and I'm moving again, and going into the crawlspace to find any belongings and lo behold - my old burned CD's! Most of them had titles that labeled them by genre or feel but lacked a track listing, and when I put them into my new computer most of the tracks were just called Track 1, Track 2, Track 3, etc.
To this day, there are several songs I love from back in that era which I absolutely don't know the name of, or who did them. I was able to Google lyrics for some to find out the names of them, but there are lots of instrumental tunes I'm unsure I'll every know the name of. But hey, at least I get to listen to them
Just load the Shazam app on your phone, and then let it listen to the song to get the title and artist.
I've actually done exactly that! Sadly, the app doesn't pick up all of them. Not sure why. This is how I found the bulk majority that I know the name of though - a wonderful suggestion, and an amazing app that far too few people know about.
I remember when I got my first iPod and the first time it got wiped and had no songs on it I was totally shattered. I've had it happen to me 3 times in 10 years, but every time it happens trying to remember all the thousands of songs is quite the process.
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