They also were known for continuing to issue product in formats that were no longer being sold in commercial stores. It was often a cheap way to obtain music, and both became very popular.īut both the RCA Record Club and Columbia House were both known for something other than cheap music. They would advertise in magazines, and newspapers, and would offer the delivery to your door. The record clubs were an opportunity to order music by mail service. The Columbia Cartridge Club, selling 8-track cassettes first appeared in 1966. Columbia House, CBS Records vresion of the record club was established in 1955 as the Columbia Record Club, and was later branded as Columbia House in the 1970s. RCA’s Record Club was launched in the mid-1950s and would later be known as BMG Direct Marketing in 1987. There were a number of record clubs that had appeared in the 1950s.
So with the format dead by 1984, how did U2’s later albums show up in this format? IMAGE: The Unforgettable Fire on 8-Track (Front Cover, Collection of U2Songs.Com) In 1982-1984 the 8-Track disappeared from store shelves and was discontinued as a format at retail. By the time I started to buy my own music, my parents had bought an adapter for the 8-track stereo to allow you to play a regular cassette in the 8-Track deck. My parents had an 8-Track stereo, which is what I listened to my early Sesame Street albums on. The format enjoyed popularity until the late 1970s when it began to fall out of favor as more homes adopted the compact cassette instead. 8-Tracks had a recording length of 80 minutes, and would split this among a number of tracks on the cassette. There is a foil attached that when the cassette player sense the foil will change to the next track. They have an endless loop of recording tape inside a plastic cartridge. The cassettes are a magnetic tape which is held in a plastic cassette. The format was primarily developed to allow an audio format for playback in automobiles, as the other popular format at the time, vinyl, was too large and fragile to work well in that environment. The format was created in 1964 by a consortium including the Lear Jet Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola and RCA Records.
The technology was popular in North America, had a smaller success in the UK, Japan and Australia, but was almost unknown outside of these regions. The 8-Track Cassette, or 8-Track Cartridge was a music format that was popular in North America and Central America from the mid-1960s until it was discontinued in the early 1980s. We hope to answer a few of those questions in this article, including looking at other U2 releases on 8-Track Cassette. We have gotten some questions about our recent story on the different covers used for The Joshua Tree album, including a lot of interest in the appearance of a picture of The Joshua Tree on 8-Track Cassette. IMAGE: Rattle and Hum on 8-Track (Front Cover, Collection of U2Songs.Com)
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