Music

Various mixtapes

Back in the olden days (the 1980s), my first car didn’t come with a radio or any music-playing capability. My second car, however (purchased in 1982), did. And with the advent of a car that could accept cassette tapes came an innovation - the mixtape.

At the time I hadn’t heard of mixtapes, so when I cobbled together some of my favourite songs of the time onto cassettes, I gave them the name ‘Various’.

Classics VIII

A classic, acapella

And something more widely known (gotta love that really deep voice, and the others are pretty good, too!)

Classics III

And another classic: By one of the so-called supergroups. Roy Orbison’s vocals starting at 0:41 are some of the clearest, cleanest notes you could hear.

Classics II

Another classic: The lead singer, Jay Siegel, can still hold that falsetto; and the backing soprano vocals by Kelley DeFade are unbelievable!

Classics I

A classic: I particularly like the change up at around 1:35.

And here’s a bonus from the same impromptu concert: