Mahalia Jackson Greatest Hits Audio Cassette

Whether or not you have any religious leanings, if you care about the history and development of modern pop music, the work of the legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson should be essential listening. This audio cassette, compiled as a posthumous Greatest Hits album in 1974, contains some amazingly vital and musically thrilling performances by the Queen of Gospel, who died at the beginning on 1972.

Deltic Duties Audio Cassette (1980)

A reminder that not all commercial audio cassette recording was related to music or the spoken voice. Back in the distant depths of 1980 there was a thriving cottage industry creating and selling audio recordings of British locomotives, and not just steam. Classic diesel recordings were also very popular.

Emerson Lake & Palmer – Works Volume II Cassette

I suspect that there aren’t many ‘Top Ten Worst Bands of the 1970s‘ lists which don’t include Emerson Lake & Palmer. It seems that no matter how many clips surface of Keith Emerson histrionically stabbing his organ with a knife, the group just can’t find their way to the right side of the credibility line these days.