A brief history of auditory memory from tape

Well, let's watch a video first. I believe it will remind many people of the past:

In 1987, the advertisement of Yancheng radio factory in Jiangsu Province

Although the advertisement of "Yan dance tape recorder", which was popular in the north and south of the river in those years, now looks like dirt, Yan dance became one of the most well-known audio brands in China at that time with the slogan "Yan dance, Yan dance, one song to one love". The young man in the advertising film is Miao Haizhong. He was only 19 years old. He was a student of Beijing sports vocational high school. CCTV recruited advertising actors. He went. Among more than 2000 people, 15 people were selected, including him. This song of the swallow dance was created by him and the teachers of the Railway Cultural Troupe. As for the melody, it was inspired by the sound of the doorbell. Do you believe it? You hum again

The tape recorder was undoubtedly one of the big things for people at that time

People who competed to buy Yan dance tape recorders

It is no exaggeration to say that in China in the 1980s, if you boasted that you were a trendsetter, except for Toad mirror flared pants, if you didn't have a "cassette recorder" as standard, you would be embarrassed to go out and meet people. Moreover, the cassette recorder also has a status cognition of 369. The single card recorder is an entry-level one. It is enough for family self entertainment, and the dual card four speakers are standard. The reason is not that the appearance of the single card recorder is not so simple as atmospheric fashion, but more out of a more practical and simple consideration: recording, magnetic, tape!

Dual card recorder

"Ah, tape", I believe many people are sighing at the moment. The group of people born in the 1970s and 1980s of the motherland have deep feelings and memories for tapes. Teng Lijun, Luo Dayou, Li Guyi, Cheng Lin, Chi Zhiqiang, sun Guoqing, Fei Xiang, Cui Jian, panthers, tigers, ye Qianwen, grasshopper, Daming Yipai, Tong ange, Suri, Wang Jie, Tan Yonglin... This list can continue to be listed. When the sound of "Yila Yila" at the beginning of the music tape rings (especially the pirated tape), It's like the lo fi smell of garage rock. More importantly, in the era of relative lack of material, there are still a few who can afford the original tape. Most people get their favorite music by "picking the tape". Therefore, the double card recorder has become a "hub" like God. As long as there is a place for it, people will naturally gather together. Virtually, tape + double card recorder constitute a mysterious social relationship in that era - through borrowing and recording tapes, they get to know more people, borrow and return, build trust, and record tapes, With every reason to pick up girls

Key words of tape: stereo, EMI, Chinese record. Of course, there are more pirated tapes

Oh, Lao Cui's "talk in a dream" was very fresh

Several popular blank tapes

At that time, there were many popular blank tapes on the market, but TDK, Philips and Sony were the main ones with guaranteed quality. Of course, if you have a good blank tape, you have to have an excellent tape recorder. To be honest, the overall quality of the Yan dance recorder mentioned at the beginning is really poor. No matter the workmanship or sound effect, it just imitates a shell (such as the L1500 of Yan dance, which imitates the sharp gf-777 of Japan). The stripped tape is naturally unsatisfactory. At that time, high-quality tape recorders were basically occupied by brands such as Sanyo, sharp and Philips, but in my memory, there were still a few ordinary families who could own these brands of tape recorders. At that time, they could buy electrical appliances in Japan and Europe. Some of them were public personnel who returned home to buy electrical appliances from "foreign aid Africa" from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, and were used in some countries Organs and institutions for "office use".