I am wondering in general if anyone knows of the existence of any of three volumes of folk songs by the Johnny Mann singers on the Liberty label on tape.
The vinyl of these is hard enough to find on Ebay, much less the tape. Where else does one look for 4 track prerecorded tapes?
A bit of background, they were responsible for many of the radio station id. jingles in the 60s including the rather famous KSFO "sounds of the city" one. Their bass was Thurl Ravenscroft of Disney, grinch, and Kelloggs Sugar frosted Flakes fame. His male vocal group backed Elvis a time or two in place of the Jordanaires. One of those people whose voice I had heard my entire life without realizing it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mannhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_RavenscroftMy grandparents had a mono copy of the 1st volume of the Johnny Mann folk album, which was on their record changer year after year when I went down there to visit as a kid. (I, in fact inherited it.) I think I am the only one who ever listened to their records. I loved it despite the fact they had one of those cheap glossy fake wood Morse(?) console stereos with a plastic arm BSR changer with crystal cartridge which skipped on every loud dynamic peak.
I now own a better stereo copy which is very well recorded, so now I want them on R2R.