THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG

The eight-track cartridge is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that saw popular use from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s with the peak in the US being 1978 and the trough, when retail sales of 8 track cartridges were withdrawn in 1983. The format was commonly used in cars and was most popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Japan. One advantage of the 8-track tape cartridge was that it could play continuously in an endless loop after approximately 80 minutes of playing time. The Stereo 8 Cartridge...

Don't you just love this little ditty by Parmeko from 1949 The inspiration for this advert surely comes from an American children's song dating from the 1860s - before we explain any further, woke-tard handwringers should now look away and perform some displacement activity such as having a candlelit vigil or glueing themselves to a motorway gantry........... Here are the lyrics for this children's song: - Songwriter Septimus Winner then created an elaborated version of the children's song, called "Ten Little Injuns", in 1868 for a minstrel show: - Ten little Indians standin' in a line,One toddled home and then...

March 1947 was a good month, after all it was when Pam Ayres was born as was Elton John. It was the wettest March for 300 years, so, If you had come up to town to escape the Great Dykes flood in Norfolk, you would have been caught in the Thames flood as well   Buf if you were persistent, your mackintosh and galoshes clad self, topped by a Trilby or a villainous Homburg had managed to fight your way to London Central Radio Stores in Lisle Street, you could have picked up a bargain MCR1 spy set for £10.50!!!!!!   It doesn't say...

I did smile when I saw this 1959 advertisement for a CQ branded record player.      As many of you will know, CQ is a code used by wireless operators in both Morse and voice to make a general call, the purpose of which is  an invitation for any operators listening on that frequency to respond.  The CQ code was used as part of the chorus to the song "Communications" by Slim Gaillard and I am told that this record sounds fantastic on a CQ record player but very poor on  a contemporary Dansette!

  Stefan Kudelski was born on Feb. 27, 1929, in Warsaw. He escaped Poland with his family at the start of World War II and settled in Switzerland.   After being awarded a degree in physics and engineering, he started his company in 1951 as an engineering design firm. which has since become a major Swiss manufacturer of media and security equipment.    Kudelski was an engineering undergraduate  in 1951 when he patented his first portable recording device, the Nagra I, a reel-to-reel tape recorder, about the size of a shoe box that weighed approximately  6kg whilst producing sound as good as that of most phone...