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Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:12AM (#50003559)
Another thread like that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319995

Gah this can be so annoying. I've got one going for 56 years. A cassette tape that I had as a kid, all I remember is that it was orange and that it had the most amazing jazzy tracks on it (mostly instrumental). I've listened to every orange labelled tape on various tape archives and still haven't found it, the memory has faded far enough that I only occasionally remember snatches of it. But I'll keep looking.

Other ones: Tony Banks, Portrait of Jerry Jackson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_U0jhtzmzI

Cori Josias, Takin' it straight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPuCra-t_Bw

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Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished by Intermernet on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:02AM (#50004329)
The search is more fulfilling than the result in these cases, but still keep searching!
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Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:30PM (#50007932)
I don't know about that. The years that I could have been listening to that music again are ticking by awfully fast.
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Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished by MontgomeryPy on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:28AM (#50005019)
Maybe a K-Tel mixed track cassette like this one, which looks orange: https://www.discogs.com/release/5291004-Various-Instrumental...
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Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:32PM (#50007956)
Oh, good idea, yes, I should look into those as well, but as for the orange, it was a hard orange, the color of ... an orange. Every year I get the urge to solve it once and for all and so far no luck. There is a good chance it never got digitized.
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