Mandalay – Michael Wilson

Please read!

This is the main page used to listen to (stream) the archives of the cassette tapes I recorded during our time together in Mandalay. The first item you see is an embedded spreadsheet containing the contents of the tapes. It’s always going to be a work in progress until I complete the project. In the spreadsheet, to view the contents of the tapes I’ve uploaded to this page so far, choose the index tab for a summary of the tape number and the contents. If there was anything noteworthy on the tape, I tried to point it out in the “Notes” column but this brings me to one of the reasons I’m sharing these tapes with everyone: Even though I made the recordings, I never listened to them entirely. I just kept them through the years with the intention of making copies for those who wanted them. So, here’s the opportunity to listen to the recordings with very little editing on my part.

The spreadsheet should be easy to navigate. The tabs on the bottom correspond to the tape number I assigned to it. On the tabs, a number like this – 012^ means I’m done converting it to MP3 and should be on the website soon. A tab with 043! means I’m still researching something about it or I have to listen for song order, etc. Make sure you slide the bottom slider all the way to the left and the up/down slider all the way up to see most of the sheet. First, I did take the time to notate the songs and if the tape had anything written on it as to the date or location, I included that. Sometimes I did get caught up in listening and made some observations. The other thing I want to explain is that the tape number doesn’t mean anything as far as earliest to latest chronologically. All I did was separate the tapes by each group I was in and then started transferring them to my computer. The number was assigned in order of the tape being transferred. I kept track on the spreadsheet if a certain tape was on the same night and venue as another one but it would have taken a lot longer for me to put them in chronological order before starting the recording process.

Click here to open this Excel Workbook on your local computer or download the file [132.99 KB]

Just for a fun memory, and since I had the edited version handy, here’s the West Side Story medley we changed up for a Joy McKinnon dance recital. Click on the white arrow to play the file: