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Childhood Cassettes - Ponies in Germany, Beanie Babies on Radio, Seaside Song etc. (2000)

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Channel: Skylark24 · 2012 · People & Blogs

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I am in the process of converting all of the cassette tapes I recorded during my childhood to MP3s and making slideshows of photos from the time to go along with them.  Yes, I had quite possibly the loudest, most precocious common English accent of all time as a child!  Most of my tapes are a mish-mash of general stuff I liked at the time.  I don't expect people to find these of much interest, but friends have been asking me to share, so here they are!

This tape dates from around 2000, so I must be eight or nine.  The tape includes:

00:00 - Spike's Introduction.  This cassette tape was going to be offered as a free gift with the My Little Pony newsletter I made for my friends and family every two months.  The ponies had been to Germany (no, I had not been to Germany myself, so goodness only knows why I decided this was a good idea!  I think the idea formed after I got a German MLP pamphlet with one of my G1 ponies...)  "Spike" (horrendous 9-year-old's impersonation of Charlie Adler there!) tells us Sweet Stuff has been given the job of telling us about their trip to Germany but first her will give us a "nice dance"...

00:27 - "A Nice Dance".  Various MLP songs from the G1 cartoon.  You might as well skip these as there are far better quality versions on Youtube.  I start singing along a couple of times and...well, you don't want to hear it really!

12:17 - An interview with Mary Beth Sobolewski (founder of Bean Bag World magazine) on BBC radio news about "the end of Beanie Babies"... This was after TY announced Beanies were NOT to be discontinued at the end of the year.  We were in the car on the way to the seaside when I heard this and recorded it, hence the shaky "Dalek" voices!

15:30 - Mum and I sing the "Seaside Song" from Thomas the Tank Engine during the same car trip.  It was tradition that I took my Thomas tape in the car whenever I went to the seaside and played the "just one more hill to climb and we'll be there" bit as we approached the seafront (yes, I always wanted to live in a musical!)  On that day, I had (*gasp*) forgotten the tape so we sang our own version!

16:55 - "My Little Pony: Programme 1 of 100".  Another ambitious idea of mine.  I was going to record a programme each day to be played to all the ponies at my My Little Pony Rescue Home.  The programme would include a piece about "Rescue Home News" (new arrivals, things I'd done with my ponies, places they'd been etc.), then a short story read from one of my MLP books and (if you were very lucky!) possibly my awful voice singing MLP songs!  In truth, I think I only ever made two...and this one is dull.

18:01 - Me singing "Oh, For a Rainy Day!"

18:42 - Me singing "Hey, Let's Play!"

19:54 - You may as well switch off now.  It just goes into a bad audio recording of G1 MLP episodes, starting with The Great Rainbow Caper.

23:40 - Bad audio recording of Somnambula.  (Got to feel sorry for whoever starts ringing us towards the end and obviously gets ignored...  I fear it was my late grandma who would ring for hours on end.  Mum would sometimes pretend to be out if she was busy. :(  What I'd do to talk to Grandma again now!) 

42:34 - Bad audio recording of The Revolt of Paradise Estate (and the phone continues to ring...)

And that's it for this side of the cassette.  The next side is a lot funnier with my first ever MLP fanfiction featuring "The Black Pony of Darkness".  The Black Pony would later become a BIG character in my MLP world with a series of 27 cassette tape stories written about him!

Oh, and I shouldn't have to say this, but I know I must... No nasty comments against G1 MLPs here, please.  We know that you like G4, but this was my childhood and I LOVED My Little Pony...it's what originally made me to want to get into voice acting/singing and also inspired me to write many (admittedly childish) adventurous fanfiction stories back in the day.  There was no G3, let alone FiM back then.

Thanks for listening, guys!  Hope it gave you a giggle! :)

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