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As a kid i loved popular music and i was fascinated by radio.
At age 5 or 6, in the late 1960s, i learned how to operate my parents reel-to-reel
tape deck in order to play the two current pre-recorded tapes they had recently bought:
Simon & Garfunkel's Bookends and The Beatles'
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.
From there it grew, listening to top 40, following rock radio and collecting records.
Twenty years later, this led me to a career working in radio and as a manager of the local record store. One thing that happened regularly when working in radio was looking at the page telling me what to play and seeing a spot (a commercial) coming up in a minute and not finding the tape in the control room. I would have to RUN down the hall to the production room to grab the tape, sometimes right as the editing was being finished. On those long overnight DJ shifts, as i was running tapes and LPs down the halls of the radio station trying to get them cued up before the song ran out, i imagined other ways to store music. I had studied computer science in college and i had some pretty outlandish ideas. I imagined a computer with some kind of permanent, very, very large floppy disk with audio files stored on it digitally. I imagined ways this would make it easier to transfer the music (and commercials) that at the time we had to walk from room to room on tape cartridges. I even went so far out to imagine having access to my large record collection at home via a connection through a phone wire. I was, however, put off by how many millions and millions of kilobytes of storage would be needed. That felt utterly unattainable. When i was 9 years old, a young couple, fresh out of school, moved in down the street from us. Mary and Charles Ramberg quickly became good friends with my parents and became friends and mentors of mine as well. They were civil rights workers, she was an organizer and he was a lawyer; they did incredibly important work, did it well, and became somewhat well known. I admired them greatly and learned a lot from them. In addition to lessons about life, politics and civil rights, Charles was a cyclist and i learned an enormous amount about cycling from him, from how to ride safely in traffic to what the Tour De France was. I rode my first three centuries with Charles, an experience i cherish. When he was in law school, in Washington DC from 1968 to 1971, Charles recorded rock radio (WMOD, WMAL, WETA, WAVA) off the air onto quarter inch reel-to-reel tapes. He did a little editing, but largely each tape was a continuous multi-hour period of late sixties underground rock radio. It is an amazing collection. That was clearly an important time in music, as well as an interesting time in the news. In 1988 he had nine reels remaining, but he didn't have a reel-to-reel deck. He asked me to transfer them to cassette. I was quite excited. Obviously a collection from that time period was pretty thrilling. This was going to be fun. I bought three cases of high quality blank cassettes at the record store where i worked. I took my parents 25 year old reel-to-reel deck and a new high quality cassette deck, did some very creative wiring and got it all to work. I spent several weeks transferring the reels to cassette. I did quite a bit of editing when i made the copies. I moved songs and sets around to fit on the 45 minute side of a cassette. I left out about 25% of the songs due to space reasons. The vast majority left out were duplicates or were songs that (at the time in the late 1980s) were so wildly familiar and popular that they weren't necessary in this collection. I did pretty well; however i have discovered some duplicates slipped through and i see on the lists, a handful of songs i left out that i now wish i had not. Through all of that i tried to keep the original stations' music sets intact as much as possible. During his recording, Charles cut out most of the DJ breaks. When i made the tape to tape transfer, i, unfortunately, cut out all the remaining breaks. I don't know why i did that, especially since i was actually a DJ at the time! I do remember that there were some interesting comments. In addition there were some amazing news bulletins that i should not have edited out, like Kent State -- i'm quite disappointed i didn't keep those. The ads would be really fun today, but if i remember correctly, there were no ads on the reels. It's possible Charles edited them out during recording, but maybe there just weren't any on the air, since progressive rock radio in those days was not seen as profitable and operated mostly as a public service! (See my essay about WZZQ, one of the original rock radio stations.) Before i started the tape to tape transfer i made detailed lists of the tracks on each reel. When Charles first recorded his reels he took some rough notes on song titles. I did a lot of work trying to accurately name every song and artist. I had some resources, as i was in the industry, both a DJ and working at the record store. At the record store i was the person they turned to when they needed to remember a song name or artist name (even the owners would ask me), so a lot of it came out of my head. But i also used Charles' notes, i used the big encyclopedic song index books we had at the shop and i even plumbed the brain of my co-workers at the radio station and the owners of the shop. I certainly didn't get them all identified and i wasn't always right, but in retrospect i think i did rather well for the time. From those lists i was able to make a playlist to accompany each cassette of the songs on it and which reel (and radio station) it came from. After all the reels were done transferred, i labeled the cassettes #1 to #16. There were a few blank cassettes left over and i put recordings of a few of my radio shows on them to complete the pod of 24 tapes. I named the entire set 'The Ramberg Tapes' and when i returned the reels to Charles, i presented him with a wrapped cube, two 12 tape boxes of cassettes with detailed lists for each tape. Soon after i gave the tapes to him, Charles & Mary and their 3 young children went on a long summer road trip. When he returned Charles was effusive in his excitement about the tapes and how much he, and the whole family enjoyed them. He added that he didn't expect to like my radio shows much but was surprised. And he was thrilled that on one of them i played The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law. I believe he continued to listen to all of the tapes regularly after that. Sadly Charles Ramberg died, quite suddenly, in 1989 of a brain tumor. Mary thanked me again for The Ramberg Tapes before she and the kids moved out of state. I bought Charles' car from Mary and eventually drove that little 1975 Toyota across the country myself. I hope their kids discovered and enjoyed The Ramberg Tapes when they were teenagers. I also made a set of tapes for myself. I made identical copies of tapes #1 through #11. Tapes #12 to #16, were mostly folk music and at the time i wasn't interested but i'm a little disappointed i didn't copy them. I did however, take a selection of songs from those 5 tapes and made two more tapes (Tapes #17 & #18), just for me. Those two never went to Charles. I greatly enjoyed my copies of The Ramberg Tapes. I found a great validation when hearing personal favorites among the collection. But more importantly i learned so much! I found a number of artists that i wanted to explore further, such as Ultimate Spinach and so much more. In fact this project is how i discovered some of my all time favorite artists: Phil Ochs and The Chad Mitchell Trio, to name but two. I bought some Phil Ochs records because of this project but not Ultimate Spinach. That wasn't possible. Back in 1988 we could only hear music that the record companies made available and the vast majority of Sixties music, including at least two thirds of this collection, was out of print and there was no possibility of getting them. So this collection was amazingly exciting. I listened to 'The Ramberg Tapes' frequently and they quickly became my regular choice in the car. My friends and co-workers were fascinated and jealous. My record shop co-worker Doug borrowed one tape and left it in the sun. The case melted. He was afraid to return it to me, but i was impatient and insistent. When he showed it to me, he was in tears, but using a few tools, i was able to remove the tiny reel of tape from the melted cassette body and place it in a new cassette thereby saving the tape! Doug was hugely relieved. He loved those tapes. As part of the job at the record shop i sometimes worked backstage at arena concerts we promoted. I was the 'runner' -- local knowledge and errand running mostly. A year or so after i made the tapes, i worked a 'Metallica' concert with 'The Cult' as the opening act. In the early afternoon the road manager asked me to meet two people in the parking lot and take them to a racquetball court. I called the local YMCA and made reservations and drove across the parking lot. The tape that happened to be in my car that day was Ramberg Tape #2, which is mostly The MC5 -- straight off of 1969 Washington radio. I drove up to the tour bus in my little 1975 Corolla (which had been Charles' car!). A well dressed short haired guy got off and got in the backseat, friendly and chatty. (The manager.) And then this pale monster with butt length hair in a huge mat got off the bus and stumbled, squinting, into the front seat of my little beat up Toyota. He cowered down and moaned. He didn't make any sound the rest of the short ride but when we got to the racquetball center he stumbled out, looked back into the car at me and growled, "MC5 is the freakin' balls man!" He didn't say freakin'. It was Ian Astbury. When i returned to pick them up a couple of hours later, he was clean and showered and pleasant and soft spoken (he said he can't wake up until he's played racquetball). He was very excited about The MC5 and the story of 'The Ramberg Tapes'. He suggested that we go to my record store and buy some MC5. I pointed out that, thanks to the record companies, MC5 was unavailable in the US. (That was dumb, i should have taken him to the store, anyway!! My co-workers would've loved it!) In the New Years edition of Rolling Stone Magazine that year, they asked famous people what they were listening to and Ian Astbury said MC5!! I either got him started on it, or i coincidently hit the perfect tape that day. Thank you Charles! Eventually my set of The Ramberg Tapes wound up in a custom built tape rack on my record shelf, spending a couple of decades there but never completely forgotten. Around 2004 when digital audio was starting to become available online i dug into the lists of artists from The Ramberg Tapes and explored some of those artists more fully, sometimes finding full albums from just the one song played on the radio in 1969. It was exciting and fun to discover even more music from this project. In 2012, over several weeks, i digitized my 13 Ramberg Tape cassettes as complete 45 minute files. Now i had them available on the computer. They filled just over 2 million kilobytes. That would've taken up half of my new hard drive in 1989, it is a very small corner of my computer today. It's interesting to me to think of the journey that these songs have taken to get to my ears. The audio quality is not ideal, but it is still surprisingly good. The music started out very high audio quality in Charles' original recordings. Some of the LPs had skips but most were very clear. There is very little interference off the air however it was run through a compressor as it was transmitted. It then went through three to five tape generations before being audio recorded (not digitally ripped) to high quality variable bit rate MP3s. That means the music i am listening to right now went from a 1960s recording studio, to a master tape, to LP, to radio airwaves, to reel-to-reel in 1969, to cassette in 1988, all analog waveform, and to MP3 in 2012 where it is stored digitally. Over several months in early 2021 i took each of the 26 MP3 files (each is one side of a cassette) and split them up into individual songs using the music editing program Audacity. I now have 450 tracks in my Ramberg Tapes folder. I also created a relational database connecting the lists of songs and cassettes and reels; and including Charles' original notes. With this database and using the much, much more extensive resources we have available now, i set out to track down the name and artist, album and year for every song in the collection to a high level of confidence. I searched lists on Discogs.com, Allmusic.com and Wikipedia, i searched lyrics on Google, i compared songs on YouTube and archive.org, and as an absolute last resort i used Shazam to analyze and try to name a song. I think i've got it in pretty good shape -- there are only half a dozen or so still frustratingly unidentified! I am sad that rock radio with DJs, thematic sets, cued seugeways and airbreaks like i grew up with (and did myself for a few years), doesn't really exist anymore but i am able to listen to amazing sets from 1969! It's great fun and i keep on learning from this collection. I continue to find artists that i want to explore further. The collection is still pretty special although it's value is quite different now. When i made the cassettes in the 80s it was fascinating to see what was REALLY on the radio in the Sixties and what was remembered and what was completely forgotten. And that's still of great value today, maybe more so. However in 1988 the vast majority of this music was out of print and there was no possibility of getting it. It felt forbidden; having The Ramberg Tapes was special, like winning the lottery. Now almost everything ever recorded is available instantly with moment's search. But i'm discovering that there are a few things in this collection that i cannot find at all amongst the vast resources on the internet. Some things DID disappear! There are about a dozen that i still cannot name after using all of my resourses. Below i have inserted the song cards for each cassette: The Ramberg Tapes 01a CASSETTE #1 SIDE A 01a Keep On Chooglin - Creedence Clearwater Revival Finale-Refugee (live instrumental) - Kooper-Al & Bloomfield-Mike I Can Love A Woman - Al Kooper Blue Moon of Kentucky - Al Kooper Love Me Two Times - The Doors Who Do You Love - Quicksilver Messenger Service 6 tracks 44:59 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 1A (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 01b CASSETTE #1 SIDE B 01b Lifeline - The Sacred Mushroom Seeing - Moby Grape Some Velvet Morning - Vanilla Fudge Where Is Happiness - Vanilla Fudge Happy Trails - Quicksilver Messenger Service We Are The Good Rats - Good Rats Joey Ferrari - Good Rats Prelude - The Collectors Grass and Wild Strawberries - The Collectors {unknown} 'what i seem to be looking for' - {unknown} 10 tracks 43:51 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 1A (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 02a CASSETTE #2 SIDE A 02a Borderline (live) - MC5 Motor City Burning (live) - MC5 Want You Back Now (live) [ends] - MC5 Penthouse Pauper - Creedence Clearwater Revival {unknown} (instrumental)1 - {unknown} {unknown} (instrumental)2 - {unknown} St James Infirmary - Mystic Number National Bank (intro) - MC5 Rambling Rose (live) - MC5 Kick Out The Jams (live) (AM) - MC5 Come Together (live) - MC5 Rocket Reducer 62 (live) - MC5 12 tracks 45:52 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 1A (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 reel 1B (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 02b CASSETTE #2 SIDE B 02b {unknown} 'Fender Bass' - {unknown} Expecting to Fly - Buffalo Springfield If Not This Time - Fifty Foot Hose Pride of Man - Quicksilver Messenger Service Seeing - Moby Grape When The Music's Over - The Doors Funny Freak Parade - Ultimate Spinach Plastic Raincoats-Hung Up Minds - Ultimate Spinach FISH Cheer - Country Joe & The Fish I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag - Country Joe & The Fish Love - Country Joe & The Fish Rock Coast Blues - Country Joe & The Fish Super Bird - Country Joe & The Fish 13 tracks 45:43 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 1B (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 03a CASSETTE #3 SIDE A 03a Thing In 'E' [fragment] - The Savage Resurrection Dr Mind - Phluph Omaha - Moby Grape Paper Sun - Traffic Changes - Moby Grape 2000 Man - The Rolling Stones Horse Latitudes - The Doors Moonlight Drive - The Doors Down On Me - Big Brother & The Holding Company I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Blood Sweat & Tears I Can't Quit Her - Blood Sweat & Tears Sky Pilot [missing intro] - The Animals Masters of War - Bob Dylan Up from the Skies - The Jimi Hendrix Experience 14 tracks 46:00 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 1B (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 03b CASSETTE #3 SIDE B 03b Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendrix Experience You've Got Me Floatin' - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Fire - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Castles Made of Sand [frag] - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Foxy Lady - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Sunshine of Your Love - Cream Toad - Cream Blue Condition - Cream Cat's Squirrel (instrumental) - Cream Break Song [abridged] - Vanilla Fudge Louisiana Blues - Savoy Brown Temporarily Humboldt County [1st half] - Firesign Theatre 12 tracks 46:06 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 1B (Rock Music I) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 reel 2A (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 04a CASSETTE #4 SIDE A 04a South End Incident (I'm Afraid) - Beacon Street Union Bad Day at Black Rock- Baby - Colours Angeline - Genesis (LA) Ticket To Ride - Vanilla Fudge Love Song for the Dead Ché - The United States of America On The Natural - Hoyt Axton {unknown} 'down down down down' - {unknown} The American Eagle Tragedy - Earth Opera Some Days You Just Can't Win - Ultimate Spinach Delighted Strung Out & 25 [skips] - The Last Ritual Room to Move - John Mayall 11 tracks 45:26 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 2A (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 04b CASSETTE #4 SIDE B 04b Strange Feeling - Tim Buckley I Can't Quit You [skips] - Led Zeppelin How Many More Times - Led Zeppelin Running Jumping Standing Still - Koerner-SpiderJohn & Murphy-Willie Magazine Lady - Koerner-SpiderJohn & Murphy-Willie Feel So Bad [ends] - Otis Rush Our Little Secret - SRC I'm On An Island (live) - The Kinks Come On Now (live) - The Kinks You Really Got Me (live) - The Kinks Pay The Price - Illinois Speed Press Free Ride - Illinois Speed Press Temporarily Humboldt County [middle] - Firesign Theatre 13 tracks 44:46 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 2A (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 05a CASSETTE #5 SIDE A 05a A Salty Dog - Procol Harum How Hi the Li - Family The Devil Came From Kansas - Procol Harum Conceptions Of Reality II - Womb All This And More - Procol Harum The Milk of Human Kindness - Procol Harum She's All Right (electric) (w My Girl reprise) - Muddy Waters Airmobile - Tim Hardin Home To You - Earth Opera Motorcycle Irene - Moby Grape Going Nowhere - Moby Grape 11 tracks 45:48 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 2A (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 reel 2B (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 05b CASSETTE #5 SIDE B 05b Seeing [skips] - Moby Grape Murder in My Heart for The Judge - Moby Grape Friends And Lovers - Koerner-SpiderJohn & Murphy-Willie West Coast Child of Sunshine - Blue Cheer Peace Of Mind - Blue Cheer [pigs] - {unknown} Something's Got a Hold of my Toe - Traffic [pigs again] - {unknown} I Kill Therefore I Am - Phil Ochs Early Morning Blues and Greens - Diane Hildebrand My Life - Phil Ochs {unknown} 'Ten Million People' - {unknown} The Streets of Your Town - Country Joe & The Fish Czechoslovakia [1st half] - Driscoll-Julie & Auger-Brian & The Trinity Jimmy's Texas Blues - Doc Watson Turn Your Money Green [ends] - Tom Rush 16 tracks 46:05 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 2B (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 reel 3B (Rock Music III) WZXQ-FM Jackson MS 1984 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 06a CASSETTE #6 SIDE A 06a Time Changes scene I-1 Introduction - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-2 Time Changes - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-3 Interlude One - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-4 That's My Girl - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-5 Wake Up In The Morning - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-6 I've Got The Fever - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-7 Crash - Ford Theater Time Changes scene I-8 At The Station - Ford Theater intermission - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-1 Back To Philadelphia - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-2 Clifford's Dilemma - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-3 Jefferson Airplane - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-4 I Feel Uncertain - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-5 Interlude Two - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-6 Good Thing - Ford Theater Time Changes scene II-7 Outroduction - Ford Theater Feeling Good (live at Fillmore) - Traffic The Ghetto - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends When The Battle Is Over - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends 19 tracks 49:27 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 2B (Rock Music II) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1968-1969 reel 3A (Rock Music III) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1969 or 71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 06b CASSETTE #6 SIDE B 06b Dirty Old Man - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends Chain of Fools - Herbie Mann Early In The Morning - The Edwin Hawkins Singers Whiskey Whiskey - Tim Hardin Natural Harmony - The Byrds Draft Morning - The Byrds I Wasn't Born to Follow - The Byrds Get to You - The Byrds This Wheel's on Fire - The Byrds My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying - Sainte-Marie-Buffy Le Trente-Huit Cunegonde [middle] - Firesign Theatre 11 tracks 46:12 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 3A (Rock Music III) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1969 or 71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 07a CASSETTE #7 SIDE A 07a Another Age - Phil Ochs The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns - Phil Ochs Oh Happy Day - The Edwin Hawkins Singers Think - The Rolling Stones River - Hedge & Donna People Love Each Other - Brewer & Shipley Mine Eyes Have Seen - Fat Look Into the Sun - Jethro Tull Badge - Cream Carolina In My Mind - Melanie Somethin' Comin' On - Blood Sweat & Tears Impressions Of - Dennis Coffey 12 tracks 47:21 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 3A (Rock Music III) WMOD-FM Washington DC 1969 or 71 reel 4A (Rock Music IV) WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 07b CASSETTE #7 SIDE B 07b Rag Mama Rag - The Band Lola - The Kinks Lovin' Sound - Ian & Sylvia Sugar Mountain (live) - Neil Young Livin' in The Country - Tom Rush Good Time Living - Three Dog Night Love Like a Man [DJ frontsell] - Ten Years After The Bells of Rhymney - Judy Collins Melancholy Man - Moody Blues Try A Little Harder - Eric Quincy Tate Never Kill Another Man - The Steve Miller Band 11 tracks 44:53 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 4A (Rock Music IV) WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 08a CASSETTE #8 SIDE A 08a Green Eyed Lady - Sugarloaf Clack Clack - John Stewart The Way I Feel - Fotheringay 2000 Light Years From Home - The Rolling Stones Southern Man - Neil Young Long Time Gone - Crosby Stills & Nash Woodstock - Crosby Stills Nash & Young Volunteers - Jefferson Airplane Easy Now - Eric Clapton Been Too Long on The Road - Bread Early Morning Rain - Gordon Lightfoot 11 tracks 45:53 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 4B (Rock Music IV) WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 08b CASSETTE #8 SIDE B 08b [extended segue] - For Lovin' Me - Peter Paul & Mary I Shall Be Released - The Band Gallows Pole - Led Zeppelin Fresh Air - Quicksilver Messenger Service Dawn- The Day Begins - Moody Blues London Blues - Canned Heat Prodigal Son - Johnny Winter All Really I Want To Do - The Byrds Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones Cloudy - Simon & Garfunkel Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith 13 tracks 46:06 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 4B (Rock Music IV) WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 reel 6B (Rock Music VI) various Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 09a CASSETTE #9 SIDE A 09a Don't Talk Now - Brethren Mississippi Freighter - Brethren No Expectations - Joan Baez Hard Road - Marc Benno Nice Feelin' - Marc Benno Coming into Los Angeles - Arlo Guthrie Lodi - Creedence Clearwater Revival Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival What Have They Done to My Song Ma - Melanie 25 or 6 to 4 - Chicago Transit Authority Down By The River - Buddy Miles 11 tracks 46:02 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 5A (Rock Music V) WETA-FM & WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 09b CASSETTE #9 SIDE B 09b Ohio - Crosby Stills Nash & Young Back To The River - Damnation Of Adam Blessing Free The People - Barbara Keith Good Shepherd - Jefferson Airplane Tomorrow Is The Last To Be Heard - Gypsy Three More Days - The Guess Who '48 Desoto - Tony Kosinec I Could Be Singing - Arlo Guthrie Thumbs - Lee Michaels Universal Soldier - Donovan Other Side Of This Life - Fred Neil 11 tracks 45:48 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 5A (Rock Music V) WETA-FM & WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 reel 5B (Rock Music V) WETA-FM & WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 10a CASSETTE #10 SIDE A 10a With God on Our Side - Joan Baez Get Ourselves Together - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends Illusion - Scott McKenzie Rotosound Strings (fake advert) - The Who I Can See For Miles - The Who Tuane - Hammer Good Year - Marc Benno I Put A Spell on You - Leon Russell Soul Food - The Asylum Choir My Baby Left Me - Creedence Clearwater Revival Some of Shelly's Blues - Stone Poneys Look In The Mirror - Scott McKenzie Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image I Don't Want To Die In Georgia - Brewer & Shipley 14 tracks 44:40 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 5B (Rock Music V) WETA-FM & WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 10b CASSETTE #10 SIDE B 10b Alabama '69 - Humble Pie Country Honk - The Rolling Stones Church (Part Of Someone) - Steven Stills Old Times Good Times - Steven Stills {unknown} 'Saw A Man (Walking Around)' - {unknown} After Midnight - Eric Clapton More & More - Blood Sweat & Tears We Are Not Helpless - Steven Stills Crossroads - Cream A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum Crazy Man - Scott McKenzie Country Road - James Taylor Sea of Heartbreak [fragment] - Don Gibson 13 tracks 46:12 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 5B (Rock Music V) WETA-FM & WMAL-FM Washington DC 1970 reel 6A (Rock Music VI) various Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 11a CASSETTE #11 SIDE A 11a Time - Cat Stevens Fill My Eyes - Cat Stevens I Looked Away - Derek & The Dominos One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley Ballad Of Obray Ramsey - Matthews Southern Comfort Lovely Linda - Paul McCartney That Would Be Something - Paul McCartney I Got A Line On You - Spirit Be A Brother - Big Brother & The Holding Company You Need Feet - Chad & Jeremy Shining Brightly - Brinsley Schwarz Third Stone From The Sun - The Jimi Hendrix Experience Wine Upon The Water - Street Singer Patterson's Song - Street Singer Kaluah - Street Singer Oh Miss Mary - The Kingston Trio 16 tracks 46:09 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 6A (Rock Music VI) various Washington DC 1970-71 reel 6B (Rock Music VI) various Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 11b CASSETTE #11 SIDE B 11b Time Waits For No Man - Chimo! Get On The Right Road - Gary Wright A Child Is Coming - Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra Have You Ever Seen The Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival Wrong End Of The Rainbow - Tom Rush In The Beginning - Moody Blues Lovely to See You Again - Moody Blues Ride My See Saw - Moody Blues Afternoon- Tuesday Afternoon - Moody Blues Question - Moody Blues Going To California - Led Zeppelin Ridgetop - Jesse Colin Young 12 tracks 46:22 original to Charles, copy to Mark TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 6B (Rock Music VI) various Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 17a CASSETTE #17 SIDE A 17a Freight Train (instrumental) - {unknown} Eric's Banjo - The Tarriers Darcy Farrow - Ian & Sylvia House of the Rising Sun (instrumental) - {unknown} Blues on The Ceiling - Addiss & Crofut Dark As A Dungeon (instrumental) - Glen Campbell Daddy You've Been On My Mind - Judy Collins You Were On My Mind - The Chad Mitchell Trio Lemon Tree - Peter Paul & Mary {unknown} 'Only Peace Will Make All Men Free' - {unknown} Someone To Talk My Troubles To - The Journeymen Get Together (instrumental) - {unknown} San Francisco Bay - The Journeymen Babe I'm Gonna Leave You - Joan Baez If I Had My Way (Sampson & Delilah) - Peter Paul & Mary If I Had A Hammer - Peter Paul & Mary Blues on The Ceiling - Fred Neil Cotton Mill Girls - The Journeymen Cotton Fields (instrumental) - Glen Campbell 19 tracks 46:13 edit of cas 12 to 14 for Mark only TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 7A (Folk Music I) WAVA-FM Washington DC 1969-71 reel 7B (Folk Music I) WAVA-FM Washington DC 1969-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 17b CASSETTE #17 SIDE B 17b He Was My Brother - Simon & Garfunkel Dubarry Done Gone Again - The Chad Mitchell Trio Ain't No More Cane On This Brazos - The Chad Mitchell Trio Duncan And Brady - Tom Rush Midnight Special (instrumental) - {unknown} The Marvelous Toy - The Chad Mitchell Trio Bonny Streets Of Fyve Io - The Chad Mitchell Trio Don't Knock - The Kingston Trio Catch The Wind - Donovan Foggy Mountain Break Down - Flatt-Lester & Scruggs-Earl Hey Li Lee LI Lo - The Limelighters Morning Dew - Neil-Fred & Martin-Vince Mule Skinner Blues - José Felicaiano Last of The Irish Rover - Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem The Jolly Tinker - Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem Too Much Of Nothing - Peter Paul & Mary 16 tracks 46:07 edit of cas 12 to 14 for Mark only TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 7B (Folk Music I) WAVA-FM Washington DC 1969-71 reel 8A (Folk Music II) WETA-FM Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 18a CASSETTE #18 SIDE A 18a Long Ago- Far Away - Odetta Howard's Dead And Gone - The Weavers The Train That Carried My Girl From Town - Doc Watson Barry's Boys - The Chad Mitchell Trio The Ides Of Texas (Billy Sol Estes) - The Chad Mitchell Trio What Did You Learn In School Today - The Chad Mitchell Trio An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)- The Chad Mitchell Trio The Sinking Of The Reuben James - The Chad Mitchell Trio Streamline Cannonball - Doc Watson Get Together - The Chad Mitchell Trio That's The Way It's Gonna Be - The Chad Mitchell Trio Pride of Petrovar - Ian & Sylvia Handsome Molly - Ian & Sylvia Oh What A Beautiful City - Pete Seeger Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Peter Paul & Mary 15 tracks 45:52 edit of cas 14 to 16 for Mark only TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 8A (Folk Music II) WETA-FM Washington DC 1970-71 reel 8B (Folk Music II) WETA-FM Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 The Ramberg Tapes 18b CASSETTE #18 SIDE B 18b Early In The Morning - Peter Paul & Mary Fenario - The Journeymen Chase The Rising Sun - The Journeymen CC Rider - Ian & Sylvia Four Strong Winds - Ian & Sylvia Percy's Song - Arlo Guthrie Rollin' Home (It's A Far Cry From Heaven And A Short Cry From Home)- Eric Andersen Canadian RR Trilogy - George Hamilton IV Tell Old Bill - The Chad Mitchell Trio I Can't Help But Wonder - The Chad Mitchell Trio I've Got Nothing But Time - Julie Felix Live A Humble - Ian & Sylvia Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles) - Joan Baez Handsome Molly - Ian & Sylvia House Of The Rising Sun - Joan Baez 15 tracks 45:53 edit of cas 14 to 16 for Mark only TRANSFERRED FROM: reel 8A (Folk Music II) WETA-FM Washington DC 1970-71 reel 8B (Folk Music II) WETA-FM Washington DC 1970-71 LP > radio > R2R > cas > cas > VBRmp3 Charles Ramberg 1968; Mark Canizaro 1988, 2012, 2018 |