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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 2h

I've just digitized this song called You Were Here and I'd love to know if anyone recognizes it or the person singing. It has no identifying information. The song seems like it could be a very vague murder ballad or just a love song. It's hard to say.

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You Were Here Publishing Demo · Dollar Country

Dollar Country is a radio show hosted by Frank the Drifter. It primarily features country 45's that I find in dollar bins around the country. Featuring everything from old hits to b-sides, common reco...

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 2h

That's a good idea. I always want to use the 3D... 3D... 3D... clip somewhere.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 3h

I assume it was for the TV station but I'm not exactly sure what the use for it to be on audio disc would be. Maybe they played it over their sign off screen?

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 6h

Here are some ad breaks from Des Moines Iowa c.1954. Featuring an advertisement for Too Many Husbands and Cat Women On Mars.

Listen below:

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#desmoinse #krnttv #krnt #desmoines #mortonbrothers #orvillelowe #dcap #acetate

KRNT & WHB Ad Breaks · Dollar Country

Dollar Country is a radio show hosted by Frank the Drifter. It primarily features country 45's that I find in dollar bins around the country. Featuring everything from old hits to b-sides, common reco...

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13h

It's looking like the local student run radio was shut down after 50 years simply for the president of the university to get a board position. This is really sad stuff. @wcsb.bsky.social #wcsb #communityradio #studentrunradio

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CSU lands promos, Ideastream seat in WCSB deal

Public records show the institutions entered into an eight-year agreement over radio station WCSB earlier this month.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 4d

It must have felt so amazing back then to have found a waterfall that was just the right temperature to really douse yourself.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 4d

I wasn't drunk but looking back at this late night response has that same feel of drunk late night tweeting to me.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 4d

Sometimes I think about how having a hot shower in the 1500s would have probably involved being rich enough to have servants pour buckets of fired heated water into a contraption that allowed it to flow from overhead. But honestly I have no idea if that ever happened.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 5d

It better be all cassettes!

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 6d

Ha, that's a very good point!

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

I keep seeing people in power talking about autism, they seem obsessed with it, it's almost like it's one of their... special interests?

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 7d

I love those duets, I think they're really wonderful.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 8d

I love cassettes. Except when I'm holding a stack and one slips out and they fall and every single case hinge breaks. Then I hate cassettes with a deep fiery passion.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 8d

Some great western music on this acetate from Canada. It's labeled as the Round Up Rangers, which might be the same band that released a handful of 78s in the 1930s, but I'm not positive. Either way they sound great!

Listen here:
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#dcap #acetates #hillbillymusic

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 9d

Here are a pair of discs recorded in Paris with Arabic handwriting on the labels. The first has two solo instrumentals and the second has two duets with piano. Listen here:

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#acetates #DCAP #vinylsky

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 12d

Thanks! I've been thinking about expanding it but I'd need to find someone who could do the actual app modding.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

Any Arabic speakers want to help me translate a few handwritten labels?

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

I've just learned that @wcsb.bsky.social has shut down as we knew it. It's now a jazz station and not a student run radio station. I find it hard to describe just how big a loss this is to the local Cleveland music and student communities.

They are my favorite radio station in the country.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

I think a lot about how some people are comfortable with asking for money/selling things to make money and how many aren't. It feels like I live in a society built by people with Type A traits and everyone else has to try and make it work somehow.

Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

Dollar Country is going to be having a public radio style fundraiser soon. It's something I've never done and I'm a bit nervous and reluctant to publicly be asking for funding, but I'm also excited to see how it goes.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

And I often don't like to write about it because I don't want it to come off as "what I do is at least as important (and better for the world) than buying a $5 coffee," but in the end I do believe that.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

However $5 a month as a donation is just harder to contemplate for many people. There's surely some sort of psychology papers written about this. I pay $5 for a beer all the time when my wife and I go eat, but someone asking me to join their $5 patreon seems like a completely different idea.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

The problem with doing stuff like I do is that since the primary work isn't marketable in that I create a product and people buy that product then it's hard to get people to support the idea of archiving. It's much more concrete to pay $5 at starbucks bc you see and hold what you exchange money for.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 13d

Dollar Country is going to be having a public radio style fundraiser soon. It's something I've never done and I'm a bit nervous and reluctant to publicly be asking for funding, but I'm also excited to see how it goes.

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 15d

I'm in need of some song identification help. The first, second, and fourth song on this acetate I can't ID. Can you?

The first is a bluegrass instrumental, second is a yodeling western song and the last is a country song.

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#songidentification #acetate

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Dollar Country (he/him) @dollarcountry.org · 15d

Here's a recording of "Mom & Dad Stasi" from "Christmas 1958" I transferred last month. It's like being a fly on the wall during a Christmas party. People are having a sing along with the piano and shouting at each other.

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#acetateoftheday #acetate #familyrecording

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