BBC Cartridges-RCTThe 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly known as the eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, or simply eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound-recording technology that was popular in the United States from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the Compact Cassette format took over. The format is regarded as an obsolete technology, and was relatively unknown outside the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, West Germany and Japan. Stereo 8 was created in 1964 by a consortium led by Bill Lear of Lear Jet Corporation, along with Ampex, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Motorola, and RCA Victor Records (RCA - Radio Corporation of America). It was a further development of the similar Stereo-Pak four-track cartridge introduced by Earl "Madman" Muntz (marketing and television set dealer), which was adapted by Muntz from the Fidelipac cartridge developed by George Eash. A later quadraphonic (four-channel sound as opposed to earlier more widely used stereo/two channel sound) version of the format was announced by RCA in April 1970 and first known as Quad-8, then later changed to just Q8. | ||
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| Catalogue number and title | ||
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| RCT 8000 Title - The last Goon show of all Artist(s) - Spike Milligan Rating: 5 | ||
| RCT 8002 Title - Unique Hancock Artist(s) - Tony Hancock Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8003 Title - Radio 2 presents BBC top tunes Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8005 Title - Top of the pops - Volume 1 Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8006 Title - Top of the pops - Volume 2 Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8007 Title - Goon show classics - Volume 2 Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8009 Title - Goon show classics Artist(s) - Spike Milligan Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8012 Title - Old grey whistle test Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8014 Title - Top of the pops - Volume 3 Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8015 Title - The cinema and the songs Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| RCT 8018 Title - Hancock - The lift / Twelve angry men Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 | ||
| Y8F 8019 Title - BBC TV's best of top of the pops - Volume 4 Artist(s) - Various Rating: 3 |