2-Track Tapes for the Playtape 2 Music Machine?

[JSngry]

Thad/Mel/Joe Williams (on UA instead of Solid State) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200719542626&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123

Was this before or after 4 Track players on contemporaneous?

I've heard of a lot of different formats, but never this one!

Hey - Jimmy Smith on 2 Track!

[Dave James]

Probably early to mid-60's. It was a Japanese deck marketed here by Sears Roebuck.

http://vintage-technics.ru/Eng-Playtape_1200.htm

Edited February 26, 2012 by Dave James

[JSngry]

Sears, eh? Back when stores were excited to have alternative (and cheaper) versions of popular stuff.

It's like, ok, fewer songs on one tape, but portable. You can have portable and more songs one tape if you get something else from someplace else, but we're going to offer you fewer songs and portable, because we're Sears, Wal-Mart's not been invented yet, and we think you'll want this.

America's Golden Age!

[Rooster_Ties]

I've seen tapes like that in the first video (a good 20-25 years ago in Goodwill stores, iirc), but I've never seen a player for them.

I think I owned a two-track tape (or two) like that for a few years, just for the heck of it.