Objekt 10 - Home recording of an unidentified musician performing songs

1 audio reel

Audio reel containing a home recording of a man, identified on the cover of the reel as 'Tom', singing four songs beginning with the lines ‘Thank you my dear paperboy for the paper I will read tonight’; ‘You bolt right up out of bed find your hands clasped tightly round your head’; ‘Empty bar rooms of conversation, wouldn’t people still remain’; and ‘Rain on the roof, here today, gone tomorrow’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and four songs beginning with the lines ‘Left a lot behind me in the bleakness of the trees’; ‘Hands red with the cold, that’s a sure sign that I’m getting old’; ‘Thus ran my child in the sun of gold across the sand’; ‘The candy shop on the corner’s closed’. These are followed by an instrumental piece on the guitar and a further four songs beginning with the lines ‘A touching smile, sparkling, beautiful’; ‘Windows covered up with frost’; ‘You’re Francis Russell B.A. you’re freshly out of West Point’; and ‘I’m a poor man, I never had much in the way of things’. Duration 00:48:32.

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Reel of magnetic tape requiring a reel-to-reel player.