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"We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)" is a song #written by #GrahamLyle and #TerryBritten. It was #recorded by American singer #TinaTurner for the soundtrack album to the 1985 film #MadMaxBeyondThunderdome, which #starred #MelGibson and Turner. On the heels of Turner's #multiplatinum album #PrivateDancer (1984), the song was released as an edited #7inchSingle, while the full album version was released as a #12inchSingle and on the film's soundtrack album.
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We watched "Late Night with the Devil" (2023) tonight. I posted a #5SecondMovieReview of it earlier. We enjoyed it.

However... one little thing about it is nagging at me, like a splinter in the mind's eye.

It's a period piece, set in the #1970s. The major thread of the story includes a psychologist and her sessions with a patient, which are #recorded. Part of one is played back as part of a #television show, and onscreen during that #playback is an open-reel (aka reel-to-reel) #tape #deck playing a tape.

1970s, open-reel recording - it's #retro, it's #cool, it's period-authentic, right?

I can't shake the feeling that whoever put the visual together has never actually seen an open-reel tape recorder in operation. This picture is lousy, because it's a screencap from the movie, which is supposed to be showing a television broadcast in good old analog SD - but it gets the point across.

See anything wrong?

The takeup #reel, on the right, turns clockwise, the opposite direction of the (normal) direction of the supply reel. So the tape wraps onto the inner side of the takeup reel, and ends up "inside out".

There's also no tension arm on the supply side, and an apparent #tension arm on the takeup side, but it's not actually in the tape path.

I don't think any machines were actually made like this, but I'm not an #expert. Can anyone identify the deck they butchered or digi-simmed to create this #sin against nature? 😉

"Dizzy" is a song originally #recorded by #TommyRoe that became an international #hitSingle in 1969. Instrumental backing was provided by the #LosAngeles session musicians known as the #WreckingCrew. Cowritten by Roe and #FreddyWeller, "Dizzy" was a major hit on both sides of the #Atlantic, reaching number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks in March 1969, number one for one week on the #UKSinglesChart in June 1969 and number one in Canada in March 1969.
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"(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a #popular #noveltySong written by #BobMerrill and first registered on September 25, 1952, as "The Doggie in the Window". On January 27, 1953, its sheet music was published in #NewYork as "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window". The best-known version of the song was #theOriginal, #recorded by #PattiPage on December 18, 1952, and released in January 1953 by #MercuryRecords as catalog numbers 70070 (#78Rpm).
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I am stating this for my protection -

There is something insane going on where I live.

If I suddenly stop posting, the guy's name was Eric.

Will edit later when I know his last name.

He was scamming and selling drugs to disabled people in a facilityfor #healing from #addiction and #mentalhealth HURTING people with several others.

I became their "friend" and #recorded everything they did with audio to protect people, and me.

He had my number. Is sending me death threats and ran.

I have nothing more to say other than I am pretty sure I am watching a fucking #coup take place in the #usa by #techbros and I gotta say -

Kinda pissed #california said I can't have a gun for five years.

Good luck and I hope I'm alive this time next year.

My death will be #recorded and if anyone would like to help a #mentallyill man seek #asylum -

I will take everything and go right now honestly.

I am shouting until I either am safe or die.

"Bleeding Love" is a song #recorded by British singer #LeonaLewis for her debut studio album, #Spirit (2007). It was originally written and recorded by American singer #JesseMcCartney, and was co-written and produced by American singer #RyanTedder. #BleedingLove was released worldwide during the last quarter of 2007, and the first of 2008, as the album's #leadSingle internationally, and as the second single in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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"Bleeding Love" is a song #recorded by British singer #LeonaLewis for her debut studio album, #Spirit (2007). It was originally written and recorded by American singer #JesseMcCartney, and was co-written and produced by American singer #RyanTedder. #BleedingLove was released worldwide during the last quarter of 2007, and the first of 2008, as the album's #leadSingle internationally, and as the second single in Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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"Magic" is a song #recorded by British-Australian singer #OliviaNewtonJohn for the #soundtrack to the 1980 #musical #fantasy film #Xanadu, which starred Newton-John and #GeneKelly. Written and produced by Newton-John's frequent collaborator #JohnFarrar, "Magic" was released as the soundtrack's #leadSingle in May 1980 and topped the US #Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks beginning on August 2. On August 30, it was displaced from the top by #ChristopherCross's "#Sailing".
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"Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" is a #country song about a man away from home who is worried that his paramour may unwittingly stray from their relationship. It was written by Winston L. Moore (whose #stageName was #SlimWillet) and published in 1952. The song has been #recorded in many different styles by many performers, with #PerryComo's version hitting number 1 in both the US and UK. The title comes from the opening refrain:
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"Jumping Jive" (also known as "(Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive") is a famous #jazz/#swing composition, #written by #CabCalloway, #FrankFroeba, and #JackPalmer. Originally #recorded on 17 July 1939, on #VocalionRecords, it sold over a million copies and reached #2 on the Pop chart. Calloway performs the song with his orchestra and the #NicholasBrothers in the 1943 #musicalFilm #StormyWeather.
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"Indian Reservation (The Lament of the Cherokee Reservation Indian)" is a song written by #JohnDLoudermilk. It was first #recorded by #MarvinRainwater in 1959 and released on #MGM as "The Pale Faced Indian", but that release went unnoticed. The first #hit version was a 1968 recording by #DonFardon – a former member of #theSorrows – that reached number 20 on the #Hot100 in 1968 and number 3 on the #UKSinglesChart in 1970. In 1971.
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