When I was little one of my favorite movies was Home Alone 2. Macaulay Culkin was so clever. He managed to set up the most awesome booby traps and execute them. My traps never seemed to work out as clever as his. Like the star character, Kevin, I thought that it was great fun to record myself and here the playback fast or slow. I did this on an old Dictaphone cassette player that my mom gave me. I also found enjoyment in recording the radio. I would try to catch my favorite songs so that I could listen to them over and over again.
As I already posted I used to listen to books on cassette too. My mom also had this old record of some old folk or Brothers Grimm stories. My favorite was "7 At A Blow" about a boy who killed 7 flies as they were buzzing around his sandwich one day. He made a belt that read, "Seven at a Blow" and as he wore it it lead to all sorts of fanciful adventures. My mom also had a cassette that was called "Church Mice" and it had some of my favorite church songs being sung in really high voices. It was like Alvin and the Chipmunks singing hymns. That was fun.
I wonder if I could find any of my old tape recordings. I'll bet there's some weird stuff on them.
I love reading these things you remember!! The turkeys were huge - so many of them. And yes the "Valiant Little Tailor" was a great favorite. I think we might still have the Church Mice tape!
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