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Intro music by: Gail Nobles

Story by: Gail Nobles

Cover Art by: Gail Nobles

You listening to Needle House. I'm thinking of all the hits I recorded on cassettes like Gladys Knight and the pips and many more welcome to Needle House.

Hello, I'm Gail Nobles. Sometimes I go back and listen to all the oldies I recorded. I have a wall full of cassettes. Some are in plastic storage containers in my closet. There was an old soul radio station that played a lot of Motown like Gladys Knight and the Pips “Every Beat Of My Heart”, “Honey Chile” by Martha and the Vandellas. There were other groups that were not with Motown like the Bill Withers “Grandma's Hands’, The Spinners “Rubberband Man”. There were so many of those good old songs, and I recorded some on 60 minute tapes and some on 90 minutes. I think I have a few that were at least 100 minutes.

Some of those good old radio stations I recorded from didn't last very long. They went off the air.Because of recording from those stations, I never forgot them and still remember them.

It's fun to go back and listen to those old cassettes. Radio back then was better because they played the countdown and told you who was hot on the charts. The music was better in the old days, and when there wasn't much to do, I would sit by the radio and record all of the great songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. And this very day, sometimes when I'm in the kitchen, I just put in an old cassette in the boombox and listen.