Some old (mid '80s) Apple audio clips
I thought some of you might get a chuckle out of these.
My father recently found some old cassette tapes from the mid-1980s with some Apple bits on them. The first was recorded at a dealer conference in San Francisco with about 500 Apple dealers. It's a bit warbly in parts because the tape was pretty badly degraded. The second clip is actually a radio commercial for the retail store that my father owned at the time.
"We are Apple, Leading the Way"
AMS Computer Store Radio Commercial (4-19-84)
Ah, back when an Apple was a viable business computer...
My father recently found some old cassette tapes from the mid-1980s with some Apple bits on them. The first was recorded at a dealer conference in San Francisco with about 500 Apple dealers. It's a bit warbly in parts because the tape was pretty badly degraded. The second clip is actually a radio commercial for the retail store that my father owned at the time.
"We are Apple, Leading the Way"
AMS Computer Store Radio Commercial (4-19-84)
Ah, back when an Apple was a viable business computer...
Comments
"We Are Apple" conjured up visions of Steve Jobs in legs warmers doing his flash dance....
An image I'll have to live with the rest of my life.
Originally posted by Brad
I thought some of you might get a chuckle out of these.
"We are Apple, Leading the Way"
Oh. My. God.
I'm speechless.
Originally posted by johnq
Oh. My. God.
I'm speechless.
I like it.
Originally posted by Akumulator
I like it.
Oh, it transcends mere hating or liking.
Originally posted by johnq
Oh, it transcends mere hating or liking.
And goes straight to the wholesale destruction of the central nervous system.
Originally posted by addabox
And goes straight to the wholesale destruction of the central nervous system.
If we are ever invaded by aliens, I'm uploading that song into their mothership's system ala ID4...should shatter their helmets Mars Attacks-style.
Does Irene Cara get royalties? or just a mac?
Originally posted by Ti Fighter
oh....my...f...#....*...k...i...n...g god! that song sucks what were they thinking??
It doesn't suck at all. Just typical 80's song.
Originally posted by fred_lj
Is that Cara herself singing it? Or did they just have the agency brew up the jingle from her song? 'Would be really cool if it really is her...
She actually sang it, according to my father.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has apparently been in an Apple Ad (in 1985) too
Originally posted by Brad
"We are Apple, Leading the Way"
OH. MY. GOD.
Brilliant! Classic! Beautiful!
It sounds like you could whip up a fresh copy in GarageBand pretty quickly, too.
(Sorry for the editorial comments! )
I couldn't make out "Show your colors now" for hours.
Apple logo. Rainbow. Show your...nevermind.
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We Are Apple:
First, there was nothing,
but the hope of a dream,
that burned in your soul,
'til it craved to be free!
But now look around...
for the dream touched the world.
In a flash how it changed,
all our lives!
We are Apple!
Leading the way!
We are Apple!
And we're making a better today!
What a feelin'!
And we've only begun,
in believin'
that tomorrow's much brighter,
'cause Apple is leading the way!
[agonizing keyboard bridge]
[modulate excruciatingly beyond human hearing range]
And now look ahead,
to the dreams yet to come,
lifting our goals to the sky!
We are Apple!
Leading the way!
We are Apple!
And we're making a better today!
What a feelin'!
And we've only begun,
in believin',
that tomorrow's much brighter,
'cause Apple is leading the way!
Leading the way!
[Yet more keyboards; handclaps]
Apple! (Show your colors now!)
Leading the way!
Apple! (We can have it all!)
And we're making life better today!
What a feeling!
And we've only begun,
in believin',
that tomorrow's much brighter,
'cause Apple is leading the way!
Apple! (Keep believin'!)
Ooh-ooh-Apple! (Show your colors now!)
ah-ah-ah-Apple! (Keep on dreaming!)
ah-ah-ah-ah-Apple! (We can have it all!)
[lame guitar slide]
Leading the way!
[modulate up - hey, why not?]
Leading the way!
We're Apple! (All together now!)
[modulate down - "because we can"]
Apple!
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