Bobbie Comber - You Can't Do That There Here - Regentone Tape Recorder.

This Regentone Tape Recorder, which I recently bought for £20 at an auction sale, works fairly well. At the end of the video I demonstrate the tape recorder's fast wind and you can see that it needs a bit of a nudge to send it on it's way. I searched on YT for a video of a Regentone Tape Recorder and could not find one so I made this short effort. This tape recorder uses the very common BSR (Birmingham Sound Reproducers) TD2 tape deck which you will find in all kinds of brands of tape recorder including Fidelity, Bush and Elizabethan to name but a few - there are plenty of these on You Tube.
I recorded "You Can't Do That There Here" from You Tube a long time ago but the original video has gone and when I search for this song on YT it cannot be found either with the name of Bobbie Comber or his pseudonym Sammy Gay. So hopefully with this video I can kill two birds with one stone - upload this comedy song and demonstrate the tape recorder. I made this video by pointing the camera at the tape recorder and using the tape recorder's own internal speaker so, for better or worse, you can have that genuine old (decrepit) tape recorder experience.
Bobbie Comber (real name Edmund Comber 1886 - 1942) - actor, comedian and singer of novelty songs. See Wikipedia for further details.

[@anthonygiglio9860]

Great😊

[@SkyOfTheUniverse]

So cool

[@SeboDigital]

Reminds me of "Here Comes the Bogeyman" song.Nice one, indeed! Is This an acetate tape?

[@oldelephantstew]

Standard polyester magnetic recording tape. I inherited two tape recorders and a library of recorded tapes from my late Uncle Harold. His musical tastes and mine don't quite match so I often erase his recordings that I don't want to keep and replace them with a recording of my own. Recordings made by him are as good as the day they were made and furthermore if I erase and make a new recording on the tape it's as good as new even though the tapes are getting on for 60 years old. Uncle Harold died in August 1971. It's a very durable technology. My uncle's tapes have well outlived him and will probably outlive me too. He used to get most of his tapes from a mail order company called "Tele Tape" (distributed by Tape Music Ltd, 11 Redvers Road, London N22) which has long ceased to exist.