cassette

It was made by a company called Kidselebration that in 1986 made “personalized” cassette tapes like these for a whole boatload of names.

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

As a child I was once gifted a “custom” cassette tape with songs “written for me.”

From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026

"Dad labelled everything, recorded everything and backed it all up to cassette, over and over," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

The more he listens to the cassette, the more he likes what he hears and the more his spirits rise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

All I had with me were the clothes I wore, a few photographs, my official immigration papers, and fourteen cassette tapes.

From "Lost Boy, Lost Girl" by John Bul Dau

Cody couldn’t get enough of the goings-on at the station when the two would stop by to drop off cassettes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Somewhere in the bowels of my music collection hides 1985’s George Clinton-produced “Freaky Styley” and 1987’s “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” on crumbling cassettes.

From Salon ● Apr. 4, 2026

Director Spike Lee, with wife Tonya Lewis Lee, showed his distinctive style with a suit featuring a purple fedora hat and matching bow tie, and a bag made of silver cassettes.

From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2026

He’s just old enough to remember cassettes as a child: “My mom had books on tape like ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ but I wasn’t out buying tapes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026

I had never felt the companionship I felt sitting next to her, listening to her Fela and Onyeka cassettes on the tiny tape-player-radio, which she had put batteries into.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie