Museum object · Time-based Media - Audio
Soft and Wet
1977
Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A reel-to-reel master demo tape of "Soft and Wet" with original Sound 80 box recorded in the summer of 1977 at the Minneapolis studio Sound 80. The tape (a) is on a plastic reel (c) and contained in a black Sound 80 box (b). The tape is black and holds the recording of the song. The black Scotch reel (b) is taped in several places. Text on a piece of masking tape near one edge of the reel has [1/2 Trk / Soft & Wet] handwritten on it in blue ink. The front cover of the Sound 80 box is black and has [SOUND80] repeated on it in pink and blue letters. The back cover is white and has [1/2 Trk / Soft & Wet] handwritten on it. At the beginning of the recording, someone can be heard saying, "One, two, three" before the beat begins.
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Catalog reference: 2019.5.1.1abc
