There are 4 stereo channels each with 2 tracks.
“The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8 commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the Compact Cassette tape, which predated 8-track, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music. It is such an analog system that cannot be imagined from today’s technology, but it was understood in Hawaii. You had to prepare lyrics for the next song before playing it with a resume button. Since there is no video, there are no lyrics either. Hachitora was at a bar for about 6 years.Įach cassette includes 4 songs with no video.
I believe the lyrics matched the feelings of people in Hawaii at the time it was often sung enthusiastically at a bar. At first, I thought this was a song from Hawaii but it was a Japanese song. A popular song at a time that I remember is “Kokoni sachi ari” by Yoshiko Otsu. However, as some Japanese and Okinawans started to sing, others started to get into it as well. Yes, Toma was the first company to bring karaoke to the United States!! Back then, singing at the bar was rare and so was karaoke. Us, Tome Enterprise ordered this and brought it to a Japanese bar. The first karaoke brought to Hawaii 40 years ago was this hachitora. Likewise, karaoke is evolving every day and I would like to introduce some karaoke history as well as the beginning of TOMA. Recently, there are live concert videos or music videos from an artist as a background. When I told one of my employees in his twenties that karaoke used to be a ” hachitora (8 track tape),” he did not know what it is.
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