From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1312 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, January 8 2015 Volume 16 : Number 1312 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Happy Gift Project anniversary [Marion Kippers Subject: Re: Happy Gift Project anniversary Yes, thanks for the memory Mitch! I also still have various HGP and HBP tapes lying around somewhere... Best wishes, and happy New Year! Marion 2015-01-05 18:51 GMT+01:00 Kerry White : > I have most of the tapes and not nearly enough song titles and artists. I > was once in the process of making a best of tape. Not too sure where that > is now. Thanks for the memory. > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Mitch Pravatiner < > mitch.pravatiner@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It being the proverbial 12th Day of Christmas today, I believe it's still >> timely to observe an anniversary, probably long-forgotten by now, but still >> significant in the history of the Ecto community: this holiday season >> marked the 23rd anniversary of the first Happy Gift Project. >> >> The HGP was conceived in 1991 as a Christmas gift from the Ecto community >> to Happy, and secondarily to the community itself. Ectophiles would send >> in musical selections, which could be either recorded, or original >> performances. These were compiled into a tape which was sent on to Happy, >> and dubbed onto the cassettes on which contributors sent their musical >> selections, which were then returned to them. A couple of years later, the >> concept was expanded to a companion effort, the Happy Birthday Project, >> those tapes being sent to Happy for her birthday in August, and similarly >> shared among the contributors. >> >> The annual editions of the HGP and HBP continued almost to the end of the >> decade. During that time, Ectophiles shared a lot of great music with Happy >> and with each other. I remember them fondly. >> >> Mitch - -- Marion Kippers Marion.Kippers@gmail.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1312 ****************************