From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1888 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, December 19 2016 Volume 16 : Number 1888 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Private message regarding: Happy Gift Project anniversary [Kerry Whi] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:30:44 -0600 From: Kerry White Subject: Fwd: Private message regarding: Happy Gift Project anniversary Hi, I know someone here, maybe even beside Woj, will have this and can help. - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Date: Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:50 AM Subject: Private message regarding: Happy Gift Project anniversary To: kerrywht12@gmail.com Hi Kerry, I saw your post about the Happy Gift Project tapes, and wondered if you have the Happy Gift Project 1991? I am looking for the 10,000 Maniacs cover of "Goodbye" by Mary Hopkins and I think it's on that tape. If so, would you be willing to share this with me? Thanks! Jennifer On Monday, January 5, 2015 at 12:56:38 PM UTC-5, Kerry White wrote: > > 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 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1888 ****************************