Weetabix Top Trax: Dunk's Cassette

I think this was the first one in the Top Trax series (I could be wrong) but each tape was named after one of the Weetagang (the Weetabix characters) and one of theme was called Duncan (Dunk for short), and hence, shared the same name with me, this tape had the following songs on it:

• Thompson Twins - Doctor Doctor

• Tears For Fears - Shout

• Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

• Kirsty McColl - There's A Guy Work's Down The Chipshop Swears He's Elvis

Now, all four of those songs are classics, total bangers, and these are still firm favourites of mine, I love these songs, and recently (in 2026), I've managed to acquire this tape again via the magic of ebay, to relive those memories

This was the first cassette tape of my own that I ever owned, and what a start to my music collection.

Classic Rock: Performed by The London Symphony Orchestra (a BP Promo tape)

What a combination, some Rock music classics performed in a Classical Music style by the London Symphony Orchestra.

I really liked this tape and played it quite a lot. There's some well known ones on here, and some I that were not so well know, but we've got:

• Fanfare Intro / Rhapsody In Black

• Reach Out, I'll Be There

• Chariots Of Fire

• Bohemian Rhapsody

• Baker Street

• For Your Love

• American Trilogy

• Layla

and most of these were brilliant - I still have this tape now as well, and sometimes like to put this on.

Hits Hits Hits (another BP Promo tape)

What can I say? This is pop-tastic, all really good 80s pop songs, and all songs I really enjoy, even now. I also still have this tape, so let's take a look at what we have on it:

• Billy Ocean - Get Out Of My Dreams (Get In To My Car)

• Eddie Grant - Gimme Hope, Joanna

• Beatmasters (feat. The Cookie Crew) - Rock Da House

• Erasure - Victim Of Love

• Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky

• Jellybean - Jingo

• The Fatback Band - I Found Lovin

• The Proclaimers - Letter To America

Yet again, all really good songs and most of which are firm favourites of mine. I still love these songs now, they're timeless classics, and this tape is still in my collection and still plays perfectly.

The 60s Volume 1 (a Mobil promo tape)

Quite a mixed bag for me really, but, I did enjoy most of this tape, it did get quite a bit of play, but unfortunately, I have no idea where this one went, it seems to have gone missing (but I'm on the lookout for it again) - here's the songs that featured on the tape:

• The Kinks - Dedicated Follower Of Fashion

• The Small Faces - Itchycoo Park

• P J Proby - Somewhere

• Marmalade - Ob-la-di Ob-la-da

• The Searchers - Sweets For My Sweet

• The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again

• Gary Pickett & The Union Gap - Young Girl

• Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames - Yeh Yeh

I really didn't like the P J Proby song, but the others were alright. Overall a good tape, even though the songs on it were from a time way before I was born. This might be a better tape for you if you were around when these songs were current.

I think the reason I ended up with this tape was because my parents had it twice, so I ended up with the duplicate.

The 80s Volume 1 (another Mobil promo)

Now, like the above tape, I lost this one at some point, but I have managed to re-acquire this one via ebay and have it my collection again now. This was one of my first tapes that I owned too, I think I owned this before the BP ones and the 60s one, as I remember having this when I had my little Philips mono radio/cassette deck (before I got my double-deck ghetto blaster) - anyway, let's have a look at the track listing:

• Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough (The Tough Gets Going)

• Spandau Ballet - Gold

• Sinitta - So Macho

• Paul Hardcastle - 19

• Mel & Kim - Respectable

• Go West - We Close Our Eyes

• The Specials - Ghost Town

What can I say? These are all "top tunes" for me, even the cheesy So Macho (yeah, I like it, deal with it) - I played this tape A LOT at the time, and these songs stuck in my head for many years to come, still being on my mind some times.