Julie Andrews Here's some more "tape lore", if lore is the word I want. The Ampex 456 1" tape reel in center is labelled "MT HH Reel 2". "Reel 2" is self-explanatory, and "MT" obviously = "MT(X)." But what the heck is "HH"? Well, it's lucky I am the archivist, because I'm not sure anyone would know this but me. When we would start a new project, our producer-engineer Kevin Army would always ask for a title, and usually there wasn't one yet. So I would just say whatever popped into my head, and in this case what popped into my head was: "Henrietta Hippo." i.e. "HH." This often became a kind of "code name" for the project, till the real title could be assigned, which was usually long after recording. And the record that wound up being cut from the Henrietta Hippo tapes was the 1989 Rough Trade US 12" e.p. Big Black Bugs Bleed Blue Blood. Outside of MTX archival lore, in case you don't know (and many don't, I assume) Henrietta Hippo was a character from the 70s kids' TV show The New Zoo Revue. You can see her here: https://youtu.be/dwJQ6G7Z_II I worked out an arrangement of this theme song for my pre-MTX band to play, by the way, but I don't think it ever got far enough to be actually played. Anyway, it occurs to me that some our tape archive problems could stem from this premature give-the-tape-a-humorous-temporary-name practice. I was thinking of this today because Stanley Donen died, and he directed Bedazzled, one of my favorite films. In it Peter Cook plays the Devil, who gives Dudley Moore's character a series of ill-fated wishes when he says the magic words: "Julie Andrews." I guess I'd seen that movie shortly before we began to record what became Our Bodies Our Selves, because when Kevin asked me what to call this project that's what I said. He duly wrote "Julie Andrews" on the tape, I remember him doing it. Now, only one of these reels survives -- as I've mentioned before, I believe it is labelled only "MTX 6/93 album #6" with no other...