Sniff ‘N’ the Drivers Seat on the Cassette Classic

Scratch and Sniff from the 70s on today's Cassette Classic.

The first cassette I made after I got my first radio job was epic. The station itself was still new to the Light Rock format. It had changed from a harder rock station, but they still had all the songs from that time.

I walked into the back room with the transmitters in it, and found a couple of boxes full of all the old music. I didn’t go on the air until midnight, but I would come in at 8pm and just sit in the production room copying all this music onto my cassettes.

The next Cassette Classic came from that time. I’d never heard of it, but the band’s name grabbed my attention. I mean you have to listen to a band, at least once, with the name Sniff ‘N’ the Tears. What the heck is that? Then hearing the first few seconds of “Drivers Seat”, and I was hooked.

I always got this weird image in my head. I’d combine the group name and the song name and suddenly I’m Sniff ‘N’ the Drivers Seat. It always made me laugh. On the cassette it went. I still turn it up when it comes on. It came out in 1979, but it still holds up today.