Soft and Wet

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A reel-to-reel master demo tape of "Soft and Wet" with original Sound 80 box recorded in the summer of 1977 at the Minneapolis studio Sound 80. The tape (a) is on a plastic reel (c) and contained in a black Sound 80 box (b). The tape is black and holds the recording of the song. The black Scotch reel (b) is taped in several places. Text on a piece of masking tape near one edge of the reel has [1/2 Trk / Soft & Wet] handwritten on it in blue ink. The front cover of the Sound 80 box is black and has [SOUND80] repeated on it in pink and blue letters. The back cover is white and has [1/2 Trk / Soft & Wet] handwritten on it. At the beginning of the recording, someone can be heard saying, "One, two, three" before the beat begins.

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