Format: GS Binary

Type: Full length song, digitized Oversampler format

Title: Because It's Christmas (For All the Children)

by Barry Manilow

Player: Oversampler (included)

Memory (RAM) required: 1 to 1.5MB (enough to boot GS/OS and load the 16K
Oversampler player.)

Highly recommended: A good set of external powered stereo speakers or a stereo
system connected to the headphone jack.


To commemorate the Christmas season, here is a full length Oversampler format
digitized song from Barry Manilow's Christmas alblum.  It starts off with an
excerpt from Handel's Messiah

("For unto us a child is born...") and goes into Barry Manilow's own theme song
for the alblum about the meaning of Christmas for all the children.  This very
moving and haunting song is perfect to play on the GS, with the fireplace lit
and the children or grandchildren next to the tree.

For GS music enthusiasts who downloaded my previously uploaded digitized songs,
you are in for a treat.  I discovered that my tape deck's heads were degrading
and causing a loss of fidelity in the treble range, so I installed a new one.
This song was recorded into the GS on this brand new, high quality tape deck
with the best Maxell chromium oxide high position cassette tape (gold label).

No expense was spared to make this Christmas song recording the highest quality.
You will be impressed with crisp and clear notes in the higher frequencies. This
is CD quality material, with extremely low noise and high signal across the full
audio spectrum.  The violins and pianos are just superb.

Take a look at this file and judge for yourself.  Again, you do not need much
RAM because Oversampler format is a streaming format and the song plays as it
loads from disk.  Also, use the oversampling feature to maximize playback
quality.  The faster your hard drive, the faster this feature can go and the
higher quality the playback will be.  Any hard drive should be fast enough to
stream the sample (but don't try to play the song off a server volume, which is
too slow to keep up with the playback rate).  Grab this song and listen to the
best music the GS is capable of.  You'll swear you were listening to a CD.