[78-L] earliest recorded fon call Hello Hawaii How Are You!

[Michael Biel]

Bud Black wrote:
> "I Wish There Was A Wireless To Heaven" - (1922) Irving Kaufman
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> Bud 
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There are at least 20 songs about radio in the early 20s and I did an 
ARSC presentation about them maybe 20 years ago.  I was about to do an 
LP of them for Mark 56 Records when George Garabedian died suddenly and 
the label was no more.   I've proposed doing it for Archeophone, along 
with another one with about 20 comedy routines about radio.  I've got 
copies of just about all of them.
>  
> From: Bob Rice
> But was there ANY "Wireless Telephone" back then , even fron NYC to
> Hackensack?I didn't think Western Electric was that far along? 

"Wireless Telephone" was the technical description of ANY transmission 
of audio by radio, not just making a private "telephone call" from one 
person to another person.  The official technical description of ANY use 
of Morse code by radio was "Wireless Telegraph".  What the song was 
actually discussing was
> Hell, it took
> til 1925 for electrical recordings?

Only for commercial releases using electrical processes.  Edison had 
experimented with it in 1878, Guest and Merriman released one example in 
1920 pressed by English Columbia, Victor, HMV, Brunswick, and just about 
everybody else was experimenting with it between 1921 and 24. 

> Maybe there WAS a radio line to Hawaii?
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The song was also referring to the possibility of a ham operator or 
broadcaster doing it as well as a private phone call.
> It's fun to collect the records that trace technology. This is what makes
> old records so much fun?   Seeya    Bob
>   

Yeah, just about every technical development in that era got mentioned 
in a song or comedy routine.  Cars, planes, trains, jitney busses, 
electric lights, bicycles, snapshot cameras, computers . . .  
COMPUTERS?????   OK, I lied. 

Mike (well, they COULD have) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> From: <PHONOGUY at aol.com>
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>> "In a message dated 12/10/2008 7:11:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>> malcolm at 78data.com writes:
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>> Interesting. The first Trans-Pacific cable to Hawaii was laid and became
>> operational on Dec. 28, 1901, but only for telegraph communications. On
>> Nov. 2, 1931 radio-telephones connected the major islands of Hawaii and
>> also the mainland. In Oct. 1957 a new phone cable was completed between
>> Hawaii and the mainland.
>> However, I have no idea when the first acoustic telephone call was made
>> from Hawaii to the West Coast. I think the "Hello Hawaii, How Are You?"
>> lyrics may have been wishful thinking on the writers part!""
>> Yes. I have several recordings of it. Some are just the tune..Pietro on
>> Columbia with his acordian. I also have the sheet music for it somewhere.
>> It
>> speaks of Capt. Jinks one night on Broadway, all alone...read the news
>> about the
>> wireless telephone!.  His girl was in Hawaii and finally he asks her to
>> "give me
>> a kiss, give me a kiss.. by wireless". Ahhh   romance :):):) Thanks Henry