[78-L] Jack Benny ETs

[Michael Biel]

joe at salerno.com wrote:
> Sammy,
>
> I don't know the answer to the question, but I am wondering if a 
> recording made with intent to use for a time shift would have been 
> overlapped - which would make it more difficult to que on the re-bcast.
>
> joe salerno
>
>
>   
 
To the contrary.  The way I do an overlap is to find a word to start it 
in cue when I hear it on the one on the air, and then I speed up 
momentarily stop the second disc until they are in sync, and when I hear 
the second one sounding better than the first one I crossface to the 
second disc. 

This seems to be a typical way they recorded in LA for rebroadcast.  I 
have a couple Art Linkletter House Party programs recorded this way, 
probably by Radio Recorders.  Those were TV soundtracks used for radio 
airing right after the TV show.  I had thought that in this case since 
the radio airing was right after the TV program, perhaps it would take 
too long to get from Radio Recorders to CBS and they had to do the discs 
in ten minute pieces since it took perhaps 17 minutes to get there.  
That would require three runners getting the program there and that was 
a rather dumb way to do it!!!

And to Sammy.  S1 and S2 cannot mean Side One and Side Two because the 
third side is also noted as S1.  It is probably a notation of which 
lathe the side was cut on, such as Scully 1 and Scully 2.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> Sammy Jones wrote:
>   
>> I posted this over on the ARSC List, but got little response.  Maybe
>> somebody here can help...
>>
>> In a recent internet auction I won a set of lacquer ETs of a Jack Benny
>> Program from November 7, 1948.  There were several episodes for sale, but I
>> only won one.  The discs have KFI/Earl C. Anthony labels, and the episode is
>> broken up into three parts that overlap with each other.  
>>
>> I don't think these are NBC reference recordings or recordings for Benny or
>> the sponsor because they have KFI labels.  As I understand it, KFI was not
>> owned by NBC, so would not be in the business of recording shows for NBC.
>>
>> Ken Greenwald of Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters mentioned some time back that
>> KFI would record the Benny show off the line and play it back for late-night
>> broadcast in Los Angeles.  Are these discs the result of that practice?
>> Would a separate set of recordings have been made by Radio Recorders for
>> Jack's personal archive and perhaps American Tobacco's files?
>>
>> Here are the matrix numbers:
>>
>> Part 1 - 02662 F S1 p
>> Part 2 - 02662 F S2 p
>> Part 3 - 02662 F S1 p (part 3 is on the reverse of part 1)
>>
>> Can anybody decode what these matrix numbers mean?  I assume "S1" and "S2"
>> refer to sides 1 and 2.
>>
>> Finally, was the network repeat Benny show being played from ET or still
>> performed live at this point?
>>
>> Sammy Jones
>>
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