[78-L] Pile o' 78s

[Sam Brylawski]

Of course it was wrong. BTW, the Library of Congress only has a collection
of AFRTS discs because Ralph J. Gleason learned that a big cache of them was
about to be destroyed in Europe (I forget where) and he wrote to Sen. Robert
Kennedy to alert him to the crisis. Bobby Kennedy wrote to the DoD. They
complained, but complied with his wishes. LC had to sign a contract about
the rights to receive them. Since that time, LC has copied discs for parties
who have rights to them. For instance, the Hank Williams estate for a
Universal set of about 10 years ago. I also know that years ago collectors
had a "club" to go into the Frankfurt AFRS HQ to take discs in their
respective specialities. They had a map(!) of where stuff was and periodic
missions were rotated among them. The good old days.

Sam

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
<bratcher at pdq.net>wrote:

> On 12/18/2008 11:42:48 AM, Sam Brylawski (goodlistening at gmail.com) wrote:
>  > The promise to destroy the discs was a provision of the free services
> and
>  > licenses AFRS obtained from unions and publishers. Such promises enabled
>  > AFM
>  > members to record for AFRS and V discs during the first record ban.
>  >
>  > Sam
>
> Yes but it was still wrong from a historical (as in saving material
> that is now lost) point of view. But then I doubt anyone thought of
> that back then or if a few people did then they were ignored. The
> only reason we have any kind of ET's today is that some people saved
> the discs which is why some still exist today. If they hadn't then
> there wouldn't be any!!
>
>
>  > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
>  > <bratcher at pdq.net>wrote:
>  >
>  > > On 12/18/2008 10:30:06 AM, benno.haeupl at t-online.de wrote:
>  > >  > Mike Biel wrote:
>  > >  > This might be the
>  > >  > result of a purposeful destruction of the ETs as ordered on the
>  > labels.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > --------------
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Indeed. This is exactly what the back yard of AFN Berlin (American
>  > >  > Forces Network) looked like when they piled up the AFRS 16 inchers,
>  > >  > poured gasoline over them and put everything ablaze, about once a
>  > year.
>  > >  > I was about 18 then and worked there as a 'local helper'  for a
> year
>  > or
>  > >  > two,  programming the daily C
>  > >
>  > > Whoever had the idea that ET's should be destroyed needs to have his
>  > > or her head examined. They were crazy!!
>  > >
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