[78-L] Spy Records

[David Lennick]

I tend not to believe a lot of stuff in that book. What IS told elsewhere is 
that Kosty's Clair de Lune was such a low level recording and that Columbia 
pressings were so shitty at that time that coded messages could be cut into the 
disc by someone leaning down on the pickup and scratching morse code messages 
into the grooves of a disc to be played over the airwaves that particular 
night, giving locations and instructions to allied soldiers but which the 
Germans would think was just typical surface noise. I don't know if that story 
is any more believable.

And have you ever heard of breaking a laminated Columbia record and being able 
to separate the paper components from the shellac?

dl

fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> Geez, next you're going to tell me that my grandad didn't singlehandedly liberate the Phillippines (according to his diary he mostly liberated the lovely ladies of Brisbane of their intimate apparel, a rather sore subject even forty years afterwards in their house).
> 
> The maps in records story was from an author interview with a former Columbia employee. In my experience a great many war stories have been embellished a bit; I was wondering if this was the case here. I suppose so.
> 
> Those old Occams can't compare to the new Gillette nine-blade jobbies.
> 
> --
> Steve.
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: davdieh at aol.com
>>  
>> OK I'm not quite as slow as I look. My point is that these unsupported anecdotes 
>> are very entertaining but there doesn't seem to be any basis in fact. So 
>> Kostelanetz spots Wallerstein at Columbia after hours. Is Wallerstein a G-man or 
>> is he boffing Andre's second viola player? Use Occam's razor to shave that 
>> particular wax cake. I will happily send you some green label Columbias to bash 
>> apart. If you can recover a piece bigger than a Wheat Check of an OSS aircheck, 
>> I bow to your secret decoder ring.
>> All in fun,
>> David Diehl
>>
>>
>>  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> Has anyone on this list ever seen one of these?  
>>
>>> Uh, broken records? Yeah, thousands. 
>> Er, that's not quite what I meant. Ones with secret maps in the middle.
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve
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