[78-L] Fw: Thesaurus Transcription Library

[GENE JOSLIN]

Hi Mark:

The wild tracks must have been toward the end.

The service apparently was scratching for a living after the demand for transcribed music libraries disappeared.

I lost contact with Thesaurus' closing days, but knew they had gotten into transcribed ad gimmicks on the 16-inch disks at one point.

Thanks for theword, Gene


--- On Mon, 3/9/09, Mark Durnberger <Mark4 at durenberger.com> wrote:

> From: Mark Durnberger <Mark4 at durenberger.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fw: Thesaurus Transcription Library
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 10:51 AM
> RCA(?) Thesaurus(?) also provided a series of
> 'wild-tracks'.  These were 
> open-ended funny liners, starring mythical characters who
> could appear in 
> disc jockeys shows...the jock would carry on a conversation
> with them.  The 
> series was distributed on 45s...I still have some of
> them...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mark Durenberger
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "GENE JOSLIN" <electrodeon at yahoo.com>
> To: <78-l at 78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 10:47 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Fw: Thesaurus Transcription Library
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- On Mon, 3/9/09, GENE JOSLIN
> <electrodeon at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From: GENE JOSLIN <electrodeon at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Thesaurus Transcription Library
> >> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> >> Date: Monday, March 9, 2009, 10:33 AM
> >> Can anyone provide information about the NBC
> Thesaurus
> >> transcription library service?
> >>
> >> Like the others it disappeared in the early
> 50's when
> >> Lp's appeared.
> >>
> >> Though Thesaurus was a musical force for twenty
> years,
> >> there is little documentation about this massive
> NBC
> >> division whose transcription disks provided radio
> >> broadcasting with music programming of quality and
> variety.
> >>
> >> Recording was likely in the old NBC radio studios
> at Radio
> >> City, but there is little trace of how things were
> done.
> >>
> >> One thing Thesaurus provided was lush radio music,
> most
> >> notably by the Allen Roth Orchestra, yet there is
> scant
> >> historical mention of Allen Roth other that he was
> >> originally from St. Louis, that he later provided
> music for
> >> the Milton Berle show at the outset of television,
> and that
> >> he died in 1972 at the age of 68.
> >>
> >> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> - Gene Joslin
> >
> >
> >
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