[78-L] ADB & ET

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Since many discographies do not list transcriptions among their subject 
matter (mine included) let's go a little further out on that branch. 
Would a serious transcription discog include material recorded on disc 
privately (at home or on a personal disc cutting unit) off the air?
Lots of people did this in the 1940s and 50s, and maybe earlier, and I'm 
sure there are re-recordings of not only on-air broadcast transcriptions 
but many one of a kind live performances. While not technically 
commercial transcriptions would they merit inclusion or not?

Then there's the Hawaiian Transcriptions label. Probably the first use 
of the then new disc cutting technology in Hawaii - from c. 1934 until 
around the start of WW2 - HT was owned jointly by the Advertiser 
newspaper chain and KGU radio.
The story goes that the radio station got so many requests for music 
they heard over KGU that the company was started to supply the demand. 
The studio was located on the top of the Advertiser newspaper building 
in Honolulu.
While not a true transcription service - the artists that played live on 
air were rerecorded doing the same material they aired to be sold, the 
material was not recorded off air and pressed from that source - I 
believe they did supply masters, recorded live over telephone lines, to 
Hawaiian transcription services for sale to the US mainland markets.
Curiouser and curiouser.
Mal

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Birgit Lotz Verlag wrote:
> Post scriptum:
> I just remember: The first catalog of World Transcriptions (1933-1963) 
> was compiled by David Kressley in Record Research way back in 1968 ...
> There is so much information around ready to be tapped.
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