[78-L] Glass Base 78s

[78records at cdbpdx.com]

I posted these Radio Recorder records on YouTube.  View one of them here:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMQU1L1N4Bk
 
 
Here is another YT posting showing a record that came with this group, this one recorded on a vinyl(?) MUSIC CITY blank:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYsCf1r-HJg
 
Rare or common? 
 
Thanks!  CDB

--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:


From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Glass Based 78s
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 4:03 PM


> >They only had a single song on each side with some commentary
> > by the DJ, Orson Welles.

DJ ORSON WELLES?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Tell me more!  Orson Welles was not
a DJ, he was one of the most famous and notable actors of the 20th
Century.  If this is from an unknown broadcast of Welles this might be
big news, but from the description so far, I think these might be
sections of a program about music that he narrated.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


78records at cdbpdx.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the info! 
> > There were a couple Presto Glass Base blanks with the Barbary Coast Orch
> > recordings. All comes together now. View here:
> > http://78records.cdbpdx.com/BCO/tn-800_PRESTOGLASSBASERECORDDISC-Label.JPG

>>> "...Radio Recorders was a major Los Angeles studio that did ALL the
>>> recording for CBS on the West Coast and usually had bright yellow labels."

> > Your description is right on the money. Why and how were these made?
> > Pressed from a master or cut 'live'? Were they transcriptions sent
> > out to other radio stations? They only had a single song on each
> > side with some commentary by the DJ, Orson Welles. 
> 
> > Thanks for enlightening me. This is really cool! CDB


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