[78-L] Non-Transcription OTR on 78 (now Decca K XX)

[don ward]

Im wondering  if the DEcca  "Adventures of the Lone Ranger"  count as radio drama reproduced on 78's?   HEY   drama comes in all varities.......... im still a kid at heart. 
 I have about a dozen of these  10" recreations of the NBC radio series. Produced by Geo Trendle, Allen Campbell and Raymond Maurer.
They are in the Decca K-xx individual and (DUxx) series albums.  Semi flexible "Deccalite", with yellow background labels, others have white background with  yellow highlight under the lower part of the label and still others have white background with bright hot pink under the type on the lower half.
The same records were reissued in Australia  on the  Festival record...  with Decca USA  origin. The sleve art is identical to the  US domestic ones.  They do have different matrix numbers though.
 dnward


-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill McClung <bmcclung at ix.netcom.com>
>Sent: Jul 5, 2009 11:27 AM
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>Subject: Re: [78-L] Non-Transcription OTR on 78 (was Decca Specialty	Series(DAU-x))
>
>Can someone tell me more about "Top Ten."  I have all seven albums.  I have
>it in my head that they were done as some kind of premium and may not have
>been for sale everywhere.
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: 7/5/2009 10:06:15 AM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Non-Transcription OTR on 78 (was Decca Specialty
>Series(DAU-x))
>>
>> There was a series issued in 1947 called "Top Ten", which for some reason
>only 
>> had 7 issues. 4-disc albums, mostly of sketches running 3 to 6 minutes (1
>ran 9 
>> and the Cantor album contained a complete story line). All were recorded
>for 
>> these albums, not taken from broadcasts. Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Edgar 
>> Bergan & Charlie McCarthy, Fibber McGee and Molly, Duffy's Tavern, Eddie
>Cantor 
>> and Burns & Allen. There was a "Breakfast In Hollywood" set which I
>believe DID 
>> use excerpts from broadcasts, there was a "Truth or Consequences" album
>on 
>> Mercury, there were a couple of dramas like Archibald McLeish's "Air
>Raid" and 
>> Corwin's VE Day Salute "On A Note of Triumph" issued by Columbia, there
>was 
>> "The Lonesome Train" on Decca, and Mike Biel will likely step in and add
>to the 
>> list.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> agp wrote:
>> > Thanks everyone for info on the Decca Specialty Series (DAU-x) 
>> > releases. I was particularly interested because of the content as -- 
>> > and it sorta goes hand in hand -- I am an old time radio fan too. 
>> > Being that the records of Sorry Wrong Number are OTR-ish, I was 
>> > interested in finding out if there were similar records issued. I 
>> > know that there is the Fibber McGee and Molly Christmas show album 
>> > (on Capitol) , and some Amos and Andy records on Victor. But I wonder 
>> > what other shows/ episodes proved so popular that albums where made 
>> > of them for the general public. And by that I don't mean the later 
>> > issues on vinyl lps, but rather issued contemporaneously.
>> > 
>> > T
>> > 
>> > 
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