[78-L] a set of Victor PRogram transcriptions

[David Lennick]

Anyone have the link to the ARSC Journal online? I have parts 1 & 3 of the 
"Victor pre-LP LPs" listings but this set must be in part 2. (The final 
instalment, not numbered, is in Vol. XV #1, 1983 and my part 1 is a photocopy.)

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Michael Biel wrote:
> Jimmy Wallington was a famous early radio announcer. This is probably a
> early experiment in talking books for the blind because I don't think
> this ever showed up in Victor catalogs. Listening to the recording, is
> is read very fast with only a minimum of expression, which is typical of
> readings for the blind.  By 1935 the Library of Congress talking book
> program was underway, and the examples I have use the Program
> Transcription system of speed and grooving.  One of the discs I have is
> the instructions for the player on one side (read by Alwyn Bach) and a
> message from an FDR cabinet member about the establishment of this
> service for the blind.  The numbering is the Victor matrix number but it
> is on LC labels.
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   -------- Original Message --------
>  Subject: [78-L] a set of Victor PRogram transcriptions
>  From: "neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com" <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
>  Date: Tue, November 10, 2009 1:12 pm
>  To: 78-l <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>  
>  I never knew such things existed....a 4 hour reading on 20 10" sides.
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