[78-L] Radio-influenced recordings

[simmonssomer]

How about "There's Something In The Air" (BBC and other Brits)) ..and I 
don't think they were talking about gaseous emittances.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> Through the Courtesy of Love,  1936,  has a radio theme....the melody was
> stolen almost note-for-note when it became Jackie Gleason's theme 
> Melancholy
> Serenade.
>
> There is a brilliant Richard Himber record of it on Victor.  I know Bill
> Challis was writing for Himber in that period,  and I wonder if it's his
> arrangement.  It is terrific.
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
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>
>> "I Wish There Was A Wireless To Heaven" - Irving Kaufman
>> (note:  Early radio was sometimes referred to as the "wireless
>> telephone.")
>>
>> Bud
>>
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Julian Vein
>> Date: 12/10/2009 1:32:38 AM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Radio-influenced recordings
>>
>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
>>>>> David Lennick wrote:
>>>>>> Tommy Dorsey recorded The Whistler's theme. Don't know if this is the
>>>>>> direction
>>>>>> we were looking for. Back in the 20s and 30s there were songs like
>> Kiss
>>>>>> Me By
>>>>>> Wireless", "Turn Your Radio On", and Flotsam & Jetsam's "Little Betty
>>>>>> Bouncer"
>>>>>> (who loved an announcer).
>>>>> Who can forget "Static Strut"?
>>>>> Sylvester Ahola with Paul Specht, 1926.
>>>> And one of my faves, Fletcher Henderson's "Radio Rhythm".
>>>>
>>> And the one that may have started the whole thing..."Mr. Radio Man!"
>>>
>>> As well, we have "Twisting the Dials" (Victor)..."Turning the Dials"
>>> (ARC,
>>> IIRC)...
>>> and there was a similar side on (IIRC) Cameo, which MAY have been
>> Listening
>>> In On Ruby Norton?!"
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>> Alec Templeton's "Man With New Radio".
>>
>>      Julian Vein
>>
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