[78-L] Melody and Madness [was Welcome to 2010...?!]

[David Lennick]

At one time, Radio Spirits offered a search service, from a huge list of 
programs. I asked for Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street and a couple 
of other programs..they replied by cancelling the service and either refunding 
or not charging me the five dollar search charge.

Once in a while they forget to excise the comedy from a jazz program. I have 
disc of Norge Kitchen Committee programs, spotlighting Bunny Berigan, but also 
containing sketches by Howard and Shelton, one of which is the precursor of 
Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First".

Did any Audio Rarities/Audio Archives issue ever have liner notes, come to 
think of it? Maybe some did later, when Audio Fidelity was still keeping them 
in print in the 60s.

dl

david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:
>> My copy has no liner notes. (AR)
>> Don
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> Cheapskates! 
> both "Travelogues" have datelines that correspond to broadcasts of the Melody and Madness programs (whose Shaw performances were released on Jazz Guild LP's). Similar "Bounding Broomstick" routines also show up on the Jazz Hour CD. Benchley in fact gets star billing on the program and Dick Todd does one vocal with Shaw. The rest of the Audio Rarities album is probably culled from the same series, of which the first rehearsal was transcribed November 25, 1938. I wonder if Graham Newton could identify the snippet of library music used on "Swing Music"?
> A CD of Benny Carter with the Lower Basin Street crew was released on Nostalgia Arts about 10 years ago, I wonder if Zero makes an appearance there?
> DJD 
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> David Lennick wrote:
>> If the Benchley LP ever had notes, they were on an insert..the cover> has a photo on the front and nothing on the back. 
> Interesting how> jazz items get preserved but variety material is neglected, from the> same programs. 
> Where are Zero Mostel's routines from NBC's Chamber> Music Society of Lower Basin Street? Where are The Revuers> (Bernstein, Comden & Green, Holliday etc) on radio c. 1940? 
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