[78-L] John Charles Thomas - final recordings (1949)

[Michael Biel]

From: "Thomas Stern" <sternth at attglobal.net>
> The broadcast material listed in the J David Goldin collection is catalogued here:
> http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p4.cgi?ArtistName=Thomas,%20John%20Charles&ArtistNumber=22112
> The WORD material could have been drawn from transcriptions, particularly
> given the large number of songe, but Goldin does not list much for 1949.

This listing shows absolutely nothing appropriate to the Word recordings
which is strictly religious hymns. His role on the Family Theater
programs seems to be a speaking host role for this mainly dramatic
series.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 


-----Original Message-----
From:  Michael Biel
>> NBC and Thesaurus never cut discs center start.
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 


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From: "Jamie Kelly" <otrjamie at gmail.com>
>>> I have some Australian pressings of some 15 minute shows with organ
>>> acc. Content mainly of a religious nature. They sound like direct
>>> copies from the stampers and not dubs from disc. There were at least
>>> 26 episodes in the series. I'm farely sure with out pulling a disc
>>> out that they are inside start.

From: David Lennick
>>>> Weren't there several 16" transcriptions of these hymns,
>>>> from which Word could have derived this material? "NBC
>>>> Studios" can mean anything, including Thesaurus. dl

From: sternth at attglobal.net
>>>>> Were any of these released in any format OTHER THAN the
>>>>> 2 LP's issued by WORD (Waco, TX)?? Does anyone know WHERE
>>>>> they were recorded - the liner indicates the recordings
>>>>> were at the "NBC Studio" when the transfers for the LP's
>>>>> were done. The LP annotations by Ken Darby indicate "over
>>>>> 250 hymns" were recorded. Have those masters been preserved? 
 
> Word W-3276-LP
> Word WST-8153-LP "Stereophonic"
> This I Leave You...with affection
> 
> Word W-3320-LP
> Word WST-8320-LP "Dual Channel"
> Favorite hymns of John Charles Thomas