[78-L] First LP

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. bratcher at pdq.net
Fri Jun 25 17:31:43 PDT 2010


At 06:18 PM 6/25/2010, you wrote:

>I Can Hear It Now Vol. 2 was released on 78s..I have it (in one of 
>those "let's prove it exists" situations). Don't know about Volume 
>3. Tape was definitely used for Volume 1. The radio program of 
>similar name didn't come along until 1950.
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>Good night and good luck.
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>dl

Maybe I'll find volume 2 on 78's some day as you did.

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> > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:04:42 -0500
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > From: bratcher at pdq.net
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] First LP
> >
> > At 02:19 PM 6/25/2010, you wrote:
> > >On Fri, 6/25/10, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > David Lennick wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I wonder how they got around this when
> > > > > transferring parts of a continuous work? Mark a start point
> > > > > at the edge and count the number of revolutions and hope you
> > > > > got it right?
> > > > >
> > > > And yet the AFRS did some amazing editing disc to disc.
> > > > Like removing a single word or small group of words from
> > > > an announcer's sentence without dropping out. Not as good
> > > > as tape naturally, and not un-noticeable, but really good,
> > > > given the limitations.
> > >
> > >I've seen some pictures of dubbing setups with as many as
> > >four turntables, some of which could be locked together;
> > >multiple tone arms on each turntable, some of which could
> > >access turntables on either side of them; revolution
> > >counters; micrometers and all sorts of other paraphernalia.
> > >I think a lot of this got its start in the Vitaphone days.
> > >It must have been quite an art to put together a program
> > >that way. No wonder CBS jumped at the opportunity to use
> > >wire recording on "Hear it Now."
> >
> > I thought CBS used tape for the Hear It Now series of records? Oh &
> > was anything beyond volume 1 released on 78's?




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