[78-L] First LP

[David Breneman]

--- On Fri, 6/25/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> "Hear It Now" debuted in December 1950. Why would anyone
> even think of using wire at that point, other than revival
> productions of Death Of A Salesman? There was no second
> season. It went to TV the following November. And the
> records inspired the radio show, according to John Dunning
> (Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio).

Well, perhaps I'm parroting an urban legend.  But I have
read in several sources that "Hear it Now" was a landmark
show *in that* it was the first to be "edited" in the modern
sense of the word, and that the medium on which it was
edited was wire.  I must admit that a quick web search
produces as its most prominent result merely the entry
from Wikipedia under "Wire Recording": "The first regularly
scheduled network radio program produced and edited on
wire was CBS' 'Hear it Now' with Edward R Murrow."
All I can say is that I've been aware of this story for
at least 20 years, so if it is a lie, it is a durable one.

I apologize for quoting a "Bing Crosby invented the tape
recorder" fallacy.