[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Aug 4 08:11:41 PDT 2010


That was taken off a radio feed, something which was being done as early as 1923 (or earlier..?).

dl


 
> From: banjobud at cfl.rr.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:09:30 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Portable recordings facilities
> 
> How about Victor's recording of Lindberg's return home, narrated by Graham 
> McNamee?
> 
> Bud
> 
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> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 2:52 AM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Portable recordings facilities
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> > On 8/4/2010 2:06 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> >> From: "Michael Biel"<mbiel at mbiel.com>
> >>> On 8/4/2010 1:40 AM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> >>>> From: "Hans en Corrie"<koerthchkz at zeelandnet.nl>
> >>>>> Did portable recording facilities exist in 1930? If so, what record
> >>>>> companies used it?
> >>>>>
> >>>> Apparently Okeh was the first company to use "portable" on-site
> >>>> recording equipment; IIRC they started acoustically around
> >>>> 1922-23.
> >>>> Steven C. Barr
> >>> Are you kidding???? There had been traveling recording sessions all
> >>> over Europe and Asia going back to 1902 if not earlier.
> >>>
> >> Nope...not kidding...just referring to North America...!
> >>
> >> Steven C. Barr
> >
> > While that stipulation had not been given, you are still quite wrong. A
> > notable example of remote recordings by several companies in 1908 were
> > the presidental candidate recordings. Edison and Victor recorded Bryon
> > in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Taft was recorded in Hot Springs, Virginia by
> > Columbia, Victor, and Edison. Columbia traveled to Mexico City in 1904
> > and perhaps Cuba in 1906. Victor also recorded in Cuba I believe.
> >
> > Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> >
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