[78-L] Records of old phone conversations

[Taylor Bowie]

> The wedding recordings are in need of weeding out, but are the telephone
> conversations worthy of conversion?
>
>      Julian Vein


I may have posted about this before,  but for me some of the most 
fascinating material in the gigantic Rudy Vallee archive held at the 
Thousand Oaks Public Library are the tapes Vallee secretly made in the early 
30s after tapping the telephone conversations of his wife (whom he suspected 
of two-timing).

There was something riveting about hearing the long-ago voices of ordinary 
people talking about ordinary things...not like on a radio broadcast or a 
in a movie,  but in "real life."

We have so much material on record from the last hundred years,  but there 
is really very little of it which recorded people just talking and having an 
ordinary conversation,  with no idea at all that their conversation was 
being saved for posterity.

I don't know how old the phone conversations are in the Savory collection, 
but I'd be inclined to save them anyway.


Taylor