[78-L] Records of old phone conversations

[Rockined1]

 There is one recording of a phone conversation between Buddy Holly and Paul Cohen of Decca records. He is  asking to be able to rerecord some unissued songs [ That'll Be The Day was one of them]. he was told he could not. Buddy then basically berated Decca for not pushing his music [of course we all know what happened six months later--and that is why his Brunswick records are credited to just the Crickets.



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







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From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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> The wedding recordings are in need of weeding out, but are the telephone
 conversations worthy of conversion?

      Julian Vein

 may have posted about this before,  but for me some of the most 
ascinating material in the gigantic Rudy Vallee archive held at the 
housand Oaks Public Library are the tapes Vallee secretly made in the early 
0s after tapping the telephone conversations of his wife (whom he suspected 
f two-timing).
There was something riveting about hearing the long-ago voices of ordinary 
eople talking about ordinary things...not like on a radio broadcast or a 
n a movie,  but in "real life."
We have so much material on record from the last hundred years,  but there 
s really very little of it which recorded people just talking and having an 
rdinary conversation,  with no idea at all that their conversation was 
eing saved for posterity.
I don't know how old the phone conversations are in the Savory collection, 
ut I'd be inclined to save them anyway.

aylor

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