[78-L] November 9, 1921

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/22/2010 7:40 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
> I found a rare playlist,
> of the songs played on greater Boston's first station, 1XE (later
> known as WGI) on November 9, 1921.  Since there was no audiotape back
> then, I find these sorts of artifacts very helpful in letting me know
> what phonograph records were actually played on radio during those
> formative years.

But there WERE recording machines capable of recording broadcasts on 
cylinder and disc.  I have a cylinder box here (no cylinder 
unfortunately) of portions of a WGY broadcast that was recorded in Cape 
Town South Africa and sent to WGY sometime in the early 20s.  There are 
recordings that Western Electric recorded of WEAF programs as early as 
1923, and I know of other experimenters using radio as source for 
recordings as early as 1921.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com