[78-L] NBC (was: YOU)

[David Lennick]

Two things.

1: I have yet another War of the Worlds, from sixteen-inch Radio Recorders 
discs dubbed in 1949 from a set of twelve-inch lacquers. Sammy and I have 
swapped "Wars" and we don't have the same versions, but mine is also slightly 
longer than the Manny Fox source (and of course also doesn't have that dialog 
overlap between sides 1 & 2).

2: For those who care, "30 Rock" is going LIVE tonight..at 8:30 Eastern and 
then doing a second version for the West Coast. (I say "for those who care" 
because I made a couple of attempts to watch this show and I love Tina Fey but 
this does absolutely nothing for me.)

dl

On 10/14/2010 6:44 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Sammy Jones<sjones69 at bellsouth.net>
>> I recently got a 12" 78 rpm lacquer set of the War of the Worlds that was
>> supposed to have been owned by Orson, himself, and it has that station
>> break intact.
>
> So YOU got that set!!  I saw it listed. I figured it would go for more
> than I could afford so I didn't bid.
>
>> The Harry Smith labels say CBS/WABC, but there is no WABC station ID
>> in the break or at the end, so it must be from the line and not off-air.
>
> CBS did allow line connections because they supposedly didn't have their
> own internal recording service.  Decades ago I heard that Sidney Frey
> had bought the Harry Smith studio and archive, and that this is where he
> got the WOW discs that comprised the Audio Rarities LP in the 50s.  Do
> you have that LP to compare side changes and surface noise?  I could
> send you a CD I dubbed last year.  The story I had heard is that Welles
> contracted Smith to do the recording and told him to lay low because
> there will be people checking every studio to see if they have a
> recording.  But since these are HIS, hold them till he comes to get them
> when things die down.  Supposedly they were in the wrong format and that
> he needed them to be dubbed.  If this is a set he supposedly owned, then
> this would be a dub from the 16s and that the 16s are what were still at
> the studio.
>
> The Audio Rarities LP is missing the open, close, mid-break intro and
> outtro, and a page worth in the middle.  I have been in contact with
> Frey's daughter who has his files, but have not yet gotten to them to
> see what might be there about this production.
>
>> My copy also has a few words spoken by Carl Phillips which are missing/garbled
>> due to a bad side change/tape edit on all of the commercial reissues I've heard.
>> Sammy Jones
>
> What are the words and where are they in the recording?  I really only
> have played my tape and although I have the LPs I don't know where this
> glitch is that everybody mentions.  If yours plays thru it, I need to
> compare it with my tape (on CD) and the LPs and CDs -- which all seem to
> be derived from the Evolution Manheim Fox version.  I got my tape a year
> before any of the LPs.  Have you transferred your discs yet?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
> Mike Biel wrote:
> So does the script in the sourcebooks mediaFusion book. This one also
> says "the best next thing" which was Welles verbal error. Do the other
> books say "the next best thing" which is what should have been said?
> (By the way, for the second year I will be broadcasting from the Grovers
> Mill landing site om the night of Oct 30. This year the broadcast will
> be on RadioOnceMore.com and might be from 6 PM to midnight.) We'll be
> playing the master tape I have that includes the 30 seconds of slight
> surface noise during the middle station break. We might also be
> analyzing the modifications some fiend made to the recording last year
> to try to trick people into believing there were two performances
> recorded. And we hope to have the WKBW version from 1968.
>
> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 11:23 -0700, Sammy Jones wrote:
>>> I didn't mean to imply that I'd seen a script where the longer name
>>> was crossed out. I've never seen a facsimilie, only the reprints
>>> that appeared the the Invasion from Mars book published shortly
>>> after the broadcast and a book (whose names escapes me) by Howard Koch.
>>>
>>> Both of these versions say "Columbia Broadcasting System."
>
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