[78-L] NBC Reference Record

[David Lennick]

Correction, slide auto..1/4, 2/5, 3/6. But you knew that.

On 10/19/2010 10:48 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> For Mike or Elizabeth or anyone else..when would dubs of NBC radio programs
> have the "NBC Reference Recording" labels? I was brought a couple of sets of
> discs this morning of dance band broadcasts from 1939. One was clearly a dub
> from very beat up originals, rerecorded in Toronto in the late 40s, and the
> other had the NBC labels. The quality on the NBC discs was very good,
> definitely not dubbed from earlier lacquers unless they were transferred from
> sixteen-inchers (they were cut on alternating tables with the sound fed to one
> and then the other and in drop auto sequence).
>
> The bandleader died in 1942 and there's no history of how these discs came to
> be in the possession of his daughter, who was 13 at the time.
>
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