[78-L] NBC Reference Record

[Michael Biel]

The Reference Recording title was used as early as 1935.  The labels
then were on colored paper.  By around 38 they went to the white labels
with the blue stripe around the edge.  Sometimes there is a printing
date in the bottom center of the label.  They also should indicate which
facility recorded them.  They used the Orthocoustic label only on discs
that fit the Ortho standard.  I spent the weekend dubbing off some tapes
I made in 1972 of the NBC discs we had at Northwestern.  Great 1940 Ted
Weems on Beat the Band.  Direct off the discs.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] NBC Reference Record
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, October 19, 2010 10:50 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

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.
>
> dl
>

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