[78-L] BREAKING NEWS, OR BRAKING NEWS!

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Earlier AFRS library discs had broadcast material on them. The article I 
read said they dated as early as 1942 but no labels appear to be that 
old so far. I am assuming that what was opened for the camera was what 
was easiest in reach, and if it was the first out it was the last in and 
MAY have been the latest vintage. Depends on how they had been stored on 
shelves when they were still in use. Chronological? Maybe, perhaps, if 
the users had been most interested in using the most recent material.

1942 would be the beginning of the AFRS.

joe salerno

On 2/9/2011 5:25 PM, Benno Häupl wrote:
> .
> All I can see are the P-Series discs. P for Popular.
> There was also W for Western (or C&W)
> And C for Classical.
>
> Of course, all material on these 16 inchers was taken from published records. So,
> nothing there is really rare.
>
> The W series is certainly interesting, especially the numbers starting at about W-800 to
> about W-2500 (when the dreadful 'Nashville sound' started to dominate the airwaves).
> The W-series included many obscure recordings taken from small regional labels.
>
> The P-Series, as from about P-2500 (IIRC), is interesting for all the top 100 hits,
> although there were quite a few songs in the U.S. Top 20 that were never pressed on
> the AFRTS P series. I always wondered, were they banned for their content, or was
> it due to some legal rights?
>
> For about two years I worked at AFN Berlin (Germany) and helped the DJ who was
> in charge of the Country&  Westren afternoon show, because he did not know anything
> about that type of music (while I was publishing the German magazine for Country
> and Western Music and was able to select a good mix of tracks).
>
> In the 1990s, when AFN had been closed in Germany, I asked Mark White, formerly
> Program Director of AFN Berlin, where all the records had gone. He said that they sent
> them to the Library of Congress.
>
> Occasionally you find some AFRTS records on the Bay. Currently seller rands1498 has
> about 188 such records for sale.
>
> Benno
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