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

[Kevin P. Mostyn]

The Library of Congress does NOT have a full set. I have extensively
researched what they have in certain series and they are clearly incomplete.
I have several AFRS discs that the Library does not have. The Library does
not have a catalogue of the AFRS collection but they have been sorted into
series and there are crude finding aids.

There are MANY discs after 1947 that are not released records. Many radio
broadcasts.

Kevin Mostyn

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There is a full set at the Library of Congress, they've been calling them
back from the stations for years.  That being said, we'll never get a chance
to hear them.  The 1943-1947 disks have a lot of neat things but after that
it's just released records, cut into half albums.  I'd like to have them,
but there's very little that's very exciting.

I'm still a little plugged into the network.  I heard about the callback
from a former senior manager.

The original agreements with AFM and the record companies are what is the
problem.  They don't care about a few scattered collectors but when it's in
the news or it looks like someone's making serious money on these they can
come down hard.

Thom Whetston
AFKN 1977-78
SCN 1980-83

http://afrtsarchive.blogspot.com

Who has dupes?