[78-L] OT? question about RCA Program Transcription audio books

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Sun Feb 20 13:34:16 PST 2011


On 2/20/2011 4:26 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> On 2/20/2011 4:22 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> On 2/20/2011 4:04 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>> There are many others, produced by the American Federation of the Blind. Victor
>>> and Columbia manufactured them beginning around 1933. If you look here you may
>>> find some more, as well as virtually every 33RPM 10-inch and 12-inch master
>>> recorded by Victor..Program Transcriptions, radio commercials, demo discs. 14
>>> and 16 inch discs aren't listed.
>> At least those using the L grooving.  Those using the standard width and
>> the universal M and N grooving aren't listed either.
>>
>>     Mike Biel   Mbiel at mbiel.com
> Do we have any other source for that info? UCSB?
>
> dl

So much of that is client work that RCA didn't retain all that info.  
But I found a big thick book listing thousands where the masters were 
destroyed in 1949.  Most from long uninteresting pub service radio series.

    Mike Biel   Mbiel at mbiel.com




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