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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

Thanks for the listings!! Funny thing though, I've never seen any 33 or 16 rpm 
Library Of Congress (now known as NLS) talking books on the used market. Not 
even on Ebay. Other than the fact the records got scratched up & worn over the 
years by the users of the talking book service, I wonder what happened to all 
those remaining records after that part of the program was discontinued?




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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Sun, February 20, 2011 3:04:42 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] OT? question about RCA Program Transcription audio books

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.

And you may have to turn your head sideways to read the listings, unless your 
eyeballs are mounted vertically..of course you can always print them out, but 
where's the challenge in that?

http://www.arsc-audio.org/journals/v13/v13n1p20-42.pdf
http://www.arsc-audio.org/journals/v14/v14n3p41-61.pdf
http://www.arsc-audio.org/journals/v15/v15n1p25-68.pdf

dl

On 2/20/2011 3:57 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> I don't own these discs (wish I did!!) however I wonder if RCA put out any 
>other
> audio books in the program transcription format other than this one? The Bat 
by
> Mary Robert's Rhinehart&  read by James Wallington on ten discs LR-1 through
> LR-10? Or is this the only one that RCA put out in this short lived format.
> Below is the URL for a page which not only has clickable labels for each disc
> side but also 32kb/s mp3 files of each side that can be listened to or
> downloaded as desired. Be aware that the discs have some scratchyness to them
> (they are a bit worn) when you play the sound files....
>
> http://98.130.146.204/rca_victor_transcriptions/rca_victor_transcriptions.html
>
> If other audio books exist in this format any info would be quite nice!!
>