[78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?

[David Lennick]

And among the stuff I salvaged from my parents' place we have MUCH audiotape 
from 1959 on, of Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Ed Sullivan, Mike Wallace, who knows 
what else. All at the slowest speed available at the time on the cheapest tape 
at the time (even old paper tape was being reused for a couple of years), but 
it's THERE.

That Tom Lehrer program is wonderful, by the way.

dl

On 8/2/2011 1:43 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 8/1/2011 6:30 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
>> I am very much the same: an accumulator, but not of junk.  Just stuff.
>>
>> Also, I have a huge video collection of Johnny Carson monologues I once thought I'd love to watch again.  Never have.
>
> If the are from the first ten years or so you have a goldmine because
> they are desperate for them.  They have almost everything since the
> mover to L.A. and they have even set up a website where the monologues
> are searchable -- they have put them all thru speech recognition
> programs to make digital scripts.  They make a fortune licensing clips.
>
>>    Lots of Jay Leno Tonight Show monologues, too, in his early days.  I stopped recording when I realised I would probably never watch them again.  Sad.
>>
>> Don Chichester
>>
> If you really do want to get rid of them, I'd be interested.
>
> If you had recorded Steve Allen's Westyinghouse series you might be rich
> since Group W purposefully erased them to spite Steve in a contract
> dispute.
>
> Phil Gries has a going business selling dubs of AUDIO recordings of TV
> programs.  He has every program and guest cataloged.  It all boils down
> to cataloging, and that is the problem both of the woman on the program
> as well as myself.  There is probably a lot of valuable stuff in her
> collection -- her son sarcastically put down the possibility that
> someone might ask her for a 1982 Phil Donohue program.  It happens all
> the time.   A few days ago Leah happened to bring up a program from 1982
> that I had recorded that we need to compare with the DVD set of it she
> picked up in Toronto last week. She told me where it is shelved.  The
> WKRP programs we occasionally recorded on first run are noted to be
> different from the DVD issues and the syndicated versions.  There's a
> web site listing all the changes in the various editions.  There are
> lost episodes of Dr. Who which have turned up in private collections.
> There are some amazing things being posted on YouTube from private
> collections that the producers either don't have or are not interested
> in releasing.  Tom Lehrer discovered the existence of the TV show he did
> in Sweden on YouTube and he had it released by Rhino last year.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> You will notice that the taping woman started out with neat shelving --
> and the problem is when you run out of shelving space.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com