[78-L] Nations Forum

[David Lennick]

I received the message but without the 78-L stuff at the bottom, so clearly it 
didn't get to the list. A lot of today's postings seem to be getting through 
(all of mine have)..the ones I sent yesterday are still in limbo, with a "we'll 
keep trying" message for both of them. There's definitely something wrong.

dl

On 9/4/2011 8:38 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> Dr. Donna has sent a message to me that she tried again to post but that
> it did not work.  So Ron, there really IS a problem.
>
> To get things moving I will post here info, question, and my reply and
> suggest that the group add any input they have because she at least can
> read it.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
>
> On 9/3/2011 9:13 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
>
>
>> I was reading some old microfilm from the Boston Herald/Boston
>> Traveler (sister newspapers back in the 1910s and 1920s).  This was
>> from 13 April 1925, a big ad for Jordan Marsh Department Store.  They
>> were announcing a sale on "2500 Nation's Forum 12-inch Double Disc
>> Records" for 25 cents (original price of $2.00 stamped on every
>> record!).  These were, according to the ad, "orations by notable
>> Americans on one side, a stirring American march by Prince's Band on
>> the other side."  While I am certain pleased that Prince had a band, I
>> was also fascinated to see that among the speakers were Calvin
>> Coolidge, Henry Cabot Lodge, Warren G. Harding, and the guy with the
>> biggest ears I have ever seen, former postmaster and current movie
>> censor Will Hays.
>>
>> I had no idea that Coolidge (who was the subject of some jests over
>> his very nasal speaking voice) made any records for "Nation's Forum,"
>> so is there a back-story about this label or this project?  The topics
>> seem to be informative and patriotic-- for example, Coolidge did "Law
>> and Order" (#61) and "Equal Rights" (#58) and I assume no controversy
>> was ever discussed-- no mention of segregation or discrimination of
>> any kind. Most of the politicians who recorded the speeches seem to be
>> Republicans, and I have no idea if that was by design or because they
>> were in power at that time.  Anyway, can you possibly fill me in on
>> these discs?
>>
>>
>
>
>
> On 9/4/2011 6:32 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> There IS a back story about it.  It is very famous
>> but they are relatively hard to find. I only have a couple.  It is
>> interesting to find out what happened to them!!!  Suppesedly there was a
>> set of metal parts deposited at the Library of Congress, but that does
>> not seem to have happened.  They did put together at least have a set of
>> the recordings from various sources and have a web site for them
>> http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/nfhtml/   .  Some are from vinyl tests from
>> metal parts, but I think these are from the A.F.R. Lawrence collection
>> and the metals at Columbia might have been destroyed.  There was a good
>> article and discography of them published back in the 70s in a
>> short-lived publication "The Discographer" by my friend, the late David
>> Goldenberg.
>>
>> I am not sure of the balance of Republicans vs. Democrats you mention,
>> but you did not mention the FDR recording.  That recording had been
>> claimed for many years to be the earliest broadcast recording in the
>> Museum of Broadcasting's  (now the Paley Center for the Media)
>> collection despite my telling them two weeks before they opened -- and
>> mentioned it in the ARSC Journal -- that it was NOT a broadcast but was
>> a phonograph record.  Finally they changed their listing to "Radio
>> broadcast unverified".  IDIOTS.
>>
>> Mike Bielmbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Ron Fial wrote:
>>>
>>> Current working hypothesis:   Nobody sent an email all day!
>>>
>>> On 9/4/2011 6:04 PM, David Lewis wrote:
>>> Very well. Then I won't mention how I haven't been able to reach the digest for at least two, maybe three, days. The error message I get says the server cannot be reached.
>>> Uncle Dave Lewis  uncledavelewis at hotmail.com 	
>> I got a message from Dr. Donna Halper yesterday saying that she also had
>> list messages bounding.  I'll tell her to re-post.  She had a question
>> about Nations Forum.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com