[78-L] Norman corwin presentation

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>

> Good to know about the Amalgamated Inaugural..as I mentioned here a couple of 
> months ago, I have the thing on cassettes (from Goldin?) and the transfers are 
> pretty rough. Not that there's anything in there I'd want to hear a second time.  dl

Actually there is some pretty good jazz from the Amalgamated Dance
Orchestra, and I love the sound of dual 
jazz harps in Roxy LaRocca and his Rockets.  The interpretation of Old
Man River that Jules Bledsoe gives is  very unique, not at all like Paul
Robeson does it, and I wonder if the original composers would have let
him sing it quite this way in the original production.  I would like to
compare it with his other recording of it, on Varsity??  Did he do a
third?  But that's less than a half hour out of four hours.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com   

On 10/25/2011 3:06 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Sultanof<jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
>> Dr. Biel,
>> Just a note to tell you that I loved the presentation on the ABS. I missed
>> the very beginning of the presentation, and I know this was covered in an
>> earlier thread, but how much of that premiere broadcast exists? Jeff Sultanof
>
> All four hours of the Amalgamated inaugural broadcast exist. The discs
> were in the Ed Wynn archive and were transferred to tape by the National
> Archives back in the 1970s. Neal Ellis has digitized the tapes and when
> he gets the side-joins edited he will have copies available. His
> website is http://www.oldtimeradioonmp3.com/ and it will be on one MP3
> disc at a high encoding rate for $4 plus postage.
>
> To answer Joe Salerno's question about the availability of the Norman
> Corwin presentation I repeated at FOTR on Thursday, all of the FOTR
> presentations for the past ten years are available on DVD from Fred
> Berney's Satellite Media Productions. The videos are $10 per disc and
> unfortunately my two presentations will be on two separate discs. The
> website is http://oldietv.com/otr/fotr.html but you may need to email
> him to find out when they will be ready (he seems to have forgotten to
> put up last year's order form.) fred at oldietv.com
>
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:51 AM, mbiel at mbiel.com<mbiel at mbiel.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I will be doing a live repeat of my ARSC presentation about Corwin at 12:15
>> PM Eastern time today Thursday that can be heard on YesterdayUSA.com from
>> the 36th (and final) convention of Friends of Old Time Radio. I am also
>> doing a presentation about Ed Wynn's short-lived Amalgamated Broadcasting
>> System at 3:15 pm. We go on the air at 9:30 am.
>>
>> Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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