[78-L] Panic..or myth? (Hey, it was 73 years ago last night)

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> A correction, by the way..we just listened to WOTW for the first time in ages 
> (in my wife's case, she'd never heard it complete) and the time references put 
> it at 9pm EST. I'd had 8pm in my mind for some reason, but as Elizabeth said, 
> the west coast would have heard it at dinner time if at all.

There are many time references which are supposed to be the clues that
this cannot possibly be happening in real time.  

> Interesting goofs..did Professor Pearson in referring to his notes really see 
> the red flash on "October 20"? 

There are many verbal slips in the program.  

> And was the dance band playing the tango 
> supposed to be that rotten, or did half the band just come in a bar early? dl

Oh yeah, the band was supposed to be that rotten!



On 10/31/2011 6:53 PM, Sammy Jones wrote:

> The question I'm most interested in is to know which performance the
> recording is. If the recording was a Los Angeles aircheck, it won't be the
> same version that was performed at exactly the same time War of the Worlds
> was on CBS. If the recording was a New York aircheck, it would be be the
> same. I'm assuming Chase and Sandborn had two shows for east and west
> (which seems pretty safe). Of course, if it's a linecheck with no station
> ID present, it's anybody's guess...that is unless somebody has a picture of
> the labels!

The version I was using also did not have station IDs at the beginning,
middle break, or the end, so it might have been a network disc.  NBC New
York rarely recorded the West Coast feeds, and Chicago never got them. 
There is a chance it might have come out of the Pacific Pioneers or
SPERDVAC which might have it from NBC on the West Coast, but Oakland
might have still been the headquarters at that point, not Hollywood. 
I'll start asking, but this recording was probably introduced into the
OTR trade decades ago, and might have been from Goldin -- which would
make it NYC for sure.  This shows again how sloppy the OTR people are
compared with us record collectors.  WE know how to document what we dub
off.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com