[78-L] Sousa Talks!

[David Lennick]

It seems more likely that the audio is from the sources you describe and the 
Japanese Victor isn't what's being played, since it the label indicates that 
it's the same as Program Transcription L-16024. But the Victor catalog says 
Stars and Stripes is on L-16027. My brain hurts..

dl

On 1/24/2012 10:16 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
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> On 1/24/2012 6:09 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Okay, gang, anybody know anything about this? Sousa introduces Stars and
>> Stripes !? On a Japanese Program Transcription!?
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpr5lYMz7LE
>>
>> dl
>
> Weird.  This is an edited dub from a National Radio Advertising Company
> recording by Brunswick for the Bond Bread Radio World Tour which was
> syndicated for broadcast on Thanksgiving Day 1929.  The unedited speech
> and the march has been out on LP and CD several, but the only known
> original copies of the speech disc and the music disc are in the
> collection of John Newton.  He also has the music disc for The
> Thunderer.   The disc that contains Deems Taylor's introduction of
> Sousa, The Thunderer, and American Fantasie, along with the two music
> discs of American Fantasie are in another collection along with some of
> the other discs of this program.   At the Great American Brass Band
> Festival in Danville, Kentucky this past Spring, I sat next to John
> Phillip Sousa IV when we played these recordings (except for the music
> of The Thunderer which I still haven't gotten from Newton -- hint, hint).
>
> The recordings are listed in Ross Laird's Brunswick discography except
> that he does not have the title identification of the Deems Taylor
> intros and the American Fantasie music discs.
>
> I have no idea how or why Japanese Victor put this disc together.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com