[78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even more oddball 78 album]

[Thomas Stern]

of the versions which have appeared on LP and CD, 
which is the most complete and best sound ????

On LP I had the Audio Rarities version, which was pretty bad.
there was one issued by Longines? which IIRC was much better sounding, and a
2-LP version (don't remember the label).  There have been many others on LP and
CDs since - I would upgrade if there is a really excellent version available......

There was a book by Hadley Cantril about the effect of the broadcast and "panic" A serious
study possibly from the 1940's - have there been any other  SERIOUS  studies more recently ???

Thanks, Thomas.

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From: Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>

> There was a programme about the "War of the Worlds" 1938 broadcast on 
> BBC Radio 4 on Saturday night. They played extracts from the programme. 
> The question is: Was the programme committed to a transcription disc 
> (meaning it didn't go out live), or was this a Boris Rose effort?
> Julian Vein

It went out live -- our networks did not allow the use of recordings
with very few exceptions (by that time, only one.)  Boris Rose would
have had nothing to do with it unless he recorded it off the air. 
Recently we have been discovering several previously unknown sources of
the recordings of the broadcast, and we might now have six independently
recorded versions, including a 1948 dub that dl owns.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
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