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

[David Lennick]

The Longines, which wasn't in fake stereo, although it had an odd gap of about 
1 second of silence (someone forgot to remove a piece of leader tape). But it 
also had that sound overlap where an operator started side 2 a couple of 
seconds before side 1 finished. That was still present on the Radio Spittoons 
CD if I'm not mistaken. The 2-LP set was from the same source (Mannheim Fox) as 
the Longines.

dl

On 10/28/2013 3:34 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Michael Biel
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] War of the Worlds broadcast [was Here's another even
> more oddball 78 album]
>
>
> 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