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

[Randy Watts]

The Radio Spirits CD of "War of the Worlds" has to be the worst attempt at noise reduction and audio cleanup I've ever heard. Unlistenable.

There's a transfer from 78s, recently made available on an old-time radio blog that I cannot locate the link to, that may be the most complete version out there.

Randy


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On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 2:33 PM CDT David Lennick wrote:

>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-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of Michael Biel
>> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2013 2:58 PM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> 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