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

[Julian Vein]

On 28/10/13 22:21, David Lennick wrote:
> On 10/28/2013 6:14 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>> On 28/10/13 20:04, muhrp at suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 	The 2001 book "The Complete War of the
>>> Worlds: Mars' Invasion from H.G. Wells to Orson Welles" includes
>>> the full audio on CD along with next day&  40-years-later
>>>     interviews with Welles and a subsequent meeting between H.G.&
>>> Orson as well as excerpts from the 1968 recreation by
>>> Buffalo's WKBW.  Sound is excellent.  The book contains the
>>> full text and original illustrations of the Wells book as well as
>>> the Koch radio play along with the story of the broadcast and
>>> "panic", fully illustrated with period
>>> news photos.  Highly recommended!
>>>
>>>
>>> 	Peter
>>>
>>>
>> ==============
>> A contributor to the BBC programme suggested that the people who may
>> have panicked may have tuned in late. He suggested that many were
>> listening to Ed Bergen and Charlie McCarthy on another network, and when
>> Dorothy Lamour started singing a boring song (which they played), they
>> started channel hopping, and this would have tuned in just as the
>> "panic" announcement came on.
>>
>>         Julian Vein
> The legend has always been that people switched stations when Nelson Eddy sang,
> but that one doesn't hold up for various reasons including Eddy's immense
> popularity at the time.
>
> dl
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But did that apply to Dorothy Lamour?

      Julian Vein