[78-L] 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast in excllent sound

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Musical taste, like beauty and funny, also rests with the beholder.   
Is the Chase and Sanborn show cited available online somewhere?  My  
dad recalled they were listening to Nelson when the neighbors came  
pounding on the door and they listened to the remainder of Wells all  
the way to the can't soap all your windows line.

Sent from my iPod - which explainz the bad typjng

On Oct 29, 2013, at 12:04 AM, "Sammy Jones" <sjones69 at bellsouth.net>  
wrote:

> They also exist as a souvenir set made for the "director of the  
> Mercury
> Theatre and star of these broadcasts" which I have <grin>.  The  
> recording
> was made by the Harry Smith studio of New York.
>
> Lennick is right: there apparently was no repeat broadcast, so  
> listeners on
> the west coast heard the show at 5 PM if they heard it at all.   
> Remember,
> this was a very obscure, non-sponsored series up against one of the  
> top
> comedy shows on the air.
>
> I still would like to pin down of the recording we have of the Chase  
> and
> Sanborn Charlie McCarthy show of that night (Oct. 30) is from the  
> east or
> west coast version.  If the aircheck was made from a west coast  
> station,
> then it's not the same performance that most of the country was  
> listening to
> as Welles and his group put on their Hallowe'en Eve play...
>
> Sammy Jones
>
>
>> It was LIVE LIVE LIVE and not even redone 3 hours later for the west
>> coast.
>> Transcriptions existed only as reference recordings (line or air  
>> checks)
>> or for
>> syndication to non-network stations because the radio networks had  
>> agreed
>> for
>> years never to broadcast a record. The first exception was Herb  
>> Morrison's
>> Hindenburg report and as Mike Biel has said, it was the only one up  
>> to
>> this
>> point. No such problems existed in Europe or at the Beeb or in  
>> Canada.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 10/28/2013 7:18 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>>> Was it intended to be broadcast only once without reference to the  
>>> other
>>> time zones? Was it transcribed by CBS for later broadcasting?
>>>
>>>       Julian Vein
>>
>
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