[78-L] Timeless

[David Lennick]

Everything I've heard and read about this program has convinced me never to 
look at it. Apparently they get everything wrong....why lose stomach lining?

dl


On 4/23/2018 3:10 PM, gmail - i.collect.records wrote:
> Did anyone catch last night's ep of Timeless? It was about Robert
> Johnson recording in San Antonio in 1936.
>
> Purty kewl seeing the recorder, altho I am not sure it was accurate for
> 1936, not that I would know. I was expecting to see lacquers, but what
> they showed looked more like shellac discs, not even wax as I've seen in
> films from that period. Vocalion was prominent on the label. I'm not
> even sure recording blanks of the time would have had a paper label.
>
> So what tech would have been used in 1936 for making location
> recordings? Is there info on what was used specifically for Johnson's
> recordings from 1936?
>