[ARSCLIST] FDR Recordings (was Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recorded Sound Preservation Study)

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

George Brock-Nannestad wrote:

> I don't know enough about US history, but it seems that there 
> must be a printed collection of Franklin Roosevelt's broadcast speeches, from 
> which the yellow parts have been recorded. First I thought it was a private 
> off-air recording, but the selection is too precise, unless it is from an 
> announced repeat broadcast. So, if it is indeed Roosevelt's voice, it must be 
> a dubbing from someone else's aircheck. However, it may be a completely 
> different person, reciting at a later date than 29 December 1940 those parts 
> of Roosevelt's speech. All in all it seems to be on the fringe of oral 
> history. The provenance means everything under those circumstances.

I have a six-LP set of "F.D.R. Speaks" with introduction by Eleanor 
Roosevelt and annotation by Henry Steele Commager. His speeches while in 
office were routinely recorded; these are selected from first inaugural 
to one read by his son which he did not live to deliver.

My guess is that many or all were recorded by the Signal Corps which 
surely had both the technology and the charter to do so. Whether the 
glass disc in question came from such a source is another question.

Mike
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