Re: [ARSCLIST] STADIUM SYMPHONY

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually that's a pretty good definition of an "air check facility", and as I 
mentioned, they also recorded masters for West Coast labels like Capitol, ARA 
and others. And I've seen Jack Benny airchecks that were done by 
AudioVox..there were quite a few of these in operation in Los Angeles, Chicago 
and New York since the stations and networks couldn't handle all the recording 
themselves (sometimes they didn't even have the equipment). And copies were 
often needed for the stars and the ad agencies.

dl

Rod Stephens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a number of Family Theater transcriptions done there made in the 
> '40s.   Here's a quote from a site that give a lot of detail on the 
> studios.   It was more than just an "air check" facility.
>
> > I thought that some of you may like to know, that at their old site on 
> > Western Avenue in the 1930s and '40s, Radio Recorders made a lot of 
> > "air checks" of old time radio shows for the radio stars and their 
> > advertising agencies.  For instance, after 1936 until the late-1940s, 
> > all of the "Jack Benny" radio programs were recorded by Radio 
> > Recorders on disc or electrical transcriptions, as there was no 
> > magnetic tape yet at that time...So, if you ever hear an old Jack 
> > Benny Program from radio taken from the 1930s or '40s, it was recorded 
> > by Radio Recorders of Hollywood.
> >
> > Jim Hilliker
> > Monterey, CA  April 17, 2005
> http://www.scottymoore.net/studio_radiorecorders.html
>
> Rod Stephens
>
> Roger and Allison Kulp wrote:
>
> > Are "Radio Recorders" RCA,NBC,or both ?I have a pair of "Radio 
> > Recorders" 10" 331/3 lacquers,of Koussevitsky and The BSO doing one of 
> > the Howard Hanson symphonies,from1941.
> >
> >
> >
> >                            Roger
> >
> > David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hmm! The first lacquer 
> > discs as we know them began to appear in late 1934, I believe. CBS had 
> > no recording equipment for a long time, so any CBS airchecks were done 
> > elsewhere, like the Rodzinski "Elektra" broadcast which actually is on 
> > NBC lacquers (and missing the first 5 minutes).
> >
> > dl
> >
> > Karl Miller wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I believe it was the summer of 1935. He was soloist in the piano 
> > > concerto. My guess is that if it had been recorded it would be on 
> > > aluminum discs. Over the years I have come across some CBS things 
> > > from '36.    I wonder what might have happened to those WOR discs?
> > >    Karl
> > > David Lennick  wrote:
> > >  Karl Miller wrote:
> > >   
> > > > While it is unlikely it survived...the last all Gerhswin Stadium 
> > > > concert with Gershwin performing was broadcast on the Mutual 
> > > > Network, WOR in New York. I wonder if that will ever turn up. Too 
> > > > early for lacquer discs...
> > > >
> > > > Karl
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     
> > > More unlikely that it was even recorded, although WOR was supposed to 
> > > have had gazillions of discs stashed away. When was this concert?
> > >
> > > dl
> > >                               
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> >
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> >
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