I have a 12 inch white label Brunswick record promoting the Brunswick radio
- one side is a recording of an actual broadcast featuring as I recall
violinist Frederick Fradkin, the Merrymakers, etc. & the other side
features a recording of the same broadcast as received by a Brunswick radio.
Jim Cartwright
Immortal Performances
jimcip at earthlink.net
EarthLink Revolves Around You.
> [Original Message]
> From: Steven Medved <steve_noreen at msn.com>
> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Date: 6/4/2008 8:08:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Radio records
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> I have a 78 that came with a radio phonograph combination and the records
tells how to tune the set in and even gives examples of what the radio
sounded like. It did not have the starting groove.
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> My favorite radio record:
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> 1924.06.08
> Billy Jones
> Tune in on L-O-V-E (Whitcup)
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> > As someone who collects both radios and phonographs, I love those old
78s> with songs about radio. My favorite is Billy Jones' recording of "Love
Her> By Radio," which I have on a 1923 Edison DD. I'd love to find a copy
on a> regular old 78, but I've never even heard of one. Does such a thing
even> exist?> > Then again, I love old songs about all kinds of technology.
A longtime> favorite is my 1919 Victor recording of Billy Murray singing
"Take Your> Girlie to the Movies if You Can't Make Love at Home." What a
hoot!> > (Oh, and I'm old enough to have used both CompuServe and Prodigy.
And they> were very exciting at the time, as hopelessly crude as they seem
today.)> >
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