Episodes
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
The FBI in Peace and War - June 10, 1953
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
And, following up from my previous post, here's another example of a program I've dubbed from an lp as an example of the types of shows I might post that aren't directly digitized from transcriptions. It's the June 10, 1953 episode of "The FBI in Peace and War", "The Traveling Man", a drama about a young woman that gets hitched to a seedy young man that's stealing cars for an organized crime gang. The show was sponsored by Brylcreem, Lava soap and Nescafe instant coffee - the jingles are a highlight of the program and the show itself is a brisk, fast-paced little crime drama with some nice sound design work. You can hear an alternate dub of this program, origin unknown, at archive.org. Our mp3 was dubbed from an original 1970s era lp release on the Memorabilia label, catalogue number MLP-706. I have several discs issued by Memorabilia and the sound quality of their programs varies a great deal. Memorabilia seemed to be a "budget" otr label - the discs would generally run only thirty minutes and they featured generic cover art with only the program title along the top of the cover printed on the different releases. Some of the shows, like this one, have good sound quality. Some others, such as their "Charlie McCarthy" and "Fred Allen Show" discs, have a loud 60-cycle hum throughout the program for some reason. Memorabilia also issued cassettes and 8-tracks, but you don't see them as often as the lps. I think some selected posts like this from the reissue lps can be valuable. I have some shows on lps that were pressed in very small numbers that are very rare today and haven't made it into digitized form. In other cases, the dubs can give you an idea of the sound quality available on releases from some labels from the period and can help you if you decide if you want to collect some of the original lps. So, what do you think. Are these posts from tape reels and lps worth pursuing?
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