Re: [ARSCLIST] Edward R. Murrow "Hear It Now"

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was sad to find out yesterday that the copies I had been given of the
first and third "I Can Hear It Now" LPs are not playable on my system. The
first one probably can be played and digi-fixed if it were tracked heavy
(I'm set up to track at 2 grams or less for LPs). The third one seems to
have been stored in a way that some of the grooves are actually crushed in,
although heavy tracking may work for it too. I plan to bring them by my
brother's house next time I'm there because he has an old broadcast
turntable that can track as heavy as he wants to torture his needle. The
previous owner definitely got some playing time out of these LPs and they
were, alas, from the dawn of LPs with no inner sleeves and the previous
owner never added inner sleeves.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Richter" <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Edward R. Murrow "Hear It Now"


> Steven C. Barr wrote:
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >>Also, it's fascinating to hear the actual
> >>voices of both historic figures and ordinary people of those days. To my
> >>ears, the regional accents of America were more pronounced back then,
and
> >>the average person had a more refined and clearer way of speaking.
> >>
> >
> > Probably because this was well before the ubiquity of television
> > reduced North American speech to a "lowest common denominator!"
> > Remember that children are often "Baby-sat" by the TV, and learning
> > how to speak from the audio rather than from their family...
>
> Forty years ago, I was working for MIT on Apollo and had to deal with
> the folks at NASA in Huntsville, AL. That meant not only communicating
> with 'our' German rocket scientists but also to translate between the
> operators. Massachusetts and Alabama spoke distinctly different tongues.
>
> Returning to the Subject, was not the first of the LPs - Columbia 4095
> dealing with the war years - rather in the style of the broadcasts? I
> also have two later ones (Columbia ML 5109; RCA LM 2212), on Ben Gurion
> and Marian Anderson which are clearly not what the OP is seeking.
>
> Mike
> -- 
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