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Re: [ARSCLIST] "Aircheck" history
steven c wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > I know Columbia used World Broadcasting Service to record its sessions
> when it reinvented itself in 1939. On the other hand, many record companies
> used radio station facilities such as KFWB and WOR to do their recording.
> >
> And WOR even had their own label!
>
> Steven C. Barr
And they made terrible records! Okay, it may just be that the only pressings
they could get were bottom-of-the-barrel New Jersey jobs at the time (about
1944) due to wartime restrictions, and that probably ended the label's
aspirations after a dozen issues or so.
dl