At 06:04 AM 2007-09-06, Tom Fine wrote:
Hi David:
Wow, those words about Crosby -- dem is fightin' words over on the
Ampex list! Good thing you're kidding ;)
On the Bill Cosby show, ... From what I was told, most radio station
wanted full-track reels each week but there were definitely 12" and
16" LPs (on vinyl with microgrooves) pressed too.
Not to conflate Cosby and Crosby further...but, I was told that at least
some of the Transcriptions (referred to as "ET"s for "Electrical
Transcriptions") of the CRosby show prior to the 1947-1948 season would
be done on two discs, each covering a bit more than half of the show.
The really interesting part of this is that the first disc would be done
outside in and the second disc would be done inside out -- or so I have
been told.
The benefits of this were:
(a) That the (diameter) equalization (or lack thereof) would be the
same at the crossfade between the two discs (remember the overlap) and
(b) The best sound (at the largest diameter i.e. greatest groove linear
velocity) would be for the open and close of the show.
CRosby and Jack Mullin made this PARTIALLY obsolete for at least this
show on 1947 October 01 when "Philco Radio Time with Bing Crosby" was
first edited on magnetic tape. However, I have been told that the ABC
network still insisted on the actual air copy coming off ETs as they
didn't trust the tape splices to hold. I don't know how long that
practice continued, but the show was certainly syndicated on ETs for a
long time and Gonzaga University in Spokane has an almost complete set.
The Mullin family has another extensive set.
The original 1947-10-01 tape was in the Ampex Museum collection and has
since gone missing. However a few excellent copies were made at Ampex in
the late 1970s / early 1980s time frame. One of those copies has been
baked abd digitized at 96/24 -- and sounds absolutely amazing.
Cheers,
Richard
Richard L. Hess email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX
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Quality tape transfers -- even from hard-to-play tapes.