Re: [ARSCLIST] George Bernard Shaw recording

["joe@xxxxxxxxxxx" <jsalerno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A portion only was released on an EMI LP along with many other excerpts 
of historical recordings, but I cannon remember the title of it.

At the same time as Kurt had one for auction Larry Holdridge also had 
one offered, & I found a nice copy at an estate sale which I bought for 
a pittance.

joe salerno

David Lennick wrote:
> BBC Enterprises put out some of his talks on an album called "Some Of 
> His Talks", and Heritage (which evolved from either Audio Rarities or 
> Audio Archives) had a ten-inch LP of a 1937 short wave broadcast, but I 
> don't think the Linguaphone set has ever been reissued, except for a 
> minute or so on a National Vocarium 78. I could be wrong.
>
> That Linguaphone set isn't that rare..I own a copy and I've seen it on 
> auction several times.
>
> dl
>
> Steven Smolian wrote:
> > On LP on Audio Rarities, I think.  There was other material spoken by 
> > him on LP as well, on BBC, etc.
> >
> > Steve Smolian
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Fine" 
> > <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:15 PM
> > Subject: [ARSCLIST] George Bernard Shaw recording
> >
> >
> > > Hopefully someone follows the fate of spoken-word recordings ...
> > >
> > > George Bernard Shaw made a 2-disk 78 set in 1927 as part of the 
> > > Linguaphone series called "Spoken English and Broken English."  Kurt 
> > > Nauck had a copy up for auction:
> > > http://www.78rpm.com/images/auction/4172_BShawLinguiphon.gif
> > > as part of this lot:
> > > http://www.78rpm.com/auction/highs.htm
> > >
> > > Was this album ever released in a modern format, either an LP or CD?
> > >
> > > -- Tom Fine