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Re: [ARSCLIST] OTR online?
Terminology correction accepted! What would be the better term, old
records on the air? Classic jazz programming? Never mind... And it
was the Lone Ranger in the late fifties that got me really interested
in radio and sound.
I'd love to see a program like that - and would love to hear Jazz
Rhythm with Dave Radlauer on NPR too. Unfortunatley, the local NPR
stations here in the SF Bay Area are almost exclusively talk and news
- which I like and listen to - but to me it seems really weird to
hear music on NPR! The only times Bay Area NPR stations (of which we
have at least four) have music prgrams is when I'm out doing live
sound for local music... so I hardly ever hear them. The biggest one
(KQED) used to be classical until they found NPR news and talk
brought in more money.
Anyway, I'll go exploring, as I'm finding the old music ever more
entertaining as I approach maturity (nearly 60 now...)
Happy New Year, all!
<L>
Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689
On Jan 1, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
Most people take OTR to encompass old radio broadcasts, not playing
of old records like Dismuke's internet-streaming show.
That said, do some surfing at archive.org because there are also
many recordings of live band remote broadcasts, which were the
common way a lot of music was broadcast back in the day. For many
years, many radio stations would not play records over the air, for
a number of reasons. This changed dramatically in the years after
WWII. This was not a hard-fast rule, there were exceptions in both
legitimate licensed broadcasting as well as pirate and off-shore
broadcasting.
So, a show like Dismuke's probably wouldn't exist under the lexicon
of OTR.
By the way, in the perfect world, the major copyright owners
(megaglomerate music companies) would happily and wholeheartedly
fund a multi-hour weekly series for NPR hosted by Dismuke or
someone like him highlighting all these gems from their vaults. The
sponsorship annoucements could tell listeners to go to a special
"store" at Amazon or the like to buy the reissue CD's of whatever
is available in that format. This would take a different vault-
management style than has been shown in recent years.
-- Tom Fine