A Chronology of Dance Band BBC Radio Broadcasts 1932
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
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A Chronology of Dance Band Broadcasts 1932
Recorded "Off-Air" by F.O. Brown in Edinburgh
Featuring British Dance Bands and including
First broadcast from BBC Broadcasting House
First broadcast from BBC Scottish regional transmitter
Royal Command performance broadcast
Simply amazing ! Direct radio home recording devices were so incredibly rare at the time! What a priceless treasure!!!
Absolute treasures!
I welled up upon hearing Al Bowlly with Roy Fox. You have the ONLY surviving broadcast of this band at the Monseigneur. Until now, There was only one little snippet of Al Singing ''Oh ! Mister Moon !'' at the Monseigneur, but with Lew Stone & his band. I have that one on my channel. Check them out, as I have many which the late, great Alasdair Fenton gave to me. He was from Glasgow. I wonder if he knew your Grandfather?
Thank you. You are very welcome. I have subscribed to your channel. I am afraid I know nothing of grandfather's adventures in recording dance bands other than what the recordings reveal. All were made before he was married. My mother wasn't born until 1946 and there is no living memory. When I discovered the discs in 2016 the labels held no meaning for anyone in the family and I had no idea what (if anything) I might find on them. I am an engineer but it's not my field. It seems surprising that they survived WW2 (when I am told my grandfather's house lost its railings!), remaining there until 1984 when he died. It's not clear to me how they got from there to a cardboard box for Scotch in my parent's loft.
@@greenbankrecords8863 Thank you for subscribing. That's a real shame, but at least you still have the discs. I can identify all of the vocalists on these broadcasts, so I will do that for you later this evening.
It really is amazing how much did survive WW2. I suppose a lot of people would have taken their valuables into the shelters with them as my Grandmother did. Perhaps your Grandfather did the same with these discs?
I really do think it's wonderful that you've gotten so much pleasure out of this. I've been collecting 78's for 25 years now, and it always pleases me greatly when I hear of folk who are also still collecting today, and also hear of new collectors who have only just discovered the hobby.
I also do a lot of digital remastering. I've been doing it for almost 20 years now. With your permission, could I possibly use that excerpt of Roy Fox's band for an Al Bowlly upload? There are MANY, MANY fans of him who would love to hear it. I'll give you full credit for it.
@@twiddlybobbyI have given temporary permission to enable public download of the Roy Fox broadcast from my website. This is in lossy MP3 format. I am not a sound engineer and I imagine a professional or amateur with more experience would do a better job. That said, I believe the quality of these records was never very high and they are difficult to play due to the undulating form and fragile nature of the aluminium surface (strictly intended for play with fibre needles). If you paste the address below into your browser you should see a list of the broadcasts I have been able to recover to date
www.greenbank-records.com/1930s-recordings#/samples/
Were most of these recordings taken from broadcasts from stations south of the border I wonder, or Scottish relay?
Thank you for your interest. All the recordings were made in Edinburgh and I think these BBC broadcasts would have been transmitted on the Scottish Regional Programme and received on MW from the Edinburgh city transmitter (noting that the Regional and National programmes overlapped for popular broadcasts). But I have recordings of other broadcasts that were not transmitted on the Scottish Regional Programme but only on the National programme. For example I have a recording of Reginald Foort playing from the Regal in Kingston-on-Thames on 23rd April 1932 while the Scottish Regional Programme was transmitting Alex Freer playing from the Plaza Ballroom in Glasgow. This shows that BBC broadcasts on the National Programme could be received in Edinburgh as early as April 1932. This date precedes the twin-wave MW transmitter at Westerglen (broadcasting both Regional and National Programmes) so I have concluded they could only have been received on LW from the 5XX Daventry transmitter located 270 miles away (in significant excess of the 200mile range commonly ascribed). I have no details of the antenna that was used to receive these broadcasts.