Special Broadcast Announcement

Ninth Semi-Annual
Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast
April 17, April 18, April 24

Radio Dismuke listeners are invited to browse through the approximately 10,000 recordings in Nauck's auction catalog and submit requests of selections for Kurt to play during the program. Because of time limitations it may not be possible to play all requests that are received. Our suggestion is to pick perhaps three or four recordings that you really want to hear and submit them in a list starting with the recording you are most interested in hearing. Keep in mind that there will be many other people who will also be submitting requests - so submitting a lengthy list would be a waste of effort because it will not be possible to play everything on it.

Requests must be received no later than April 11

You can find the online catalog of recordings here

Please submit your requests to nauck@78rpm.com It will help if you put "Broadcast Requests" in the subject header so your email is not accidentally overlooked as spam. Please do not submit requests to Radio Dismuke as Kurt is responsible for all aspects of the program's production, including the selection of records.

For these special broadcasts, Kurt generously makes all of the nearly 10,000 vintage records in his current auction available for the program. During the broadcast, Radio Dismuke will depart from its strictly 1920s and 1930s popular music and jazz format and play recordings from just about every musical genre imaginable from the dawn of commercial recorded sound in the 1890s through the end of the 78 rpm era in the late 1950s. Many of the records in the auction are extremely rare and the vast majority have never been reissued in modern formats.

One of the things that is special about the broadcast is that it will provide listeners a rare opportunity to hear very early cylinder records played through Kurt's Archeophone - a modern, electrical playback device designed specifically for the reproduction and preservation of vintage cylinder records. Because an Archeophone costs over $24,000 owning one is beyond the financial reach of the vast majority of private collectors and they are usually found in institutions such as sound archives and national libraries. You, however, will have the privilege of listening to one during the broadcast. Late 19th century wax cylinder records are especially fascinating because very frequently they are the last surviving copies of the recorded performance.

In addition to vintage cylinders and conventional 78 rpm discs, there are other vintage formats in the auction as well including Edison diamond discs, radio transcription disc, picture records and cardboard Hit of the Week records. Radio Dismuke listeners have the opportunity to hear recordings from a wide variety of musical genres ranging from jazz and dance band music to classical, opera, blues, country and even early rock and roll.

For the spring 2010 broadcast, we will be continue with the continuous rotation schedule format which has been well received for previous broadcasts. The program will start Saturday April 17 at 11:00 AM Central Time in the United States and will continuously repeat all day April 17 and April 18. The program will be aired again starting at 8:00 AM Central Time in the United States on Saturday April 24 and will continuously repeat all day. Because these broadcasts are several hours in length, listeners with schedule commitments may not be able to listen all the way through to any given broadcast. This "continuous loop" format should provides opportunities for those who miss portions of the broadcast on one airing to be able to catch the rest on a subsequent airing.

The Nauck broadcasts provide a unique opportunity to hear some extremely rare and historic recordings - a good number of which have not been available to a public audience in many decades. It is another example of how Internet radio is able to provide to a worldwide audience highly specialized, quality programing that traditional media outlets are simply not able or willing to take on.

Broadcast Schedule

Please note: These times are for the same show - it is simply being repeated so that people in various time zones across the world will have an opportunity to tune in.

When converting to your specific time zone, please consider factors such as daylight savings time in your area. It is highly recommended that you make your time zone calculations using this Conversion Tool which takes factors such as local daylight savings time into consideration.

Saturday April 17 and Sunday April 18, 2010

North American Listeners
Program starts at 11:00 AM Central Time on Saturday and will continuously repeat all day Saturday and all day Sunday. If the current run of the broadcast is still playing Sunday evening when midnight arrives, the broadcast will be allowed to fully complete before Radio Dismuke resumes normal programing for Monday.

The exact length of the broadcast will not be known until it has been recorded. Previous broadcasts have been between 6 - 7 hours long. Once the length of the broadcast is known, we will post that information here so listeners can have an approximate idea as to when it starts over again.

International Listeners
Program starts at 16:00 GMT on Saturday and will continue through at least 5:00 GMT Monday morning (which is midnight in the time zone where Radio Dismuke is based). If the current run of the broadcast is still playing when 5:00 GMT arrives, the broadcast will be allowed to fully complete before Radio Dismuke resumes normal programing for Monday.
The exact length of the broadcast will not be known until it has been recorded. Previous broadcasts have been between 6 - 7 hours long. Once the length of the broadcast is known, we will post that information here so listeners can have an approximate idea as to when it starts over again.

Saturday April 24, 2010

North American Listeners
Program starts at 8:00 AM Central Time on Saturday and will continuously through at least Midnight Central Standard Time. If the current run of the broadcast is still playing when midnight arrives, the broadcast will be allowed to fully complete before Radio Dismuke resumes normal programing for Sunday.

The exact length of the broadcast will not be known until it has been recorded. Previous broadcasts have been between 6 - 7 hours long. Once the length of the broadcast is known, we will post that information here so listeners can have an approximate idea as to when it starts over again.

International Listeners
Program starts at 13:00 GMT on Saturday and will continue through at least 5:00 GMT Sunday morning (which is midnight in the time zone where Radio Dismuke is based). If the current run of the broadcast is still playing when 5:00 GMT arrives, the broadcast will be allowed to fully complete before Radio Dismuke resumes normal programing for Sunday.
The exact length of the broadcast will not be known until it has been recorded. Once the length of the broadcast is known, we will post that information here so listeners can have an approximate idea as to when it starts over again.