Special All Request Broadcast In
Early April
Broadcast times have been announced
- see box below for details
Special All Request Broadcast In
Early April
Broadcast times have been announced
- see box below for details
| Update : The broadcast dates have been moved back a week with the first broadcast now scheduled to start on April 7 |
I will be monitoring the broadcast and if I become aware of any technical issues I will post themon my Technical Issues Blog |
| I am very pleased to announce a unique Radio
Dismuke broadcast featuring special guest Kurt Nauck, owner of Nauck's
Vintage Records, the world's largest and most prestigious auction house
of rare and collectible vintage records. The broadcast will take
place in early April from Nauck's impressive
and museum-like facilities just outside of Houston, Texas.
This will be the third broadcast Radio Dismuke has conducted in conjunction
with a Nauck's Auction.
Kurt has very generously agreed to make all of the nearly 10,000 vintage records in his current auction available for the broadcast - and the very best part is the specific records we play will be selected entirely by Radio Dismuke listeners and Nauck's customers. For the duration of 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 $16,000 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 submit requests 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.
I am very excited about this upcoming broadcast and hope you will have a chance to listen. The broadcast will be 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. - Dismuke |
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Radio Dismuke listeners are invited to browse through the online version of Nauck's Auction Catalog and send in requests of selections to be played on the program. Because of the logistical challenges of playing records from different eras and formats, the broadcast will be pre-recorded so all requests must be submitted prior to the program. Requests must be received at the email address below no later than Monday March 26 so that Nauck's staff will have enough time to pull the requested records from storage in the auction room. 1. Browse through Nauck's online Auction Catalog and identify the recordings you would enjoy hearing To make it easier for you to find the type of music you are interested in, the catalog is segmented into musical genres or by certain types of unique records (such as Edison Diamond Discs, cylinder records, picture records, etc.). 2. Email your requests to radio@78rpm.com Please specify the auction lot number and which side you would like to hear. Important: please send your request to the email address listed here and not to Dismuke as it will be Nauck's staff who will be processing the requests and pulling the records. 3. All requests must be received no later than Monday, March 26,
2007
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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.
Saturday April 7, 2007
Sunday April 8, 2007
Friday April 13, 2007
Saturday April 14, 2007
International listeners: Please factor any daylight
savings time your region might observe when converting GMT into your local
time. For assistance, try this
webpage or this
webpage.
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