Special All Request Broadcast In Early November
Broadcast times have been announced - see box below for details

I am very pleased to announce a unique Radio Dismuke broadcast featuring 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 November from Nauck's impressive and museum-like facilities just outside of Houston, Texas.   We conducted a similar broadcast in conjunction with the previous Nauck's auction last April and it was so well received by listeners that we have decided to make it a regular semi-annual feature.

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.

The Radio Dismuke chat room will also be open on the days of the broadcasts so that you can interact in real time with others who are listening to the broadcast.  There will also be a link to a technical issues blog where any known technical issues which might impact the broadcast will be posted as quickly as possible.

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.