The Sound of 78s

The Sound of 78s: Episode 17


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The 17th in a series of podcasts featuring 78rpm records
'Mivoice' sound recording: A.C.Marston sings 'The Policeman's Lot'
Six-inch copper(?) disk. Recording date unknown.
Message disk: Servicio Fonopostal.
8 inch flexible record made in Rosario, Argentina, 1944.
HMV Private Recording. 'The Slide', read by A. Neave Brayshaw.
12 inch standard pressing, ref. JG1. Recorded 28th March 1935
The Daily Mail Mystery Record (side 1) -' £1950 for naming the artists'.
EMI RO100 recorded 1933
'Forward the Fire Bomb Fighters' (edited excerpt)
The London Transcriptions PG170 - undated but presumably 1939/40
Bow Bells Interval Signal - BBC fill-up record.
BBC Library no. 2 A 23. Recording date not stated but pre-1940
Novachord Fillup - side 1 band 1
BBC Library no. 9842. Recorded 14th November 1946
(Performer not credited but is Charles Smart).
Opening Music for Light Programme - 'Oranges and Lemons' (arr. Spike Hughes)
BBC Theatre Orchestra conducted by Harold Lowe,
BBC Library no 10247 recorded 29th April 1947
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The Sound of 78sBy Roger Wilmut