Downbeat (Program No. 5), Parts I & II - Dave Rose


[3 almost entirely raw] Recordings from my 33⅓s collection: Part 1 (2 clips including original New Year clip and the retake, each with audio as usual); & Part II (clip with minimal degree of waveform repair to audibly remove effect from severed surface*) / (presenter Dick Joy with artist Dave Rose in person) – RADIO-PHONO BOX "B" for Downbeat, Program No. 5, WBS, INC. matrices H-7 #21-I (& 21-II) [item link: artist/disc info. label scan, and the root WAVE file/s ]: Canton Conga Star Dust Thou Swell Stormy weather Love Walked in Summertime Green Moods Where or When Goin' Nowhere Fast [NB: 1942 or 1943 vinyl 12” War Dept., SSD transcription disc. Multiple sources differ on the dates of these pre-AFRS (BBC assisted) War Dept discs for radio, but they were apparently transitional to the slightly later AFRS V-Disc 78s.  These early 12” SSD 33⅓s were also a short-term WBS forerunner to their 16” transcription 33⅓s, but never using the vertical cut variety supplied to commercial radio offered via the then related WBS Inc., but rather a lateral cut kind for armed forces radio instead, and soon to be equipped by the BBC rather than the presumably more commercially orientated WBS.  * On this particular 33⅓ disc (on the Part 2 side, qv) a deep gouge has been pressed down to permit the stylus to play it; clip audio was taken from yet further repair (using Audacity software) on the now pressed down crack-like surface severance.   Feel free to compare all the audio files compiled since this New Year & over the 7th-10th Feb 2023.   Part II (the side with the gouge) was not able to be played until taking the initiative this week to complete the entire album; perhaps song ‘Summertime’ being the impetus - as like a 78 from last weekend - it was sometimes b/w ‘Stormy Weather’ (a My 78s song of interest) during the 1940s and 50s, perhaps because they’re not too dissimilar.   An artist featured on this weekend’s 78s – in a back-to-back session matrix no. (qv) – had also done ‘Summertime’ but b/w ‘I Surrender Dear’.   One further impetus for My 78s on ‘Summertime’ is that its sheet music from 1935 – like ‘I Surrender Dear’ – fits (from its lowest to highest note, a rare privilege) onto my concertina model’s range because of a fortunate key modification, but provided it’s transposed up a little more than an octave, which I would look forward to doing as a supplemental ‘song of interest’ closely associated with these other b/w songs.  I also have it on another transcription disc too that was for commercial radio on 16" (these other 33⅓s are also sometimes presented on disc, especially for the AFRS ones, and though very rarely for some of the commercial ones, which can also be uploaded here ones too in due course); mostly some – but not all yet – of which have already been uploaded onto YouTube originally and so far); and those that aren't presented are more like veritable LPs, if it weren't for tracks having their own separate matrix runout (or dead wax) in-between…]  

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.