Special Broadcast Of
Vintage Recordings
October 2015
Autumn 2015
Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast October 24, October 25 and October 31 Radio Dismuke is pleased to announce the eighteenth semi-annual Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast hosted by Kurt Nauck, owner of Nauck's Vintage Records, the world's largest and most prestigious auction house of rare and collectible vintage records. Nauck's has partnered with Radio Dismuke to share with the public some of the rare and exceptional recordings that pass through their doors before ultimately finding homes in various private collections. 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. 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, the broadcast will
feature other vintage formats 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. One of the highlights of this upcoming
auction is a large number of rare non-commercially
issued instantaneous records - a few of which will be
played during the broadcast. Instantaneous
records are recordings that were cut directly to the
disc rather than pressed from a master copy.
Most of those featured in the auction consist of air
checks of live radio broadcasts and feature
performances by famous artists that have not been
heard by the general public since the initial
airing. The broadcast will air in continuous rotation throughout the weekend of October 24 and October 25 and will be repeated again on Saturday October 31. 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.
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