“The Tape & Record Show: Episode 199. Broadcast Tuesday, February 3,1981 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). “Golden Years of Tin Pan Alley” – Part One. Rare recordings from 1920-1939. Songs include: Whispering(Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra), April Showers(Al Jolson), Collegiate(Fred Waring & The Pennsylvanians), Dinah(Ethel Waters), A Good Man Is Hard To Find(Ted Lewis and His Band), Gimme A Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?(Whispering Jack Smith), Deed I Do(Ruth Etting), There’ll Be Some Changes Made(Sophie Tucker), Sunday(Cliff Edwards).
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 202. Broadcast Thursday, February 19,1981 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). “Golden Years of Tin Pan Alley” – Part Two. Rare recordings from 1920-1939. Songs include: Yes Sir That’s My Baby(Blossom Seeley), Mississippi Mud(Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra With The Rhythm Boys), My Blue Heaven(Gene Austin), Deep Night(Rudy Vallee), Ain’t Misbehavin'(Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra), Stormy Weather(Harold Arlen with Leo Reisman And His Orchestra), Once In A While(Martha Raye), Undecided(Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb And His Orchestra), Heart and Soul(Bea Wain with Larry Clinton And His Orchestra).
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 203. Broadcast Tuesday, March 3,1981 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). “Golden Years of Tin Pan Alley” – Part Three. Rare recordings from 1920-1939. Songs include: How Deep Is The Ocean?(Bing Crosby), Heartaches(Ted Weems and His Orchestra with Elmo Tanner), All Of Me(Russ Columbo), Blue Moon(Connee Boswell), Ghost of a Chance(Mildred Bailey accompanied by John Kirby’s Orchestra), Shoe Shine Boy(Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra), The Music Goes Round and Round(Riley-Farley And Their Onyx Club Boys), Until The Real Thing Comes Along(Pha Terrell with Andy Kirk And His Clouds Of Joy), When My Deamboat Comes Home(Lebert Lombardo with Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians).
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 200. Broadcast Tuesday, February 17,1981 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). “Cosmos: Who Speaks For Earth?” – Carl Sagan considers the significance of science and discuss the importance of human survival in the nuclear age. (Part One of Two)
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 201. Broadcast Wednesday, February 18,1981 at 5:00pm central. Theme Music: Asteroid Field(John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra). “Cosmos: Who Speaks For Earth?” – Carl Sagan considers the significance of science and discuss the importance of human survival in the nuclear age. (Part Two of Two)”
The three part “Golden Years of Tin Pan Alley” consisted of the contents from two LP’s on the “New World Records” label I checked out of the local public library and recorded onto cassette. Guess you could call that an early version of “bootlegging”. At the time, I was still using a portable monophonic cassette recorder with an external mic. My record player at the time was a portable monophonic player with a built in speaker, so things kind of “matched”. The recordings on the LP’s weren’t of the highest quality to begin with, since they were mostly sourced from old 78’s for the LP releases. One of the two LP’s I now have in my collection on vinyl, special ordered from Dennis Goodwin at “Orbit Records” later in the 1980’s. The other one was apparently unavailable by the time I tried to get a copy, so the inferior cassette copy is all I have. However, to keep the “broadcasts” as authentic as possible, I used the original source tapes for the digitization, instead of digging out the one LP I have. Had to do “surgery” on the first “master cassette”, since the pressure pad had rotted away over the years, a recurring problem with the 40+ year old cassettes I’m using for this project.
The “Cosmos” episode, split into two parts, is food for thought. The human race will most likely eventually wipe itself out, before it will accomplish anything major. Nuclear war is always a risk, like the kerfuffle going on currently as I type this between the US and Russia. If war doesn’t wipe us out, it’ll either be our contributions to climate change, or a plague, no thanks to the anti-vaxxer/anti-mask assholes on the planet at this time.
