Fascinating David. Is this of a complete program from 1931 or just the
longdistance call portion?
joe salerno
On 7/20/2012 11:12 AM, David Weiner wrote:
> I have a Bell Labs vinyl test at 33-1/3 of a 1931 BELL TELEPHONE HOUR show
> - one of the commercials (for Thanksgiving) has the announcer placing an
> actual long-distance call to a family member, which we hear, to show how
> easy it is to call far-away folks for the holidays. Actually, the call
> has a few problems before it is completed.
>
> Dave Weiner
>
> On 7/20/12 7:51 AM, "Roger Kulp" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> As far as I know,FDR,in 1940,was one of the first people to ever have a
>> phone call recorded.
>> http://www.americanheritage.com/content/fdr-tapes
>> http://www.americanheritage.com/content/how-fdr-got-his-tape-recorder
>>
>> http://whitehousetapes.net/info/roosevelt-tapes-overview
>> Roger
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Art Shifrin <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:32 PM
>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] what are the chances that this call was recorded????
>>
>> *On July 28, 1933 a fan sent crooner Rudy Vallee a telegram to commemorate
>> his 32nd birthday. George P. Oslin, a public relations director for
>> Western Union, seized upon this to expand telegrams from primarily
>> conveying tragedies and other bad news to celebrations. He asked a Western
>> Union operator (ironically named Lucille Lipps) to phone Vallee and
>> sing
>> him the birthday greeting. In his memoir "Oslin said later that he
>> thought
>> ³messages should be fun,² which prompted his superiors to tell him that he
>> ³was making a laughingstock of the company". So perceptive! W.U. offered
>> the service until 1972.*
>>
>> *Paraphrased from Oslin's The Story of Telecommunications Mercer
>> University
>> Press. Macon, Georgia. 1992 HE7631.082 1992 38*
>>
>> *Heigh Ho!*
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>> *Shiffy
>> *
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Joe Salerno
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