My current boss, Bob Brienza, worked at NBC Radio in the '70s and remembers
the song (he could not have been a contemporary to it originally as he was
about 22 in 1974). He told me today it was to keep the network line hot
after a program had ended. I'm not sure how much truth is in this, as the
standard time between NBC radio programs in the late '30s, '40s, and into
the '50s seems to have been about 30 seconds. Also, the few recordings I
have of that entire 30-second space are completely silent.
His memory is generally pretty good on details of NBC, but I suspect someone
related this one to him whose memory was either failing or got some of the
details mixed up.
Great tune, though!
Sammy Jones
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stewart Gooderman" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 7:45 PM
Subject: NBC chimes
To the ARSCLIST,
A person on the castrecl blog made this query. Could perhaps anyone know
more about this recording?
DrG
Hi All,
I received this question at work today, and so far haven't been able to find
the answer.
Any suggestions?
Looking for specific background info and performer identities for a
(perhaps) 1938 recording of a tune based on the NBC chimes with the possible
title "I Love You" and probably produced by the network itself. The song
itself has occasionally been brought out of storage and used on the network
a few times since then, most notably on a late '70s "Saturday Night Live"
skit.
Over the years a poor quality version of the original version has been
linked on various websites where discussions have arisen over its identity.
However I have restored it to pretty good quality sound and posted it a few
days ago here on my YouTube
channel:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3z7RhgnjY
All of the pertinent info that I know about is included in the description
beneath the video, and I'm pretty sure that none of the singer "guesses"
posted so far by others are accurate
My research dates the song to the 1930s, but nothing I checked has the
answer. Any thoughts?
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