Showing posts with label Nauck's Vintage Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nauck's Vintage Records. Show all posts

Friday, April 01, 2011

Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast

The eleventh semi-annual Nauck's Vintage Records broadcast starts this weekend running in continuous rotation all day Saturday April 2, Sunday April 3 and Saturday April 9. For more information about the program and for start times in your timezone, click here. To tune in, follow the instructions on the Radio Dismuke website.

Sunday, September 26, 2010

October 2010 Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast

Radio Dismuke is pleased to announce the tenth 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.

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. Because an Archeophone costs over $24,000 owning one is beyond the financial reach of the vast majority of private collectors and they are usually found in institutions such as sound archives and national libraries. You, however, will have the privilege of listening to one during the broadcast. 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, there are other vintage formats in the auction 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.

The broadcast will be slightly over 8 hours in length. The first 6 hours will be devoted to vintage 78 rpm, 80 rpm and cylinder recordings from the auction catalog. Following that are two special bonus hours of vintage radio transcription discs from the auction catalog.

For the autumn 2010 broadcast, we will be continue with the continuous rotation schedule format which has been well received for previous broadcasts. The program will start Saturday October 2 at 11:00 AM Central Time in the United States and will continuously repeat all day October 2 and October 3. The program will be aired again starting at 8:00 AM Central Time in the United States on Saturday October 9 and will continuously repeat all day. Because these broadcasts are several hours in length, listeners with schedule commitments may not be able to listen all the way through to any given broadcast. This "continuous loop" format should provides opportunities for those who miss portions of the broadcast on one airing to be able to catch the rest on a subsequent airing.

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.

For more information, visit the Radio Dismuke website at www.RadioDismuke.com

Monday, April 21, 2008

Special Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast

The fifth semi-annual Nauck's Vintage Records broadcast hosted by Kurt Nauck of 78rpm.com will air at multiple times on Saturday April 26, Sunday April 27 and Saturday May 3.

Nauck's Vintage Records is the world's largest and most prestigious auction house of rare and vintage 78 rpm and cylinder records. The broadcast is held in conjunction with Nauck's current auction which closes May 3. Kurt generously makes available to Radio Dismuke listeners selections from the over 10,000 vintage recordings featured in the auction.

During the broadcasts, Radio Dismuke will depart from its strictly 1920s and 1930s popular music and jazz format to feature recordings from the dawn of recorded sound in the late 1800s through the end of the 78 rpm era in the 1950s. The recordings will come from a wide variety of genres ranging from jazz, to pop, to blues, to classical, to operatic, to ethnic and spoken word recordings and more.

One of the things that makes these broadcasts unique is that Kurt will be playing early wax cylinders on his Archeophone, a modern machine designed specifically for the playback and preservation of vintage cylinder recordings. With its $16,000 price tag, few private collectors can afford to own an Archeophone and they are mostly found in archives and national libraries - but during the broadcast, you will get to hear one in action.

The Nauck's broadcasts provide a unique opportunity for Radio Dismuke listeners to hear and enjoy recordings that, in many cases, are extremely rare and have not been reissued or performed in public in many decades.

For April's broadcast we will retain the new schedule format introduced for last November's broadcast and which was well received. Under the new format, the broadcast continually repeats throughout the day. Since Radio Dismuke is available in all time zones throughout the world, this format makes it easy for international listeners to be able to tune in at a convenient time. It also enables those who miss portions of the broadcast more opportunities to tune in again.

This time around, the broadcast will start at 11:00 AM Central Time in the United States on Saturday, April 26. It will then continuously repeat throughout the day Saturday and all day on Sunday, April 27. Normal Radio Dismuke programing will resume early Monday morning as soon as the last airing of the Nauck's broadcast has completed. The broadcast will then be aired again on Saturday, May 3 at 8:00 AM Central Time in the United States and be rebroadcast throughout the day. Normal Radio Dismuke programing will resume that Sunday morning as soon as the last airing of the Nauck's broadcast has completed.

Because the final production copy of the broadcast has not yet been delivered, the exact length is not yet known. Previous broadcasts have lasted between 5 and 7 hours. However, once the exact length is known, it will be posted to the Radio Dismuke website so that listeners will have an estimate of when the various replays of the broadcast will start.

For more information about the broadcast and to find the specific start times in your timezone, visit the Radio Dismuke website at http://RadioDismuke.com