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

Upcoming Autumn 2008 Special Broadcasts

Radio Dismuke is very pleased to announce upcoming weekends of special programing.

So that listeners in various time zones across the world have an opportunity to tune in, all of the programs will be replayed in a continuous loop throughout their day of broadcast.

Weekend of October 18 - October 19

This weekend will feature two special programs which will play back-to-back and be repeated throughout the entire weekend.

The 2008 Texas Record Collectors' Party Broadcast (Broadcast lasts 4 hours)

The Radio Dismuke "Mobile Studio" recently traveled to Waco, Texas to record this special broadcast. Joining Dismuke on the broadcast are regular Radio Dismuke contributors Eddie The Collector, Matt From College Station and Christian Kohlhaas. The purpose of the get-together was for everyone to have fun sharing with the audience great vintage recordings from their respective 78 rpm record collections.

The program features a variety of jazz and dance band recordings from the 1920s and 1930s and plenty of conversation and commentary about the recordings. Many of the recordings featured are very difficult to find and have not been reissued in LP or CD format. One objective in selecting the recordings was to pick out selections that are NOT currently featured in the regular Radio Dismuke playlist.

The Woolworth Record Counter: Select Recordings from the Depression Era Crown Label (Broadcast lasts 2 hours 45 minutes)

Crown was a bargain priced American record label which was sold through the F.W.Woolworth dime store chain. The records sold for twenty five cents each. Crown got its start in 1930, making it one of the very few American record labels to be formed during the Depression. The label survived for just under three years. Like all dime store labels, Crown's output was primarily targeted to a mass audience and emphasized the popular songs of the era featuring both "hot" and "sweet" arrangements. Crown's in-house band employed some of the top New York studio musicians of the day. The label also occasionally recorded name bands such as the Fletcher Henderson, Eubie Blake and Smith Ballew orchestras.

The program, hosted by Dismuke and Matt From College Station, features 78 rpm recordings from Matt's extensive collection of Crown records. It provides an excellent look at a period when the "Jazz Age" sound of the 1920s was in gradual transition towards a "sweeter" sound which was popular for a few years before the arrival of the "swing" craze in 1935. For most Americans during the early Depression years, records were a luxury item. This program provides a great opportunity to hear the music that inspired Depression era shoppers to part with a hard-to-come-by twenty five cents for something new to play on the home phonographs that they most likely purchased during the more prosperous years of the 1920s.

Broadcast Schedule

The two programs will air back-to-back starting on Saturday, October 18th at:

North American Listeners
10:00 AM Eastern
9:00 AM Central
8:00 AM Mountain
7:00 AM Pacific
International Listeners
2:00 PM GMT

The Texas Record Collectors Broadcast will be the first program to air and will be immediately by The Woolworth Record Counter. The two programs will continuously repeat all day Saturday and all day Sunday. If one of the programs is still in progress at midnight Sunday evening Central Time (5:00 AM GMT) it will be allowed to complete before Radio Dismuke resumes its normal programing for Monday.

NOTE: When converting GMT to local time, International listeners are advised that regional factors such as daylight savings time may differ from country to country. For this reason, it is highly recommended that one use this Online Conversion Tool to make the time zone conversion.

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Weekend of November 1 - November 2; All Day November 8

The Sixth Semi-Annual Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast with Kurt Nauck
(We anticipate that the program will be approximately 6 hours long)

Twice each year Kurt Nauck, owner of Nauck's Vintage Records, the world's largest and most prestigious auction house of vintage disc and cylinder recordings, generously provides Radio Dismuke listeners access to his auction catalogue of over 10,000 quality vintage records. For three days over the course of two weekends, Radio Dismuke will depart from its strictly 1920s and 1930s jazz and popular music format and feature recordings from a wide variety of genres made between the dawn of commercially recorded sound in the 1890s to the end of the 78 rpm era in the late 1950s. Featured genres will range from jazz and pop to classical, operatic, blues, country, early rock and roll, comedy, spoken word and more.

The best part is that the recordings played during the broadcasts are selected from requests submitted by Radio Dismuke listeners and Nauck's bidders. To submit a request for a selection to be played during the broadcast, simply browse through Kurt's current online auction catalogue. Email your request to radio@78rpm.com no later than October 17, 2008. Note: While Kurt attempts to play as many requests as possible, because of the volume of requests and the limited amount of programing time, unfortunately we cannot guarantee that he will be able to get to all of them. If you are interested in actually owning and placing a bid on any of the recordings, the deadline for all bids is Saturday evening November 8 at midnight Central Time.

In addition to more to the more familiar period artists and tunes, Kurt's auctions always include a number of recordings which are extremely rare and have not been heard by the general public in decades. His semi-annual broadcasts provide a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for listeners to hear and enjoy some of the world's rarest and most historic recordings before they find new homes in private collections and institutions around the world.

The program also features recordings that rarely get to be enjoyed anymore due to the fact that they were recorded on formats that few people have the means to play back. The earliest commercial sound recordings in the 1890s were issued on wax cylinders - and Kurt will be featuring such recordings on the broadcast thanks to his Archeophone, a machine designed specifically for the preservation and electrical playback of vintage cylinders. Since the Archeophone retails for $16,250 it is beyond the financial reach of the vast majority of private collectors. The machines are usually found in institutions such as sound archives and national archives. Radio Dismuke listeners, however, will have the privilege of hearing one in action during the broadcast. Kurt will also be featuring some vintage radio transcription discs. A lot of the old transcription discs have very interesting content that, because of the 16 inch size of the discs, rarely gets to be heard these days beyond a relatively small number of collectors who have the special turntables needed to play them.

The Nauck Broadcasts have always been well received by listeners and Radio Dismuke is very grateful to Kurt for making them possible. The broadcasts are an excellent example how Internet radio is able to provide to a worldwide audience the sort of unique and quality specialty programing that traditional media outlets are simply not able or willing to take on.

Broadcast Schedule

Saturday November 1- Sunday November 2

The program will continuously repeat throughout the entire weekend starting on Saturday November 1 at:

North American Listeners
Noon Eastern
11:00 AM Central
10:00 AM Mountain
9:00 AM Pacific
International Listeners
4:00 PM GMT

The program will continuously repeat throughout the entire weekend. We anticipate that the broadcast will be about 6 hours in length. If the broadcast is still in progress Sunday evening at midnight Central Time (6:00 AM GMT), it will be allowed to fully complete before Radio Dismuke resumes its normal programing for Monday.

Saturday, November 8

The program will continuously repeat all day Saturday starting at:

North American Listeners
9:00 AM Eastern
8:00 AM Central
7:00 AM Mountain
6:00 AM Pacific
International Listeners
2:00 PM GMT

The program will continuously repeat throughout the day Saturday. NOTE: This broadcast will be a repeat of the same program aired the previous weekend. If the broadcast is still in progress Saturday evening at midnight Central Time (6:00 AM GMT), it will be allowed to fully complete before Radio Dismuke resumes its normal programing for Sunday.

NOTE: When converting GMT to local time, International listeners are advised that regional factors such as daylight savings time may differ from country to country. For this reason, it is highly recommended that one use this Online Conversion Tool to make the time zone conversion. Also note that the time difference between North American time zones and GMT is not the consistent in all of the times quoted above due to the fact that daylight savings time ends in the United States at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 2.

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To tune into any of the programs, simply follow the tune-in instructions on the Radio Dismuke website

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