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    Best of the Big Bands, Vol. 1
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    Best of the Big Bands, Vol. 1

    Written by RadioArchives.com and Multiple Authors

    Narrated by Various Narrators, Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman

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    The music of a generation.

    Dance music remotes from restaurants, ballrooms, hotels, and nightspots were one of radio's most enduring formats. First heard in the early 1920s, band remotes lingered on until the early 1970s as a feature of late-night programming. The remotes were usually unsullied by commercial sponsorship, and above all, they were live, preserving the music with a fresh spontaneity that explodes past the confines of the more familiar - and often abridged - studio recordings.

    Some of the broadcasts in this collection come from original network transcriptions; of particular interest is a series of previously unknown broadcasts from 1951, unearthed from a private collection and heard here for the first time in over fifty years. Others are taken from the Armed Forces Radio Service 'One Night Stand' series which, from 1943 through the mid-1960s, preserved a vast cross-section of dance-band broadcasts using edited line-checks of original network broadcasts.

    ©2003 Radio Archives, LLC (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMar 15, 2016
    ISBN9781682623602
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