16" Transcription Disc #8 from 40s - features MARY ASTOR and HAL PEARY
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#8 16” Transcription disc, one side features MARY ASTOR – one side features HAL PEARY - CA. NAT’L GUARD - Label MacGregor Hollywood, CA
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.
She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter.
Harold (Hal) Peary (July 25, 1908 – March 30, 1985) was an American actor, comedian and singer in radio, film, television and animation remembered best as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a supporting character on radio's Fibber McGee & Molly that moved to its own radio hit, The Great Gildersleeve, the first known spinoff hit in American broadcasting history.
I have no way of playing the disc. It looks good, paper jacket is stained and torn. 1940s
Good information about transcription discs can be found at: http://www.auldworks.com/articles/dtrans2.htm
More information at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-time_radio
These 16-inch transcription discs were common from about the mid-1930s to the late-1940s for radio station use. These 16-inch transcription discs were cut at 33 1/3 rpm and could hold about 15 minutes of continuous playing time per side (as contrasted with 5-7 minutes for 78s regularly played in that period) and were often used for syndicated programs or government broadcasts. Live radio shows were recorded for posterity on 16-inch transcription discs. These discs were made of shellac, acetate or lacquer-coated aluminum. They were four inches wider than the modern LP. In the 1940s, the radio was our "window to the world." It brought us music and laughter, good news and bad.
See: http://www. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-time_radio#Electrical_transcription_disks
before about 1950, when radio networks and local stations wanted to preserve a live broadcast, they did so by means of special phonograph records known as "electrical transcriptions" (ETs), made by cutting a sound-modulated groove into a blank disk. At first, in the early 1930s, the blanks varied in both size and composition, but most often they were simply bare aluminum and the groove was indented rather than cut. Typically, these very early recordings were not made by the network or radio station, but by a private recording service contracted by the broadcast sponsor or one of the performers. The bare aluminum disks were typically 10 or 12 inches in diameter and recorded at the then-standard speed of 78 RPM, which meant that several disk sides were required to accommodate even a 15-minute program. By about 1936, 16-inch aluminum-based disks coated with cellulose nitrate lacquer, commonly known as acetates and recorded at a speed of 33 1/3 RPM, had been adopted by the networks and individual radio stations as the standard medium for recording broadcasts. The making of such recordings, at least for some purposes, then became routine. Some disks were recorded using a "hill and dale" vertically modulated groove, rather than the "lateral" side-to-side modulation found on the records being made for home use at that time. The large slow-speed disks could easily contain fifteen minutes on each side, allowing an hour-long program to be recorded on only two disks. The lacquer was softer than shellac or vinyl and wore more rapidly, allowing only a few playbacks with the heavy pickups and steel needles then in use before deterioration became audible.
During World War II, aluminium became a necessary material for the war effort. This caused an alternative to be sought for the base on which to coat the lacquer, as aluminium was hard to come by. As a result, glass became the most common material used for disks between the years 1942 and 1945[11] but they were inevitably extremely fragile.
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