Transcription discs 16” (records), you can get more radio disc transcription information at:   http://www.auldworks.com/articles/dtrans2.htm  or at:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-time_radio

Live radio shows were recorded for posterity on 16-inch transcription discs. These discs were made of shellac, acetate or lacquer-coated aluminum, and were recorded at the professional speed of 33 1/3 RPM. They were also 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.

*Record 1

*John Charles Thomas

Record label:  NAVY DEPARTMENT, The Armed Forces Radio Service presents John Charles Thomas,   Prog. No.     -   Part 1 ,and on back   Prog. No.     -  Part 2      This transcription is the property of the War and Navy Departments of the United States Government and use for commercial purposes is prohibited. 

For your information about the singer I let you know there is a good book about singer John Charles Thomas, by the Author Historian Michael J. Maher who lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Book Title: John Charles Thomas: Beloved Baritone of American Opera And Popular Music.   Buoyant, irrepressible and hot-tempered, John Charles Thomas captivated audiences worldwide with his incredible voice. The son of a minister, he studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Adelin Fermin, one of the few voice teachers in America capable of training Thomas in the French operatic style. By 1915, Thomas had become a leading performer on Broadway, and ten years later had embarked on a trans-Atlantic career in opera and concerts. At the height of his popularity from 1934 through 1946, he was a popular star of radio, phonographs, and the Metropolitan Opera, a favorite of both popular and classical audiences. His decision to leave opera and focus on his radio career during the Second World War cost him his reputation as a serious artist. The singer who introduced “Home on the Range” and launched many other American standards has been 1  largely forgotten today. This thorough biography details Thomas’s life and career. Beginning with his school days at the Peabody, it traces his Broadway career as the star of Step This Way and Maytime and his highly successful career as concert, recording, and opera star. Appendices provide a discography of his recordings, a list of operatic appearances in Brussels and the United States, and the songs he performed on radio broadcasts from 1934 to 1948.

* Record 2

*The John Howard King Band

Record Label:  Standard Program Library The John Howard King Band Recorded and Pressed by RCA Victor Hollywood, Calif. 33 1/3 R.P.M.  START OUTSIDE  Material herein et al, copyrighted or not, usable under contract terms only. Side 1 W-109 PMS 056871  Side 2  W-109 PMS 056888   Property of Standard Radio Hollywood, Calif.

Side 1                                      Side 2

1  O! Canada (P.D.)                                       7  Long Live Liberty (MSS)

2  Rule Britania                                           8  March Of The Engineers

3  Hearts of Oak                                        9  Progress March

4  Au Carillon (French Canadian March)    10 To The State

5  Maple Leaf Forever                                11  The Buglers

6  God Save the King

*Record 3

No label, written with yellow marker on record is:   B B D * O

AR  9/5/48   TRACKS   Rexall Honolulu

Eddie Fitzpatrick   NBC

twelve dates are hand written in pencil on paper sleeve 12/14/46-1/8/47

*Record 4

Musical Library

C.P. MacGregor 729 South Western Ave. Hollywood, California

TWO KINGS AND A QUEEN

Side 1:  Blowin your top, Yesterdays, Please Understand, Little Loe’s Tavern, Must I Forget

Side 2: Summer Rain, Bomb Shelter Boogie, Playmates, Right at My Front Door, In the Nick of Time

*Record 5

Musical Library

C.P. MacGregor 729 South Western Ave. Hollywood, California

LOUMEL MORGAN TRIO

Side 1: Boogie Woogie Piggie, Airmail Special, Fat and Forty Blues, Sand, Suit Me to a T

Side 2: Whirl Away, Whatcha Know Joe, Morgan Minor, Crazy Notions, Will I Ever

*Record 6

Musical Library

C.P. MacGregor 729 South Western Ave. Hollywood, California

Harriett Wilson's Singing Strings. The group had a national radio show on CBS and performed with many of the leading Hollywood personalities such as Rudy Valee, Harpo Marx, Bob Hope, and Edgar Bergen.

Side 1: London Bridge is Falling down, Just a Song at Twilight, Merrily We Roll Along, Air From Louis XIII, Chopsticks

Side 2: LA Cinquintaine, Voices of Spring, Salut D’Amour, William Tell Overture, Romeo & Juliet Waltz Arietta, Wiener Blut (Vienna Blood)

16-inch transcription discs 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. Most radio stations had equipment on which they could cut their own transcription discs of programs or for spot commericials. Some transcription systems encoded the signal in a side-to-side playing groove, but at least one used vertical grooves requiring a separate tonearm/cartridge. Thus, the tables often accommodated two arms.