VINTAGE VINYL RADIO-BIG JOE HAPPINESS EXCHANGE- "MISS RHEINGOLD" 78 RPM BDCST
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- VERY VERY RARE - 78RPM VINYL USED ON BROADCAST ON RADIO SHOW "BIG JOE HAPPINESS EXCHANGE" - "MISS RHEINGOLD" - NEW YORK GOVERNOR HARRIMAN - PROBABLY VERY SHORT
- THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DISC IS NOT RECORDED WHICH IS STANDARD FOR THIS TYPE OF RECORDING. IT DOES HAVE FOUR HOLES (WHICH CAN BE SEEN IN THE PHOTO) AND SAYS "ALLIED" AND "MADE IN THE USA"
- THE BROWN PAPER SLEEVE IS THE ORIGINAL AND IS EXTREMELY WORN ALL AROUND.
- THE DISC ITSELF HAS MANY LIGHT SURFACE MARKS - MAYBE SCRATCHES BUT NOT BIG OR DEEP ONES.
- I NO LONGER HAVE A TURNTABLE SO I HAVE NOT PLAYED IT. I DOUBT IT HAS BEEN PLAYED SINCE ORIGINALLY USED ON THE AIR. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG THIS RECORDING IS BUT SOMEHOW I HAVE THE FEELING IT MIGHT BE VERY SHORT - OR MAYBE NOT?
- I REALLY DON'T KNOW IF ANY OTHER COPIES EXIST.
"Big Joe's Happiness Exchange was a time brokered program which first appeared on WABC in 1959. This was before WABC became a Top 40 Music radio station. His show then continued for a short time after the switch in December of 1960.
"Big Joe" Rosenfeld on the WABC program schedule (Midnight to 4 a.m., 1959 to 1961)."
"William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891 – July 26, 1986), better known as Averell Harriman, was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat. In 1954, Harriman defeated Republican Senator Irving Ives to become the Governor of New York".
IN THOSE DAYS RADIO SHOWS HAD A DIRECTOR, AND THE DIRECTOR OF "BIG JOE HAPPINESS EXCHANGE" WAS BARRY DOWNES AND THAT'S HOW I GOT THIS RECORDING. UNTIL HIS DEATH IN JANUARY 2023 I WAS HIS WIFE AND WE WERE TOGETHER FOR 50 YEARS. 50 GREAT YEARS BY THE WAY.
"Barry Downes, who was a director at Musicradio77 WABC from the days before it played Top 40 hits to the start of its heyday as the nation's most listened to rock station, said that after entering the profession in the late 1950s, he began to see that directors were going to become obsolete in radio."
"As turntables were replaced by tape cartridge machines and the engineers at WABC were put in the same room with the air personalities in the mid-1960s, Barry said he believed that the radio director's position would soon become obsolete since there was no longer much need to have a traffic cop in the studio."
"I could see with the technological changes in radio that directors were going to be phased out and the future was in television," he said in an Oct. 20, 2006 phone interview with Musicradio77.com."
Being sold "as is" because I have no idea how long or short this is.
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