[Phono-L] Lindbergh recordings

[Douglas Houston]

 I have been able to get a couple of the Lindbergh records. I believe that one was a 10 inch, and another a 12 inch. They were all taken from the NBC network lines. If you've never heard Graham McNamee before, you'll hear him on these discs! He was the champion commentator, doing the color on the Lindbergh arrival, as well as doing a lot of sports coverage.  His oratorical, terse, delivery died in the early thirties.

While I understand that the issue here is records, if you want to see actual footage, with the McNamee sound dubbed (synchronized motion picture was a few months in the future that month),  look into the movie:"Lindbergh's Great Race". I have it, and you'll find that there must have been thousands of feet of film coverage, of Lindbergh's flight, and all of the activity in Europe, and then, at the reviewing stand in DC. You'll see the Cruiser Memphis, that brought him home, and all of the pomp and ceremony that resulted from his flight. I feel that this is the best display of Lindbergh's activity that ever there has been. You'll hear all of the sound on the movie, that Victor recorded, and more.

Maybe some day, I to, might have all of the records, but I'm happy with the movie. It's a lot cheaper than some of these recordings have gone fore at auctions! 


Douglas Houston
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