Posted by Alan Bailey on April 28, 2008, 12:09:40
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Subject: Research of 208
You may (or maybe not) interested to know that more research on my photos of HMV discs following page 112 in my book about 208 has revealed the following information:-
THE GREYS ARE ON THE AIR
Broadcast from Radio Luxembourg 1293 metres Sunday Evenings 10.30pm until 10.45pm.
The first programme of the series was broadcast on 17th April 1938 and the last on the 1st January 1939. The Band was H.M Royal Scots Greys (by Permission of G H Gaisford St Lawrence M.C and conducted by A W Crofts with Raymond Newell and the Greys Singers. The programme was sponsored by Godfrey Phillips Ltd makers of Greys Cigarettes.
Greys Cigarettes number 25 (in the book) is an excerpt from a Programme broadcast 2nd October 1938.
Greys Cigarettes number 28 is an excerpt from the programme broadcast 23rd October 1938.
THE RECKITTS DISC
From the programme ‘Out of the Blue’ broadcast Fridays at 8.45am with Quentin Maclean at the organ.
CARROLL LEVIS RADIO DISCOVERIES
Sponsored by Quaker Oats and recorded at the Odeon, Leicester Square.
All of the above Pre war and on long wave
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