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The Newill records


Hopefully, someone with knowledge about records and/or radio will provide some additional info on these. I'm guessing that most all of these are airchecks for radio broadcast. The exception may the Forest Lawn recording (shown last below) which Forest Lawn may have acquired for Holy Thursday services.



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The above and below are Essex Broadcasters Incorporated (in Detroit) 33 1/3 recordings. They have a July 24, 1940 date with Newell singing "None But The Lonely Heart" and "The Song Of The Open Road". Note the stamped "Exclusively Represented By ART RUSH, INC." I wonder if this was the Art Rush who was the long time agent for Roy Rogers.


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Above is a National Broadcasting Co., Inc. 78 rpm Reference Recording dated May 13, 1940. The song is "Love Me Tonight" sung by James Newill and Emily Hardy. There is an opera singer named Emily Hardy listed at the San Francisco Opera website: http://archive.sfopera.com/qry3webcastlist.asp?psearch=Emily%20Hardy&Submit=GO



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Above and below are Radio Recorders Inc. (Hollywood, California) 78 rpm recordings of Jimmie Newel [sic] singing "Prologue From Pagliacci".


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(Courtesy of the Newill Family)

Above - a DECCA record with handwritten notations of "James Newill", "Goin' Home" and a number "2658B". This was one of the eight psalms and sacred songs that Newill recorded in the early 1940s for Decca with the Victor Young Orchestra.



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Above is an Associated Transcriptions of Hollywood 78 rpm recording of "THE LORDS PRAYER" with notation that it is for "HOLY THURSDAY SERVICES" FOREST LAWN MEMORIAL-PARK.


Wikipedia has a brief history of Radio Recorders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Recorders



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