[Dixielandjazz] Make Believe Ballroom & other radio shows

[Steven Holzer]

Stephen G Barbone wrote:
> For Make Believe Ballroom CDs, you can get them at the below website 
> also. There is 1 hour and 29 minutes of MBBR available.
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> For old show radioheads, this site is a treasure trove if you surf it.
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> http://www.radioshowcds.com/cd_martin_block_make_believe_ballroom.html
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
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CD's of Make Believe Ballroom broadcasts seem like something of a fudge. 
As I understand it, Martin Block's show was one of the first disc jockey 
shows, hence all the music played was already available on someone's 
commercial records. Only the commentary, however much of that there was, 
would be original.

There probably isn't much of this material around. It would have done 
the owners of the music no particular good to transcribe his show and it 
was very unlikely without prior arrangement with Block that any single 
owner would own enough of a broadcast to make it feasible . Any 
broadcasts that have survived were  probably dubbed on home recorders, 
or, like the Eddie Condon Town Hall broadcasts, transcribed for 
rebroadcast on the Armed Forces Radio Network, where ownership rights 
were essentially waived or ignored. Whatever there is ought to surface 
in Europe first, as this material may be viewed as out of copyright 
there, but is still protected here.

Steve Holzer