Radio Recorders Tapes

The following tapes were acquired by me from Radio Recorders between 1974 and 1976 when I worked there as the Tape Librarian.

How I Acquired Them
As the Tape librarian at Radio Recorders from 1974 to 1976 one of my daily duties was to clear shelf space for storing tapes coming down from the studios. Since they were continuously running out of shelf space I would pull the oldest tapes off the shelf and notify the owners via registered mail to pick them up. They were asked to get their tapes within a certain period of time or they would be destroyed. When tapes were not picked up within the time period given I would cut the tape of the metal reels so they could re-use them.

When I had tapes with what I thought had historical value were not pickup up, my boss Jerry Greenfield said I could have them. That is how I acquired these tapes.

About Radio Recorders
Radio Recorders was considered one of the first professional recording studios in the country. Almost every major artist in the Recording and Movie industries had recorded at radio recorders from the 1930’s through the 1960’s.

In the 1930’s Bing Crosby recorded his radio shows on wax which was then pressed to discs. Because they were not able to edit the wax recordings Mr. Crosby funded the development of the first tape recorder to enable them to edit the shows before they went to disc. The first tape recording machines were built by Ampex. Radio Recorders had the first three produced. They were called Model 200A and serial numbers 1, 2, and 3 were sent to Radio Recorders.

Elvis Presley Sessions

These tapes are the ones the producers would have gotten to review the session and decide what takes to use or what parts to edit. They were either mixed down from the three tack master on which the live session was recorded or they rolled these tapes as they recorded live.

When The Saints Go Marching In

About This Tape
Elvis does not sing on the tape.  These are the takes of the chorus that sang When the Saints Come Marching in from the movie Frankie and Johnny.

Condition
You can hear a short sample of the sound quality of this tape below. The box is original and well worn from being moved many times over the years. The metal reel is actually the original one.

Asking $100.

Johnny Mathis Demo of It’s Not For Me To Say &

Warm and Tender

Ricky Nelson Sessions

About The Tapes
Some of the boxes are a little ruff. All the Take Sheets are with them and in good condition. One of the tapes for Raincoat in the River and I Catch myself crying is just of the band. It says mono on the take sheet. But it is definitely stereo and quite excellent quality.

Most of these tapes are of Ricky Nelson over dubbing to the music tracks. The sample below is a sample of the quality of these tapes. You’ll hear two slates on the sample below. The first take number 12a is for the overdub session and the second slate, number 20 is from the band session. 

Raincoat In The River & I Catch Myself Crying – Band Only

Asking $150.

Sonny Bono Before Cher
Bark

Asking $325.

Benny Carter Sessions

Many of these tapes have never been played.  I have original studio copies of most of them.  They are all stereo. There are second copies of some these because when they did these sessions they usually made a copy for each person involved in deciding what takes to use or how to edit. They would often roll two or more machines at a time while they were live recording for the extra copies. 

For All We know, I Should Care & Far Away Places

1 Additional Copy

Asking $45.00

Pillow Talk – Last Two Takes
Plus Voice Parts
Doris Day 

Asking $25.00

Candy Johnson and the Exciters Show
Live Album Side 2

Asking $50.00

Misc. Jazz Tapes

Jackie & Roy
From This Moment On, Cake Walk, & Have You Met Miss Jones

$65.00

George Gobel Routines Recorded for NBC Monitor

NBC Monitor was a weekend radio program broadcast from June 12, 1955 until January 26, 1975. Airing live and nationwide on the NBC Radio Network. The program offered a magazine-of-the-air mix of news, sports, comedy, variety, music, celebrity interviews and other short segments. George Gobel did a 5 minute routine each week on the show.  The way the program worked is the host of the Show that week would introduce Mr. Gobel’s segment and sponsor.  Below is an excerp of an NBC Monitor 

Sample Of Audio Quality For These Tapes

Asking $25.00

Morey Amsterdam

Below is a sample of the audio quality of these tapes. These are the tape that the Album “Funny You Should Ask” was made from. Two of the tapes are the original raw recording in front of the audience and the other two are the final edited versions that the record was made from. So they recorded this somewhere outside of Radio Recorders. Then they had Radio recorders edit it and cut the master disc.

Asking $25.00

Bart Hazlet Dixieland Band

Asking $20.00