Session For Collectors
so have people who ‘collect coins; but what are we to call people who collect gramophone records? Discophiles? At any rate, they are a considerable company, full of persistence and enthusiasm, To these people an antique Paul Whiteman recording, so hissing with surface noises that the anonymous vocalist is barely audible, is an absolute prize, for the vocalist is*Bing Crosby. Possession of this record, or of others like it on the long list of collectors’ items, is a source of pure joy to the connoisseur. Then there are the others, hoarders rather than connoisseurs, discomaniacs tather than discophiles, who store up records indiscriminately. These, in the main, are the two classes of people who provide material for 4ZB’s_ session, "Dusty Labels," in which best-sellers of years ago are broadcast. Together with collectors have a name and
scores of old favourites some real rarities have been lent to the station-very early recordings of Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Alma Gluck; Noah Beery and Adolph Menjou together in a sketch; a combination of forgotten pioneers called the "Wild West Jazz Band." "Dusty Labels" is heard from 4ZB on Sunday evenings at 9 o'clock. The session will be continued for as long as listeners keep supplying the station with records of the right type.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 9
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213Session For Collectors New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 327, 28 September 1945, Page 9
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