16 inch radio transcript: Holsum Bread spots

[radiotubes]

Even the commercials sounded back then.I have one from Buick i believe.

[stratocat9999]

That is a very clever approach for playing a 16" disc! Your getting a great sound from what I am guessing is an 8" arm! Great radio spots! Cheers!

[gilmour509]

very cool!

[sideshowtink]

That is fabulous!! What a clever way to play a 16" record!!

[rockybabyboy]

Neat record! Never thought to set up a transcript to play like this, Very creative!

[fromthesidelines]

...and sometimes, the live announcer would introduce these spots as "Transcribed", or "The following is transcribed"; in those days, most radio stations were required to identify recorded material as "transcribed". And sometimes, the live announcer would add a coda- "That's right, YOU get some delicious "daybreak fresh" Holsum Bread soon, at Warner's Supermarket...".

[GEKENILWORTH]

Great video! Was there any info on the label about the ad agency that created the commercials? My dad wrote radio commercials for Holsum at a Chicago ad agency in the 1950's. Thanks so much!

[cdbpdx]

The old radio transcriptions are pretty cool. I am impressed with the way you arranged 2 turntables to play the oversized discs. Clever!

[Videos4C]

Very fascinating...but I can't see why you need to manually encourage the tonearm on to progress the playback???

What original platform machine would this have been played on??

[m2esectr]

This record was designed to be played on the radio, where only one selection is played from a record at a given scheduled time, so there was no need to spiral all the selections into one groove; instead, the cutting head was lifted after each spot so that the needle wouldn't play the next spot automatically, as the radio station would only air one at a time. Radio stations in the 1940's and 50's used special turntables that could accomodate those large records.

[TrashMagnavox]

5 stars for the way you use 2 players to get the tone arm to clear the rim of the record. :D