This is an abbreviated (streamlined) version of the Fleischmann's Yeast Hour of July 7, 1932. It answers the question: what is worse than disk recordings on uncoated aluminum? The answer: second generation, a.k.a. DUBS! The Hour had not yet developed into a variety program. This was the initial experiment to expand the format. The test was the unlikely coupling of Rudy Vallee with Olsen & Johnson. Ole & Chic's segments were titled "The Padded Cell Of The Air". The sketches are sort of early thirties "Laugh In". Three "Padded Cells" were interspersed amongst the musical numbers & commercials that comprised the rest of the program. For this set, the O & J portions were dubs. The other contents were first generation. Brief overlaps occurred: the sonic differences are conspicuous.

The contents of this version are: Program Opening / Padded Cell 1 of 3 / Why Don't You Get Lost? (Robinson-Wall-Effros) / Padded Cell 2 of 3 / I Love A Parade (Harold Arlen-Yip Harburg) / Padded Cell 3 of 3 / Adios (Enric Madriguera) / Sign Off. The announcer is Graham McNamee. Only a snippet of one commercial was recorded within the set. It's not included in this version. The total duration (rounded off) is 31 minutes, 7 seconds.

I transferred the 12â disks to tape circa 1972 / 1973. The tape was digitized some years thereafter. This edited version was recently derived from a clone of the De facto complete file (52 minutes) for this posting. Subsequent adjustments were made in Sound Forge and or Audition. This is NOT an aircheck. It was recorded off of a tie line provided by the New York Telephone Company between NBC's New York City studios (not yet in Rockefeller Center) and the recording company. The noise is meaningfully reduced but still audible. This is because I insist upon preventing undesirable digital side effects, which are caused by over-aggressive use of various tools, or poorly designed tools. Unfortunately this problem pervades many "audio restorations".

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