This is an excerpt from NBCs Fleischmanns Yeast Hour of November 10, 1932. It includes scripted dialog between the host, Rudy Vallee and the guest, George Gershwin. The musical selections are Fascinatin Rhythm, I Got Rhythm and the Second Prelude for Piano. I transferred this circa 1972 to 15 ips tape directly from four sides of two uncoated aluminum disks recorded @ 78.26 rpm. I digitized and reprocessed it circa 5 - 10 years ago. This is NOT an aircheck. It was recorded from a tie-line provided by the N.Y. Telephone Co. between NBCs flagship station (WEAF) in New York and a recording studio located in Manhattan. 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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