13 Master Broadcasts Dated Across Florence Nightingale 1890 Cylinder, Amelia Earhart, and The Who Air Force Promo
This update dates 13 extraordinary historical sound recordings reaching across Victorian cylinder acoustics, pioneering aviation history, world-altering WWII news flashes, Golden Age holiday duets, classic jazz virtuosity, and psychedelic…
This update dates 13 extraordinary historical sound recordings reaching across Victorian cylinder acoustics, pioneering aviation history, world-altering WWII news flashes, Golden Age holiday duets, classic jazz virtuosity, and psychedelic 1960s/70s rock radio advertisements: Florence Nightingale's legendary July 30, 1890 Edison wax cylinder recording dedicated to her Crimean War veterans ('God Bless My Old Comrades'), Amelia Earhart's historic May 8, 1935 national radio address on women expanding horizons in aviation, the dramatic May 1, 1945 BBC London news flash broadcasting German radio's announcement that Adolf Hitler is dead in Berlin, Big Ben's historic first live midnight broadcast bells on New Year's Day 1924, two 1937 rustic humor broadcasts from Pat Barrett's Uncle Ezra's Radio Station (Station E-Z-R-A), Bing Crosby and Peggy Lee singing a charming Christmas duet of 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' (1949), Louis Armstrong and pianist Earl Hines performing '57 Varieties' (1947), rare psychedelic rock radio promos by Pete Townshend and The Who for the U.S. Air Force (1968), Golden Earring's Coca-Cola commercial (1974), Gretsch guitars, Paramount's preview of Bring on the Girls starring Veronica Lake (1945), and Gordon MacRae launching the 1949 National Christmas Seal Campaign.
1. Voices of History: Florence Nightingale 1890 to BBC 1945
Title
Verified Airdate
Acoustic & Historical Magnitude
"Voices of History: Historic 1890 Wax Cylinder of Florence Nightingale - 'God Bless My Old Comrades'"
1890-07-30
Recorded by Edison phonograph technicians in London to aid veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade.
"Voices of History: Amelia Earhart Historic Address on Women in Air Travel"
1935-05-08
Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart speaking on women's expanding role in scientific and commercial aviation.
"Voices of History: BBC London News Flash - German Radio Announces Hitler's Death"
1945-05-01
The historic BBC breaking news announcement of the collapse of the Third Reich.
"Voices of History: Big Ben Historic Midnight Chimes of the Century"
1924-01-01
The BBC's very first live radio broadcast of Big Ben tolling midnight in London.