[Rarebooks] FS: 1923 WBAP Texas Live Orchestra Radio Broadcast Scrapbook

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October 1923 WBAP Texas Live Orchestra Radio Broadcast Scrapbook.

On November 2, 1920 KDKA in Pittsburgh went on the air as the first 
commercial radio station in the United States and on November 27, 1921 
bandleader Vincent Lopez and his orchestra began a weekly live broadcast 
on WJZ in Newark, New Jersey. WBAP and the Fort Worth Star Telegram 
began their live weekly broadcasts of True’s True Tone Orchestra on 
Thursday, October 4, 1923. “WBAP began broadcasting May 2, 1922. The 
station shared time with Dallas stations WFAA and WRR. It was the first 
station in the United States to have an audible logo signal similar to 
the NBC chimes, the WBAP cowbell” [Wikipedia]. This scrapbook, which was 
originally a partially-printed Baby’s First Year Scrapbook, has 
snapshots of the orchestra members both with and without instruments, 
decorative cut-outs of instruments (saxophone, clarinet, violin, piano, 
trombone, trumpet), newspaper clippings from the first month of 
broadcasting, and numerous letters and telegrams from listeners across 
the United States and Canada who had picked the broadcast up on their 
new radio sets. An interesting memorial of the very early days of 
broadcasting live music over that new-fangled radio-thingy.

Leatherette-covered scrapbook. 9”x12”, 19 pages filled, 36 pages blank 
(well, with pre-printed decorations). Top of album spine damaged, 
otherwise minor wear, light soil. [44115]  $250

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