BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISC - TOP of the POPS THE BEATLES SONGS & INTERVIEWS

	£		1,500
	$		1,988

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RARE BBC TRANSCRIPTION DISC - TOP of the POPS FEATURING THE BEATLES ALSO  YARDBIRDS - BILLY J KRAMMER - MARION FAITHFUL - CHECKMATES -  TOM JONES - SWINGING BLUE JEANS - SPENCER DAVIS GROUP -  SANDRA BROWN - SMALL FACES - MINDBENDERS - ROCKIN BERRIES PAUL & BARRY RAND - TONY OSBOURNE - RINGO 

RECORD 1 MATRIX: 12FPM 114576A 14th JUNE 1965 - BRIAN MATTEWS DJ YARDBIRDS I WISH YOU WOULD -  BILLY J KRAMMER INTERVIEW & TRAIN BOAT & PLANES MARION FAITHFULL GO AWAY FROM MY WORLD CHECKMATE INTERVIEW & MR PITTYFULL BEATLES DIZZY MISS LIZZY YARDBIRDS INTERVIEW & HEART FULL OF SOUL
RECORD 2 MATRIX: 12FPM 114099A 15th FEB 1965 - BRIAN MATTEWS DJ BEATLES INTERVIEW TALK ABOUT JOHN BEEN DRESSED IN GREEN TOM JONES INTERVIEW NEW TO THE POP WORLD SWINGING BLUE JEANS INTERVIEW & OLD MAN KNOWS SANDRA BROWN INTERVIEW & KNOCK ON ANY DOOR SPENCER DAVIS GROUP WATCH YOUR STEP BEATLES INTERVIEW TALKING ABOUT TOURING US AND RINGO'S MARRAGE AND SINGING KANSAS CITY TOM JONE INTERVIEW & IT'S NOT UNUSUAL
RECORD 3 MATRIX: 12FPM 116561A 16th MAY 1966 - BRIAN MATTEWS DJ SMALL FACES A TO Z MINDBENDERS INTERVIEW & CAN'T LIVE WITH YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT YOU PAUL & BARRY RAND KEEP YOUR BIG MOUTH SHUT ROCKIN BERRIES CALIFORNIA GIRLS SMALL FACES ONE NIGHT STAND MINDBENDERS ALL NIGHT LONG BEATLES INTERVIEW TALKING ABOUT IF WE CAN'T SING YOU CAN'T HAVE US JOKING HAS THEY WAS NOT GOING TO SING THIS TIME JOHN TALKING ALBUM FINISHED IN 2 WEEKS TOUR OF 14 PLACES IN THE US
RECORD 4 MATRIX: 12FPM 114100A 15th FEB 1965 - BRIAN MATTEWS DJ
SWINGING BLUE JEANS IT ISN'T THERE TONY OSBOURNE SHOT IN THE DARK SPENCER DAVIS GROUP INTERVIEW & IT HURTS ME SO RINGO TALKING & SINGING HONEY DON'T SANDRA BROWN I WANT LOVE SPENCER DAVIS GROUP I CAN'T STAND IT SWINGING BLUE JEANS SO MUCH IN LOVE TOM JONES ONCE UPON A TIME BEATLES ROCK N ROLL MUSIC
RECORD 5 MATRIX: 12FPM 114577A 14th JUNE 1965 - BRIAN MATTEWS DJ BILLY J KRAMER LOVE MADE A FOOL OF YOU MARION FAITHFULL INTERVIEW SECRET WEDDING & THIS LITTLE BIRD BEATLES INTERVIEW JOHN JUST WRITTEN ANOTHER BOOK THINKING OF WRITTING A MUSICIAL GOING TO THE US FOR 2 1/2 WEEKS THEN SINGING EVERYBODY IS TRYING TO BE MY BABY NOW CHECKMATES ALL NIGHT WORKER YARDBIRDS FOR YOU LOVE MARION FAITHFULL SHA LA LA BILLY J KRAMMER TODAY TEAR DROPS BEATLES TICK TO RIDE

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 The BBC Transcription Services started life in the mid-1930s as the London Transcription Service to license BBC Radio programmes to overseas broadcasters who were authorised to broadcast the programmes for a set period, usually two or three years. The programmes sold to overseas broadcasters in this way covered every part of the BBC's output, including all types of music, drama, religious and children's programmes and comedy. It is now called BBC Radio International.
Whilst the BBC destroyed most broadcast recordings it produced for its various outlets, BBC Transcription Services often retained their copy and many of the surviving radio programmes from the 1940s onwards owe their survival to the fact that Transcription Services issued the material.

The original releases were in the form of 12-inch 78 rpm discs. Each of these discs contained no more than three or four minutes per side and so a radio operator would have needed to cue the start of many discs as the previous one finished for a half hour programme. Consecutive parts of a programme were on different discs to enable the radio operator to cue the start of the next part of the programme from a different disc from the one being played.

By around 1947, the 78 rpm discs were replaced with 16-inch transcription discs running at 33⅓ rpm. These coarse groove discs each contained approximately ten minutes per side, so the requirement to cross fade throughout an episode was still required.

As witness Ted Kendall's Technical Notes included in The Goon Show Compendium box sets, the 16-inch discs were superseded by 10-inch and later 12-inch vinyl LPs from the mid-1950s onward.

These discs were edited to run to standard lengths, and to remove any content deemed too topical or potentially offensive. In the case of The Goon Show, for instance, each episode was cut to approximately 29 minutes and 30 seconds. A later reissue series of Goon Show episodes was cut further to 27 minutes to accommodate commercials.

BBC Transcription Services typically pressed only one hundred copies of each disc with instructions to the overseas radio network to destroy the disc at the end of the licence period.

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