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I have a spare 'Sounds Of Time' set you're welcome to if you'd like it Antonia.

Antonia E wrote:

JerryVan wrote:Appears to be written with a fountain pen? If so, suggests some age at least.

Oh lordy... well now I have to stop using my own fountain pen haha! (I'm hardly a spring chicken... although there are plenty of springs in the house these days!)

Ha. I used one also, up until a couple years ago. Got tired of having to constantly disassemble it to clear ink clogs.

Here is the skinny from the Brian Rust Historical Records book. With this info you might be able to dial it in......if the shellac runoff has no Brunswick #7810, it is a bootleg.

Rust has the recording being made on December 10, 1936.....Rust was typically very accurate and he was a Brit....why would he have referenced Dec. 10th regarding such a landmark speech?

With just a quick listen to the Brunswick version (~15 seconds shorter of just KEVIII's voice) and the others, the Brunswick may be a studio field recording and other version was taken from the BBC broadcast.

Please let us know what you find out......Ken

Orchorsol wrote:I have a spare 'Sounds Of Time' set you're welcome to if you'd like it Antonia.

That would be wonderful - thank you for such a kind offer

JerryVan wrote:

Antonia E wrote:

JerryVan wrote:Appears to be written with a fountain pen? If so, suggests some age at least.

Oh lordy... well now I have to stop using my own fountain pen haha! (I'm hardly a spring chicken... although there are plenty of springs in the house these days!)

Ha. I used one also, up until a couple years ago. Got tired of having to constantly disassemble it to clear ink clogs.

Great minds think alike!

Polyphone wrote:Here is the skinny from the Brian Rust Historical Records book. With this info you might be able to dial it in......if the shellac runoff has no Brunswick #7810, it is a bootleg.

Rust has the recording being made on December 10, 1936.....Rust was typically very accurate and he was a Brit....why would he have referenced Dec. 10th regarding such a landmark speech?

With just a quick listen to the Brunswick version (~15 seconds shorter of just KEVIII's voice) and the others, the Brunswick may be a studio field recording and other version was taken from the BBC broadcast.

Please let us know what you find out......Ken

Starting to sound like a bootleg! Tomorrow I shall take a recording of it and post the YouTube link here I have to admit there is something I find oddly hilarious about the concept of a bootleg shellac involving a King. Sort of like coming across a set of “Genuine Pyjamas worn by George Washington” complete with washing machine instruction label haha!

Antonia E wrote:, but then I tend to mangel my words with the greatest of ease

But do you mangel your wurzels?

-Bill

Lucius1958 wrote:

Antonia E wrote:, but then I tend to mangel my words with the greatest of ease

But do you mangel your wurzels?

-Bill

Wurzels is mades to be mangled - and I’s thunk that without even havin’ me thinking head on

In Somerset we are very proud of our Wurzels. We even have records of them :

epigramophone wrote:In Somerset we are very proud of our Wurzels. We even have records of them :

Fabulous band!! I had a good friend from Devon when I was at uni, he was born in Somerset and his family relocated - he’d play the Wurzels on cassette often and they were glorious fun! The Blackburd Song was my favouirite by a long chalk! Where be it blackbird to...., I know where it be....

Wonderful!!!!!