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I know that there are many transfers of Hit of the Week records out there. Archephone even has CDs of all of them. But, I have a few of them and wanted to try to transfer them. I am amazed at how good they sound and how clean the sound is. These 15 cent records sound as good as most other records of the early 1930s. Their advertisements say their Durium records last longer than normal shellac records. Who knows if that is true, but they sure have held up well when kept flat. I have seen piles of them in antique stores that are curled up. I imagine the cardboard backing does that with humidity. Anyway, here are two nice songs from 2 of my Durium records.

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https://youtu.be/XgzFV7P5J3c

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https://youtu.be/HOmTp1pv7yQ

Thanks for posting these old gems (?). Donald Voorhees was an Allentown native who had a long career in radio and early TV (he conducted the Bell Telephone Hour orchestra---Bell's manufacturing arm, Western Electric, had a strong presence in Allentown), and was the founding conductor of the Allentown Symphony. There are still numbers of local musicians around here who played for him. This is a real blast from the past!

Archive.org has something like 165 HOTW titles posted.

https://archive.org/details/CompleteHit ... s1930-1932