JJ wrote:

GO BEARCATS wrote:


I've been deeply touched by your letter.
Thank you sincerely for your kind words about my self-appointed task of
re-creating these classic "Amos 'n' Andy" programs which, although
they were
listened to by the whole country when they were originally on the air,
were
never recorded!


Not sure which episodes are being referred to as "never recorded", but
that isn't true. They were recorded, however there are less than 60 of
the 1928-1929 known to survive, and even less from 1929-1943, so they
were recorded and some of those early recordings do still exists.


Just to add bit more on the A&A recordings, WMAQ in Chicago began
recording and distributing disk (12 inch 78 record) of A&A in early
1928. These Syndicated recordings were not live broadcast recordings but
were recorded by Gosden and Correll ahead of the broadcast and then
distributed to other stations. The disk were to be returned to WMAQ
after broadcast to be destroyed, that is why few survive.