Saturday, 16 October 2010

The Sound Makers of 1963




These amazing BBC archive records found their way in to my studio today. I can't explain how this happened due to the Official Electronic Secrets Act of 1957. I have 3 records which I will put up here over the next few days, and as far as I know these are not online anywhere else

The first is titled "The Sound Makers" and is a documentary about synthesis and sound manipulation at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop from 1963. It was part of the BBC's RECORDED PROGRAMMES PERMANENT LIBRARY which is an archive on vinyl, I believe limited to only a few copies of each




I have always felt that it is a shame the BBC don't make their archives available, think how much amazing stuff they have just sitting there in a vault somewhere - and that includes thousands of amazing TV programmes and documentaries

Below are some pictures from this gallery of Radiophonic Workshop images, chosen because they are from the period covered by the Sound Makers documentary











Download Side A
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19 comments:

  1. James17 October 2010 at 12:43

    Fantastic find - thanks for sharing.

    FYI - the 'Download Side B' link is linked to Side A.

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  2. c+c17 October 2010 at 17:04

    Amazing! Thanks for a very valuable contribution.

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  3. Figure 217 October 2010 at 17:10

    A real treat!!!! Thanks! :D

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  4. Anonymous17 October 2010 at 17:48

    Excellent find! I try to keep up on everything Radiophonic, but I've never head to this album.

    Could you fix the link to Side B?

    Thank you!

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  5. VICMOD17 October 2010 at 21:10

    none of the links are working :-(

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  6. Anonymous18 October 2010 at 01:17

    Thanks a million for this!!! sounds very interesting, but... links still not working :(

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  7. Anonymous18 October 2010 at 15:07

    Hello, can you please repair the link, it still doesn't work...?

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  8. Anonymous18 October 2010 at 20:19

    Thanks appreciated

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  9. zagoba19 October 2010 at 16:08

    ok it seems my dropbox bandwith got seriously stretched there for a while.... should be alright now

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  10. Anonymous20 October 2010 at 05:42

    Spread the (down)load!

    If the above are not working due to congestion, I've put Side A & B of the first record, along with a hyperlink and the large version of the label, into a .zip and put it on my own dropbox:

    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/532297/BBB%20-%20The%20Sound%20Makers%20%281963%29.zip

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  11. Anonymous26 October 2010 at 01:09

    I could chuffing KISS YOU

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  12. ben_sH26 October 2010 at 18:08

    Untold thanks for uploading this. I tried to get it out of the archives a few years ago with no success, so you're a lucky chap indeed for finding the record. I'm only mildly insanely jealous...

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  13. Matt D27 October 2010 at 18:05

    A total find... Thanks a bunch for sharing.

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  14. Jens4 November 2010 at 12:46

    What about the rest of the recordings? Will they be shared with us?

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  15. Marios10 November 2010 at 22:03

    This is brilliant. Dog biscuits winging their way over to your dog by carrier pigeon for sharing.

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  16. gb30326 April 2011 at 13:28

    Are any more of these available to listen to?

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  17. Dave J27 June 2017 at 13:16

    Hi, sorry to bump this older post but I wondered if you might be able to re-upload both parts of this amazing "Sound Makers" documentary from 1963.

    I'm currently writing a fanzine article on the early days of the Radiophonic Workshop and it would be a huge help to hear this unique programme. I would, of course, credit your blog in the finished article. Thanks in advance for any help on this.

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  18. steve norgate1 August 2017 at 16:49

    +1
    I've also doing research for articles on the Workshop, and this would be great to hear anyway - cheers!

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  19. steve norgate1 August 2017 at 16:58

    My blog btw http://bbcrecords.co.uk/blog/

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