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When will this muisic be commercially available?

Austrian engineer Fritz Pfleumer developed recording tape and was granted a patent in 1928.
Hilter made tape recordings of his voice for
broadcasting, and the only available tape was made by German a company (AEG).

@ Simon from Manhattan:

It's a well-established fact that the technicians who developed/perfected magnetic audio tape (on a plastic substrate) were working for Hitler.

Hitler used tape to re-broadcast speeches, propaganda, music, etc.

So a great national treasure has been found and the record labels are fighting over who can screw us over for the most money?!

As a long time swing dancer and board member of Swing Dance Long Island (www.sdli.org), I am very excited to hear and dance to these high-quality recordings of music from a fabulous era. I can't wait for the digital recordings. Thanks Lenny for posting links to the songs here.

Savory recordings, you touched on it briefly, but it should be pointed out again that the recordings were made live, but, according to what I have read in the NYTIMES, on a direct line to his recording studio from the varioius radio stations in the city. The company where he was working made airchecks during the day for clients who wanted to verify their commercials were run correctly on the daytime radio shows, soap operas etc.

Great show.

Why does Lopate say "the Nazis invented tape?" is this some kind of generational thing? Why isn't it the Germans invented tape?

This is frigging awesome!

Thanks and congratulations to Messours Desavourette and Schoenberg for expanding our knowledge and enjoyment of this magnificent American music. Thanks also to Lenny. Here's hoping that the pop music cartel that usually prohibits such music will relent at least a bit.