Tried digging through old radio archives for a song my granddad used to hum, wound up finding a full lost episode instead

I spent like 3 hours on archive.org last Saturday looking for this obscure folk tune from the 1940s. My granddad always sang it but could never remember the name. I didn't find the song at all, but I stumbled onto a recorded radio play from 1952 that had been labeled wrong in the system. It's a comedy show that only has one known copy in existence according to the comments. Now I'm down a rabbit hole trying to figure out if this was a rebroadcast or a whole different recording nobody knew about. Anyone else ever go looking for one thing and trip over something way rarer?

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emmajackson8d ago

Tbh I was looking for a 78 rpm record once and found a whole unmarked transcription disc of a live broadcast.

alice_wilson738d ago

Ha, and I just get excited when my GPS actually works.