Antena 2

El Arte de Vivir el Flamenco de José María Ruiz Fuentes

José María Ruiz Fuentes como Historiador del Arte del Cante Flamenco tiene el honor de presentar un programa de Radio para todas las Emisoras que se interesen por el. Es un programa inédito, único para sus oyentes, para que puedan conocer la verdadera Historia del Arte del Cante Flamenco.

Titulado ESCUELA DEL CANTE FLAMENCO. 

Todos ellos del siglo XIX, que dejaron en sus discos grabada su propia escuela, para que le sigan a lo largo de la historia otros grandes maestros, y así continué esta perfecta escuela del cante flamenco.

He tenido la suerte de conservar estos discos históricos de las primeras grabaciones, de estos grandes maestros, para poderlos dar a conocer y enseñar su escuela como su biografía. 

Dándolos a conocer de forma que lo entiendan y no se queden en el olvido, cuando se escuche este programa completo, tengo la absoluta certeza de saber que he podido enseñar como era el flamenco en su mejor época, como también conocerán quienes fueron sus creadores de estos grandes estilos del cante Flamenco. Programa muy Cultural para toda clase de oyentes.

Radio's singing canaries craze of the 1920s-1950s

From the 1920s through the 1950s, radio stations across the country aired "singing canaries" programs. These shows featured canaries—the actual birds—singing over organ music or orchestral music.

The show that started the craze was American Radio Warblers, a program that was created by Arthur C. Barnett of the Chicago ad agency Weston-Barnett Inc. for American Bird Products, which sold birdseed. The program featured organist Preston Sellers performing with 10 canaries who were billed as the "original feathered stars of the air." The "air," of course, referred to the radio airwaves, not the troposphere in which wild birds fly.

In 1952, Sales Management magazine summarized the history of the show:

Twenty-odd years ago a Chicago advertising man landed a birdseed account, and got an idea—a radio program of singing canaries with organ music. It's still going over Mutual, coast-to-coast. Like other radio stars, these canaries take time out in summer—that's their molting season.

The Wikipedia article on American Radio Warblers says that the program ran from 1937 to 1952, but Broadcasting magazine reported in 1948:

Singing canaries of the American Radio Warblers 15-minute Sunday afternoon show on MBS, under sponsorship of American Bird Products Co. (Bird Seed), Chicago, returned to air Oct. 31 for its 22nd consecutive year.

If Broadcasting is correct, then the show began in 1926.

The American Radio Warblers crossed over from radio to recording with a series of phonograph records that were produced and distributed by Barnett. One of these records, "Skaters Waltz," can be heard in the video link above. Barnett didn't restrict his efforts to the canary; he also released a bird-related instructional record, How to Teach Your Parrakeet to Talk, in 1951.

Singing canaries programs quickly became ubiquitous on the radio. In 1946, the book The First Quarter-Century of American Broadcasting remarked that singing canaries programs appeared "over too many stations to be listed here, affording hours of delightful entertainment to millions, particularly shut-ins."

One of the copycat programs that appeared in the wake of American Radio Warblers was called The American Warblers, a Sunday-morning show on Chicago radio that featured organist Edna J. Sellers.

At WWDC in Washington DC, morning man Art Brown played traditional and popular tunes on the organ to the accompaniment of singing canaries. Sam Smith claims that Brown could control when the canaries sang "because they would only warble in the key of A flat."

John B. Gambling's morning show on WOR in New York, which ran from 1925-1959, featured singing canaries and the orchestra of Vincent Sorey. Gambling's popular radio show was turned into a television program on WOR-TV, Get-Together with Gambling, in the late 1940s. A Billboard review of the TV show complimented Gambling's "blandly paternal" manner but said, "Talentwise...the show was literally for the birds. Gambling's telegenic aviary showed far more sales-savvy than the humans on the bill."

Hartz Mountain Products, an animal products company that later became known for its flea collars, sponsored a 15-minute singing canaries program called Master Radio Canaries on WGN in Chicago. Like the American Radio Warblers, the Master Radio Canaries (sometimes billed as the Hartz Mountain Master Canaries) also appeared on phonograph records. You can hear one of their recordings in the video link below.
The singing canaries programs appear to have died out in the 1950s, but if anyone knows of any examples that ran for longer, let me know in the comments.

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Jim Fassett - Symphony of the Birds

Jim Fassett-Born 1904 died 17 December 1986, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

Jim Fassett will be remembered by space age pop fans for one amazing piece of work: his 1960 Columbia album, Symphony of the Birds. Working with CBS radio technician Mortimer Goldberg, Fassett painstakingly pieced together fragments from recordings of bird calls originally made in the field by Jerry and Norma Stilwell. By rerecording some of them faster or slower and then superimposing multiple playbacks onto one tape, Fassett and Goldberg wove together the results like an arrangement for symphony orchestra.

Even if you don't appreciate the art of the work, Symphony for the Birds earns the kind of fascination and admiration one holds for achievements like toothpick models of the Eiffel Tower or the world's biggest ball of string. Created in three parts--Andante e lirico; Buffo; and Misterioso--the Symphony was debuted on by Fassett on one of his regular Sunday afternoon programs on CBS radio.

Backing Symphony of the Birds is another Fassett creation, A Revelation in Birdsong Patterns, in which Fassett and Goldberg took field recordings of various songbirds and slowed them down to show the intricate musical motifs hidden to the human ear at the pitch and speed of the actual calls.
Fassett spent most of his working life in radio.

He joined station WBZ in Boston in the late 1920s. A great lover of classical music, he also served as music critic for The Boston Herald. In 1936, he moved to New York City, where he served as assistant musical director for the CBS radio network. Soon after joining CBS, he began hosting the intermission show during the weekly broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, a job he held for many years.

In 1942, he was promoted to lead musical director for CBS Radio, a position he held until his retirement in 1963.

He continued to write musical criticism and other articles, and in 1969, he published a travel book, Italian Odyssey.
Recordings

Symphony of the Birds, Ficker C1002
Strange to Your Ears, Columbia ML-4938
Scandinavia, Columbia ML-5147
Hear the Animals Sing, Harmony HL 9506 (kid's record)

Radio classica de España

elrubiodacul -Last FM

Grupo Etnográfico de Lorvão. Beira Litoral

CLUBE ORNITÓFILO DA BEIRA LITORAL

Radio lauribano

Virginia Belmont online Audio -BIRD SONGS AND TRAINING RECORDS

Performers T.V. -- Mynah Bird -- IndiaDick -- Canary -- Chopper -- EnglandBambi -- Parrot -- Panama--Prince -- Canary -- Warbler -- U.S.A.Marmaduke -- Halfmoon Conure -- S. AmericaCleopatra -- Cockatiel -- AustraliaPrecious -- Parakeet -- AustraliaSisky -- Siskin -- Finch -- AfricaShamy -- Shama Thrush -- IndiaBravo -- Cardinal -- Brazil












A Beautiful Recording Created & Produced By Virginia Belmont
Displaying Her Magical Power With Singing & Talking Birds
Illustration From The Album Cover
Cover photo by Bachrach Cover design and illustration by Ely Besalel

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Anthony Olszewski
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BIRD SONGS AND TRAINING RECORDS

Congratulations http://www.whistlingrecords.com/index.htm

There are countless field recordings of birds - they've been made for decades. The "bible" would have to be Roger Tory Peterson's A Field Guide to Western Bird Songs. I'm particularly fond of the ones from the forties and fifties for their colorful graphics and interesting packaging. Aside from that, a robin sounds like a robin whether it was recorded in 1930 or 1980. The handful presented here a little less technical and a little more fun than most.