Surfing: Buddy Holly > Hogan’s Heroes

I had a question about a Buddy Holly song, so off I went to Wikipedia.

It’s in the nature of surfing that you read stuff you weren’t looking for, and I read this:

In 1949, still retaining his soprano, he recorded a bluesy solo rendering of Hank Snow's "My Two Timin' Woman" on a wire recorder borrowed by a friend who worked in a music shop.

Then I wanted to know what a wire recorder was. It turns out that the technology holding back tape recording wasn’t recording but developing the tape itself. But, in the late 40’s and early 50’s, recording on metal wire was the way to go.

But this is what caught my eye:

Though fictional, the Allied officers of Hogan's Heroes used a wire recorder to record a meeting in Kommandant Klink's office on a device that was disguised as a sewing box made of wooden thread spools.

I can remember watching that episode in repeats almost 40 years ago. And the thing is I can remember being struck by the weirdness of them recording on wire: to a kid in the 1970’s, tape was all there had ever been.

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Comments

[jim`]

As a 70's kid myself, we found a wire recorder in a friend's basement. Sure was fun to play with! Also found an early version of the GAF Viewmaster with Sally Rand doing the bubble dance, but that's another story...

[Dave Tufte]

Oooh ... you've got me beat.

All we had was a Wollensak reel-to-reel from ... circa 1960. My dad always told me about cylinder recorders (he bought one once but couldn't get it to work) and the places that would make a wax record if you recorded there.

When I cleared out his house, I also found a circa 1920 player of metal disks. I have yet to fix it up though.

[jim`]

"1920 player of metal disks" as in metal phonograph records? Seems to me I recall tubes once made of tin, but never disks. Or do you mean the music-box disks? In either event, that could be worth some money!

[David Tufte]

I mean a music-box (a Symphonion) with some disks: a Symphonion. I agree ... it is worth something, which is why I saved it.

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