I have long wished for a better understanding of the very beginning of the BBC’s own record labels. Over time, I formed a better understanding of what was being pressed up for use for BBC library use, what was being issued by the Transcription Service for other radio stations, and how they began to make …
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Here I am, pleased that I have a much better database than I had previously. I’ve removed a load of silly guesswork on where records should be. I’ve fixed a plain wrong pair from Mike’s Collection. I still need to add all the new ones I’ve found, assuming they are real, to really get all …
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In the last post I’d extracted 1720 unique catalogue numbers from the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and pasted them into Excel. As well as deduplicating the list I ran quick sort to begin the process of matching up what was in the catalogue with what I had in my list. Spot D Mistake I …
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Welcome to the third part of the third, well, part of Discographic Workshop. We’re still knee-deep in Doctor Who and this post is about the non-musical releases on the BBC Enterprises record labels. We’re starting with Doctor Who Sound Effects, of course, and there’s a story disc too – Genesis of The Daleks. Dick Mills …
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Death Is Not The End Two years ago I wrote a long post about BBC Records’ sound effects albums, and no.13 in particular. I wanted to put Death & Horror Sound Effects in context as well as telling as much of its story as I could. Now, here’s another long post about Death and Horror. …
After a brief introduction to Regular Expressions last time it’s time to actually scan the 1985 BBC Sound Effects Catalogue and turn it into a text file. Happily, I had already photographed this whole thing in early 2022. That taught me that the OCR task was not at all easy and I put it to …
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What does this mean to you? The EC and NH are prefixes for Sound Effects Centre catalogue numbers, so that’s a clue. The capital letters are a complete alphabet minus the letters I and O, which is another. Expressed Purpose This is a regular expression. You don’t come across them in everyday programmes like MS …
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Here’s a case study on a BBC Sound Effects record that’s on Discogs with an interesting* note. This is EC 19F, Motor Car: Ford Cortina 1600. https://www.discogs.com/release/7598199-No-Artist-Motor-Car-Ford-Cortina-1600 My interest is aroused by this note about a note. “Notes on paper sleeve from pressing plant which state “PU58, JOB 27422, 150 pressings, 4-3-75” Field recordings made …
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Late on in the collating (see previous post) I noticed these two copies of EC 91C – English Church Bells – had different matrix numbers. And I had to sit down to absorb this information. I was rocked back on my heels by this because it means an assumption I had about dating these records …
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The SFX 7” adventure has been on hiatus. I was making steady progress on the automatic cropping of the labels, but hit a bit of a wall with the many things I needed to do basically daunting me a bit, whereupon I lost momentum. Then I got busy on other things and I’ve been needing …
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