European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 11, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 disconcerting Bureau a Firnberg West Germany nobody wants them and nobody legally can have them so about half of an Nurnberg s 50,000 phonograph records Likely will be heading for that big turn table in the sky. The studios Are scheduled to move across town next year and station Man Ager George Smith said that finding a new Home for the old records would Bemore trouble than they re Worth. Collectors need not cringe. These Aren t priceless Elvis records on their original Sun labels. Smith is talking about such in hits As one night stand by Leon Kelner and his orches tra Bolero time part ii polka party and the army symphony plays one issues and answers broadcast from 1967 opens with this probing ques Tion for then Secretary of state Dean Rusk or. Secretary do you think that Congress will Long continue to finance the War in Vietnam on the present scale when faced As we Are with an epidemic of racist riots in our cities for those who prefer a return to simpler times another record in the Nurnberg archives features original music from the to series Wagon Are you a sports fan How about How holy Cross won the 1947 Mcaa basketball championship the flip Side has that year s indy500 Auto race. The Nurnberg station has been getting its Standard Issue of about 50 discs a week from the military s radio and television service for More than 30 years. Most Are canned radio shows that Seldom were played even when new. Some were sent As backups in Case the network signal from Frankfurt failed. Others Are anybody guess. Smith is Quick to stress that much of the collection is worthless. Some individuals would like some of the music but not Many listeners would like us to play Bolero time or polka spec. Craig Beason a disc jockey at an Nurnberg looks Over some of the records that probably will be broken. Is Vince Crawley party " he said in his studios atop the bavarian american hotel in downtown Nurnberg. If sgt. Jeff Carter played polka party during drive time i think our phones would Light up like a As it is an gets enough heat about its programming while trying to satisfy every one s taste on one Channel. Only about a Quarter of the station s air time is scheduled for local non network radio shows and Smith likes to use live disc jockeys no recorded shows. Our Mission is to provide command information and entertainment for sol Diers he said casting doubts on whether polka party or Bolero time part ii fits either category. While the records might be fascinating to some Flea Market browsers an can sell them or even give them away because of Complex copyright agreements worked out by the Pentagon and the music Indus try. The military gets to buy air play rights for a patriotically Small fee. An s Parent network copies the music and radio shows onto government labelled records tapes and compact discs Are growing More common and finally ships the to local stations. Over the years the records stack up. The Frankfurt an station has a Quarter of a million a record Library it says is second Only to the Library of Congress itself. Nobody has Ever actually counted Nurnberg s discs but the estimated 50,000 Long playing records translate thoroughly five tons. That s six continuous years of quaint radio shows and moldy oldies. Smith has t made final plans for the records yet but his Bosses at an Europe in Frankfurt said it is station policy to break old discs that no longer Are needed. Sometimes arts will direct the network to mail specific recordings to other arts facilities or to places such As the Library of Congress said Manny Levy broadcast manager at the network. However if no one wants them the serv ice usually destroys the recordings As required to protect the producers copy rights Levy said. And the Library of Congress Smith noted already has its own copy of polka William Bloke s drawing Book to be auctioned London a a Sketchbook of the British poet and artist William Blake that sold 125 years ago for the equivalent of $30 is expected to sell for about$875,000 at an auction next month. The works of William Blake have been in such demand for so Long that it is rare for anything by him to come to Market now Anthony Browne head of English Watercolours and drawings at Christie s auction House said Friday. The auction is scheduled for March 21 in London. The sketchb9ok sold for about $30 at a Christie s Sale of the studio of victorian artist William Mulready in 1864. Blake who died in 1827, earned a meager living As an engraver while writing and publishing poems on biblical and mythological subjects illustrated with disown coloured engravings. He was known in his lifetime As a visionary artist and has since attracted enormous critical attention. The economist John Maynard Keynes was one admirer. Much of Blake s work is in the United states. The Sketchbook contains 49 imaginary portrait Heads of warriors saints and poets As Well As murder esses and other criminals. They include the emperor Charlemagne Mary Queen of scots the highwayman Jack Sheppard and col. Thom As blood an Irish adventurer who attempted to steal the Crown jewels from the Tower of London in 1671 and was pardoned for it by King Charles ii. Blake was encouraged to produce the sketches by fellow artist John Varley who thought character showed in people s physical appearance. William Blake s Sketchbook renditions of col. Thomas blood left and emperor Charlemagne. A
