This is a 3 LP record box set issued by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, still sealed in its original shrink wrap. The set features some key moments in the 50 year history of the CBC, starting with the first broadcast covering Dominion Day 1927, which was the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation. Some of the interesting tracks are reporting on events during WWII, an interview with Elvis Presley, a debate involving Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque, an interview with Glenn Gould, commentary by Marshall McLuhan, a track by Leonard Cohen, a track by Margaret Atwood, a speech by Martin Luther King, a segment on How the Beatles changed the world and other musical performances and commentary on events of the day. Canadian CBC FIFTY YEARS of RADIO 3 LP Box Set Mint Sealed 1986 Elvis Presley ++

Canadian CBC FIFTY YEARS of RADIO 3 LP Box Set Mint Sealed 1986 Elvis Presley ++

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This is a 3 LP record box set issued by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, still sealed in its original shrink wrap.  The  set features some key moments in the 50 year history of the CBC, starting with the first broadcast covering Dominion Day 1927, which was the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation.  Some of the interesting tracks are reporting on events during WWII, an interview with Elvis Presley, a debate involving Pierre Trudeau and Rene Levesque, an interview with Glenn Gould, commentary by Marshall McLuhan, a track by Leonard Cohen, a track by Margaret Atwood, a speech by Martin Luther King, a segment on How the Beatles changed the world and other musical performances and commentary on events of the day.  The tracks are as follows:

Side 1: 1927-1940

Margaret Anglin - Dominion Day 1927

Burt Austin - Fifty Chubby Toes

J. Frank Willis - Moose River Mine Disaster

The Happy Gang - The Happy Gang Theme / Beer Barrel Polka

Greg Clark - The Land Of Somewhere

J. Frank Willis - Embarkation Of Troops

Side 2: 1940-1945

Charles Gardiner - Air Battle

Lorne Greene - National News Bulletin

Lorne Greene, Unknown Artist - Army Of The Ordinary People

Kate Aitken - Wartime Fashion Show

Unknown Artist - A German World

Unknown Artist - Canada Calls 32,000 Men

Hugh Bartlett, Bert Pearl, Helen MacMillan - Share The Wealth

Cecil Da Costa - Tap Dancing Lesson

Unknown Artist - Let’s Think About Rubber

Rooney Pelletier - Dieppe Raid

Bob Bowman - Dieppe Raid

Unknown Artist - Children’s Game Offer

Howard Scott, Frances James, Chorus*, Sir Ernest MacMillan And Orch.* - Transit Through Fire

Mary Pickford - Victory Bonds Appeal

Matthew Halton - Attack On Carpiquet

Matthew Halton - Liberation Of Paris

Gilbert Harding, Wilson Woodside - VE-Day Celebration

 

Mary Grannan, Beth Robson, Frank Peddie, Lou Snider - Maggie Muggins

Alan Mills - Folk Songs For Young Folk

Maurice Bodington, Evelyn Gould, Unknown Artist, Quentin Maclean - Uncle Bod

Don Messer Orch.*, Charlie Chamberlain - Don Messer

Mavor Moore, Budd Knapp, Lucio Agostini Orch.* - Two Solitudes

Mark Kenney Orch.*, Art Hallman, Norma Locke - The West, A Nest And You

Fraser MacDonald - The Red Ear Of Corn

Alan Mills - Anti-Confederation Song

Neil Morrison, F.R. Scott, John O'Mara, John Diefenbaker - The Padlock Law

Earl Cameron, Quentin Maclean - Nocturne

Bill Bessey, Lloyd Percival, Red Kelly - Sports College

Cy Strange, Kate Aitken - Good Luck Commercial

Max Ferguson - Intro. To Rawhide

Bill Bessey, Libby Morris, Jimmy Namaro Quartet - Libby Morris Show

Unknown Artist - Lux Commercial

John Drainie, Frank Peddie, Lucio Agostini Orch.* - The Investigator

Jonny Wayne, Frank Shuster, Sammy Hersenhoren Orch.* - Canada’s The Place For Me

Side 4: 1956-1965

Frank Stolley, Bill McNeil (2), Maria Barrett, Gordon Sinclair, Eric Nicol - Assignment

Mac Lipson, Elvis Presley - Interview Assignment

Phyllis Webb - The Birds Of Summer

Nathan Cohen (3), René Lévesque, Pierre Trudeau, Raymond Gagnier - Fighting Words

Marion Hilliard - On The Single Woman

Max Ferguson - Marvin Mellobel On U-2

Glenn Gould, Raoul Engel - Gas Mask Incident

Leonard Cohen - You Tell Me That Silence

Foster Hewitt - World Hockey

Michael Maclear - Vietnam Report

Lois Marshall, Weldon Kilburn - Fairest Isle

Carl Tapscott Singers - Bless This House

Marshall McLuhan - On The Electric Age

Northrop Frye - The Educated Imagination

Laszlo Varga, Pierre Souverain - Sonata

Tom Earle, Dr. C.A. Morel* - On Thalidomid

Sandra Scott - Kindergarten Of The Air

Mary Grannan - The Story Of Biddy O'Bannigan

Lamont Tilden, Joy McLean - Playroom

Tommy Tweed - Leacock Story

Norman DePoe - The Flag Debate

Side 5: 1966-1975

Moe Koffman, Alan Muirhead Octet - Swinging Shepherd Blues

James Bannerman, Unknown Artist - How The Beatles Changed The World

Jon Vickers - Comments And Sings

Glenn Gould And Unknown Artist - The Idea Of North

Martin Luther King* - Massey Lectures

Lamont Tilden, Peter Meggs, Unknown Artist - Concern

John O'Leary, Pierre Trudeau - On Criminal Code Bill

Rex Loring, Pat Patterson, Ed Reid - Intro To Matineée

Tom Earle, Ron LaPlante - On Trudeaumania

Joan Stuart, Peter Cullen - Satiric Skit

Margaret Atwood - Untitled Poem

Dorothy Livesay - The Unquiet Bed

Alice Munro - Reads From Story

Barbara Frum, Harry Brown, Andrei Sakharov - Long Distance Call To Sakharov

Andrew Allan - Essay On Christmas

Side 6: 1976-1986

Harry Marris, N.A.C. Orch.* - On Kunstkopf

Warren Davis, Bronwyn Drainie - Chants

Thomas Berger - On Mackenzie Valley Pipeline

Nancy White - Stick Your Code

Roch Carrier - The Hockey Sweater

Stan Rogers - The Wreck Of The Mary Ellen Carter

Ted Withers, Terry Fox - Terry Fox Run

The Royal Canadian Air Farce - Air Farce Skit

The Frantics - The Human Race

Warren Davis, David Grimes, Martin Wesley-Smith, Osamu Shoji, Jean Piché - Night Satellite

Nicki Guadagni, Frank Morris, Angelo Rizakos - I’m Not Living Like This Any More

Harry Brown (7), Barry Morse, Henry Ramer, Andrew Gillies, John Mills-Cockell - Dramatization Of 1984

Augusta LaPaix - Today I Was Ironing...

Peter Gzowski - Essay On Remembrance Day