RLDS Record Conversion Project

 From: Sam McLean

samuelbrice32@gmail.com

RLDS Record Conversion Project

 

DIGITIZING RLDS RECORDS  

Sam McLean Phone: 816-377-4991  

(Call or text - include your first and last name in the first text message or voicemail) Email: samdoesmusic2022@gmail.com

 

GOAL: Convert RLDS-related LPs (and filmstrips) to digital formats!  

 

This will help preserve and provide access to these underappreciated pieces of history. If you have ANY information regarding RLDS-related vinyl records, 45s, 78s, acetate discs, film strips with an accompanying record, etc. please let me know. 

Even if you do not have a copy, any information at all is appreciated, as there seems to be no reliable way to even find the names or release dates of these records.

 

All audio and video restored from these records and filmstrips will be posted on my Youtube channel for everyone to hear/see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdK_K0buAWShOF2TPb84NOw

To kick off the project, I have posted a record made in 1969 as a celebration of The Saints' Herald.

A frequently asked question is whether or not I will be converting cassette tapes - the answer is "not yet". However, if you possess or know of any relevant audio on reel-to-reel tapes, I would be happy to take a look at those.

The following items have been found, secured, and are set to be digitized: 

- “Favorite Hymns from the Auditorium Organ” (Vol. 1 and 2) - Bethel Knoche  

- “Stone Church Recordings - A Message to The Youth of The Church” 

- Elbert A. Smith  

- “Stone Church Recordings - Hymns of The Restoration” - The Stone Church Choir (2 LP set, red colored)  

- “Stone Church Recordings - The Messiah”  

- “God of Our Fathers and Other Favorite Hymns on the Auditorium Organ” - John Obetz - “Christmas Music  

- John Obetz at The Auditorium Organ” - John Obetz  

- “Thanks a Million for Placing The Saint’s Herald in 50,000 homes”  

- “New Hymns of The Restoration - Sung by The Radio Choir” - The Radio Choir - “Auditorium Recordings - Favorite Hymns of The Restoration” - The Radio Choir  

- SOUND FILM STRIP - “The Field is White” (1948). Record has been converted, the film canister is missing.  

- “The Auditorium Chorale - Song of The Restoration & Jesu, Priceless Treasure”  

- SOUND FILM STRIP - “The Right to Growth” (2 records and one film canister are present, there may have been a second canister that is missing). - “Obetz Plays Franck” (Auditorium Organ)  

- “John Obetz - The Chorale Preludes of Johannes Brahms”  

- “Greater Vancouver Church Choir Festival 1973: Sacred Music” (features the RLDS singing Psalm 150)  

- “Catharine Crozier - New Dimensions in Organ Sound Volume XIV” (recorded at the Auditorium organ)  

- "John Obetz - Organ Psalms and Hymn Variations"

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The following items have been discovered, but a copy has NOT been obtained:

- “The Independence Sanitarium Nurses Choir”  

- “John Obetz - The Aeolian Skinner Organ”  

- “The Stake Chorale - A Ceremony of Carols” (Detroit, MI stake chorale, December 1966)  

- “Central England District Choir of The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Joy To The World” (Cambrian records, Wales)  

- “Sing We All Now with The Auditorium Chorale”  

- “Bethel Knoche - Old Stone Church Organ” (KMBC? Red colored records, recorded inside the Stone Church)

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