{"product_id":"2940173632357","title":"Best of the Big Bands, Vol. 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe music of a generation.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDance music remotes from restaurants, ballrooms,  hotels, and nightspots were one of radio's most enduring formats. First heard  in the early 1920s, band remotes lingered on until the early 1970s as a feature  of late-night programming. The remotes were usually unsullied by commercial  sponsorship, and above all, they were live, preserving the music with a fresh  spontaneity that explodes past the confines of the more familiar - and often  abridged - studio recordings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the broadcasts in this collection come  from original network transcriptions; of particular interest is a series of  previously unknown broadcasts from 1951, unearthed from a private collection  and heard here for the first time in over fifty years. Others are taken from  the Armed Forces Radio Service 'One Night Stand' series which, from 1943 through the mid-1960s, preserved a vast cross-section of dance-band broadcasts  using edited line-checks of original network broadcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e©2003 Radio Archives, LLC (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamscape Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123698876656,"sku":"2940173632357","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173632357_p0.jpg?v=1772495978","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173632357","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}