New Jon Lundberg, The Vocalism Of The Golden Era Of Drag Racing

“In ’64, I went to the NHRA Nationals every bit the announcer for Hurst Performance Records. Dick Blake of Fleetwood Records contacted Jack Duffy, the PR guy for Hurst Performance, together with told him that recordings of the races would hold upward proficient for the sport. I got the telephone phone from Hurst, together with the laid out upshot I did was the Bonneville National Speed Trials the calendar week earlier the NHRA Nationals. The laid out guy I interviewed at Bonneville was Burt Munro, the passenger of the World’s Fastest Indian motorcycle.

“We took him to dinner, together with nosotros used a Nagra recorder, the world of the art, 3/8-inch-wide tape, stereo microphones. Dinner took iii hours, together with the central was marvelous. Why that tape was never published, I don’t know."

(wouldn't that recording hold upward something you'd dearest to heed to?!)

read the entire article close his amazing career interviewing all the greats of drag racing at http://www.hotrod.com/articles/jon-thunderlungs-lundberg-the-voice-of-drag-racing/

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