Audio recordings of radio airchecks, station IDs, and broadcasts collected by the Missouri Broadcasters Association as part of a pilot program for the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force. The collection contains audio digitized by Missouri radio stations, along with a small amount of original recordings and other material.
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Analog audiocassette, Open reel tape (unknown material), and Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
Extent:
8.34 GB of digital files, 2 audio cassettes, 7 audio tapes, 17 CDs
WLUR-FM Broadcast Archives include interview and public affairs talk programs, as well as the House Mountain Radio in-studio musical performance series. Talk programs include Equal Time (general public affairs/interview), Headsets (oral history), and Radio IE (international education and global affairs).
Recordings of interviews, broadcasts, and call-in segments primarily created for the radio program Art of Jazz, produced and presented by Art Vincent, Jazz DJ and concert producer. The show aired on radio stations in the New York Metropolitan area, including WFHA, WJLK, WRLB, and WGBO. In addition to some live concert recordings, the show featured interviews with major figures in the jazz world.
The Arthur B. Church KMBC Radio Collection contains multiple episodes of The Brush Creek Follies featuring the Rhythm Riders, Oklahoma Wranglers, and Midland Minstrels. Most of the collection is related to the events of WWII, FDR, and Harry Truman, D-Day invasion coverage, reports on the signing of treaties, the dropping of the atomic bomb, coverage of the activities of President Roosevelt and Eisenhower. Other highlights include broadcast about the Cold War, Harry Truman's speeches to a multitude of different groups, events at the White House, some of Roosevelt's fireside chats, national news coverage, film footage of KMBC's dedication as well as a segment of the Microphone Personalities, recordings of Pun and Punishment (9/22/60), coverage of Truman and Churchill at Fulton, MO, Churchill's famed "Iron Curtain" speech, recordings of the Texas Rangers. Also included are W.S. Hedge interviews Arthur B. Clarke (6/22/66), KMBC's 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (3/24//48), Church's last KMBC broadcast (1/15/51).
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Lacquer disc, Metal disc, and Motion picture film
The collection consists primarily of audio tapes of two radio programs produced by Bailey Broadcasting Services: The Hip Hop Countdown & Report (1991-1998) and RadioScope: The Entertainment Magazine of the Air (1990-1996). Press releases for RadioScope broadcasts are also included.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Text document, Photographic print, and Photographic negative
WOR Inaugural 50,000 Watt broadcast 2/22/35 (2 recordings); Ed Fitzgerald/Benay Venuta (actress) 12/28/36 - cut #1; Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald WOR 25th anniver. 2/22/47 – cut #2; Breakfast with the Fitzgeralds 10/8/44 – cut #3; Gabriel Heatter (commentator) 1940 – "We the People"; The Gambling’s at home Xmas-1954; John B. Gambling Second Breakfast 7/28/1956; Dorothy Kilgallen/Dick Kollmar WOR 11/12/62; Norman/Ruth Peale – at home audition 6/13/63; Vincent Tracy WOR debut show 2/4/64; Jean Shepherd on WOR 8/4/65; Jean Shepherd on KFRC San Francisco; Peter Lind Hayes/Mary Healey WOR 1/24/69; WOR-AM archive ID Themes 1/16/70 - 23 cuts
These materials comprise a thirteen-part radio series of public service broadcasts produced by Sam Chase for WLIB radio in New York in cooperation with Newsweek Magazine.