Radio recordings from 1929-1984 on 1/4 inch open reel tape. These are recordings of radio shows dating between 1929 and 1984. Series include: Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony; Paul Whiteman Presents; Bell Telephone Hour; Desert In Las Vegas; NBC Bandstand; a BBC production called "Ragtime to Rock N Roll"; The Ben Bernie Show; Rudy Vallee Show with John Barrymore; Kraft Music Hall; Amos N' Andy; The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; Jack Benny Show; Eddie Cantor Show; The Great Gildersleeve with Harold Peary; Suspense; The Lives of Harry Lime with Orson Welles; Fred Allen; Gene Autry's Melody Ranch; many miscellaneous recordings.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Contains transcription discs of programs Brown produced or directed plus other CBS programs. Collection includes: You Are There (a.k.a. CBS Is There), The Thin Man, Flash Gordon, Inner Sanctum, Suspense, Mystery Theatre, CBS Radio Workshop, Backstage Wife, Mr. Chameleon, Inspector Brooks, Young Widder Brown, Stella Dallas and Inspector Hawkes and Son. An inventory of the collection is available in the Media Department.
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia
Eighteen transcriptions of The Happy Two broadcast over WAGA, Atlanta, GA from May-September of 1948. The program featured performers Shorty Bradford and Lee Roy Abernathy.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
1945-1995 The collection consists of 50 years of radio, television and film productions, papers, and photographs documenting the founding and growth of Protestant Radio and Television Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
4300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Papers document Charlton's role in promoting the programs of the National Recovery Administration and include bulletins, news releases, reports, radio scripts, speeches and stories chronicling the Depression.
Renfroe, a sportscaster, broadcasting high school football and basketball games from Atlanta and Macon, GA; and college games from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee; a few tapes of interviews on radio talk shows discussing sports
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
171 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History