With over 300,000 recordings on tape, disc, cylinder, and piano roll, the Historical Music Recordings Collection is both the depository for University of Texas at Austin recordings and those of select orchestras, radio stations, national and international arts organizations. Named collections within the HMRC include: Irving Feld Radio Dramas; UT Radio House Transcription Discs; Mary Henrietta Chase Collection of Bing Crosby Lacquer Discs; KUT open-reel tape; Longhorn Radio Network open-reel tape; KMFA "20th century Romantics"; Austin Symphony Orchestra; Houston Symphony Orchestra; HMRC-CDs; 16-inch transcription discs (general collection).
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Metal disc, LaserDisc, Cylinder, Analog audiocassette, Digital compact cassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, U-matic (including U-matic S), Text document, and Piano rolls
Extent:
300,000 items
Repository/Collector:
The University of Texas at Austin, Fine Arts Library
Over 250 16-inch broadcast transcriptions dated from July of 1941 through February of 1950, divided more or less evenly between news material (principally from the NBC "Blue" network) and "classical" music: largely orchestral music, with some opera selections.
Reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, with performances by numerous Swing-Era bands including Artie Shaw, Count Basie, and many others. The principal focus of the collection, however, is Benny Goodman, with live performances, airchecks, and electrical transcriptions.
Content types:
Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape
Printed music and some manuscripts from Dallas-Fort Worth area radio stations WFAA and WBAP, accumulated through the decades in which they employed live radio orchestras.
A very large amount of sheet music, both popular and classical, including a significant segment of choral and sacred works from when WOR employed an in-house radio orchestra.
Memorabilia from a classical music radio station in New York City, WNCN 104.3, and includes items reflecting efforts by its Listeners Guild to keep the station on the air in a classical format.
Papers, recordings of radio interviews, and other sound recordings, mostly in connection with Tater's career as host of jazz radio shows, principally at KJZY (Sonoma County, CA), and KETR (Commerce, TX).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Photographic print, and Text document
Produced by the Longhorn Radio Network and the Center for Mexican American Studies for KUT, the "Mexican American Experience" (and its brief successor, "A esta hora conversamos") archive contains interviews, music, and informational programs related to the Mexican American community and their concerns. Topics covered on these programs include political activities of Mexican Americans, Mexican American folklore and folk medicine, corridos, Tejano music, Mexican American musicians, voting rights, education, health, farm workers' unions and working conditions, and some Mexican and Central American topics. "The Mexican American Experience" was first produced by Alejandro Saenz; writers include Andres Tijerina and Santos Reyes. Subsequent moderators and producers include Armando Gutierrez and Linda Fregoso. Linda Fregoso was also the producer and interviewer for "A esta hora conversamos."
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material) and Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
Created by the Institute of Latin American Studies and KUT, the "Latin American Review" radio program was broadcast as part of the Longhorn Radio Network. Covering all of Latin America and the Caribbean, the program aired from 1973 to 1984. The program was primarily divided into two segments, a news segment, dealing with reports from different parts of Latin America, and an interview segment, in which an individual or small group was interviewed. A diverse number of topics were covered including human rights abuses, economic conditions, music, popular culture, and the history and politics of the region. Originally airing as the "Latin American Press Review" the program had its title changed in 1976 to "Latin American Review."
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Text document
Extent:
472 Reel-to-reel audio tapes (+253 duplicates), 91 compact audio cassettes, and scripts-3.5 linear feet.
Radio program Latino USA began production by KUT and the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. In 2010 production moved to the Futuro Media Group. Still produced by Maria Hinojosa and aired on NPR today, Latino USA presents stories on Latina/o history, culture, and current affairs.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Sounds (Other than music & language)
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
410 audio cassettes, 331 compact discs, and 133 Audio Files, plus unprocessed materials.
Collection includes 12 radio scripts from early 1950s. The collection is largely unprocessed, but two specific program titles are "The Rio Grande Valley Citrus Fiesta," which originated at KRGV and was broadcast on NBC’s National Farm and Home Hour, and "The Rio Grande Flood" from 1954.
The KTRU Rice Radio archive includes audio created by the student radio station from 1969 - 2005, covering a variety of searchable topics, such as: news, sports, interviews, musician interviews, and speeches and lectures. To learn more about the Rice University KTRU Radio records and their complete contents, please visit our detailed inventory.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
25 lin. ft.
Repository/Collector:
Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library
Includes correspondence documenting Chillman's active role in the Museum's weekly radio programs and public service radio spot announcements regarding museum events.
Contains scripts for spot announcements and programs broadcast on KTRH, KPRC and KTHT, 1938-1947. The announcements provided information about the Museum and its collection, new acquisitions, exhibitions, demonstrations, films, gallery talks, concerts and the Museum's hours. Scripts are included for the following programs: Look and Listen, 1939-1944, Art and Music, 1944, Art is Fun, 1943-1950, and Art Techniques, 1943-1944.
Includes personal and business papers. Papers relating to KPRC are in Hobby's personal office files and range from early architectural drawings to licenses to instructions on how to run the switchboard. Also includes files from FCC hearings, 1955-1959, and a history of the station.
Repository/Collector:
Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library
Consists largely of photographs and newspaper articles but also includes some personal correspondence and memorabilia. The bulk of the material relates to Camille Brown Waggaman and focuses on her radio career, 1932-1963, and the years after her retirement. Waggaman hosted a radio talk show in Alabama, Around the Town, for 31 years.
Repository/Collector:
Woodson Research Center Special Collections & Archives, Fondren Library
Transcripts of KGBC, Galveston, TX announcements during Hurricane Carla, 1961, including records from various agencies describing the storm and its aftermath and letters to station manager Steve Cowan from grateful listeners.
Contains approximately 700 tapes and discs dating from the mid-1940s. Check library's in-house database if any of these are radio broadcasts. An annotated chronological list is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Includes transcription discs of the radio series begun in 1945 and sponsored by Texas Gulf Sulphur. It was on one of these broadcasts that Van Cliburn made his debut at age 12. An annotated chronological list is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Includes approximately 1,700 tapes of the following radio drama series: The Black Museum, The Detectives, NBC University Theater, Theatre Royal, Suspense, The Queen's Men, The Lives of Harry Lime, Inner Sanctum and The Scarlet Pimpernel. A list of the contents of most of the tapes is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
In addition to being a radio station, KUT was for many years the hub of the Longhorn Broadcasting Network. As a result, the station received tapes of numerous series from producers in the U.S. and abroad, including music, interviews with artists, writers and musicians and comedy. Check in-house database regarding specific programs and dates.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Includes tapes of KUT broadcasts of UT Music and Musicians featuring UT faculty, students and guest artists such as Percy Grainger. A list of the contents of most of the tapes is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Papers, including radio and television scripts, 1964-1991, documenting Rooney's career as a journalist and broadcaster with CBS. Also includes papers documenting his work as a journalist covering World War II.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers documenting Burger's personal life and professional career in radio, television, public relations and consulting through scrapbooks, videotapes, notes and printed materials. Burger worked at CBS, 1941-1954.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers documenting Faulk's career as a folklorist, entertainer, author and target of the blacklist during the McCarthy years. The collection includes extensive files relating to Faulk's blacklisting experience and his legal case that interrupted his burgeoning career in radio and television broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes correspondence, song lyrics, music, literary productions, diaries and logs, scrapbooks, classified files, financial records, photographs, phonograph recordings, audio tapes, newspaper and magazine clippings, radio scripts, 1941-1945 and n.d., other radio related material and scrapbooks.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers documenting Trout's career as a radio and television news broadcaster, 1931-1992. The "Broadcasting Files, bulk 1931-1974," include material relating to Trout's career with CBS, NBC, ABC, WSJV, WCBS and National Public Radio. Includes material relating to Franklin D. Roosevelt, political conventions, presidential elections, fireside chats, D-Day, World War II-European theater, United Nations, Dwight D. Eisenhower, King George, Queen Elizabeth and the following programs: Perspectives, Political Broadcasts, World News Round-Up, Professor Quiz and Who Said That?
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains papers, audio and video materials reflecting Mickelson's career as a broadcast executive, including nearly 20 years with CBS beginning in 1943.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Contains papers documenting Cronkite's career as a United Press wire reporter and war correspondent before joining CBS in 1950. A second collection, "CBS Evening News Archive, 1962-1981," documents Cronkite's television program.
Repository/Collector:
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
As of spring, 2005, the collection was partially processed. The portion of the collection that can be accessed by researchers does include some radio plays and possibly other radio related material.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers document Dujardin's career as a novelist, poet, playwright, publicist, journalist and history of religion professor and includes material relating to his radio broadcasts, 1936-1939, and his radio plays.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes correspondence, scripts (also synopses and story outlines), photographs, music, clippings, legal and financial records and audio recordings which document Swanson's radio appearances, 1927-1981. The types of programs include interviews, radio plays, serials, patriotic appeals during World War II, commercials and talk shows. Includes material on The Gloria Swanson Show, 1950-1951 the Lux Radio Theatre version of "Sunset Boulevard," 1951 and other programs. See detailed list in finding aid. Note: The papers are divided into separate collections, each with its own finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Includes manuscripts for two radio plays: "Three Outcasts," which dramatizes the stereotypes found in children's rhyme and "The Circular Road," which explores a child's bereavement in the Jewish-Irish community. Names of programs on which the plays were broadcast is not shown.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Collection documents individual performers and minstrel show companies, including touring companies and contains material on Daily Paskman's Radio Minstrels.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin