Audio recordings from 1976-1987 on 1/4 inch open reel. The collection consists of "Reflections on Georgia," produced for broadcast on WUGA on old farm ways, saints and spirits, etc. Also included is audio of "Folklore in Georgia" featuring performances of local folk musicians including Howard Finster and "Bicentennial Minutes" featuring information about Georgia and UGA.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
314 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Primarily audio from 1943-1986. The collection consists of audio recordings and segments of various programs penned by Sloane, and recordings of some of his lectures, interviews, and phone conferences. Among the programs available are The Right to Live (1947, NBC) and Joy of Bach (1978). The only videocassette in the collection is a recording of part one of Kids Like These. Allan Sloane is a Peabody Award Winner.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
135 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
An award winning documentary produced by the Southern Regional Council that chronicles the struggle to end segregation in the South. Collection is organized into five series: Interview transcripts, Audio visual materials, Scripts, Program research files and Production files.
Two collections that contain lectures, including handwritten manuscripts, typed drafts with corrections and final copies. Many of the lectures were broadcast on the CBS Music Hour. Papers also includes talks for CBS Symphony Broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia
Contains papers of Johnny and Ginger Mercer and related materials, including audio recordings, sheet music, scripts, scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, business records, lyrics, clippings and autobiographical materials.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
1. Recording of 1935 Broadcast of Radio Station WJZ - Testimonial Dinner for Martha Berry in Hotel Roosevelt, New York City, including address by Martha Berry, a Berry Quartet, and the introduction of Martha Berry by Mrs. Emily V. Hammond; 2. Interview of Sander Vanocuiz (NBC-TV News) Jan. 12, 1967, #87; 3. "Comment" Radio Program, #63; 4. "Comment" Radio Program, Mar. 31, 1970, #16; 5. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #139; 6. "Comment" Radio Program, Nov. 1970, #30; 7. "Comment" Radio Program, Guest – Mrs. Overstreet - Nov. 11, 1970, #120; 8. "Campus Spotlight" Radio Program on Berry - Mar. 27, 1971, #128; 9. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #145; 10. Berry Academy and College Radio Spots, 1974, #131; 11. Berry Academy and College Radio Spots, 1974, #130; 12. Berry Academy Radio Spots, Apr. 27, 1974, #140; 13. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #141; 14. Berry Academy and College Radio Spots, May 1974, #126; 15. "Comment" Radio Program, #62; 16. "Comment" Radio Program, #66; 17. "Comment" Radio Program on Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleavor, #129; 18. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #134; 19. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #135; 20. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #143; 21. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #144; 22. WLAQ News following Hammrick Hall fire
Content dating from1950-1990 on 1/4 inch open reel, film, and videotape. The collection consists of hundreds of hours of Arnold Michaelis' audio, film, and video interviews with the world's leading political and cultural personalities. Martin Luther King, Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Dean Rusk, Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Indira Gandhi are just a few of the men and women interviewed by Michaelis in their own homes. Arnold Michaelis sought "to record for today and posterity, the flavor of the thinking and the essence of the ideas of the men and women whose lives will be studied by future generations." The bulk of the collection is made up of films, television programs, and radio programs that Michaelis produced, and elements used in those productions. The majority of the audiotapes in the collection consist of interviews, edited and unedited, with celebrities and political figures.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
1500 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Radio program from 1927-1987 on 1/4 inch open reel and audiocassette. The collection consists primarily of 1/4 inch open reel recordings containing over 3100 radio programs taped off-air. Programs include: That Was the Week That Was; Frontier Gentleman; G.I. Journal; The Cavalcade of America; Studio One; The Third Man, etc. All titles are listed in finding aid.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3178 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Contains papers and sound recordings of news and other programming, 1950-1970s. Includes a celebration of the station's 50th anniversary. Also includes photographs.
The Archive has duplicate collections of material held at The Museum of Television and Radio Collection (approximately 11,000 radio transcription discs from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s), the Broadcasting Foundation of America Collection (approximately 3,000 audio reels of radio news programs from the early 1970s) and the UCLA Radio Collection (approximately 1,300 radio transcription discs, primarily, 1930s-1950s). Contact the Archive for information about specific programs.
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia
Consists of commercial and non-commercial sound recordings of tunes, songs, music, radio shows and dictated letters by Mercer and his friends, colleagues, collaborators and fans. Some recordings contain interviews, dictated letters, and other non-musical material.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Recordings entered for Peabody Awards consideration from 1940 to the present day. Programs come in all genres and are locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally produced.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, Digital file (.WAV), and Digital file (.MP3)
Extent:
19000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Scrapbooks document Storer's career in the communications industry, 1947-1971, and include some newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence and memorabilia relating to the Storer Broadcasting Company, 1953-1971.
Repository/Collector:
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia
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
Programs date from 1941-1982 and are on transcription disc or LP. The UCLA Film and Television Archive donated duplicates of 1,368 radio transcription discs and LPs from their radio collection to the Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia Libraries.Al Clauser and His Oklahoma Outlaws The Ballet Bing Crosby Carnation Bouquet Carnation Contented Hour (extensive run) Carnation Family Party Casey, Crime Photographer Chuck Wagon Group Father Knows Best (extensive run) Flynn and Quinn Good News of 1939 Hallmark Playhouse Heartbeat Theatre (extensive run) I Can’t Leave Her Behind Labor Arbitration Lone Journey Louella Parsons Show Mystery Is My Hobby (extensive run) NBC Symphony National Farm and Home Hour Oklahoma Roundup President Truman Speech "Red" Carnation Gives a Weekend Party Rising Tide Scientific Dissertation Sons of the Pioneers Show (extensive run) Stars Over Hollywood Suspense This Is Your FBI (extensive run) Uncle Tom’s Cabin We’re Very Fussy On the Radio/How to Break Into Radio What’s Doin’ Ladies
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1368 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Recordings produced by this UGA station from 1973-2003 on 1/4 inch open reel and cartridges (carts). This collection contains approximately 2000 1/4 inch open reels and cartridges (or carts) from the University of Georgia student run radio station WUOG. The recordings run from 1973 until approximately 2003 and contain original programs and recordings. The station began broadcasting on October 16, 1972 with a 3,200 watt signal and grew to 10,000 watts by 1977. As of 1994 the station has 26,000 watts making one of the strongest signals for a student run station in the country.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Yuri Rasovsky was an award-winning writer and producer working in the field of radio drama in the United States. He founded and operated The National Radio Theater of Chicago from 1973 to 1986 and later formed the Hollywood Theater of the Ear.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Dave Sichak is a collector and researcher of country music. His collection consists of a lot of materials related to radio broadcasting such as station produced publications - KMA Guide, KWTO Dial, WIBW Round-Up, and WRVA Dialog, periodicals - Radio Varieties and Rural Radio, and yearbook and souvenir booklets - WLS Family Album. The collection also has sound recordings, books, and photographs.
Content types:
Text, Still image, and Performed music
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
20 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
The Wayne W. Daniel collection contains manuscript copies of his definitive book on the history of country music in Atlanta, Pickin' on Peachtree, research materials, audio cassette recordings of oral histories, black and white photographs, film posters, event announcement posters, posters of musicians, commercial audio recordings, commercial video recordings, and noncommercial video recordings.
Content types:
Text, Still image, Spoken word, Performed music, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc, Analog audiocassette, VHS, Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:
58 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
The Don Kennedy papers contain writings, audio recordings, photographs, printed materials, and awards related to Kennedy's television and radio broadcasting career. The bulk of the materials relate to the production of the Big Band Jump radio shows between 1989 and 2013. These include scripts, cue sheets, newsletters, and broadcast masters of the weekly programs. The papers include some full-length interviews with musicians and other big band-era figures that were subsequently edited for broadcast. The collection also includes promotional and photographic materials from his work with television station WATL-TV, 1976-1978; radio stations WKLS FM, 1960-1970, and the Georgia Network, 1972-1982; as well as his time as children's television host "Officer Don," 1956-1969.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
22 linear feet, 640 Optical discs, 300 Pressed LP discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Mr. Naylor's papers include scrapbooks relating to his life and career, and scripts for radio programs that he wrote, produced and performed in. Most of the scripts were written during his tenure at WGST, although some of them were written for use on KTAT and KFJZ in Fort Worth, Texas. Many of the Folders of scripts also include listener correspondence relating to the programs, and some contain background material that Mr. Naylor used when creating the shows. Additional content include materials from Mr. Naylor's tenure as the program director of WAGA radio and television from 1951 through 1959, and when he wrote and produced radio and television advertising for Coca-Cola products with the McCann-Erickson advertising agency from 1960 through 1986.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Notated music, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Text document, Pressed 78rpm disc, and Polyester open reel tape
Extent:
10 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
(In Hansard-MacDougald Memorial Collection.) Includes radio scripts and other writings about food, cooking and travel, primarily in Europe, linguistics and other topics and other papers.
Consists of papers relating to Ellis's career as a broadcast executive and journalist, including editorials, book manuscripts, radio scripts, speeches and sound recordings of programs, 1965-1981, broadcast over WSB.
Contains materials on a variety of musical topics, including files on Johnny Mercer and his contemporaries, country music, various aspects of radio and television and several miscellaneous topics relating to twentieth century music and/or the music business.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
10.5 inch reels of classical music performances from Radio Moscow, originally sent to Athens, GA radio station WDOL (on very fragile paper tape); concert recording of the Woody Herman band broadcast on WRFC
The collection documents Frances Wallace's many musical activities during her long career as a pianist and organist in Atlanta, and it provides a glimpse of Atlanta's musical scene during the middle years of the twentieth century.The Wallace papers are organized into four series: (I) Personal records; (II) Scripts and performance notes; (III) Music; and (IV) Audio-visual materials. she performed frequently on piano and organ on WSB, WAGA and WCON radio, as well as at the Roxy theater, Rich's and Davison's department stores, and made notable appearances with the Atlanta Pops Orchestra.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Text document, Lacquer disc, and Photographic print
Extent:
9 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains published and unpublished manuscripts, including an unpublished biography of Tallulah Bankhead, correspondence, reviews, poetry, literary contracts and photographs relating to Maxwell's activities as an author, editor and educator. Correspondence discusses Maxwell's writings, publication and readings of his works, his production of radio programs and his involvement with the Federal Writers' and Federal Theatre Projects.
Repository/Collector:
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia
Contains correspondence, advertisements and public relations materials, lyrics, sheet music, comedy material, programs and scripts, music catalogs, biographical material, autograph books, clippings and other papers relating to Jackson's career as a musician and entertainer who appeared on WERD.
Includes biographical information, correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, some sound recordings and other papers focusing primarily on Mercer's career in film, radio and theater.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Transcripts, on microform, of the Radio Pioneers Oral History Project from Columbia University. (See full listing under Columbia University Collections.)
WBML Radio recordings by Eddie Cannon and His Radio Playboys: featuring Ruby Lee Yopp Havis, 1947-1951 The collection consists of 50 radio transcription discs of recordings by Eddie Cannon and His Radio Playboys (featuring Ruby Lee Yopp Havis), originally aired on WBML Radio in Macon, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
50 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
WRAS Radio records, 1966-2009, contain materials documenting the Georgia State University student-run radio station. The collection consists of materials pertaining to day-to-day operations, tower construction and relocation, playlists, logs, news clippings, ephemera, station produced sound recordings (interviews, promos, drops) and sound recording submissions for the Georgia Music Show. Notable in the collection is the almost complete run of general manager files documenting the station’s activities under each manager.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
8 linear feet, 900 Optical and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
The records contain correspondence, memos, scrapbooks, news clippings, publicity materials, program log books, scripts, radio engineering lesson plans, contracts, licenses, photographs, sound recordings, moving image recordings, transcripts, and artifacts relating to the early history of WSB Radio, to WSB performers, programs, awards, and sponsored events (such as news workshops and career conferences for students), and to WSB-FM and WSB-TV.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, Three-dimensional form, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:
24 linear feet, 250 Lacquer discs, 40,000 Pressed 78rpm, LP, and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives