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
Interviews and live concerts by local and national bands, several commercial music recordings, selected Pacifica programming. Date range = 1950s-70s, with additional material from 80s + 90s
Mostly undigitized, but contains interviews with musicians such as Sun Ra, James Brown, and 12 reels collected by an attendee at the Woodstock music festival, among other recordings
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
A variety of recorded interviews across multiple collections, as aired on a variety of radio stations, including WHYY and (possibly) WEXP, which took to the air in 1972. Online catalog needs further exploration.
Conversation with Semu Huaute, Chumash Medicine Man, on a variety of topics. Recorded at a powwow held at Tonawanda, New York, in the summer of 1966. Broadcast by Radio WBFO (Buffalo, N.Y.) in November 1967. Also includes a brief speech by Mad Bear recorded at the same time.
News + public affairs shows (including coverage of Vietnam War protests + student takeover of campus administration building), freeform music shows, and "Film" and video interviews with former station workers. Additional documentation includes runs of station program guides. Dates pick up in 60s and run through 70s and beyond.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Campaign spots, "H-Bomb Radio Spots," WNEW, Clifton Utley, Mrs. Edison Dick, Edward R. Murrow ("This I Believe"), "The National Purpose," Billy Graham, Jack Webster, Carl Sandburg, John Gardner, Clinton Rossiter, Albert Wohlstetter, Walter Lippmann
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
The records of WDCR contain approximately 377 tape recordings of lectures, interviews, press conferences and other programs broadcast over WDCR. The recordings document events at Dartmouth College and the discussion of campus issues, concerns and protests, as well as national and world news. Among the recordings are interviews with Malcolm X, Alger Hiss, Dartmouth presidents Dickey and Kemeny, and lectures by politicians, entertainers and scholars; battle lectures by history professor Lewis Stilwell; "Noon Hour" programs hosted by Cliff Ennico; and one tape of broadcasts from WDCR's predecessor WDBS.
The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
The vast majority of the collection consists of audio recordings of more than 2000 radio broadcasts of nostalgia shows hosted by Clark including Rock, Roll Remember, Countdown America, US Music Survey, National Music Survey, Dick Clark’s Music Machine, and Dick Clark’s Solid Gold. The tapes were produced by Dick Clark Productions and broadcast from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s.
The 3608 Toscanini recordings include test pressings of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in concerts, as well as NBC broadcasts of operas, festival performances, sacred music and more, including rehearsals; for many of these, the location and date of the recording is given and in some cases additional information such as names of performers. Broadcasts took place in the 1930s and 40s.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
3608 recordings (747 tapes, unknown number of lacquer discs)
Recordings from various talk, interview, and telephone shows on NBC radio that Nebel conducted over his career, spanning the years 1964-69 (including Addio, Long John Nebel Phone Show, Long John Nebel All Night Show, Long John Nebel Early Hour, Straight Line, etc.). Nebel's programs dealt with a variety of topics, including religion, politics, medicine, and the theater. Many of the shows were concerned with psychic phenomena and the occult, with representative topics such as ESP, UFOs, hypnotism and spiritual healing.
Recordings from Corwin’s CBS radio series (One World Flight, This is Radio, Radio is Here to Stay, Columbia Presents Corwin, An American in England, etc.). Broadcast from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
374 16-inch glass and aluminum based lacquer discs and a few reel tapes
These tapes of WAER broadcasts primarily hold topical broadcasts and live concert recordings. Few of the tapes are dated, but those that are cover a span from 1965 to 1979. Announcers or presenters are rarely identified. The news items include a mix of national and local productions, but there are relatively few in the collection compared to the concert recordings. Many concerts were given by popular artists such as Pink Floyd, Bonnie Raitt, Canned Heat, Niels Lofgren, and Commander Cody, taken from national broadcasts, mostly originating from New York City or Boston. The collection contains recordings of only a handful of concerts broadcast by Syracuse University student ensembles. 25 tapes are identified as having been recorded on-campus at the Jabberwocky Café; surviving performances from this intimate venue include those given by John Fahey, Taj Mahal, and David Bromberg.
Unknown number of magnetic tapes, presumably of concerts of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra as broadcast on WCNY Classic-FM, Central New York’s classical music radio station.
Consisting of recordings dubbed from WSYR radio broadcasts between 1939 and 1957, the collection largely consists of news broadcasts and speeches. Many important events and public figures of the era are recorded on these broadcasts.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
10 linear feet of material, primarily 78 and 33 RPM instantaneous disc recordings, along with 176 reel to reel tapes.
Wide-ranging collection spanning 1928-70s and beyond. Holdings include local programming from stations throughout the country, including WBAI, WCBS, WNEW, WRCA, WMCA, WRVA, WNWK, WABC, WWL, WNEW, WOR, WHN, WQXR, WNYC, WBRC, WBRD, WBYN, WCAU, WCKY, WOL, WCOI, WEA, WFUN, WGAR, WIIN, WIFE, WINS, WJZ, WJVA, WKIX, WKLO, WLEA, WLOD, WLS, WXRK, WOKO, WONE, WPLI, WQAM, WQUA, WSAF, WTAN, WTYC, WTRY, KFOX, KMET, KABC, KPFK, KPHO, KRLA, KLSX, KROC, Pacifica. Content includes news coverage, interviews, classical and popular music, drama, sports, non-English language programming, etc. Personalities include later-nationally famous hosts and DJs and hosts such as Bob Fass, Dr. Demento, Casey Kasem, Alan Freed, Bob Crane, Arthur Godfrey, among others.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Tribute to 50-year career of Walter "Salty" Brine, who retired in 1992 after 50 years on WPRO-AM in Providence. Clips contained within date back to the 1940's, and include programs and show bits from the '40's through the '80's. Other RI Radio Hall of Fame broadcasters included in this compilation include Larry Kruger, Sherm Strickhouser, John Colletto, Bud Toevs
WMBQ, Brooklyn NY -- Several hours of programming from October 1936 in English, Yiddish, German, Lithuanian, Polish, and Hungarian. WCNW, Brooklyn NY -- Several hours of programming from November 1936-January 1937, featuring local programming in English, Yiddish, German, Hungarian, and Polish. WSB, Atlanta, GA -- several hours of local coverage of the 1947 "Three Governors Crisis." WNAC, Boston -- one Yankee Network News broadcast from February 1935. WHDH, Boston -- one 1935 talk by local American Legion leader, several hours of "Matinee with Bob and Ray" broadcasts from 1948-51, WIND, Chicago -- complete aircheck of April 1955 Chicago Cubs baseball broadcast, only known example featuring sportscaster Bert Wilson; WAVE, Louisville KY -- four fifteen minute musical programs from April 1937 featuring local talent; KPRC, Houston -- several hours of local programming including the "Crustene Ranch Party," locally-broadcast live country music feature heard over Texas Quality Network.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Extent:
Approximately fifty hours of local radio material as part of a much larger collection of general radio programming.