Mostly recordings of music/talk related programs but including important news stories. Also have major studio sarchives of WABC-AM in New York City, WNEW-AM New York City, and others
The main program this group produced was the "Protestant Hour," a join venture of several southern denominations, including Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists.
Internal records for St Lawrence University-operated station WSLU and predecessor WCAD, dating back to 1930s. Recordings held in separate Recorded Sound Collection
Content types:
Other
Repository/Collector:
St Lawrence University Libraries, Special Collections and Vance University Archives
Air checks, sports, news, political coverage, local DJs, local music, station IDs/jingles, and local commercials from stations WKBW, WBEN, WINE, WHSO, WEBR, and WGR, from 1950s-1980
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, CD, MiniDisc, External drive, Website, VHS (audio), Betacam SP, 1, 2, and 3/4 in videotape, DVC pro tapes, and DVD
NJ Council of Churches; WINS Radio Programs (1963-64); Radio WMCA (1966); UTS production: in cooperation with National Association of Radio (196?); WRVR broadcasts (1965)WOR Radio Programs (1963-65)
We have a fair number of audio recordings of public programs and lectures at The New School going back to the late 1950s--certain of them bear evidence of having been recorded by Pacifica Radio at The New School (I'd have to call them in from offsite storage to check if the station name bears the names of both WBAI and Pacifica), and indicates air dates. These are on 1/4" reel to reel tape. We have a small amount of documentation between TNS and the station(s) and surmise that The New School had a relationship with WBAI or Pacifica to record and broadcast lectures/programs featuring well-known participants. The Pacifica Radio Archive lists at least some of these recordings in its online catalog.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Reel-to-reel
Repository/Collector:
The New School Libraries and Archives, Archives & Special Collections
"Many of these reel to reels and the 78s are segments, not actual broadcast recordings of lectures and recorded events. I have recordings of the events/interviews and stock background music but not the production pieces as they were aired from what I can discern."
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Programming tab in website page contains current list of local music, talk and syndicated shows; Lists and schedules available for 19 local music shows; 10 local talk shows; website links to 40 nationally syndicated shows
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
This is a live 13 hour broadcast (10 A. M.-11 P. M.) of the [7th] Wall to Wall at Symphony Space, celebrating Aaron Copland's 80th birthday, with a mix of Copland's compositions and other works by American composers; WNYC radio host was unidentified. Special guest appearences: Ruth Ford, John Ashbery, [Margaret Jory] (ASCAP), Maureen Stapleton, [Edward Albee], and Pearl Lang.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
12 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The collection consists of fifty one episodes from the 1946-1947 season. Most items are off-air recordings from WEAF or WNBC, New York. Episode titles are unknown unless specified.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
101 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and teacher Allan Blank. The composer talks about his teaching experience at number of schools and universities, such as University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; about his background, and about his career as a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor, and composer. He discusses his Two studies for brass quintet, Rotation, and Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird, based on poems by Wallace Stevens, excerpts of which are played during the interview.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams, was long regarded as the most important female musician in jazz, both as an instrumentalist and as a composer. In this interview she briefly describes some of the difficulties of being recognized as a musician in the male-dominated world of jazz. She also discusses her sacred works, which at the time of the interview were being performed at the St. Thomas church in Harlem.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Cassette contains review of New York Shakespeare Festival production Pirates of Penzance, on WBAI's radio show Anything goes, with Paul Lazarus. During the show, Lazarus played pre-recorded music selections: I am the very model of a modern Major-General / performed by Martin Green -- Willing (from Heart like a wheel) / performed by Linda Ronstadt -- Poor wandering one / performed by Jean Hindmarch.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Musical selection [Very soft shoes, from musical Once upon a mattress / lyrics by Marshall Barer ; music by Mary Rodgers] (2:40) -- Announcement (0:09) -- Musical selection [In my own lifetime, from musical The Rothschilds / lyrics by Sheldon Harnick ; music by Jerry Bock] (2:25) -- Announcement (0:48) -- Musical selection (3:04) -- Announcement (0: 34) -- Excerpts from the interview with Cy Coleman. He talks about his first experience composing music for the film Father Goose (1964) (3:50) -- Pass me by [from the film Father Goose / lyrics by Carolyn Leigh ; music by Cy Coleman] (2:00) -- Announcement (0:19) -- Musical selection, 1st song: Money isn't ev'rything, from musical Allegro / music by Richard Rogers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II ; 2nd song: What I did for love, from musical Chorus line (first line of text: Kiss today goodbye) / music by Marvin Hamlisch ; lyric by Edward Kleban (Priscilla Lopez, singer)] (7:16) -- Announcement (1:08) -- I'd rather be a fairy than a troll (3:32) -- Announcement (0:26) -- I'll try your way, from musical Fortune (2:27) -- Announcement (0:34)
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Radio interview with American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Excerpts from his music and songs composed for various films, such as I never do anything twice (from film Seven percent solution), and musicals, such as The frogs, Pacific overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily we roll along, are played during the interview.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
[Part 1]: Athaliah, Act 1 / H. Weisgall (48:56) -- Intermission interview with Hugo Weisgall on "Living Opera" (WNYC Radio, recorded 2/16/1964); Alan Wagner, interviewer and host) (12:30)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and Streaming onsite
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Edward Albano (Figaro) ; Anna Quartin (Rosina) ; Giuseppe Barsotti (Il Conte) ; Imerio Ferrari (Basilico) ; Eugenio Prosperoni (Bartolo) ; Miguel Sandoval, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
4 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This is a live WNYC broadcast recording of Rosalyn Tureck's harpsichord and piano recital, which is the second concert of the Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1979 was the first year of the festival). WNYC reporter and host Andrew Berger offers background information on each of the featured pieces, and talks about the upcoming events of the Basically Bach Festival. During intermission a pre-recorded interview of Rosalyn Tureck was played, and Berger read from Tureck's own program notes.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This is a live WNYC broadcast recording of Rosalyn Tureck's harpsichord and piano recital, which is the second concert of the Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1979 was the first year of the festival). WNYC reporter and host Andrew Berger offers background information on each of the featured pieces, and talks about the upcoming events of the Basically Bach Festival. During intermission a pre-recorded interview of Rosalyn Tureck was played, and Berger read from Tureck's own program notes.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Discs contain recording of unidentified radio broadcast of choral concert of unaccompanied Brahms songs. Includes a radio announcement (5 sec.) identifiying the pieces at the end of the recording; the announcer is unidentified.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Irmagard Seefried, soprano ; George London, bass-baritone ; Westminster Choir ; John Finley Williamson, choir director ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; Bruno Walter, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Seymour N. Siegel interviews Milton Helpern, Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York at that time, about his duties, and the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer of contemporary classical music, musicologist, and flutist Claire Polin. Polin talks about the current status of women composers, and about sexism in music. She speaks about both of her careers: as a composer, and as a flutist. The composer also discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Summer settings (for harp), The journey of Owain Madoc, Consecutivo: study on a requiem (for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano) (1966), and Infinito: a requiem (for alto saxophone, soprano solo, narrator, and chorus).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Maude Adams on Stevens College (1:13) -- Maude Adams recites prologue to Edmond Rostand's Chantecler (2:27) -- Rudy Vallee speaks with Hilaire Belloc (7:59) -- Virgil Thomson speaks about Four Saints in three acts (6:30) -- Gertrude Stein [from a 1934 radio broadcast?] (1:20) -- Fay Compton [from a 1969 television broadcast?] (3:33)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and CD
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and music theorist George Perle. Perle discusses his background, his career as a composer, and his influences.The composer talks about his article on Webern's 12-tone sketches, and explains the 12-tone system that he uses in his music in some detail. He talks about the influence of Berg and Stravinsky in his composition, but though he uses aspects of their methods in his own composing, he never adoptes them fully. He speaks about the meaning of avant-garde and new classical music in past and today, and compares it to "conservative music." He discusses the opera Lulu by Alban Berg. The composer introduces each of the following works, which are then played in their entierty: String quartert no. 5, Solo partita (for violin and viola), Serenade no. 1 (for solo viola and chamber orchestra).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains radio broadcast recordings, studio acetates, and performance recordings collected by Paskman of his works. Included are transcription recordings of the radio program Paramount movie parade (1933-1934); two recordings of live performances of Robert Stolz' Two hearts in 3/4 time, for which Paskman wrote the lyrics; and a live recording of the premiere performance of Halloween, a musical work with narration by Paskman. Also included is an interview with Paskman conducted by Albert Brush under the auspices of the Beverly Hills Public Library, which was broadcast over radio station KPMC (Beverly Hills, CA), December 4, 1940.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
30 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains radio broadcast recordings, studio acetates, and performance recordings collected by Paskman of his works. Included are transcription recordings of the radio program Paramount movie parade (1933-1934); two recordings of live performances of Robert Stolz' Two hearts in 3/4 time, for which Paskman wrote the lyrics; and a live recording of the premiere performance of Halloween, a musical work with narration by Paskman. Also included is an interview with Paskman conducted by Albert Brush under the auspices of the Beverly Hills Public Library, which was broadcast over radio station KPMC (Beverly Hills, CA), December 4, 1940.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
30 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center