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22. Southern Folklife Collection
- Description:
- 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.
- Repository/Collector:
- Southern Folklife Collection
- Online finding aid:
- View on www2.lib.unc.edu
23. Hupka, Robert. Robert Hupka Collection of Toscanini Test Pressings.
- Description:
- 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)
- Repository/Collector:
- Belfer Audio Archive
- Online finding aid:
- View on library.syr.edu
24. WSYR Collection
- Description:
- 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.
- Repository/Collector:
- Belfer Audio Archive
- Online finding aid:
- View on library.syr.edu
25. Radio Collection
- Description:
- 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
- Extent:
- 3,300+
- Repository/Collector:
- The Paley Center for Media
- Online finding aid:
- View on www.paleycenter.org
26. Norman Corwin Papers
- Description:
- 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
- Repository/Collector:
- Belfer Audio Archive
- Online finding aid:
- View on library.syr.edu
27. Te Deum [sound recording] / Kodaly.
- Description:
- Erno Rapee Orchestra and Chorus; Erno Rapee, conductor.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
- Extent:
- 2 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
28. G. Edward Pendray Papers
- Description:
- 1944 interview, "George Hicks, Broadcast of Aerial Attack on Convoy" (1944)
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
- Extent:
- 2 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
29. Elizabeth McLeod
- Description:
- 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.
- Repository/Collector:
- Elizabeth McLeod
30. The Emperor Jones [sound recording] : opera except / Louis Gruenberg.
- Description:
- Unidentified radio broadcast of opera excerpt, performed live in 1934.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
- Extent:
- 2 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org