The Soviet All-Union Radio Committee Collection consists of excerpts of classical music, opera, and folk music on tape, all by Russian composers and performed by Russian musicians, from the late 1940s and early 50s. The tapes were used in radio programming by the All-Union Radio Committee (Vsesoiuznoe radio).
The KSFO Collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983. KSFO was known for their news and sports coverage, as well as the voice talents of such personalities as Don Sherwood, Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and Al "Jazzbo" Collins. The majority of this collection involves station marketing, promotions, and fundraisers, although there are airchecks and other broadcast recordings. Production library material includes jingles, themes, music beds, promotional spots, and advertising. Physical media in the KSFO collection is primarily audio on tape (around 650 objects), with some video (largely U-Matic cassettes), 16mm film (four reels), photographs, slides, and ephemera (eight scrapbooks of printed matter).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, U-matic (including U-matic S), Photographic print, and Text document
172 reel tapes of off-air recordings, made from 1951 to 1969, mostly broadcast recordings of performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera.
Audiovisual material and ephemera from the KSFO San Francisco radio station, made between 1956 and1983. Content includes famous radio personalities, station marketing, promotions, fundraisers, also jingles, themes, music beds, promotional spots, and advertising.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Broadcasts on Polskie Radio i Telewizja, distributed to Polish Arts and Culture Foundation in the U.S., interviews with Polish scholars, filmmakers, artists and discussions of Polish art, science, literature, history.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape
Extent:
3 boxes (69 open reel tapes on 3", 5" and 7" reels))
Evangelical sermons, prayers, and hymnal recordings mostly on compact disc, originally broadcast from 1937 to 1968 on the radio program Old Fashioned Revival Hour with radio host Charles Fuller (1887-1968). The collection includes original programs from the 1950s and rebroadcasts from 2002 to the present. More programs will be added as they become available. The music CDs and cassettes were were produced on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary and were published between 1999 and 2004.
Public radio program "In Recital at Ambassador," on KUSC, Los Angeles, featured live performances of principally classical music from the Ambassador Auditorium in Pasadena, California.
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and Polyester open reel tape
1000 off-air recordings of local and network radio, Menlo Park, CA from 1937 to 1949, made with home recording machine to make aluminum, lacquer discs of broadcasts, mostly war-related news & commentary
The Ragtime Machine was a weekly one-hour radio program about ragtime music, produced and hosted by David Reffkin and broadcast on the University of San Francisco's station KUSF. The collection contains all programs from 1981 to 2007, as well as program logs describing their contents, including guests interviewed and songs played.
The Archive of Recorded Sound's Non-Commercial Disc Collections consist of over 10,000 phonographic disc recordings from a variety of donors, the majority of which are either broadcast transcriptions or instantaneous recordings. None were ever available for sale to the general public, and many are unique.
The Ed Wilkinson Collection consists of classical and opera performance broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s on open reel tape, the majority of which from the Standard Symphony Hour series.
The Alan Farley Collection consists primarily of recordings made for the radio program Book Talk recorded on audio cassette tapes, digital audio tapes and compact discs. Book Talk airs on KALW 91.7 FM in San Francisco, California, though some of the recordings are used for other radio programs Farley hosts on KALW, such as the show Open Air.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, and Digital Audio Tape (DAT)
The KZSU Collection consists of tape recordings of lectures by Stanford faculty on campus from January to May 1968, originally broadcast on student radio station KZSU. While on a variety of topics, contemporary sociological, scientific, and economic issues are prevalent. The lecture series was sponsored by Century 21 realty company. Note cards describing tape speed, playback issues, and sound quality are inserted in each tape box. Some of the multi-part lectures are missing a part. Additional recordings may be added to this collection at a later time.
Since 1989, Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educates and entertains public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era, featuring performances from the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests. This collection contains copies of all the finished programs, as well as elements, other source material, and files documenting every aspect of the show's production.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, and Text document
Collection of recordings, photographs, sheet music, paper documents, and two films which document every aspect of the career of operatic tenor, Richard Crooks. Audio recordings are largely from the Voice of Firestone radio show, but also include audio cassettes of performances on CBC radio broadcasts.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, and Text document
The collection contains the files of the various organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, California, as well as audio and video recordings. Recordings of radio broadcasts include tapes of National Public Radio broadcasts, "Performance Today," "JazzSet," "Blues Stage" and also "In Recital at Ambassador," as well as a broadcast from the Ivo Pogorelich Competition.
Content types:
Performed music, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, U-matic (including U-matic S), Open reel video, Photographic print, and Text document
Historic music and speech recordings, primarily on open reel tape, made on the campus of Stanford University. The collection also includes video formats, one 8 mm film and two audio cassettes.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), 8mm video (including Hi8), and Open reel video
The Stanford Speech Collection consists of audio recordings on open reel tape of speeches, lectures, and panel discussions at or sponsored by Stanford University from the 1950s through the 70s. Many recordings were produced and edited for broadcast on campus radio station KZSU (especially those tapes from 1969-1971).
The collection consists of correspondence dealing with the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; personal papers, mainly promotional documents, and biographical and/or pedagogical writings; newspaper and magazine clippings; annotated scores, programs, photos, scrapbooks and recordings. Recordings include opera broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera which include Mario Chamlee, also his performance and rehearsal broadcasts on KFAC, and numerous transcription discs from his appearances on the Tony & Gus show in 1935 on WJZ.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, Text document, and Microfilm
Recordings of interviews, broadcasts, and call-in segments primarily created for the radio program Art of Jazz, produced and presented by Art Vincent, Jazz DJ and concert producer. The show aired on radio stations in the New York Metropolitan area, including WFHA, WJLK, WRLB, and WGBO. In addition to some live concert recordings, the show featured interviews with major figures in the jazz world.
Recordings of a San Francisco Bay Area independent radio news program from 1984-1987 covering labor issues with a primary focus on California. Includes numerous interviews with local labor leaders regarding significant strikes and labor struggles such as the historic Latina-led Watsonville Cannery Strike, United Farm Workers' (UFW) "Wrath of Grapes" campaign, and the month-long SEIU Local 250 Kaiser healthcare workers strike; as well as issues regarding AIDS, plant closures, and other workplace concerns.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Analog audiocassette and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Extent:
27 audiocassette tapes
Repository/Collector:
Labor Archive and Research Center, J. Paul Leonard Library
570 linear feet of media (circa 6600 quarter-inch audio tapes, DATs, cassettes, minidiscs, and CDs) and 66 linear feet of archival records, including organizational files, resource files, press/promotional and mailings, photographs and slides, NEW DIMENSIONS JOURNAL and NEWSLETTER, and business records. The tapes hold approximately 7000 hours of audio and video recordings. New Dimensions Media is an independent, listener supported, educational broadcasting group based in Ukiah, California. Interviews by the group are carried by public and community radio stations and feature a gamut of eclectic voices including artists, scientists, ecologists, social architects, healers, spiritual leaders, indigenous voices, etc. The program is broadcast in more than 500 communities nationally.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Radio and TV scripts, correspondence, newsclips, publicity materials, photographs, 90 reels of TV film, and sound recording. Radio dramatist, joined production staff of NBC in 1930. Wrote One Man's Family, 1932-1959, I Love a Mystery, 1939-1944, and other programs.
KTAO-FM was a free-form radio station in Los Gatos, California, that existed from March, 1969, through June, 1974, and operated at 95.3 FM. The KTAO Aircheck Archives comprise audio collages with instruments played in the studio to be used as taped effects; a "jam" session recorded July 29, 1971; and an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans interviewed in Los Gatos by Geoff Alexander and Don Campau, June 9, 1971, at a residence in Los Gatos, California. In addition, the collection includes images of KTAO operators and musicians in 1974; photographs of the 40th anniversary reunion; original Los Gatos business license (1974); several images of counter-culture posters; letter from Gary R. Dahl to Roger Mann.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic print, and Text document
KUCR 88.3FM in Riverside, CA is a non-profit, campus and community terrestrial radio station broadcasting from the campus of UC Riverside since 1966. The KUCR Radio Archives contains public affairs and music radio programming in multimedia formats, station-related records, and ephemera dating from 1964.
New Dimensions Media is an independent, listener supported, educational broadcasting group based in Ukiah, California. Interviews by the group are carried by public and community radio stations and feature a gamut of eclectic voices including artists, scientists, ecologists, social architects, healers, spiritual leaders, indigenous voices, etc. The program is broadcast in more than 500 communities nationally. 570 linear feet of media (circa 6600 quarter-inch audio tapes, DATs, cassettes, minidiscs, and CDs) and 66 linear feet of archival records, including organizational files, resource files, press/promotional and mailings, photographs and slides, NEW DIMENSIONS JOURNAL and NEWSLETTER, and business records. The tapes hold approximately 7000 hours of audio and video recordings.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Open reel audiotape, audiocassettes, compact discs, production files, administrative records, banners, and other material, 1970-2011, from IMRU Radio, an LGBT radio program airing on KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Open reel tape (unknown material), and Text document
Contains correspondence, biographical data, contracts, general files, scrapbooks, magazine and newspaper clippings. Also includes audio tapes of her program, Fashion Notes, aired on CBS, 1963-1965.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Includes more than 400 transcription discs for The Beulah Show starring Hattie McDaniel as Beulah in 15-minute radio serializations. A script for the March 10, 1948 episode features Hattie and her brother Sam McDaniel. Also includes photographs and material on Sam from his vaudeville days and some scripts from films, television and other radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists primarily of Hopper's personal files related almost exclusively to her work as a columnist and to her social life but also contains documentation about her radio appearances.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists of scrapbooks containing thousands of columns she wrote over six decades. Also contains biographical clippings on Parsons and coverage of her various radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists primarily of material on various personalities utilized by Skolsky in the preparation of his tintypes. Additional items include miscellaneous television and radio scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Contains finished scripts, unproduced manuscripts, legal documents, correspondence and research materials, including undated radio scripts for The Treasury Star Parade, Camel Caravan, and The Camel Hour.
A privately held collection of 90,000 hours of programs, mostly on reel-to-reel tape. Although the collection includes all programming genres, it is particularly strong in music, especially jazz, blues, county and western, including Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Midwestern Hayride, Louisiana Hayride, Hollywood Barn Dance and Town Hall Party.
Approximately 4,000 recordings, including interviews, concerts, other music programs and poetry originally aired 1949-1992. Also includes recordings of 20th century music festivals and concerts. For specific programs, check with in-house database.
Collection includes sound recordings of network comedy, mystery, music, Armed Forces Radio Service, music libraries, news programs, including World War II news broadcasts, CBS and standard library of recorded sound effects as well as many manual sound effects, oral histories, scripts, including Fibber McGee and Molly and The Dennis Day Show, photographs, publications, including trade magazines, equipment and other radio memorabilia. In the future, the PPB archives will be combined with the American Radio Archives at the Thousand Oaks Library in Thousand Oaks, CA. The Pacific Pioneers is a membership organization comprised of men and women with at least 20 years professional employment in the field of radio and television broadcasting or allied fields.
As of 2005, the recently acquired collection has not been processed. However, it does contain a large volume of print material, including photographs, relating to the Chevron Standard Hour which Michaelis produced. Also includes some transcription discs for the NBC University Theater.
Transcription discs of the program. As of 2005, about 300+ programs have been transferred and plans are to transfer the remaining discs. Also see Adrian Michaelis Collection above.
The non profit group maintains a large lending library of sound recordings of programs and interviews with radio pioneers as well as printed materials, including scripts, logs, photographs, videotapes of meetings with old time radio actors and personnel talking about their careers in radio and radio magazines. A portion of the group's varied holdings are listed online at www.sperdvac.org/index_listing_info.htm. Contact the organization for information about additional resources.
Repository/Collector:
Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy (SPERDVAC)
Consists primarily of scripts written by members of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization during World War II and political speeches and spots written for the California Democratic Party in 1946 and for Henry Wallace's 1948 Progressive Party presidential campaign. See online finding aid for list of scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Collection of materials from over 150 unions spanning the decades from the 1920s through the 1980s. The majority of the material comes from unions active in the Southern California area, including the Radio Writers Guild, Screen Writers Guild and AFTRA.
Repository/Collector:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Two sound recordings with a compilation of Edward R. Murrow's radio broadcasts from Europe, 1939-1946, relating to military activities in Europe and the home front in Great Britain during World War II.
Sound recording of broadcasts relating to the immigration of various national and ethnic groups to the United States. Also includes recordings of Treasury Star Parade , n.d.
Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, press releases, writings, transcripts and recordings of radio broadcasts, 1939-1973, and photographs relating to anti-Nazi and anti-communist movements in the United States, American foreign policy during the Cold War and American-German relations.
Includes thousands of radio broadcasts dating back to 1944. Programs featured prominent guests in national politics, science, sports and the humanities. Also includes papers and photographs relating to the Club.
A sound recording representing a compilation by Bud Greenspan of speeches, radio addresses and radio news broadcasts, 1940-1945, relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the events leading up to it and its aftermath. Includes facsimiles of pages from "The New York Times," December 6-9, 1941.
Includes photographs, clippings, correspondence, press releases and memorabilia relating to Latin American politics and to CBS radio broadcasting in Latin America.
Clippings from American newspapers relating to American foreign and domestic policy during the New Deal and reflecting conservative criticism of that policy. Includes pamphlets issued by the American Liberty League, 1935-1936, and texts of broadcasts of the Ford Sunday Evening Hour, 1936-1940.
Contains writings, broadcast transcripts, correspondence, printed matter, phonorecords and photographs relating to politics, communism, internal security and anti-communist movements in the United States and to politics and communism in China and elsewhere.
Recording of a broadcast by Oscar Theodore Broneer relating to conditions in Greece at the end of World War II as recorded by NBC. In English and Greek.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, speeches, writings and other printed matter relating to international relations, international education and the role of radio and television in education.
A recording of an interview of Herbert Vere Evatt conducted by Clark M. Eichelberger, director of the American Assn. for the United Nations, that was broadcast on NBC relating to the activities of the United Nations.
Contains transcripts of broadcasts and speeches relating to American economic conditions, foreign trade and economic policy during the administration of President Herbert Hoover.
Includes writings, minutes of meetings, radio transcripts and serial issues relating to the promotion of patriotism in Hawaiian schools and within the Asian community in Hawaii and to military government in the Marshall Islands during World War II.
Includes news dispatches, broadcast transcripts, pamphlets, clippings, serial issues and other printed matter relating to political and social conditions in Spain and to the Spanish Civil War.
Contains correspondence and miscellanea relating to the broadcast of Salute to the War Mothers, 1942, and the publication of a pamphlet "Salute to the Gold Star Mothers," 1943, by the American Legion, San Francisco Post No.1.
Includes correspondence with Harry Milton and others, broadcast transcripts, clippings, photographs and miscellany relating to the acquaintanceship of Milton with the British writer George Orwell in Spain during the Spanish Civil War.
Recording of appeals by Nicholas Kalmer to Greek-Americans to contribute medical and food relief to Greece through the Greek War Relief Association at the end of World War II. In Greek.
A recording of addresses by Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, Republican and Democratic candidates for president of the United States, broadcast over CBS as part of a program sponsored by the National Citizens' Committee for United Nations Day.
A collection of 57 sound recordings of broadcasts relating to American neutrality in World War II, the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines and the first weeks of American participation in the war. Includes speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain and newscasts. Collection was compiled by Roy Pryor.
Thirteen recordings of Tower of Peace relating to the facilities, history, purpose and activities of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Includes interviews with Herbert Hoover and with staff members and researchers at the Hoover Institution. The program was sponsored by the Hoover Institution.
Two recordings of Voice of Democracy Committee promotional announcements and model radio broadcasts relating to a contest for high school students for radio broadcast scripts on democracy in the United States. The contest was sponsored by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Manufacturers Association.
Includes memoirs, broadcast transcripts, memoranda and reports, 1944-1945, relating to the activities of the Office of War Information during World War II and especially to its radio broadcasts of news and commentary in various languages to Europe from its London station.
Sound recordings with Elmer Holmes Davis relating to the outbreak of World War II. Includes recordings of radio addresses by leaders of the belligerent nations.