Majority of collection consists of newspaper clippings compiled about various sporting events covered by Walden during his career as sports commentator for WEAN and WJAR. Also includes radio scripts which include odd sports stories and trivia.
Consists of correspondence, biographical newspaper articles, broadcast scripts and advertisements, award certificates, travel itineraries and miscellaneous materials documenting Brine's 50 year career in broadcasting on WPRO, beginning as an announcer for Time, News and Temperature and later as the host of Salty's Shack, 1955-1968.
"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
WOON-AM, formerly WWON-AM in Woonsocket, RI. Of their archived programs, recordings date to 1953 (HS Hockey) and also include excerpts from one of the oldest continuous morning shows in the country (Coffee 'An, dating to the '50's).
An extensive collection dealing with humor in many genres. Includes the works of many humorists and comedians who performed on radio such as Fred Allen, George Bums, Gracie Allen and others.
Approximately 350 William and Mary scripts written as skits for the Dinah Shore Show, 1943-1944, with Cornelia Otis Skinner as Mary and Roland Young as William.
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
Consists of 350 radio and television scripts representing musical variety, science fiction, drama, mystery, westerns and comedies of the 1950s and 1960s and related correspondence, promotional and program material. A list of scripts is available.