Content type: Other / Format: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) / Country (Location): United States - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Wire recording, and Reel-to-reel
Extent:: 450 recordings
Repository/Collector:: Hogan Jazz Archive, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

Description:: Program aired on WTEL
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:: Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Online finding aid:: View on discover.hsp.org

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

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

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

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

Description:: Interviews: Mrs. Carew, mother of six sons in the armed forces. Jack [John P.H. Jr.] Chandler, publisher of the Kearsarge Independent newspaper. Mrs. Frances W. Tulley, Home Fires Editor, 2 sons in the war. Sergeant ??(skips a little here) -- 2 yr veteran was at Normandy. Mrs. Cloues, whose son (Edward?) died at Pearl Harbor. Dick Townsend, owner of Kearsarge Inn. Mrs. Peggy Thomas and 2 1/2 yr old daughter Sally. Mr. Norm Hatfield, Principal of the Simonds High School. Herman Dow, 17 yr old worker at Wheeler's Drug Store. Anne White, Student. Pastor Ellis Eaton. Special Events staff of WMUR Radio, Al Mathie, announcer.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:: 20 minutes
Repository/Collector:: Pillsbury Free Library

Description:: KBRK (Brookings, SD, 1958); Campaign radio spots; CBS Capitol Cloakroom; KOTA (Rapid City, SD); etc.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Extent:: Audiovisual materials contain 105 linear feet, only a portion of which is radio
Repository/Collector:: Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections

Description:: 6) New Hampshire War Finance Committee interview with Eleanor Roosevelt [sound recording]. 5) War bond salute to labor [sound recording] : from Berlin, N.H. for WKNE. 4) The essence of May [videorecording DVD] / May Gruber ; interviewed by Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio. 3) New Hampshire pledges for victory [sound recording] : foreign speech program. 1) A Tribute to New Hampshire : General Motors presents "The parade of the states" : Monday, August 29, 1932, 8:30 to 9:00 P.M., E.S.T. : WEAF and NBC coast to coast Red network. 2) New Hampshire War Finance Committee [sound recording]. [Interview with] Eleanor Roosevelt; program from WKNE.
Content types:: Sounds and Other
Formats:: Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:: 10 recordings
Repository/Collector:: New Hampshire State Library

Description:: 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
Repository/Collector:: Noa Eshkar

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