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62. WOR MATERIAL - "From the collection of Barry "Duff" Sheffield of Mahwah, New Jersey."
- Description:
- WOR Inaugural 50,000 Watt broadcast 2/22/35 (2 recordings); Ed Fitzgerald/Benay Venuta (actress) 12/28/36 - cut #1; Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald WOR 25th anniver. 2/22/47 – cut #2; Breakfast with the Fitzgeralds 10/8/44 – cut #3; Gabriel Heatter (commentator) 1940 – "We the People"; The Gambling’s at home Xmas-1954; John B. Gambling Second Breakfast 7/28/1956; Dorothy Kilgallen/Dick Kollmar WOR 11/12/62; Norman/Ruth Peale – at home audition 6/13/63; Vincent Tracy WOR debut show 2/4/64; Jean Shepherd on WOR 8/4/65; Jean Shepherd on KFRC San Francisco; Peter Lind Hayes/Mary Healey WOR 1/24/69; WOR-AM archive ID Themes 1/16/70 - 23 cuts
- Content types:
- Performed music and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette and Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 12 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- Duff Sheffield
63. What Must Be Done radio series
- Description:
- These materials comprise a thirteen-part radio series of public service broadcasts produced by Sam Chase for WLIB radio in New York in cooperation with Newsweek Magazine.
- Content types:
- Performed music and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Open reel tape (unknown material)
- Extent:
- 13 audiotape reels (6.5 hours)
- Repository/Collector:
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Online finding aid:
- View on webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu
64. Bill Duesing Collection
- Description:
- A pioneer in organic agriculture in New England, Bill Duesing has been as an environmental educator, writer, artist, and lecturer over for four decades. After graduating from Yale University (1964), Duesing worked as a Cooperative Extension agent before turning to organic principles in the early 1970s. Emphasizing sustainability and greater local food sufficiency, he has been instrumental in developing organic standards for gardening and land care and he has served as both founding president and later executive director of the Northeast Organic Farming Association Connecticut and president of the NOFA Interstate Council. During the 1990s, Duesing produced two radio shows, "Living on the Earth" (WSHU) and "The Politics of Food" (WPKN), and he is author of (1993). The Duesing collection consists of transcripts of his radio show, "Living on the Earth" (1990-2000) and fourteen recordings of "The Politics of Food," which was broadcast monthly over WPKN (89.5 FM) in Bridgeport in 1997-1998. Each half hour segment of "Politics" included news, a fifteen minute interview, recipes, and tips, with interviewees including Mel Bristol, Jac Smit, Vincent Kay, John Wargo, Hugh Joseph, Joseph Kiefer, Julie Rawson, Michael Sligh, Kathy Lawrence, Lee Warren, and Elizabeth Henderson.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 14 items
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
65. Bill Cosby Radio Program Collection
- Description:
- "The Bill Cosby Radio Program" was a daily syndicated radio series of roughly 5-minute comedy inserts by Cosby and produced by Frank Buxton (who also served as the show’s announcer and comedic "straight man"). Along with sound man Gene Twombly, Cosby and Buxton improvised the episodes, which were syndicated to more than 200 top-40 radio stations around the nation on transcription discs by The Coca-Cola Company and distributed by McCann-Erikson (Coke’s ad agency). The show marked the beginning of Cosby’s long association with Coca-Cola and was the debut of many characters from Cosby’s comedy. This collection features twelve radio broadcast transcription discs (one 12-inch disc and eleven 16-inch discs) of "The Bill Cosby Radio Program" containing programs #21-130 (1968 Jan 29-Jun 24) and programs #141-145 (1968 Jul 15). The disc labels contain the original program description and art.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Pressed LP disc
- Extent:
- 12 items
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
66. Black Radio : Telling It Like It Was
- Description:
- Production materials documenting Smithsonian's thirteen-part program on the role of radio in transforming the African American community in the twentieth century. The program was produced in 1996 by Jacquie Gales Webb for Smithsonian Productions, with assistance from the AAAMC. The collection contains over 400 hours of interviews and historical aircheck tapes in addition to articles, research files, program scripts, and transcripts. The audio interviews feature conversations with over 150 well-known disc jockeys, radio professionals, record company executives, journalists, and scholars. The historical airchecks include station identifications and jingles, radio interviews with prominent Black figures, coverage of historical events, and programs highlighting or influenced by the contributions of Black performers, disc jockeys, and other important persons in radio.
- Content types:
- Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape, Data cartridge, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, and Data disk (floppy disk)
- Extent:
- 4.3 linear feet (10 boxes) + 297 audiocassettes (DAT : digital, stereo), 168 audiocassettes (analog), 9 8mm data cartridges, 7 audio discs (CD-R), 3 data disks (1.44 MB floppies)
- Repository/Collector:
- Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Online finding aid:
- View on webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu
67. Black Mass Communications Project Collection
- Description:
- The Black Mass Communications Project was founded as an educational and informational outlet for Black students at UMass Amherst in 1968 and authorized in the following year as a Registered Student Organization. Over the years, BCMP played varied roles on campus, hosting cultural events, lectures, workshops, and social gatherings as to help keep black music alive. Many of its early members were also affiliated with the student radio station WMUA, and throughout the 1970s, the organization played a prominent role in providing programming to the station, offering programming highlighting African American music and current affairs. The BCMP collection consists of many dozens of reel to reel audiotapes of radio broadcasts aired over WMUA during the 1970s and early 1980s by and for the university’s African American community. Included is a range of locally-produced public affairs, cultural, and music programming, with some content licensed from around the country. A few of the tapes are associated with the Five College’s National Public Radio affiliate, WFCR.
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Polyester open reel tape
- Extent:
- 15 linear feet
- Repository/Collector:
- UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
- Online finding aid:
- View on scua.library.umass.edu
68. Joy Boys (WRC Radio Washington DC)
- Description:
- Over 100 CDs of airchecks from the Joy Boys radio show, Washington DC.
- Content types:
- Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
- Repository/Collector:
- Robert Bybee
69. Rev. Park Huntington Radio Broadcast Recordings
- Description:
- Collection of recordings made by Rev. Park W. Huntington and broadcast by station WDEL of Wilmington, DE from 1954 to 1961. Contains tape recordings of progam "This is the Hour." Huntington was a pastor of St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Wilmington, and served as regiment chaplain of the 198th Anti-Aircraft Regiment of the Delaware National Guard during WWII.
- Content types:
- Performed music and Spoken word
- Formats:
- Acetate open reel tape
- Extent:
- 33 tape reels
- Repository/Collector:
- Delaware Historical Society
70. Highway reports (radio broadcast)
- Content types:
- Spoken word
- Formats:
- Analog audiocassette
- Extent:
- 2 audiocassettes
- Repository/Collector:
- South Carolina Department of Archives & History