The WSOU records include sound recordings of past radio broadcasts and some documentation of station activities. Sound recordings include some Italian programs, symphonic music, promotional spots, sports play-by-play broadcasts, and coverage of elections in Newark, among others. Other materials include a letter from John L. Sullivan of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) to Frank McKenna on Relic Rock Review. Materials are on recorded sound discs (record albums on vinyl) and reel-to-reel audiotapes.
Formats:
Cylinder and Reel-to-reel
Repository/Collector:
Msgr. William Noé Field Archives & Special Collections Center
[Part 1]: Athaliah, Act 1 / H. Weisgall (48:56) -- Intermission interview with Hugo Weisgall on "Living Opera" (WNYC Radio, recorded 2/16/1964); Alan Wagner, interviewer and host) (12:30)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and Streaming onsite
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
"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
The WFCR Collection contains nearly 4,500 reel to reel recordings of locally-produced radio programs, reflecting over fifty years of the cultural and intellectual life of western Massachusetts. Drawing upon the talents of the faculty and students of the Five Colleges (Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges and UMass Amherst), the collection offers a remarkable breadth of content, ranging from public affairs to community and national news, cultural programming, childrens programming, news and current events, scholarly lectures, classical music, and jazz.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
462 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives
Campaign spots, "H-Bomb Radio Spots," WNEW, Clifton Utley, Mrs. Edison Dick, Edward R. Murrow ("This I Believe"), "The National Purpose," Billy Graham, Jack Webster, Carl Sandburg, John Gardner, Clinton Rossiter, Albert Wohlstetter, Walter Lippmann
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, and Audiocassette
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
Maude Adams on Stevens College (1:13) -- Maude Adams recites prologue to Edmond Rostand's Chantecler (2:27) -- Rudy Vallee speaks with Hilaire Belloc (7:59) -- Virgil Thomson speaks about Four Saints in three acts (6:30) -- Gertrude Stein [from a 1934 radio broadcast?] (1:20) -- Fay Compton [from a 1969 television broadcast?] (3:33)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and CD
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
We have a fair number of audio recordings of public programs and lectures at The New School going back to the late 1950s--certain of them bear evidence of having been recorded by Pacifica Radio at The New School (I'd have to call them in from offsite storage to check if the station name bears the names of both WBAI and Pacifica), and indicates air dates. These are on 1/4" reel to reel tape. We have a small amount of documentation between TNS and the station(s) and surmise that The New School had a relationship with WBAI or Pacifica to record and broadcast lectures/programs featuring well-known participants. The Pacifica Radio Archive lists at least some of these recordings in its online catalog.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Reel-to-reel
Repository/Collector:
The New School Libraries and Archives, Archives & Special Collections
1. Recording of 1935 Broadcast of Radio Station WJZ - Testimonial Dinner for Martha Berry in Hotel Roosevelt, New York City, including address by Martha Berry, a Berry Quartet, and the introduction of Martha Berry by Mrs. Emily V. Hammond; 2. Interview of Sander Vanocuiz (NBC-TV News) Jan. 12, 1967, #87; 3. "Comment" Radio Program, #63; 4. "Comment" Radio Program, Mar. 31, 1970, #16; 5. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #139; 6. "Comment" Radio Program, Nov. 1970, #30; 7. "Comment" Radio Program, Guest – Mrs. Overstreet - Nov. 11, 1970, #120; 8. "Campus Spotlight" Radio Program on Berry - Mar. 27, 1971, #128; 9. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #145; 10. Berry Academy and College Radio Spots, 1974, #131; 11. Berry Academy and College Radio Spots, 1974, #130; 12. Berry Academy Radio Spots, Apr. 27, 1974, #140; 13. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #141; 14. Berry Academy and College Radio Spots, May 1974, #126; 15. "Comment" Radio Program, #62; 16. "Comment" Radio Program, #66; 17. "Comment" Radio Program on Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleavor, #129; 18. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #134; 19. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #135; 20. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #143; 21. Berry Academy Radio Spots, #144; 22. WLAQ News following Hammrick Hall fire
Mostly undigitized, but contains interviews with musicians such as Sun Ra, James Brown, and 12 reels collected by an attendee at the Woodstock music festival, among other recordings
Recordings entered for Peabody Awards consideration from 1940 to the present day. Programs come in all genres and are locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally produced.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, Digital file (.WAV), and Digital file (.MP3)
Extent:
19000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
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
Unknown number of magnetic tapes, presumably of concerts of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra as broadcast on WCNY Classic-FM, Central New York’s classical music radio station.
Air checks, sports, news, political coverage, local DJs, local music, station IDs/jingles, and local commercials from stations WKBW, WBEN, WINE, WHSO, WEBR, and WGR, from 1950s-1980
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, CD, MiniDisc, External drive, Website, VHS (audio), Betacam SP, 1, 2, and 3/4 in videotape, DVC pro tapes, and DVD
The vast majority of the collection consists of audio recordings of more than 2000 radio broadcasts of nostalgia shows hosted by Clark including Rock, Roll Remember, Countdown America, US Music Survey, National Music Survey, Dick Clark’s Music Machine, and Dick Clark’s Solid Gold. The tapes were produced by Dick Clark Productions and broadcast from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s.
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.
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)
These tapes of WAER broadcasts primarily hold topical broadcasts and live concert recordings. Few of the tapes are dated, but those that are cover a span from 1965 to 1979. Announcers or presenters are rarely identified. The news items include a mix of national and local productions, but there are relatively few in the collection compared to the concert recordings. Many concerts were given by popular artists such as Pink Floyd, Bonnie Raitt, Canned Heat, Niels Lofgren, and Commander Cody, taken from national broadcasts, mostly originating from New York City or Boston. The collection contains recordings of only a handful of concerts broadcast by Syracuse University student ensembles. 25 tapes are identified as having been recorded on-campus at the Jabberwocky Café; surviving performances from this intimate venue include those given by John Fahey, Taj Mahal, and David Bromberg.
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.
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