Fifteen reels of audio tape containing radio commercials, programs for Won's Frozen Chinese Foods and Schlitz beer, the radio show Ford Startime and some unidentified radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Principal collection consists of over 200 recordings of Yiddish music, comedy, soap operas, news, commercials, poetry and drama spanning the years 1936-1955. The majority represent programming from New York based stations, including WEVD, WBBS, WHN and WMCA (all cataloged). Represented in these recordings are the Barry Sisters, Jan Bart, Moishe Oysher, Nahum Stutchkoff and Dave Tarras. Collection also includes recordings of radio material up to the present day, including programs featuring Molly Picon, and a collection of over 900 WEVD programs spanning the 1970s-1980s.
Repository/Collector:
Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Includes letters of congratulations, proclamations, photographs and biographical information of the country music star who had a program on KMOX from 1929 to early 1950s and later on other St. Louis stations.
Consists of some publicity material, legal papers, other correspondence and sound recordings. Collection is held by the son of the program's creators. Mr. VanDeventer appeared on the program as "Bobby McGuire."
WBML Radio recordings by Eddie Cannon and His Radio Playboys: featuring Ruby Lee Yopp Havis, 1947-1951 The collection consists of 50 radio transcription discs of recordings by Eddie Cannon and His Radio Playboys (featuring Ruby Lee Yopp Havis), originally aired on WBML Radio in Macon, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
50 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
The majority of the scripts are from the Writers War Board which produced radio plays and pageants on such subjects as general morale, salvage, rationing, etc. as well as other scripts by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Broadcast Music Inc., RCA Victor Records Thesaurus Program Continuity Service and an episode of Mr. Sycamore, a 30 minute radio comedy-drama produced during the 1940s. There are also program brochures prepared by the Educational Department of MBS about programs for young people and public interest programs. Also includes a pageant script written by Roger M. Busfield entitled, "Land of Plenty," regarding a program at Michigan State University.
WRAS Radio records, 1966-2009, contain materials documenting the Georgia State University student-run radio station. The collection consists of materials pertaining to day-to-day operations, tower construction and relocation, playlists, logs, news clippings, ephemera, station produced sound recordings (interviews, promos, drops) and sound recording submissions for the Georgia Music Show. Notable in the collection is the almost complete run of general manager files documenting the station’s activities under each manager.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
8 linear feet, 900 Optical and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
The records contain correspondence, memos, scrapbooks, news clippings, publicity materials, program log books, scripts, radio engineering lesson plans, contracts, licenses, photographs, sound recordings, moving image recordings, transcripts, and artifacts relating to the early history of WSB Radio, to WSB performers, programs, awards, and sponsored events (such as news workshops and career conferences for students), and to WSB-FM and WSB-TV.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, Three-dimensional form, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:
24 linear feet, 250 Lacquer discs, 40,000 Pressed 78rpm, LP, and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains scripts for radio plays and dramatic readings, 1936-1938, and news broadcasts, 1949-1955, by noted journalists and writers, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Norman Lewis Corwin, Cedric Foster, Fulton Lewis, Edward R. Murrow, and William N. Robson.
Contains scripts from programs, mostly Homemaker's Half Hour, which were broadcast over WOI and sponsored by the University's Textiles and Clothing Dept. (Program titles for the other scripts are not indicated.) The programs focused on dressmaking, general fabric care and laundry tips. Most of the bound scripts come with a title page listing the author/speaker and title(s) of the speech. (In University Archives)
Scrapbook (compiler unknown) of clippings concerning Twin Cities radio stations and personalities including both network and local stations. Contains programming information for WCCO and KSTP. Annotations sometimes give information on subsequent careers of persons pictured.
Great moments in radio broadcast history selections narrated by Jack Benny and Frank Knight. Includes day time radio programs and commercials, introduction to soap operas, commercials, news, sports, comedy, adventure and mystery.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University
Check online catalog for listings of individual programs featuring or about African American performers or themes. Includes several episodes of Destination Freedom and a few Chicago Roundtable of the Air broadcasts.
Records include official correspondence, programming materials, and FCC documents for university-operated station WNYU, 1949-69. Audio recordings held in archive's separate Audiovisual Recordings collection
Records of the Amherst College student radio station, WAMH (formerly WAMF). Records include audio recordings, publicity materials, program guides, correspondence, photographs, training materials, FCC materials and internal documentation of radio station operations. This collection recieves frequent additions.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Digital audio file, Photographic print, and Text document
Contains administrative records documenting the development of radio broadcasting at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, including scripts, transcripts of talks given by faculty, publicity, scrapbooks, photographs and sound recordings of programs produced and broadcast by WUOM.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Although outside the general time frame for the Golden Age of Radio, of possible interest to researchers are the transcripts in this collection of the program WCBS Radio Looks at Television which featured interviews with such prominent media personalities and critics as Goodman Ace, Roone Arledge, Kenneth A. Cox, Walter Cronkite, Fred W. Friendly, Mark Goodson, Ernest Kinoy, Millard Lampell, Lee Loevinger, Elmer W. Lower, Richard A.R. Pinkham, Hubbell Robinson, Jr., Morley Safer, Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, Harriet Van Horne, Sylvester L. Weaver, Jr., John F. White, Perry Wolff and David L. Wolper. The collection also includes two interviews with Susskind.
Includes scrapbooks, 1948-1965, with photographs, newspaper clippings, correspondence and ephemera related to The Register, the radio and television broadcasts hosted by the paper's publisher, Orene Muse (Mrs. Elton Huckabay) in the 1940s-1950s.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Two letters from Henry Manners Katzman to George Griffin of Broadcast Music Inc., San Francisco, March 5 and 10, 1970, reminiscing about the New York popular music and radio scene, 1932-1935. Katzman describes George Gershwin's radio show in detail with anecdotes.
Repository/Collector:
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Contains research reports done by members of the faculty and staff concerning educational radio and TV, content analysis, psychological effects of mass media and music broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Includes extensive correspondence, brochures, sermon scripts, choir recordings, choir tour itineraries and 16" transcription discs. The first year's programs featuring C.M. Ward and Dan Betzer are available on CD. Reel-to-reel tapes of the broadcasts are also available.
Martin Bookspan interviews American classical music composer and conductor Richard Yardumian. Yardumian talks about his musical family, his older brother Elijah Yardumian, a concert pianist and a product of the Curtis Institute, who served as a musical mentor to his younger brother; about his career as a composer, and his early start to composing at age 14 even before he began his formal musical education. He discusses the twelve-note technique that he created (not the same as twelve-tone system, used in conjunction with the music of Schoenberg and other twelve-tone composers). The composer also discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Armenian suite, Desolate city, Violin concerto (1949), Piano concerto (second and third movements) (1957), and two excerpts from the mass Come Creator Spirit: Holy, Holy, Holy (Sanctus) and Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) (dedicated to the 125th anniversary of Fordham University) (1966).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews composer Vittorio Rieti. Rieti talks about his studies economics at the University of Milan, where he obtained a doctorate in 1917 that he never used; about his composition studies with Casella, and orchestration with Respighi. He speaks about his career as a composer in Europe and the United States. Speaking about his time in Paris, he talks about ballet music that he wrote for Diaghilev (Barabau being particularly successful), and much incidental music for the Parisian theatre of Louis Jouvet. The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Dance variations (for string orchestra) (1956), Chorale, variations and finale (for two pianos), Concertino (for flute, viola, violoncello, harp, and harpsichord) (1964).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and pedagogue Robert Starer. Starer talks about his career as a composer. He discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Dialogues (for clarinet and piano), On the nature of things: part 5. A little nonsense (anonymous text), and part 6. Grieve not, dear love ( words by John Digby, Earl of Bristol) (for mixed chorus, a cappella), Concerto (third and fourth movement, for violin, cello and orchestra), Concerto a tre (last movement, for clarinet, trumpet, trombone, and strings), and Symphony no. 3 (first and second movement) (1969).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Includes radio scripts and cover letters signed by Wade O. Martin relating to the sesquicentennial observance and history of the Louisiana Purchase. The scripts include manuscript annotations by Martin.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Copies of a 13 part radio series developed by Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY and broadcast over public radio, 1989-1990. The series, Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country Music and Old-Time Music, was developed to document women's role in the development of country music. The broadcasts focus on the life stories of the Powers Family, Phyllis Marks, Jean Ritchie, Ola Belle Reed, Patsy Montana, Girls of the Golden West (Dolly and Millie Good), Martha Carson, Etta Baker, Ramona Jones, Wilma Lee Cooper, Matokie Slaughter, the Carter Family and Hazel Dickens.
Preservation of audio-taped programming from faith groups. Originated with Methodist/United Methodist materials and expanded to include other religious groups. Programs are radio interviews and programs, as well as lectures, class presentations, sermons, and more. Collection created my Mike Hickcox originally with United Methodist Communications, the individually, then in collaboration with the United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History. The focus is to preserve significant audio presentations and make them available to be heard.
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.) and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Audio and Video assets on the topic of the Vietnam War, produced by WILL Radio and Television, including news stories, interview programs, public lectures, and oral history interviews.
Content types:
Spoken word, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Open reel video, and Text document
Extent:
25 oral histories; 42 radio programs; 2 TV news stories
Programming tab in website page contains current list of local music, talk and syndicated shows; Lists and schedules available for 19 local music shows; 10 local talk shows; website links to 40 nationally syndicated shows
A variety of recorded interviews across multiple collections, as aired on a variety of radio stations, including WHYY and (possibly) WEXP, which took to the air in 1972. Online catalog needs further exploration.
We have a massive collection of about 50,000 recordings on CD and vinyl, in addition to both digital and tape airchecks spanning several decades. We also have program guides, advertisements, and station produced publications.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material), Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, MiniDisc, Text document, Printed brochure, and Printed magazine