Consists of plays, synopses of plays, lists of plays, radio scripts and three volumes of folk songs and ballads. Also includes copies of scripts from the Project archives at George Mason University and videotaped interviews with Gene Stone and Jeff Corey. A list of the radio scripts is available online.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes sound and video recordings, clippings, scrapbooks, sheet music, orchestrations and other papers. As of 2005, the collection is being processed but is likely to contain radio material.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of published sheet music and manuscripts, sound recordings, personal papers, correspondence with Johnny Burke, Sammy Cahn, Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, business documents and works lists, programs, clippings, biographies and professionally assembled scrapbooks.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of screenplays in which either Jim or Henny Backus appeared, 1940-1967. Also includes scripts for The Jim Backus Show and recordings of Jubilee, 1940s.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Consists of literary manuscripts, movie and television scripts, newspaper columns and ephemera related to Andrews's career. Does not appear to include material related to his work in radio.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes scripts and production information for Sothem's television show and other papers. Check unpublished finding aid for any possible radio related material.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of transcription discs, tapes, scripts and files from several programs on which Anthony was featured, including the Goodwill Hour later renamed the John J. Anthony Hour.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
KUCR 88.3FM in Riverside, CA is a non-profit, campus and community terrestrial radio station broadcasting from the campus of UC Riverside since 1966. The KUCR Radio Archives contains public affairs and music radio programming in multimedia formats, station-related records, and ephemera dating from 1964.
Collection includes sound recordings of network comedy, mystery, music, Armed Forces Radio Service, music libraries, news programs, including World War II news broadcasts, CBS and standard library of recorded sound effects as well as many manual sound effects, oral histories, scripts, including Fibber McGee and Molly and The Dennis Day Show, photographs, publications, including trade magazines, equipment and other radio memorabilia. In the future, the PPB archives will be combined with the American Radio Archives at the Thousand Oaks Library in Thousand Oaks, CA. The Pacific Pioneers is a membership organization comprised of men and women with at least 20 years professional employment in the field of radio and television broadcasting or allied fields.
Research archive gathered by Theodore S. Delay in support of his 1951 USC dissertation, "An Historical Study of the Armed Forces Radio Service to 1946." Consists largely of memoranda and reports of official U.S. Army origin and copies of AFRS "Playback Magazine." See online finding aid for detailed inventory. The period covered is 1944-1945 and the focus is on the Pacific theater of action.
Repository/Collector:
Archival Research Center: Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Southern California
Recordings of interviews, broadcasts, and call-in segments primarily created for the radio program Art of Jazz, produced and presented by Art Vincent, Jazz DJ and concert producer. The show aired on radio stations in the New York Metropolitan area, including WFHA, WJLK, WRLB, and WGBO. In addition to some live concert recordings, the show featured interviews with major figures in the jazz world.
Contains research material used by Wertheim in the writing of his book "Radio Comedy." Includes notes, photocopies of script pages, newspaper and magazine clippings and various drafts of his manuscript as well as 95 recordings of programs that he collected for his research.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Recording of a broadcast by Oscar Theodore Broneer relating to conditions in Greece at the end of World War II as recorded by NBC. In English and Greek.
Contains finished scripts, unproduced manuscripts, legal documents, correspondence and research materials, including undated radio scripts for The Treasury Star Parade, Camel Caravan, and The Camel Hour.
A privately held collection of 90,000 hours of programs, mostly on reel-to-reel tape. Although the collection includes all programming genres, it is particularly strong in music, especially jazz, blues, county and western, including Renfro Valley Barn Dance, Midwestern Hayride, Louisiana Hayride, Hollywood Barn Dance and Town Hall Party.
A privately held collection of approximately 26,000 programs with an emphasis on comedy and mystery. Highlights include AFRS programs such as Command Performance, Mail Call, G.I. Journal and Jubilee, The Lone Ranger, 1938-1948, news broadcasts, primarily from World War II, Fibber McGee and Molly, Our Miss Brooks, Phil Harris/Alice Faye, Philo Vance, Let George Do It and Boston Blackie.
Includes a complete run of the Texaco Star Theatre, 1935-1949, a large collection of AFRS programs from the 1960s, including AFRS versions of Gunsmoke, Walk Softly Peter Troy and Radio Novels, interviews with variety and radio artists conducted by Bob Dwan and miscellaneous other programs, including Behind the Story and Biography in Sound.
Contains papers related to Peterson's service with the Armed Forces Radio Service, including reports, photos, memoranda, AFRS spots, scripts for Command Performance, 1942-1943, and other miscellaneous scripts.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Hurte discusses his early life and musical training and his later career as a record producer, conductor, magazine publisher, radio station owner and champion of classical music in Los Angeles's African-American community. Major topics covered include independent record labels in Los Angeles during the 1930s and 1940s.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Transcript of interviews with Gruenberg by Irene Kahn Atkins, November 28, 1979-January 16, 1980. Part of the Directors' Guild of America Oral History series.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists primarily of scripts for episodes featuring Fanny Brice. Includes scripts from Maxwell House Presents Good News, November 4, 1937-July 25, 1940, Maxwell House Coffee Time, September 5, 1940-May 28, 1942 and October 8, 1942-May 31, 1945, with no episodes December 4, 1941-March 5, 1942 and no Baby Snooks spots September 7, 1944-May 31, 1945, Maxwell House Iced Coffee Time, June 16-August 31, 1944, Post Toasties Time, June 4-August 6, 1942, and Toasties Time, September 11, 1944-June 10, 1945. Also includes Frank Morgan spots and annotated scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes some unidentified radio material along with script materials for television shows, awards shows and specials and some motion picture and stage productions.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of Lumet's personal papers relating to his career in the theater as an actor and writer. Includes photographs, manuscripts, clippings, scripts and videotapes. Papers do not cover Lumet's radio career, 1932-1942.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of short stories, novels, movie scenarios, radio scripts and television plays written by Bellem. Radio scripts are for Creeps By Night. Collection also includes research materials, synopses and scripts for the television version of Death Valley Days.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes radio and television scripts, photographs and production stills, personal and business records for the years 1935-1955, magazines containing Benny articles, memorabilia and awards. Includes radio scripts for the Jack Benny Show, which, depending on the sponsor, was also known as The Canada Dry Ginger Ale Program, The Chevrolet Program, The General Tire Program, The Jell-O Program, The Grape Nuts Program and other names. Also includes tapes of Benny radio broadcasts.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes manuscripts, personal and professional papers, photographs and recordings, including recordings of Herrmann conducting the CBS Symphony from late 1930s-1940s.
Repository/Collector:
Donald C. Davidson Library, Performing Arts Collections, University of California at Santa Barbara
Consists of 240 production stills from Burke's films, miscellaneous publicity and promotional photographs, 50 radio scripts, three scrapbooks of clippings and personal photographs.
Repository/Collector:
Cinema-Television Library, University of Southern California
Collection includes scripts and treatments for various radio programs, including Silver Theatre, 1937-1946, Cassandra, 1937, Lux Radio Theatre and television programs.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
A collection of scripts for radio and television series, 1945-1946, 1949, including the Abbott and Costello Show and one script for Birds Eye Open House.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists primarily of television scripts related to Bochner's acting career but also contains scripts for several radio programs, including CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Mutual Radio Theater: The Adventure Show, Mutual Radio Theater: The Love Show, Sears Radio Theater and Sears Radio Theater: The Adventure Show.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of manuscripts, correspondence and ephemera by and related to Bradbury. Includes a radio script for the August 31, 1958 broadcast of Suspense titled, "The Whole Town's Sleeping."
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of about 3,900 tapes, mostly of Bresee's program Golden Days of Radio as it was broadcast on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service, 1967-1995, as well as source material for his program, including complete episodes of many radio series from the 1940s and 1950s. As of 2005, the collection is partially processed and papers are being added to the collection on an ongoing basis.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
172 reel tapes of off-air recordings, made from 1951 to 1969, mostly broadcast recordings of performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Metropolitan Opera.
Transcript of Healey's broadcast on KPTK, Santa Monica, on the occasion of her resignation from the Communist Party, July 9, 1973. Healey broadcast on KPTK for 20 years. Duplicate transcript is available at UC/Berkeley.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio and television scripts, including radio scripts for April, 1950-April, 1956, #82-336 with some gaps, and television scripts for February, 1952-April, 1955, #1-100.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of photographs and scrapbooks related to Faire's career and includes a 1977 interview transcript with Faire. The actress did some radio work in Chicago.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains sound recordings, beginning in 1989, from a Hollywood repertory company that performs plays and theater pieces written or adapted for radio, including some productions written and directed by Norman Corwin.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Includes thousands of radio broadcasts dating back to 1944. Programs featured prominent guests in national politics, science, sports and the humanities. Also includes papers and photographs relating to the Club.
Consists of materials related to Cantor's career, including radio and television scripts, sheet music, orchestrations, photographs, awards, tributes, correspondence, sound recordings and scrapbooks. Includes radio scripts for The Eddie Cantor Show, Show Business Old and New, Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre and March of Dimes scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains scripts for radio and television series, 1930-1954, including Captain Post: Crime Specialist, 1930-1931, Chinatown Squad, 1932, Barbary Coast Nights, 1933, I Love a Mystery, 1943-1944, 1949-1952, Adventures by Morse, 1944-1945, His Honor the Barber, 1945-1946, I Love Adventure, 1948, Slice of Life, 1949, Mixed Doubles, 1949, One Man's Family, 1949, 1951-1952, and Family Skeleton, 1953-1954. Also contains some memorabilia on Morse's career (awards, clippings, etc.) and production documents related to particular series.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains transcription discs of radio shows for the Los Angeles Community Chest, 1940-1942, and script material for the series Heartbeats of the City and other radio programs. Also includes Campaign Radio Plays and transcripts of commercials, publicity material for the Joey Bishop Show, 1961-1964, and approximately 100 photographs.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Contains over 9,300 individual scripts, 1940-1960, from what was the radio script archive at KNX, Los Angeles, a CBS affiliate station. Included in the collection are long series runs of I Was There, 1940-1942, 1944-1945, Amos 'n' Andy, 1944-1951, Romance, 1944-1946, 1948-1951, The Story of Sandra Martin, 1944-1945, Suspense, 1945-1959, The Whistler, 1945-1951, 1954-1955, Escape, 1947-1954, My Friend Irma, 1947-1954, My Favorite Husband, 1948-1951, Our Miss Brooks, 1948-1957, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, 1949-1960, The Lineup, 1950-1953, Meet Millie, 1951-1954, Junior Miss, 1952-1954, Hallmark Hall of Fame, 1953-1955 and Have Gun-Will Travel, 1958-1960. In addition to scripts, the collection also contains scattered production notes and memoranda related to the broadcast of specific series.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists of materials related to Laughton's career in all areas of show business, including screen, stage, radio and television productions. Includes radio scripts for Corwin Presents.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
A restaurateur active in Los Angeles politics and civic reform movements, the collection includes papers and scripts of Clinton's program The People's Voice, 1940-1945, heard on various Los Angeles stations.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
The KSFO Collection consists of audiovisual material and ephemera from this San Francisco radio station's years owned by Golden West Broadcasting, 1956-1983. KSFO was known for their news and sports coverage, as well as the voice talents of such personalities as Don Sherwood, Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and Al "Jazzbo" Collins. The majority of this collection involves station marketing, promotions, and fundraisers, although there are airchecks and other broadcast recordings. Production library material includes jingles, themes, music beds, promotional spots, and advertising. Physical media in the KSFO collection is primarily audio on tape (around 650 objects), with some video (largely U-Matic cassettes), 16mm film (four reels), photographs, slides, and ephemera (eight scrapbooks of printed matter).
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, U-matic (including U-matic S), Photographic print, and Text document
Audiovisual material and ephemera from the KSFO San Francisco radio station, made between 1956 and1983. Content includes famous radio personalities, station marketing, promotions, fundraisers, also jingles, themes, music beds, promotional spots, and advertising.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Evangelical sermons, prayers, and hymnal recordings mostly on compact disc, originally broadcast from 1937 to 1968 on the radio program Old Fashioned Revival Hour with radio host Charles Fuller (1887-1968). The collection includes original programs from the 1950s and rebroadcasts from 2002 to the present. More programs will be added as they become available. The music CDs and cassettes were were produced on the campus of Fuller Theological Seminary and were published between 1999 and 2004.
1000 off-air recordings of local and network radio, Menlo Park, CA from 1937 to 1949, made with home recording machine to make aluminum, lacquer discs of broadcasts, mostly war-related news & commentary
The Ragtime Machine was a weekly one-hour radio program about ragtime music, produced and hosted by David Reffkin and broadcast on the University of San Francisco's station KUSF. The collection contains all programs from 1981 to 2007, as well as program logs describing their contents, including guests interviewed and songs played.
The Ed Wilkinson Collection consists of classical and opera performance broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s on open reel tape, the majority of which from the Standard Symphony Hour series.
The KZSU Collection consists of tape recordings of lectures by Stanford faculty on campus from January to May 1968, originally broadcast on student radio station KZSU. While on a variety of topics, contemporary sociological, scientific, and economic issues are prevalent. The lecture series was sponsored by Century 21 realty company. Note cards describing tape speed, playback issues, and sound quality are inserted in each tape box. Some of the multi-part lectures are missing a part. Additional recordings may be added to this collection at a later time.
Since 1989, Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educates and entertains public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era, featuring performances from the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and guests. This collection contains copies of all the finished programs, as well as elements, other source material, and files documenting every aspect of the show's production.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Text
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, and Text document
Historic music and speech recordings, primarily on open reel tape, made on the campus of Stanford University. The collection also includes video formats, one 8 mm film and two audio cassettes.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), 8mm video (including Hi8), and Open reel video
The Stanford Speech Collection consists of audio recordings on open reel tape of speeches, lectures, and panel discussions at or sponsored by Stanford University from the 1950s through the 70s. Many recordings were produced and edited for broadcast on campus radio station KZSU (especially those tapes from 1969-1971).
KTAO-FM was a free-form radio station in Los Gatos, California, that existed from March, 1969, through June, 1974, and operated at 95.3 FM. The KTAO Aircheck Archives comprise audio collages with instruments played in the studio to be used as taped effects; a "jam" session recorded July 29, 1971; and an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans interviewed in Los Gatos by Geoff Alexander and Don Campau, June 9, 1971, at a residence in Los Gatos, California. In addition, the collection includes images of KTAO operators and musicians in 1974; photographs of the 40th anniversary reunion; original Los Gatos business license (1974); several images of counter-culture posters; letter from Gary R. Dahl to Roger Mann.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.), Photographic print, and Text document
Includes more than 400 transcription discs for The Beulah Show starring Hattie McDaniel as Beulah in 15-minute radio serializations. A script for the March 10, 1948 episode features Hattie and her brother Sam McDaniel. Also includes photographs and material on Sam from his vaudeville days and some scripts from films, television and other radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists primarily of Hopper's personal files related almost exclusively to her work as a columnist and to her social life but also contains documentation about her radio appearances.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists of scrapbooks containing thousands of columns she wrote over six decades. Also contains biographical clippings on Parsons and coverage of her various radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Consists primarily of material on various personalities utilized by Skolsky in the preparation of his tintypes. Additional items include miscellaneous television and radio scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Margaret Herrick Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Contains scripts for radio and television, including Studio One, 1947-1948, Ford Theater, 1948-1949, Life With Father, 1954, Sears Radio Theater, 1979-1980 and Mutual Radio Theater, 1980-1981. Also includes documents, photos, press clippings and most correspondence related to these series.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains papers relating to his career as a television producer and writer and as the author of a biography of Jack Benny and a book on comedy writing. Includes correspondence, radio and television scripts, book manuscripts, sound recordings, press clippings, research notes and other materials.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains scripts of Spotlight Playhouse, 1946, The Eddy King Show, 1947-1948, Ready for Brady, 1948-1949, The Monty Masters Show, 1948-1949, and Candy Matson, 1949-1951. In addition to these series, the collection contains story treatments and sample scripts for proposed television and radio series from the early 1950s as well as single copies of scripts from various radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains scripts for radio and television series, including Duffy's Tavern, 1946-1949, Jimmy Durante Show, 1950, That's Rich, 1954, Ray Milland Show, 1954-1955, Meet Millie, 1955-1956, Professional Father, 1955 and How to Marry a Millionaire, 1957-1958. Collection also includes series treatments, story outlines, sketches and jokes. Some items include production notes.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Currently contains materials selected and organized by Corwin for inclusion during his lifetime, including correspondence, scrapbooks, radio and television scripts, motion picture screenplays, sound recordings, video recordings, photographs, business records and contracts, press clippings and ephemera. The bulk of the accessible materials documents Corwin's career in radio and television broadcasting, motion pictures, the theater and as an author and teacher, 1935-1990. As of 2005, the collection is partly arranged and described.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists Primarily of black and white photographs of Rudy Vallee, his friends and associates and locations where he performed. Also includes one color photograph of Vallee and his wife Eleanor (ca. 1980), one letter from Vallee, several greeting cards and a small file of press clippings.