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 Check unpublished finding aid for any possible radio related material.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)