Contains personal and professional papers of Carroll who was associated with the J. Walter Thompson Co. (JWT) and the development, writing and production of many radio programs, including Kraft Music Hall. Also contains material relating to his work as a ghost writer for Bob Hope and with the Office of War Information.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Consists mainly of radio and television scripts written by Carroll and sheet music for songs written by Carroll or in collaboration with Dick Manning. Contains material on the Bob Crosby Show, Club 15, Kraft Music Hall and Old Gold Show, including correspondence and manuscripts of various writings. Also includes Carroll's column for "Variety" magazine and books ghost written for Bob Hope, Mike Douglas and others, sound recordings of radio commercials and programs and records, some with music written by Carroll and some performed by the Bob Crosby Orchestra.
A glossy print of a publicity photograph of the Carter sisters. Original photograph made by WRVA, Richmond, VA to advertise its Old Dominion Barn Dance program.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections Department, Alderman Memorial Library, University of Virginia
Eighteen transcriptions of The Happy Two broadcast over WAGA, Atlanta, GA from May-September of 1948. The program featured performers Shorty Bradford and Lee Roy Abernathy.
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
In 1st work: Manuel Compinsky Quartet ; Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles ; Werner Janssen, conductor. In 2nd work: Fernando Valenti, harpsichord. In 3rd work: Tina de Maria, piano ; Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples ; Franco Caracciolo, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
A newspaper, radio and television journalist, Cassidy spent most of his career as a foreign correspondent and executive for the Associated Press, NBC and Radio Free Europe. His radio scripts form the bulk of the collection and include scripts written in Paris, 1945-1950, for Report on Europe and those written in the United States, 1953-1955, for Heart of the News, News of the World, World News Roundup and other programs.
The collection consists of personal papers, photographs, and a video documenting the career Ed Castleberry, a pioneering black radio disc jockey and newscaster.
Content types:
Two-dimensional moving image, Still image, and Text
Formats:
VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
1 document case (.25 linear feet), including 26 photographs and 1 videocassette (VHS)
Briefly describes both government and privately produced sound recordings from a variety of sources, including radio broadcasts, speeches, interviews, documentaries, oral history and public information programs. The earliest recording is from 1896 but most recordings fall in the 1935-present time span. Titles are described numerically and by personal name reference.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
Describes 5,000 recordings, primarily of CBS-KIRO broadcasts, 1931-1977, which were originally maintained at the University of Washington. The collection consists of news and public affairs programs, actualities, speeches, interviews, wartime dramas and daily World War II news programs. Two finding aids are available: History in Sound: A Descriptive Listing of KIRO-CBS Collection of Broadcasts of the World War II Years (1963) and History in Sound: Part II (1972). Catalog cards contain brief content summaries and are more detailed than the published guides. Most entries are available on reel-to-reel reference tapes.
Repository/Collector:
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Unit (Special Media Archives Services Division)
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
Sound recording of four parodies of CBS news figures and operations by Ham O'Hara. Spoofed is Walter Cronkite's D-Day re-visited interview with Dwight Eisenhower (featuring Mel Brooks), The Bird, an international satellite broadcast, I've Got a Secret, and Harry Reasoner's narration of a version of "The Night Before Christmas" entitled "Cronkiter's Christmas Carol."
Sound recordings of Echoes of a Century, a series of programs broadcast on 150 stations throughout the United States illustrating the story of Holland, MI from the origins of the Dutch settlers' decision to immigrate to the New World to the then present-day.
1945-1995 The collection consists of 50 years of radio, television and film productions, papers, and photographs documenting the founding and growth of Protestant Radio and Television Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
4300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Recordings of concerts from the Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, SC, Chamber Music Series. Also, completed broadcast programs recorded for national distribution. Also some local news coverage
Content types:
Performed Music, Spoken Word, and Broadcast Programs
Formats:
Polyester open reel tape, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, and Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD)
The collection consists of noncommercial sound recordings including performances by Jascha Heifetz and Larry Adler of popular chamber music; a performance of Aaron Avshalomoff's Symphony no. 2 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thor Johnson; a speech by Mrs. Gilbert Chapman broadcast in 1943 promoting the American Women's Voluntary Services; and radio and television interviews with Gilbert W. Chapman and dancer Alexandra Danilova. The interviews with Chapman were recorded from 1956 to 1962 and concern literacy and education in the United States. Notable television and radio programs represented in the collection include the Tex and Jinx television program; a Monitor radio program; and a Lee Graham television interview. Also included is the opening address (given by Mr. Chapman) of the New York Public Library 50th anniversary convocation, and a radio program featuring a story about the WNYC book festival.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
17 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains papers and correspondence documenting various aspects of Chappell's radio career, including scripts for Logic In Science, 1934, WLTH, For Worriers Only, 1937, WMCA and Psychological Forum of the Air, 1937-1938, WNEW. Also includes proposed scripts for other programs, audience measurement papers, 1945-1946, testimony before the FCC, 1943, and material relating to advertising.
Repository/Collector:
West Campus Library, University Archives, Hofstra University
Side A (ca. 50 min.). Charles Ward speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his childhood in Los Angeles; his acting as a teenager in musical comedies such as Camelot and West Side story; beginning ballet training at a local Los Angeles school at age 16; training at Gene Marinaccio's school; attending his first ballet performance, of the Stuttgart Ballet, at age 17; joining and dancing with Houston Ballet; Houston Ballet dancers Judith Aaen and John Sellers [Anthony Sellers]; training with a scholarship at American Ballet Theatre School; joining American Ballet Theatre, including an anecdote about Lucia Chase; dancing soloist roles for American Ballet Theatre, including in [Harald Lander's] Etudes; dancing with Carla Fracci in Glen Tetley's Nocturne at the Spoleto Festival [Spoleto Festival U.S.A.] in Charleston, S. C.; being cast as a principal in Tetley's Gemini; reasons a tall male dancer has difficulty in obtaining soloist roles; his feelings about the presence at American Ballet Theatre of the foreign dancers, Natalia Makarova, Fracci, Marcia Haydée and Misha [Mikhail] Baryshnikov; reasons he likes to partner Gelsey Kirkland; partnering Cynthia Gregory; the flatness of almost all male roles in classical story ballets; his reasons for leaving American Ballet Theatre; auditioning for Bob Fosse's musical comedy Dancin'; Bob Fosse's extensive theatrical knowledge; working with him, including Fosse's use of Ward's ballet training; critical and popular response to Dancin', including Ward's and Kaptzan's extensive discussion of their differing opinions of the work [ends abruptly]. Side B (ca. 17 min.). Charles Ward continues speaking about performing in Dancin' ; compares manner of preparing for a performance in Dancin' with preparation for performing in a ballet; his relationship with Ann Reinking; his career aspirations after he has finished touring with Dancin'.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains bound and unbound transcripts of radio sermons, mostly from the 1930s, some sound recordings, personal papers, correspondence, issues of "Social Justice" and other papers by and about Coughlin.
Repository/Collector:
National Shrine of the Little Flower Catholic Church
Consists of correspondence, subject files, transcripts of radio broadcasts on KDKA and WWSW, 1937-1969, manuscripts, case files, family papers, audio tapes and a film of the Pittsburgh Catholic priest who was active in labor relations and social causes.
Includes original scripts for Your Home Town, an historical drama, and some World War II related dramas and other programs. Huntley was a writer, announcer and performer on WOY.
Galley proof of radio speech given by Governor Martin over KALE and KEX, December 6, 1937. The speech calls for a settlement to the dispute between two opposing labor groups by holding a special election on December 9, 1937.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Includes personal and biographical files, professional and audience correspondence, speeches and writings, background material and scripts for Edward R. Murrow and the News, Report to the West and other CBS television news programs.
The collection is best for the years 1956-1967 and includes a wide variety of materials pertaining to his association with ABC as a newsman and vice-president of news, special events and public affairs, 1953-1967. Fragmentary early material includes a scrapbook on events covered by Daly as White House correspondent for WJSV, Washington, DC, 1938-1939, correspondence and scripts for CBS Is There (later known as You Are There), The Front Page, his coverage of the Italian theater during World War II and "The Sangamon," an Edgar Lee Masters radio play. There are no scripts dating from the later period covered but there are office memos, fan mail and publicity for Daly's television programs. Additional files pertain to ABC news administration and operation, outside speaking engagements, involvement with professional groups such as the National Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters and coverage of political conventions. Collection includes three disc recordings and 53 photographs.
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)
Papers document Sandage's work in advertising as it related to radio, including the radio/TV diary method of survey research. Also includes research surveys in Ohio and Illinois.
Repository/Collector:
University Archives, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Contains papers relating to Crutchfield's career, including his work at WBT, Charlotte, NC as a radio announcer, program director and general manager, as president of the Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting Company, 1965-1977, and also his career at CBS.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The bulk of the items in the collection pertain to Kuralt's career between the 1970s and the 1990s and include scripts, publicity materials and a small amount of fan mail.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Consists of materials collected by Sheldon Marcus, Coughlin's biographer, and includes Marcus's typescript, interviews with people who knew Coughlin, a tape of one of his broadcasts and correspondence.
Includes typed copies of talks on heredity and eugenics presented over various radio stations, 1928 and 1933, and correspondence regarding talks on WRHM, 1933-1934.
Contains 747 recordings, mostly on reel-to-reel tape, of off-air recordings of popular radio programs. Mixed genres. Program titles and some broadcast dates and performer information is available in an inhouse catalog.
Charlotte Shedd was born in Austria in 1913 as Charlotte Kraus, and became a student of the performing arts. In 1938, she was denied the right to appear on stage because of the Nazi occupation of Austria, the Nuremberg Laws, and her father's Jewish background. On Christmas Eve 1938, she escaped to America with a nearly expired Austrian passport and began her singing career. Shortly thereafter, she met Eleanor Roosevelt's bodyguard, who introduced her to the First Lady, beginning a close friendship that lasted until Mrs. Roosevelt's death in 1962.
Content types:
Performed music and Spoken word
Formats:
Text document and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
Approximately 120 recordings, microfilm, 4.6 feet, paper copies
Repository/Collector:
University of Delaware Library, Special Collections
Papers document Charlton's role in promoting the programs of the National Recovery Administration and include bulletins, news releases, reports, radio scripts, speeches and stories chronicling the Depression.
Papers of a writer for stage, screen, radio and television. Includes scripts for two radio plays: "The Meanest Man in the World," broadcast January 8, 1952 on Theatre Guild on the Air and "The Spectacle Lady" broadcast on May 5, 1952 on Cavalcade of America.
Includes material on radio advertising, possibly for Adlerika, a laxative and a treatment for appendicitis, Adla tablets for stomach ailments, Daru liver pills and Vino!, a vitamin tonic. An inventory that provides additional information about these materials is available in the repository.
With the exception of his farewell remarks broadcast on the Huntley-Brinkley Report, the holdings relate entirely to radio. The two series for which coverage is most complete are his daily five-minute editorials, Perspective on the News and Emphasis: Plain Talk. The tape recordings consist of editorials prepared under the auspices of Horizon Communications Corporation following his retirement from NBC.
Materials by and about Huntley, including biographical information, personal and professional correspondence, scripts written for his radio and television projects, speaking engagements and news commentary projects and press clippings, primarily spanning his years with NBC. Boxes 2-6 in Series ID contain radio scripts. See online finding aid for list of programs, interviews and dates.
Repository/Collector:
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana
Contains the July 18, 1954 broadcast that includes the poetry of Dylan Thomas and a discussion by Reuel N. Denny, Elder J. Olson and Alan Simpson. Note: Description was unclear as to whether the material was a sound recording or a transcript.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Renfroe, a sportscaster, broadcasting high school football and basketball games from Atlanta and Macon, GA; and college games from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee; a few tapes of interviews on radio talk shows discussing sports
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
171 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Side A. [Music and announcements.] Christian Holder speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his family's performing arts background; his early training in London in dance and theater; seeing Jerome Robbins' musical comedy West Side Story and Ballets: U.S.A. as an influence on his decision to dance; moving to New York City in l964; his scholarship to the Martha Graham School [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance]; attending the New York City High School of the Performing Arts; joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1966; his theatrical experience as a child; his favorite role, Death, in Kurt Jooss's The green table; other roles he enjoys, including in [José Limón's] Moor's pavane, [Robert Joffrey's] Astarte, and the narrator in [Frederick Ashton's] Wedding bouquet; roles he and Gary Chryst perform; his preference for a diverse repertory [short gap]; working with Leonide Massine; dancing in Massine's work Parade; dancing in the Joffrey Ballet's program titled Homage to Diaghilev [Parade, Petruschka, Spectre de la rose, and Afternoon of a faun], including the difficulty of performing the same roles every night; working with Rudolf Nureyev; the Joffrey repertoire and how works are selected for performance; the attempted censorship of certain works when the Joffrey toured in the former Soviet Union; touring in the U.S., including audience reactions; Holder's choreographing, including his work Five dances; how working with Jerome Robbins and other choreographers has helped him as a choreographer; his experience with costume design. [Music and announcements.] Side B is blank.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Side A. [Music and announcements.] Christian Holder speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his family's performing arts background; his early training in London in dance and theater; seeing Jerome Robbins' musical comedy West Side Story and Ballets: U.S.A. as an influence on his decision to dance; moving to New York City in l964; his scholarship to the Martha Graham School [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance]; attending the New York City High School of the Performing Arts; joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1966; his theatrical experience as a child; his favorite role, Death, in Kurt Jooss's The green table; other roles he enjoys, including in [José Limón's] Moor's pavane, [Robert Joffrey's] Astarte, and the narrator in [Frederick Ashton's] Wedding bouquet; roles he and Gary Chryst perform; his preference for a diverse repertory [short gap]; working with Leonide Massine; dancing in Massine's work Parade; dancing in the Joffrey Ballet's program titled Homage to Diaghilev [Parade, Petruschka, Spectre de la rose, and Afternoon of a faun], including the difficulty of performing the same roles every night; working with Rudolf Nureyev; the Joffrey repertoire and how works are selected for performance; the attempted censorship of certain works when the Joffrey toured in the former Soviet Union; touring in the U.S., including audience reactions; Holder's choreographing, including his work Five dances; how working with Jerome Robbins and other choreographers has helped him as a choreographer; his experience with costume design. [Music and announcements.] Side B is blank.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Gary Chryst speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about choreographers with whom he has worked, including Leonide Massine and John Butler; his preference for roles that involve acting and how he prepares a role; the influence of his family as a source of his love of music; studying dance at the [New York City] High School of Performing Arts; performing with Norman Walker; performing with the Joffrey Ballet and his respect for director Robert Joffrey; recent experiences as a guest artist and teacher; leisure activities such as his love of food and cooking, and the pleasure of friendships.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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
A highly prolific poet, translator and prose writer, Corman hosted This Is Poetry, a 15 minute program aired on WMEX, 1949-1951, on which noted poets read their works.
Papers consist almost entirely of correspondence between the author and the book dealer Henry Wenning, 1962-1964, most of which deal with the distribution of Origin Press materials and books and with Corman's life and work in Japan. Does not contain any material about Corman's program This Is Poetry, 1948-1951.
Repository/Collector:
Olin Library, Department of Special Collections, Washington University
Contains scripts, photographs, publicity material and about 2,000 hours of recordings from WKW, WKRC, WCKY, WSAI, WFBE and WCPO. Although there are no long "runs" of any particular series, the collection does include a "decent" supply of Moon River, WLW, and Canal Days, WSAI. Also includes personal items related to the career of Ruth Lyons and some material relating to Cleveland radio history.
A recording that features 16 different 30-second voiced spot announcements using sound effects to show the value of radio. One side repeats the same sound effects without voice so local announcers can use the copy with a local call letter insertion.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University
Interview with P.J. Broome and Clay Tucker on WGNS, Murfreesboro TN, January 19, 1991, which describes the big band jazz scene in the Nashville area, 1920-1960.
A souvenir booklet prepared to explain the operations of a metropolitan newspaper. Also includes information about the newspaper's paper mill and radio station.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer of contemporary classical music, musicologist, and flutist Claire Polin. Polin talks about the current status of women composers, and about sexism in music. She speaks about both of her careers: as a composer, and as a flutist. The composer also discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Summer settings (for harp), The journey of Owain Madoc, Consecutivo: study on a requiem (for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano) (1966), and Infinito: a requiem (for alto saxophone, soprano solo, narrator, and chorus).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, manuscripts of articles and books, notebooks, dispatches, releases, radio scripts, reports, reference files, pamphlets, promotional material, scrapbooks, clippings, memorabilia and photographs. Chiefly reference material pertaining to the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration and World War II.
Contains scripts, 1944, 1948-1950 and 1957, including portions of the 1944 Republican National Convention relating to CARE (Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere), other papers and a sound recording of a personality sketch of Clapper by Mutual Broadcaster Virgil Pinkley, 1958.
Clarence Manion (1896-1979) was Dean of the Law School at the University of Notre Dame. He started the Manion Forum after his retirement from the University. The collection consists of reel-to-reel and cassette audio recordings (1954-1979) of the Manion Forum radio program (numbered 1-1294) and Manion Forum Footnotes (numbered 1-1850). It was a radio show with political comments on current events by Clarence Manion and / or his guests. Among the guests were Senator Joseph McCarthy, Strom Thurmond, Admiral John S. McCain, Sr., Barry Goldwater, Fred C. Koch, Eddie Rickenbacker, Craig Hosmer, Gerhart Niemeyer, Bonner Fellers, Daniel Lyons, SJ and others.
Content types:
Spoken word and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, and Text document
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.
Includes papers relating to Kinnaird's career as a syndicated columnist, broadcaster and book reviewer, 1949-1970. Collection includes some unidentified radio scripts.
Consists of correspondence, minutes, speeches, writings, case files and campaign materials relating to Clark's career as a lawyer specializing in environmental cases and as a civic leader and radio talk show host.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
Contains official and personal papers and extensive audio holdings of Pepper's broadcasts during World War II and the post war period, 1945-1950, covering a wide range of domestic and international issues. See online finding aid for details.
By far the bulk of the papers are Federal Trade Commission files. As an attorney-examiner with the FTC between 1941 and 1962, Gardner worked with cases involving alleged deceptive advertising practices in the print media and radio. Collection includes worksheets for 1948-1951 from the Division of Radio and Periodical Advertising.
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 bulk of the collection consists of scripts, both radio and television, 1930-1960, with only three scripts prior to 1935. Includes scripts for special programs such as The War That Must Not Come, April 16, 1946, and for occasions on which Utley substituted for other commentators such as H. V. Kaltenbom and Joseph Harsch. Also includes scripts for dramatizations in which Utley participated or which he moderated such as the historical series entitled We Came This Way, 1944-1945, and Quiz Kids, 1946. Also includes fan mail and other correspondence. Utley broadcast his news reports and commentary over several Chicago stations, but the majority of the work originated from the NBC stations WMAQ and WNBQ, either for local or network broadcast.