Physical Description:
227 open reel tapes
: 211 7" reels ; 4 3" reels ; 12 5" reels ; 5 audiocassettes
Scope and Contents
Box 1 partial listing: Opera airchecks from WQXR-FM/WOR-AM, 1974-1978 (nearly all Metropolitan Opera, but also at least one
from the Opera Association of Western Michigan).
Box 2 partial listing: Ben Lehr Park Church Organ ; Ann Margret TV Special 10/28/73 ; Veterans Salute ; Metaphysics for Everyday
Living Lessons ; Gen. Meyer Brainwashing Lecture ; Inter-aircraft Communications ; Baseballiana ; Mozart Requiem, Easter Eve.
4/5/58 ; Victor Herbert Railroad Hour ; Teddy Powell Show (Announced) ; Fanny, Civic Theatre rec. by Douglas Leitch ; Operatic
Cylinders ; Packburn Demonstration Tape ; Boston Transportation Museum Project ; Hebrew 78s ; Horowitz TV Concert ; Eternal
Light ; Howie - J.A, Music Show 3/17/68 ; Memory Shop Radio Show - Wood - 1950 ; Comparison of Sweet and Dixie Arrangements
; Lucia - Mad Scene 1904-1940 ; Reminiscences of a Record Collector (Musical Excerpts) ; Tom Ozinga Interview WUOH/WVGR 4/1980
; Museum Show ; Chuck Forster, Etc. ; Electricity Salute
Box 3 partial listing: Presidential Voices Project ; Jazz Drummers ; Studs Terkel interviewing Earl Hines ; Florida Songs
; Unusual Instrumental Solos ; Excerpts And Notes from Arnold's Archives ; Jewish Comedy ; Wizard of the Nile (Schenectady
Light Opera Co.) ; Sweet Lorraine ; Eddie Cantor Radio Show with Dinah Shore and Cesar Romero ; Rare Cylinders ; Hobo and
Bum Songs ; Political Campaign Songs ; Public Library Project ; Rigoletto (West Michigan Opera Co. 9/21/78) ; Rose Songs ;
Darrow - Scopes ; Rosie the Riveter Project ; Coney Island Project ; Al Jolson Dialects and Imitations ; Mother Project
Box 4 partial listing: Many old radio programs, probably purchased from a single dealer. Most feature Al Jolson. Lux Radio
Theatre 4/2/45, 6/2/47, 2/16/48, 5/22/50 ; Rexall Show 1/21/48 ; Shell Chateau 6/29/35, 7/6/35, 7/20/35, 7/27/35, 8/3/35,
8/10/35, 8/17/35, 8/24/35, 8/31/35, 9/21/35, 9/28/35, 10/17/35, 1/25/36 ; Eddie Cantor 1/3/37, 3/6/47, 1/8/48 ; Colgate Show
3/30/43 ; Jolson From Korea 10/25/50 ; Ask Eddie Cantor 6/5/61 ; Jolson Calvacade ; Kraft Music Hall 10/2/47, 10/30/47, 11/6/47,
11/27/47, 1/1/48, 1/8/48, 1/29/48, 2/12/48, 2/19/48, 3/4/48, 3/11/48, 3/18/48, 3/25/48, 4/8/48, 4/22/48, 5/13/48, 5/20/48,
6/3/48, 10/21/48, 3/29/49 ; Bary Gray Show 10/7/46 ; Operation Nightmare 6/9/47 ; Showtime 4/7/47 ; Irving Berlin Tribute
8/3/38 ; Martin Block Radio Show ; Soldiers in Greasepaint 11/25/43 ; Bill Stern Newsreel 10/20/50 ; A Salute to Jolson 10/23/70
; Milton Berle Show 6/6/45 ; Bob Hope Show 4/8/47 ; NBC Studio in Hollywood Opening 12/7/35 ; Al Jolson Memorial Broadcast
10/24/50, 10/23/51 ; Philco Hall of Fame 5/28/44 ; Life Buoy Program 9/7/3710/18/38, 11/1/39, Jack Benny 5/18/47, 4/2/50 ;
Bing Crosby Show 10/30/49, 12/28/49, 1/4/50, 2/15/50,5/3/50 ; Philco Radio Time 1/15/47, 3/5/47, 12/3/47, 5/7/49 ; The Debutante,
Bel Canto Opera (Wagner HS, New York) ; Hoagy Carmichael Project ; Musical History Course ; Haley's Comet Tribute ; Life 50th
Anniversary with Barbara Walters 11/15/86 ; Columbia Black and Silver Records ; Ex-President Hoover, Military Situation ;
Opportunity USA 5/16/49 ; Here's To Veterans 1/7/48, 11/23/48 ; Amos and Andy 12/17/46 ; ASCAP on Parade 1939
Box 5 partial listing: Berliner/Zonophone ; Bishop's Appeal ; Auto Songs ; Laurel & Hardy Silent Movies TV Soundtrack ; Rudolf
Ganz Interview with Manager of Chicago Symphony ; Nixon Watergate Speech 8/15/73 ; Beethoven Emperor Schnabel/Stock Chicago
Symphony ; O'Halloran's Luck, TV 1961 ; Boris Godunov, Don Giovanni 1975 ; Hit Parade 4/11/36 ; Desert Island Discs 11/7/92
; Sherrill Milnes Concert at St. Cecilia, Grand Rapids 10/16/91 ; Grand Rapids Symphony, Theo Alcantara, Conductor. Mozart,
Jupiter Symphony (#41) ; WGUR Program 2/8/66 ; Ward Show ; Early Movies ; [radio songs, speeches and commentary 1941-1949]
; Mississippi Project ; Streisand Show, 1960? ; JFK Memorial ; Breton School Play ; Bennett, Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, conductor ; TV Pilot ; Jolson - Chevalier Recreated Duets ; Guest Star ;
Temple Emanuel Musical History Course
Box 6 partial listing: Herbert Hoover Military Situation 12/12/50 ; Oberhaus Film Project, Popular Hits Circa 1900 ; Bob Hope
25th Anniversary TV Show ; Temple Emanuel Service - Musical Excerpts ; Psychic Science and the Christian Bible ; Warners 50th
Anniversary 12/12/73 ; Duke Ellington TV Tribute 7/22/74 ; Metropolitan Opera airchecks 1975-78 ; Toscanini Programs ; Ben
Bernie, Off the Air 1939 ; Irving Berlin Interview ; Zuben Mehta TV Show 3/13/70 ; George Jessell Carnegie Hall Concert ;
Cagney Salute 3/18/74 ; TV Audition, Arnold Jacobsen ; Big Bud Show WZZM 7/66 ; Train Songs ; Spoken Word (France) ; Shipwreck
Songs ; Sewing Songs ; Senior Citizen Project ; Frank Lloyd Wright Discusses Architecture ; Archeology Project ; Tap Dancing
Project ; Political Songs and Speeches ; History Speaks ; WJR 35th Anniversary 1957 ; LaGuardia Reminiscences and Tribute
Box 7 tapes (17) are not labeled and will require an audio preview to identify.