Guide to the Richard Finnie Collection
ARS.0117
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst
Archive of Recorded Sound
Braun Music Center
541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, California, 94305-3076
650-723-9312
soundarchive@stanford.edu
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Richard Finnie Collection
Dates: 1951-1980
Collection number: ARS.0117
Collection size:
8 boxes
: 315 open reel tapes (64 3-5" reels ; 251 7" reels) ; 2 small boxes of slides
Repository:
Archive of Recorded Sound
Abstract: Open reel tapes recorded by Richard Finnie, including Bechtel Corporation film soundtrack material featuring traditional music
and sound effects from Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere, and broadcasts and live performances of classical music, jazz,
folk, and other types of music.
Language of Material: Multiple languages
Access
Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for
assistance.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Preferred Citation
Richard Finnie Collection, ARS-0117. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Source
The Richard Finnie Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Anne Ackerman Finnie in 1987.
Sponsor
This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Scope and Contents
The Richard Finnie Collection consists of a variety of open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer,
ethnographer and historian Richard Sterling Finnie (1906-1987), largely in the 1950s and 60s. Finnie worked for the international
engineering company Bechtel Corporation for twenty-five years, and as a producer for their industrial film division he recorded
music from around the world, as well as sounds related to Bechtel's oil pipeline and refinery projects. This material was
used in soundtracks for Bechtel films such as Oil Across Sumatra, Petrole de Zarzaitine, Exploring Libya, and Bechtel in Europe.
Finnie, who had extensive prior experience documenting his travels in Northern Canada, made on-location recordings of traditional
music from such countries as Korea, Libya, Tunisia, Sumatra, South Africa, Lebanon, Cambodia and Venezuela, utilizing the
talents of local musicians and songwriters. Rights contracts are enclosed with a few tapes; in fact Libyan composer Mohammed
Murshan was hired to write a special Petroleum Song for Bechtel. Additionally, environmental sounds, such as street noise,
a call to prayer, "mule cart sounds," "crowd noises at Tripoli race track," and an "overloaded radio," were recorded for sound
effects and beds. Some of these field tapes also include Bechtel business matters (i.e. meetings, phone calls, and speech
rehearsals).
In addition to his work with Bechtel (which ended with his retirement in 1968), Finnie captured copious amounts of radio broadcasts
on tape, particularly from Pacifica station KPFA, but also from programs on KDFC, KCBS, KEAR, and KKHI. These include Phil
Elwood's jazz shows, New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony performances, rebroadcasts from classical music festivals
such as Salzburg, Warsaw, Carmel Bach, Edinburgh, and Vienna, and a multitude of other programs. Finnie's radio tapes are
a testament to the richness of Northern California radio offered during that time.
Finnie, who lived in Belvedere, California, was also a jazz fan, and the collection contains some remarkable artifacts, such
as original Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier Club Hangover recordings (recorded off-air with Robert L. Ingram), informal jam
sessions with local traditional jazz musicians, Turk Murphy at Grace Cathedral (from a KMPX broadcast hosted by Phil Elwood),
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Marin Junior College in 1975, and the audio portion of a Coleman Hawkins memorial television
program from 1969.
The vast majority of recordings were made by Finnie himself, although there is not always attribution present. There are a
few copies of commercially-released recordings, some of which were shellac discs borrowed from the Indonesian consulate. Most
tapes contain inserted material such as notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, review logs, Bechtel contracts, and correspondence.
Arrangement
Tapes have been organized in the following general series: 1. Bechtel-related recordings (non-ethnic) ; 2. classical music
broadcasts ; 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts (many of which were for Bechtel) ; 4. jazz recordings and broadcasts
; 5. miscellaneous. Please note that many tapes contain multiple recordings and are grouped alphabetically according to the
first words of the first recording listed on the tape box. Some tapes are edited transfers of other tapes in the collection,
and may be listed elsewhere.
Related Materials
The Archive of Recorded Sound separately houses approximately sixty instantaneous discs recorded by Finnie, some of which
are the original sources for tapes in this collection. Stanford University Special Collections holds the Richard Sterling
Finnie Papers, 1945-1967 (M0694), which is focused primarily on Bechtel and also contains a variety of audiovisual media.
The National Archives of Canada holds the Richard Sterling Finnie Fonds, 1890-1987.
Indexing Terms
Finnie, Richard Sterling
Bechtel Corporation.
1. Bechtel recordings (non-ethnic), etc.
Box 8
S.D. Bechtel's Tribute to W. Morrison
1965-08-02
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Neil Buckley, piano. Lake Tahoe 7/13/63 ; Gordon Way Interview 9-10/62 ; Chocolate Bayou Dedication 12/4/1962
1962-1963
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Cal-Tex Voice Auditions
1960-10-07
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Chocolate Bayou Dedication Speeches
1962-12-04
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
B.F. Fairless. Cuidad Bolivar 2/27/53 ; Fairless Works 6/20/54
1953-1954
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Fritz Speech Rehearsal ; Alyce Story ; South Seas Music on Dinah Shore Show ; Lonnie Adair Ballads ; Sidney Bechet Recordings
; Sound Effects ; Sfax Orchestra
1960
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Geneva. Al Moritz and Colleagues
1963-11-01
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Johanson Family 11/18/59 Concluded ; N.Y. Management Meeting. Original Field Tape
1959-11
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
C.B. Lester Interview for Bechtel Briefs Article 8/62 ; Mediterranean Pipeline Crossing Discussion ; Bells of Strasbourg Cathedral
; Purchasing, Pipeline Offices, Paris ; Israel Leviant's Views on Story Treatment for Film and Book on Bechtel in Europe.
Field tape
1962
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Luncheon at Mercier ; Alexander Rignault Audition ; Zelten Road
1961
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
E.B. Mulkins
1965-01
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Music Box in London ; Fragment of Phone Conversation ; London Traffic Noise ; Drafting Room Background ; Purchasing Office
with Typewriters ; Walt Hillman At Radio, Ras Es Sider 5/9/62 ; Welding At Pipeline at Dahra ; Radio Operator at Dahra ; Libyan
Voices and Effects
1962-05
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Rhine Crossing ; Pipe-laying near Cologne ; Supervisors Meeting, The Hague ; London Office Meeting ; A Visit to the Johansons,
Copenhagen. Original Field Tape
1959-11
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Southern Pacific. Sound Effects (Bechtel) Reels 3, 5, 6
Physical Description:
3 5" open reel tapes
Box 8
Submarine Sounds ; Ivan Manning And Clay Wheeler In Four-Handed Jam Session At Hawaiian
1960-08-03
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Slides : Zelten, Libya ; Kuwait [oil refinery?] 11-12/58
1958
Physical Description:
2 boxes
2. classical music broadcasts
festival broadcasts
1958-1963
Box 2
Aldeburgh Festival, KPFA. Menuhin, Britten
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Ascona Festival ; Bergen Festival
1962
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Ascona Festival ; Golden Voices - Caruso
1962
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Carmel Bach Festival, KPFA
1960-07-23
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tapes
Box 6, Box 7
Carmel Bach Festival, KPFA
1961-07
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tapes
Box 3
Festival Casals ; David Del Tredici live KPFA 3/30/59
1958-1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Casals Festival, KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
3 7" open reel tapes
Box 6
Chimay Festival '60 KDFC International Music Hall 12/24/61 ; Presti and Lagoya, KPFA from CDC 9/1/63
1960-1963
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Chimay Festival ; Liege Festival
1962
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Chimay Festival, Zabaleta KPFA
1963-08
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Donaueschingen Festival '58 KPFA
1960
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Dubrovnik Festival ; Golden Voices - Kathleen Ferrier. KPFA
1960
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Edinburgh Festival KPFA
1958
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Edinburgh Festival '63 ; Bergen Festival '63
1963
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Enesco Festival, Bucharest, Rumania. Menuhin- Brahms, Beethoven
1959-04-10
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Ghent Festival '62 ; A Concert From Berlin
1963
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
A Concert from Liege
1961-09-15
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Liege Festival
1962
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Haslemere FestivaL, KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Montreux Festival, KPFA. Ravel, Debussy
1961
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Les Nuits de Sceaux ; Delius ; KPFA Studio Concert. William Corbett Jones, piano
1959-01
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Les Nuits de Sceaux, KPFA
1958
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Les Nuits de Sceaux, KPFA
1959-01-18
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Prades Festival, KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Prades Festival ; Salzburg Festival
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1, Box 2
Prague Spring Festival
1962-10-25
Physical Description:
3 7" open reel tapes
Salzburg Festival broadcasts
Box 1, Box 7
Salzburg Festival
1957
Physical Description:
8 7" open reel tapes
Box 2, Box 7
Salzburg, KEAR, KPFA
1958
Physical Description:
10 7" open reel tapes
Box 1, Box 2, Box 6
Salzburg Festival, KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
9 7" open reel tapes
Box 2
Salzburg Festival
1961
Physical Description:
4 7" open reel tapes
Box 1, Box 2, Box 3
Salzburg Festival
1962-12-09
Physical Description:
17 7" open reel tapes
Sibelius Festival broadcasts
Box 3
Sibelius Festival, KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tapes
Box 2
Sibelius Festival, KPFA
1960
Physical Description:
3 7" open reel tapes
Box 3
Sibelius Festival ; Chimay Festival
1963-08
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Sibelius Festival '63
1963
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
From Spoleto, KPFA. Bach, Brahms
1962
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Vienna Festival broadcasts
Box 1, Box 2, Box 7
Vienna Festival, KPFA, KCBS
1961
Physical Description:
13 7" open reel tapes
Box 1, Box 7
Vienna Festival, KPFA, KDFC
1962
Physical Description:
8 7" open reel tapes
Box 1
Vienna Festival 1962. Bruckner's Ninth, Te Deum ; Grieg Festival 1962. KDFC
1963
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Warsaw Festival ; Edinburgh Festival. KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Warsaw Festival, KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
New York Philharmonic broadcasts
1956-1966
Box 3
Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. CBS. Strauss, Stara
1956-10-28
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, CBS. Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky, Ravel
1956-12-16
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
NY Philharmonic, Menuhin. KCBS 12/15/57 ; Bernstein, NY Philharmonic 8/28/58
1957-1958
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. KCBS 11/3/57. Prokofiev ; Eva Heinitz Recital, KPFA 3/3/64
1957-1964
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, CBS. Haydn, Bartok, Ravel
1957-01-06
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
NY Philharmonic, CBS. Prokofiev, Sibelius
1957-01-20
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
NY Philharmonic, CBS. Bach, Schuller, Beethoven, Glazinov
1957-03
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
NY Philharmonic on CBS
1957-03-03
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
NY Philharmonic, CBS. Mussorgsky, Grieg
1957-03-31
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
NY Philharmonic, CBS. Lalo, Brahms, Wagner
1957-04-07
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Shippers, NY Philharmonic, KCBS 10/27/57 ; Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. Prokofiev 10/13/57
1957-10
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. KCBS
1957-11
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
NY Philharmonic, KCBS
1958-03-16
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Vivaldi, Copland
1958-12-07
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Milhaud, Gershwin
1958-12-14
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic KCBS 2/1/59 ; Monteux, NY Philharmonic KCBS 3/1/59
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS 2/59 ; KPFA live studio concert 3/30/59 David Del Tredici, pianist. La Monte Young, Seymour
Shifrin. Alla Von Buch, pianist. Shostakovich, Scriabin, Beethoven
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic. Piston, Ravel, Walton
1959-02-15
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Monteux, NY Philharmonic. Ravel, Berloiz
1959-03
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Mahler, Hindemith
1960-02
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Mahler
1960-02-21
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Walter, NY Philharmonic. Mahler, Das Lied. KCBS
1960-04-17
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Shapira, NY Philharmonic KKHI 3/14/65 ; Nelsova and Newmark, Hindemith KPFA 9/19/63 ; BBC Symphony, Mahler 9/21/63
1963-1965
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Krips, NY Philharmonic, KKHI 2/21/65 ; Paray, San Francisco Symphony KKHI 2/26/65
1965-02
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Bernstein, NY Philharmonic. Smit, Copland. KKHI
1966-02-12
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
San Francisco Symphony broadcasts
1964-1980
Box 6
Krips, San Francisco Symphony. KKHI. Mozart, Brahms, Mahler
1964-02-07
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Krips, San Francisco Symphony. Mozart. KKHI
1965-03-19
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Krips, San Francisco Symphony
1970-03-05
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, KKHI
1972-02-18
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
De Waart, San Francisco Symphony. KQED
1980-08-24
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
miscellaneous classical broadcasts
Box 2
BBC Symphony Orchestra, KPFA
1960
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
BBC Mahler 6th Conclusion 9/21/63 ; Donaueschingen, Stravinsky 12/7/63 ; Mozart Recital, Daniel Abrams 2/9/64
1963-1964
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Beecham, Royal Philharmonic, Berlioz. KPFA
1963
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Belgium, Segovia KPFA
1961-07
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Boston Symphony, KBRG. Gunther Schuller, Seven Studies ; Van Cliburn-Liszt
1965-01-27
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Capella Strings live studio recital, KPFA
1958-12
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Van Cliburn in Moscow
1958-12-28
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tapes
Box 4
Kathleen Ferrier BBC ; Sounds Our Fathers Heard. KPFA
1960-03-19
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
The Hague Philharmonic, KPFA
1964
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Handel, Royal Fireworks Music ; U.C. May Festival, Milhaud. KPFA
1959-05-29
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Handel-Purcell Anniversary, BBC program. KPFA
1959
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
International Music Hall, KDFC 12/3/61 Martine, Corelli, Bartok ; Vienna Festival '61 KPFA
1961
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
International Music Hall, KDFC. Strauss, Leclair, Ingegneri, Haydn
1961-12-10
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Library of Congress Concerts, KPFA
1961
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Ludwig, London Symphony. Mahler, KPFA
1960
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Music From the Netherlands, KPFA
1961
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Music From the Netherlands, KPFA, KDFC. Handel, Mozart, Roussel
1962
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Music From the Netherlands, KPFA
1962-01-20
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra ; Library of Congress Concert, Budapest Quartet. KPFA
1961
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Netherlands Symphony ; Quarteto Italiano, Library of Congress. KPFA
1961-06
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra. KDFC 3/1/64 ; Eva Heinitz Studio Recital KPFA 3/3/64
1964
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
Quarteto Italiano, Utrecht Orchestra, KPFA
1961-06
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Sibelius, Labrador Score. Finnie Arrangement
1967
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Sons of Bach. East German Radio. KPFA
1962-01-27
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Standard Oil of California Symphony, W.A. Palmer experimental stereo recording
1954
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 2
TWA Royal Composers, KKHI
1964-01-14
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Tanya Ury Plays An Ancient Pleyel, KPFA
1963-07-16
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Verdi's Requiem from Vienna, KPFA
1963-12-13
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts
American folk
1952-1960
Scope and Contents
Like Richard Finnie, Prentice G. "Spike" Downes (1909-1959) was an explorer and ethnographer in Canada's far north, known
for his work with Cree and Dene people as well as his mapping expeditions. These tapes suggest that he was also an amateur
musician, and although the type of material performed is unknown, the songs appear to be related to the occupational folk
songs of pipeline workers. Likewise, Lonnie Adair's choice of songs are not evident without listening (probably William Olonzo
"Lonnie" Adair, 1910-2007).
Box 8
Lonnie Adair, voice and guitar [photograph affixed to tape box]
1960-04-12
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Spike Downes in Concord, Mass., Pipeliners Mobile Radio Talk [correspondence between Finnie and Mrs. Downes enclosed]
1952
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert), 1909-
Box 6
P.G. "Spike" Downes. Words and Music. Recorded by RF
1952-06-24
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Australian Folk Songs. Lionel Long
1965
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Brazil, Mato Grosso (Weyer)
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Cambodian Royal Palace Orchestra - Filtered Transfer
1958-10-16
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Royal Cambodian Ballet, Palace Hotel. AC Hum, Transfer from Original
1958-10-16
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Image of Chile, KPFA
1964
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tapes
Box 1
Chinese Classical Pipa Music, KPFA
1963-05-14
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Cuba and Trinidad [from discs]
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 1
Bechtel in Europe. Music and Effects
1964-03-23
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Hawaiian Orchestra at Royal Hawaiian 8/60 ; Equipment Sounds for Submarine Pipeline Operation ; Marty and Ted Elliot Duet
9/60
1960
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 5
Indian Music: Talas, Ragas. Ethnic Music, KPFA
1962-12-08
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Indonesia/Bali/Sumatra
1953-1958
Box 8
Music of Bali, courtesy Indonesian Consulate
1958
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 5
Music of Bali ; Indonesia, Popular. Radio Republik Indonesia. Transfer From Tape Loaned By Indonesian Consulate, San Francisco
1958-10-14
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Indonesian Popular Music from 78 rpm Discs ; Rumbai Five, Neles Sahamaja, Leader and Singer. From Finnie Original 8/2/58
1957-1958
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Folk Music of Indonesia. 1.Transferred from tape borrowed from Indonesian Consulate ; 2. Radio Republik Indonesia Transcription
Service 78 rpm Disc Transfers
1953
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Sumatra
1958-02
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 5
Oil Across Sumatra. Live Sound
1957-1958
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Selematan Speeches at Dumai, Sumatra. Caltex Pacific Oil Company
1958-07-15
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Sumatra. Classroom ; Pipe-making
1957
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Sumatra, Sounds. Test Recordings: Mostly Chinese Music From Radio ; P.L. Shore Dictating on Promotion of Private Enterprise
in Indonesia ; Pipeline Spread ; Pumping Well ; Jungle Sounds ; Hornbill ; Indonesian Story ; Jungle Clearing ; Chinese Story
1958
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Sumatra. Sounds and Music
1957
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Rumbai Recital, Sumatra. Original and Transfers
1958-02-13
Physical Description:
5 5" open reel tapes
Box 3, Box 8
Christmas in Italy, KPFA
1962
Physical Description:
2 open reel tape
:1 5" reel ; 1 7" reel
Box 4
Gagaku ; Japanese Music. KPFA
1962-03
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
A Concert of Japanese Music, KPFA
1965-02-12
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Groundbreaking at Tangin-Ri, Korea. Soundtrack Transfer from 35MM Korean Newsreel Footage
1955
Language of Material:
Korean
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Korea
1956
Physical Description:
3 5" open reel tapes
Box 1
Korean folk songs - PBC waitresses in Masan 4/21/56 ; A Night at Nick's [nightclub recording]
1956
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Court Music Recital, Seoul, Korea. Korean Court Orchestra (Lee Palace)
1956-04-26
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Korea - Chin Mae, etc.
1956-04
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 5
Music of Korea and Tahiti. Lee Palace Orchestra and Folk Singers, Recorded in South Korea by RF (Transferred Selections) ;
Lure of Tahiti, ABC Paramount [photo and program from Korean performance enclosed]
1956-04
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Korean Music. A Recital by Hwang Byongki, KPFA
1965-08-07
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Music of Aden and Lebanon 5/19/1957 ; Music of Lebanon 11/14/1951. Finnie Recordings
1951-1957
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Music of Aden. Aden Musical Association [photographs enclosed and affixed to tape box]
1957-05-19
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 5
Oil from Zarzaitine [Algeria]. Music and Effects
1961-04-17
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Oil from Zarzaitine. North African Music. pt.1
1961-04-17
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Oil from Zarzaitine effects
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Bahrain. Music and Sounds. Recorded by Bapco
1957-06
Physical Description:
2 5" open reel tapes
Box 8
Kuwait Orchestra. Original and Transfers
1957-06-11
Physical Description:
4 open reel tapes
: 2 5" reels ; 2 7" reels
Box 8
Music of Lebanon. Original
1951-11
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 5
Exploring Libya. Sound Effects and Voices Recorded on Location
1960-05
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Exploring Libya. Petroleum Song ; Call to Prayer [lyrics to Libyan Petroleum Song by Mohammed Murshan enclosed]
1960-09
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Exploring Libya. Music Composed by Mohhamed Murshan of Libyan Broadcasting Station. Recorded in Tripoli 1960. Equalized transfer
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
[Libya] Petroleum Song by Mohammed Murshan, Master
1960
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 5
Music of Libya, Murshan. Master
1960
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Music of Libya. Composed by Mohammed Murshan. Played by Libyan Broadcasting Station Orchestra
1964-07
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Music of Libya. Aoud, Nye
1965-02-17
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Libya. Sirtica Music. Murshan
Physical Description:
6 3" open reel tapes
Box 5
Music of Tunisia. Sfax Orchestra 11/26/60 ; Ivan Manning and Clay Wheeler, 4 hand piano at Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu 8/3/60
; Bill Dunham piano, Tripoli 12/8/60
1960
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Music of Libya, Transfer. Murshan ; Call to Prayer
1960-05
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Moslem Call to Prayer, Tripoli, Libya
1960-05-31
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 6
Tuareg Music from Ghadames. From Master Recording by Issa Belkheir, Tripoli, Libya
1960-12
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
North Africa Field Tape. Miscellaneous Live Sound for Exploring Libya ; Sfax Orchestra ; Bill Dunham Piano ; Zelten Field
Drilling ; Marsa al Brega
1960
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Field Recording in Saudi Arabia 5-6/57
1957
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Music of Hasa, Saudi Arabia. Sa'ad Bin Majid, Nye With Essa Bakeet, Percussion. Finnie Recording
1957-05-26
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Tunisian Music, Original. Off-the-Air Through Mike. Courtesy Herb Coste, Sfax
1960
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 5
Musique Tunisienne. Original. Orchestre Aloulou. Hotel des Oliviers. Sfax, Tunisia
1960-11-26
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Tunisia Live Sound Effects
1960-04
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Tunisia and Libya Live Sound Effects 4-5/60. Mule Cart Sounds ; Crowd Noises at Tripoli Racetrack ; Overloaded Radio [etc.]
1960
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Panama, Live Sound. Original
1961-05
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
South Africa, Palabora. Railroad Work Sounds, Chanting
1966
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 1
Venezuelan Orchestra At Puerto Ordaz 10/1952 ; Dr. Jose Martucci, Piano, And Orchestra
1952
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
4. jazz recordings and broadcasts
Box 5
Herb Alpert, Louis Armstrong. Kraft Music Hall, TV
1967-09-13
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Louis Armstrong, A Boy From New Orleans. TV Channel 7
1972-09-09
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Burt Bales, Bob Helm, Dick Oxtot, Bob Mielke et al. Recorded by W.R. Heick for Dave Walker for Jazz Film
1977-05
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Burt Bales Live KGO. First Stereophonic Dixieland Jazz Broadcast. Pier 23 Nightclub. Bales, piano ; Dick Oxtot, banjo ;Bob
Mielke, trombone ; Don Marchin, Bill Erickson, Frank Goudie. Estuary Jazz Band
1959-05-10
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
folders
Box 6
Bechet - La Nuit (Ballet)
1963-12-15
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
The Big Band Sound and All That Jazz - Television Special
1973-05-02
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Dixieland, Monterey Jazz Festival
1968-05
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Phil Elwood KPFA broadcasts
Box 1
Phil Elwood, Bechet Memorial
1959-07-08
Physical Description:
2 7" open reel tapes
Box 3
Phil Elwood, Mouldy Jazz, Unedited
1967-05-24
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Phil Elwood, Japanese Dixieland Jazz
1962-02
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 3
Phil Elwood, Jazz Archives. Kid Ory, Orson Welles, Standard School 1944-45
1963-06
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Phil Elwood, Rowland Working Memorial
1959-01-09
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Phil Elwood, Muggsy Spanier Memorial [includes photograph and Christmas card from Ruth Spanier]
1967-02-15
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Phil Elwood, Fats Waller Program ; The Feather Ball, An Introduction to Jazz by Cannonball Adderly, KPFA
1966
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Falter Jam Session Pt.2. Ralph Sutton (guest of honor), Al Hanson, John Falter, Joe Rushton, Skip Moore, Jack Coon, Bob Travis,
Al Parker, Dave Wheat, Brad Collins.
1956-06-24
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Falter Mixed Bag. Jazz and Jokes
1970
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Benny Goodman at Wolftrap. KQED TV
1977-12-06
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
folders
Box 5
Coleman Hawkins Memorial. TV
1969-07-08
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Earl Hines, Piano. Live KCBS
1957
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 3, Box 4, Box 6
Earl Fatha Hines and Club Hangover All-Stars. Muggsy Spanier, Darnell Howard, Jimmy Archer, Popps Foster, Earl Watkins. 7-8/59
1959
Physical Description:
5 7" open reel tapes
Box 6
The History of Jazz Piano. Earl Hines, Eubie Blake at UC Berkeley. KQED
1977
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Japanese Modern Jazz. Makoto O-oka, Suite for Jazz Band, 1960. From Japan Broadcasting Corporation tape. KPFA 7/3/61 ; Koto
1961
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Jazz on Angel Island. Stone Age and Magnolia Bands
1976-06-20
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Just Jazz. Art Hodes, Wild Bill Davison, TV
1971
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Ragtime with Max Morath. Eubie Blake. KQED TV
1975-08-31
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Turk Murphy Jazz Band, Grace Cathedral. KMPX. Phil Elwood Commentary
1977-10-21
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Newport Jazz Festival 7/4/73. Tribute to Louis Armstrong. Channel 9 TV
1973-11-05
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Dick Oxtot's Golden Age Jazz Band with Terry Garthwaite. Macy's San Francisco. KJAZ
1978-09-12
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Marin Junior College
1975-07-11
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Jack Benny on TV
1967-02-04
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Blooper's Soap. Courtesy W.A. Palmer
1959-01-26
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 5
Chaplin, Modern Times
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Noel Coward
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Gibson Sextet. Song Rehearsal
1959-12-14
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
History of Sound Recording, KSFR
1962-06-01
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
John F. Kennedy on Cuban Missile Crisis
1962-10-22
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
KPFA miscellaneous broadcasts
Box 1
Cohen on the Telephone, produced and narrated by Byron Bryant, KPFA
1968-09
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Cohen Gets Married. KSFA
1959-05
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 6
Croswell Speech Reel 1
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Anna-Livia Plurabelle ; Brendan Behan on James Joyce. KPFA
1963-03-17
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 8
Sing Me A Song of Social Significance, KPFA
1962-02-23
Physical Description:
1 3" open reel tape
Box 3
Dr. George McManus, piano
1964-02-23
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Minesolini [?] ; Xmas Music. Both Tracks To Be Re-recorded, Background Hum
Physical Description:
1 5" open reel tape
Box 6
Miscellaneous, Off-The-Air, Mostly Popular
1956-12-15
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Edith Piaf. I Regret Nothing, KQED TV
1976-03-06
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Popular Discs of the Late 20's, Early 30's [voice of Finnie at end]
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Redwood Empire Score. Carmen Dragon
1965
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Rock at the San Francisco Yacht Club, Belvedere. Cleveland Wrecking Company, Marble Farm
1968-09-14
Physical Description:
1 7" open reel tape
