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Swarthmore College WSRN (Radio Station) records
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
The Swarthmore College Radio Club, founded before 1933, was reorganized in 1939. It was open to all students interested in short wave radio communication. The Club had its own transmitter and operated station W3YJ, affiliated with the American Radio Relay League. In 1940, the Radio Club began to sponsor the Swarthmore Network, a wired wireless station on the commercial broadcast band. The purpose of the Network, as stated in the 1944-45 Student Handbook, was to provide experience in radio and an interesting extra-curricular activity and to transmit quality radio entertainment. At that time the station was located in West Trotter Hall. The station acquired its current call letters, WSRN, sometime before 1952; it was a member of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System (IBS).
Consists of three folders of background information, program guides, and an inventory of the recordings, in addition to 37 boxes of original recordings.
Organized into three series:
- History
- Program Guides
- Recordings
Deposit: WSRN
Date: 2002
Recordings are inventoried and stored off-site. Photographs added to SPA 201, Swarthmore College Student Activities.
Photographs, ca. 1948-1979, stored in Swarthmore College Photograph Collection
- Publisher
- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research. Please note that many recordings are in obsolete formats and/or extremely fragile and cannot be accessed in the original form. Digital copies are available for a small number of the recordings. If a patron desires to listen to a recording that has not yet been digitized, they may request it be digitized at the expense of the requestor.
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All or part of this collection is stored off-site. Contact Swarthmore College Archives staff at archives@swarthmore.edu at least two weeks in advance of visit to request boxes.
- Use Restrictions
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Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Collection Inventory
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Not very funny
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Sort of funny
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Baroque
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Tape 1
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Tape E
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Tape 3
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Reporter--Kelly Tillery
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SC & Friends Calendar Reform, Live WSRN "Interview"
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Right at half time of the Swarthmore-Haverford basketball game on 2/8/75
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[not Swat]
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Read by Wendy Ruopp and Todd La Porte
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Tape I
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Mark Bernstn
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1 tape
Taken from Peanuts
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Student Geo Roache applied to Gov Advisory Board
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A discussion about the making of the TV commercial Tracing Your Routes with "Roots" star: LeVar Burton
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[not Swat] [checkmark] Sept 5 3 30-sec spots OK
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Tape 4
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Cuts for tops of shows, old radio themes
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640, only first few minutes
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Clothier
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1 tape
See box with Reel #2 for complete performing order
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See box with Reel #2 for complete performing order
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See box with Reel #2 for complete performing order
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See box with Reel #2 for complete performing order
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[Includes complete performing order on back cover]
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Pearson Theater
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The Warren Burner one is tasteless
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Sides 5 and 6
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Sides 5 and 6
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Sides 7 and 9
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Sides 7 and 9
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Coonee Tape
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Not recorded well
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Not catalogued as to selections played due to lack of time
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Not catalogued as to selections played due to lack of time
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18/15
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Not Swat
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Not Swat [Role-Call of Monsters is circled]
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Chapin-Schwartz Telephone script 1
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Kathy Garges
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1 tape
Intro: Crum ID + Arlo Guthrie Prev. Rag Outro: Arlo Again Phoenix--Ed. in Chief Rhonda Resnick Managing Editor--Eugenie Isbrandstan WSRN--Station Manager--Kelly Tillery Pres. Friend VP Landis Cratsley Provost Pagiliaro Dean Townshend, Skeath, Queesenbery
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This tape is a copy made from the master in March 1973. The original was in poor condition.
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3 4-minute news spots not Swat
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[Different pieces are written on the back, but they are crossed out.]
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Not Swat 3 and 6 are good
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Tech--Tom Music--Jenny Prog.--Miriam Traffic--Phil Newsp.--Mase & Kelly Promo--Rob Treas.--Sue
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3 4-minute news clips not Swat
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Fenimore Young = Tom Fenimore Snyder, Class 1972, and Lincoln Young Clapp
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Oracle Records
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Not Swat
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Originally to be used at a meeting of 'SN personnel to show them what not to do on the air [includes Table of contents]
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Not Swat
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3 4-minute news programs not Swat
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1 tape
3 4-minute news programs not Swat
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Not Swat
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Rell 14, session 6
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1 tape
Tom Yemm, engineer
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Reel 12, session 5
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Not Swat
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Not Swat
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ABC + Pam's
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Not Swat
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Use for ID's [hard to read]
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Not Swat [includes information about the organization and scripts of the PSA's]
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[hard to read]
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3 4-minute news programs not Swat
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3 4-minute news programs not Swat
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Not Swat
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A WSRN exclusive These or other cuts will be released in January on Oracle Records
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End cue: Some day they'll call a war and no one will come
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Reel 9 Session 4 [see #68 and #71?]
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Incomplete episode
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This is the first tape made using WSRN's direct line to the Rat in Tarbles. Good quality
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Not Swat
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Produced by David Burt and Nancy Banks
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Never aired. Lots of editing needed.
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Broadcast live.
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[notes about music on back cover]
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(most of it, anyway)
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Unedited master
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Reel 2 of 2 Edited master
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Needs editing
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Property of W. Greenhouse
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Curtis Stinson 1714 W. 11th St.
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Dubbed from John Foster's master mode that nite Friday April 21 1972 Intro to When I loved him is really strange
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A cassette
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Part 2, Tape 2
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Tape 1 of 2 [includes a clipping of a Phoenix article about the concert]
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Side 1
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Sides 6, 9
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Sides 6, 9
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Sides 6, 9
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Sides 6, 9
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Sides 6, 9
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Sides 6,8
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[there's a sheet of notes]
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[there's a sheet of notes]
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[contains a page of notes on the engineering]
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Sides 8, 10
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Sides 8, 10
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Sides 2, 4
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Sides 2, 4
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Sides 2, 4
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Sides 2, 4
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Sides 2, 4 These last two are with John Lewis '67.
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[contains a biography of Bernard Pfeiffer and The Clark Terry Quartet]
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Reel 2 [contains play list for reels 1-3]
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Reel 1
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Reel 1
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Reel 3
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Reel 3 [encores]
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[only part of the concert--sound equipment wasn't working]
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Sides 5, 7
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Sides 2,4
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[see also 2 Pete Seeger + Davis tapes]
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[see also 2 Pete Seeger + Davis tapes]
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Also labeled Banana Desperadoes and Off the Cuff Week 3 Tape 3
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F78
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played for WSRN's birthday
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tape 1 of 2
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[a program for the folk fest is enclosed]
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not for airplay or duplication
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reel 1 of 3 [contains listing of songs on all 3 reels] Little Birdie through Froggie are banjo, When the Scottish through This little light are guitar
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sides 1, 3
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sides 1, 3 [may be one a different reel?]
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sides 1, 3
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sides 1, 3
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[a program is enclosed]
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[a program is enclosed]
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[a program is enclosed]
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sides 7 and 9
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sides 5 and 6
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sides 5 and 6
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sides 5 and 6 side 6 is terrible
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sides 8 and 10
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sides 3 and 4
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unedited
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Old radio call-in talk show
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do not use
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Please do not record over tracks 1 and 2 (computer music and flute, respectively) on this tape. I'm in the middle of a project. Thank you! -Jaeli Waus[?]
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tape speed = slow [enclosed are notes about sound effects]
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Promo Cart Staff
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good tape
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[not Swat]
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all songs by George Karras/Guy Partin
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Part 2 Tape 2
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[contains a list of ID's, some have dates, a few are written out]
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keep somewhere safe
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WIOQ #1
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Track 1 of 2
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Probably not Swat
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Approx 43 min
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c. 35 min
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Not Swat
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Effects 2/25
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Side 1 only
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Side 1 only
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I dunno who it is, but it's comical
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Interviewer: Mark Bernstein References to rally Dec. 8
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Interview by Roy Perry [contains sheet of notes about intro and outro music]
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Beings with ID, has legal Ids throughout, no times, dates, talk, etc.
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Beings with ID, has legal Ids throughout, no times, dates, talk, etc.
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[contains a sheet with his signature]
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[contains complete playlist]
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Memory Years Recorded V.A.H. Philadelphia Not Swat
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Not Swat
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With Carrie Figdor
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Not Swat
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[contains 3 crumbling pages of discourse on ML vs. Wharton]
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Boring talk on capitalism
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Moscow broadcast-not WSRN property
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This tape introduces itself quite well and is of excellent quality
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With emphasis on problems of Black students
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Welcome to Nirvana Radio show
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John Graxton, Ann Lawrence
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[Notes about when to announce that its WSRN, etc.]
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Louisville Orchestra
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Robert Whitney conducting
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Julliard Quartet
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Various artists, Golschmann conducting [contains written info/propaganda about his piece]
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Written and directed by Alex Capron and Marge Garber
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[Contains written descriptions] not Swat
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[contains a listing]
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[contains a program of the play & a listing of what's on the tape]
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A round table discussion
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Not Swat Zulu poet, in exile from S. Africa, read at Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO Produced b Anne Mitchell KBDY
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Probably not Swat
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Swarthmore vs. Case-Western Reserve
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Not Swat
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From Common Cause
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Moderated by Jill Andresky, engineered by Ernie Tark, produced by Jeff Austin
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[contains a program for this performance] in Clothier Hall sponsored by Cooper Foundation
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Tape 2
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Reel 2 of 2
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[contains a written description, although she didn't know most of the song titles]
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[contains a program]
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Interview with a real live munchkin
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Sunday 7:30 AM
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[contains a promotional poster] [contains notes on the back of an orchestra program]
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Clothier Aired live
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Not Swat
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Not Swat
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(mediocre, mostly)
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In Parlors
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3 4-min news programs not Swat
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Sides 3 and 4
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Sides 1 and 2
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Not Swat Ok-good
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Side 1
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Last 2/3 is excellent
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A Zulu poet exiled from S. Africa Not Swat--KBDY
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[contains a listing]
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(it's so fine!)
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Sides 1 and 3
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Not Swat [includes a script]
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Not Swat
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3 4-min news programs not Swat
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Tape #12
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T Yemm
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[contains some transcriptions] not Swat
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Not Swat
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Recorded at the studios o WSRN in cooperation with SN Productions Lyrics, music, productions, and vocals by Tom Snyder
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[almost identical to #409 but has a reprise of Love Takes Away in addition] degraded quality because of misuse
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Not Swat
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[contains transcriptions] not Swat
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Not Swat
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Wakeup & Superstar
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Music Possible
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[in a weird form-NAB type AA cartridge]
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[in a weird form-NAB type AA cartridge] [paper w/listing is crumbling]
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Not Swat
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Not Swat
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Interesting recording
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Not Swat
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[contains transcriptions] not Swat
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Not Swat
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Not Swat
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20+ minutes
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Most lousy or outdated-6/79
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Most lousy or outdated-6/79 [contains a transcription form a July 1978 view from 33rd Floor]
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Valuable R'n'R tape
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In Clothier
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[not Swat??] 10-minute talk written by Irving F. Laucks, spoken by Bob Killion
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Not Swat
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Not Swat
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Just music
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Not Swat Taped to car 10/13/74
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Mondays 2-4
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[a program and some lyrics enclosed]
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Not Swat
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Prepared for WFIL by WSRN
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Note from 10/9/78: "very poor, not enough of the play to be entertaining, poorly read"
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Chanteuse & Lately - recorded at Swarthmore gift of Paul Taylor and Musica Orbis
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2 songs
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Approx 1 hour
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Beginning missing
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[contains biographical info] [songs written by Stan Demski]
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[contains release]
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For contents see tape 1
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1 tape
[big]
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