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Note 1: "Nov or Dec 1962. Other side Tabun's first day and getting lost. Side 1: interview - Long John. Von Meter, Jack Crystal. The "1st family" album voice. Some of Album then Long John with some writer and others"; Note 2: CD 1: Discussion of comedy album "First Family"; Bert Lown's death: DATE: 11/2/62 (Maybe 11/3 air date?). CD 2: Discussion of possibly offensive Catholic/ Jew joke on First Family; music. CD 3: In the loft--faint music, cars, cats, doors; man and woman talk briefly; almost all background noise. CD 4: All background noise. CD 5: Identical to 3. CD 6: Smith mic check (tr. 4); Smith and someone else on mics--funny (tr. 5);

Note 1: "#1 The England of Shakespeare redgraue and the house of Vacuole one Kennedy. 3. Long John and …. 4. Also one act Ernani."; Note 2: CD 1: Shakespeare's "Soul of an Age" on NBC. CD 2: Some other TV show--Historical British drama about marriage and nobility. CD 3: LJN show--DATE:"This happens to be the first of December." Guests: Martin J. Scheiman, attny; Roy Schatt, theatrical photographer; Bernard Corash (sp?), VP Levitt Homes Inc. Discussion on children being exposed to "salacious material"--42nd St. billboard. DATE: Idlewild Airport crash: night of 11/30/62. CD 4: LJN Cont'd. Same guests. CD 5: Prob. same show as CD 2. NBC show on Jackie Kennedy. Bulletin on Idlewild crash. CD 6: Idlewild bulletin; Jackie show cont'd; NBC News. CD 7: LJN w/ Scheiman cont'd: legalities of declaring bankruptcy, agnosticism v. atheism. CD 8: Live (?) recording of opera "I Puritani" at the Met w/ commentary by Edward Downs.;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD 1: LJN on book "Abandoned" about Greely Arctic Expedition. Guests: Lester Del Ray, sci fi and sci fact writer; Robert Nordon, writer and poli-sci student; Alden L. Todd, author of "Abandoned." CD 2: LJN cont'd, Einstein and speed of light. Tr. 4 discussion of global warming--"What's all this business about inundating the land because of melting of the arctic ice cap? Nonsense!" WMCA playing "Lullaby of the Leaves," Barry Grey show. DATE: Chicago beats Detroit in Stanley Cup, 4/16/61; More talk on Global Warming. CD 3: Greely Exp. cont'd. "Eye Opener" w/ Gene Morris on WMCA Newark; Alan Brown morning show; political ad for Walter H. Jones, R for Gov of NJ; Johnny Cash sings "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You); News. CD 5: News, weather, station changes. WBAI 99.5 Classical program: Bocarini, Haydn, etc. CD 6: WBAI show cont'd. CD 7: WBAI show, recording of 1960 Cutaching (sp??) Conference on Latin America. CD 8: L. A. Conference cont'd; BBC presents ballad opera "Love in a Village" on WBAI. CD 9: BBC opera cont'd, Book review on radio. Reviewer: Emanuel Capoyer (sp?), an editor at MacMillan. Books: Can These Bones Live? by Edward Darburg (New Directions); Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman (Randomhouse); Life Against Death by Norman O. Brown (Modern Library). All deal with the question, "What is to become of us?";

Note 1: "Dec 30, 1962. 1. A. continuation of Sunday morning - announcer following Long John. B. View point - who should go to prison. 3. Poison fruity law, defenders. #2 (end side) Science. Millton Cross, music… C. news, released prisners - Stow… 4. - Steichen on Open ... 1963 Interview with Artist (good points) B. Mother courage commentary and Songs. Interview with Calden Wilmingham."; Note 2: NOT AS LABELLED. CD 1: WOR TV Ch. 9 News: Greek Ship Laconia sinks--DATE: 12/23/63. Great Gospel-singing Christmas Show. CD 2: Still WOR TV? Movie on TV w/ ads, poss. "Whirlpool" (1949 Otto Preminger movie). CD 3: LJN Show on Censorship. Catholic Legion of Decency condemns film "Never on Sunday" (10/1/60 release). Guests: Moira Walsh, writer for Nat'l Catholic Review; Hugh Hefner, Playboy; Robert Reisner (sp?), frequent guest, writer; John Simon, film critic for New Leader, drama critic for Hudson Review. Song and Interview with "The One and Only Japanese Cowboy [girl]," Miss Tomi Fujiyama. LJN interview w/ Baby Jane Holzer, "Girl of the Year" (Named so by Tom Wolfe Xmas 1964 (?)); "Seasons Greetings from Ch. 7." CD 4: Classical Radio Program, interrupted tr. 3. Radio ad for "The Electronic Workshop," store w/ sound equipment. 26 W. 8th St. NYC. Ad for Gene Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid," (12/25/64 release). WOR interview w/ Danny Sloane, "The Greatest Listener in the World." Interviewer: Barry Farber. Sloane Records radio and TV shows and sells them. Also collects recordings: 1st radio commercial ever (from 1922), Amos and Andy, Charles Lindberg, etc. Danny Sloane, TV Time, 7 Orchard Pkwy, White Plains, NY 60303.WOR "The Way the World is Spinning" w/ George Hamilton Combes. "Now...our world hovers on the brink of disaster." CD 5: WOR w/ Combes cont'd. Interview w/ priest about Catholic center to keep kids off streets/drugs; WOR News w/ Lester Smith 12/24 (1962?). CD 6: "Eagle in a Cage," made for TV movie about Napoleon. CD 7: movie cont'd. "Next [week?], Thurs. 11/18, the Bob Hope Show." CD 8: Show on Racism: "The Southern Way of Life" on NET (Nat'l Educational TV). CBS: "The 20th Century: Duke Ellington Swings Through Japan." Courtroom Drama TV movie. CD 9: Court drama cont'd. "Help us celebrate the xmas season on NBC"; Disney's Alice in Wonderland on NBC. CD 10: Alice cont'd. CBS show "Christmas in Appalachia.";

Note 1: "Marh 29, 1961. Continuation of Long John with Roy Schatt and ?? Is this Smith then 3 tracks at least although recorder went haywire during Japanese music."; Note 2: CD 1: poor sound quality. Japanese music off radio. CD 2: Japanese folk music--"Autumn" by Kofu Watanabe on "Int'l Fine Arts Festival." Interview w/ Toshiro Miyazumi, composer of Nirvana Symphony. CD 3: Interview cont'd. Recording of Nirvana Symphony. CD 4: LJN discussion on "psychosomatic faculties." TELEGRAM FROM SMITH. Possibly one of the first, as LJ isn't sure if it's Smith the photographer. Beginning of Tr. 12. Reference to movie "Sons and Lovers" up for Oscar (released 1960, won 1961 Oscar). CD 5: LJN cont'd. Book: "Excellence" by John W. Gardner, director of Carnegie Foundation. Guests: Roy Schatt; Ray R (?), producer/director; Judy Joy,skin diver, actress, columnist; Loca Raly (sp?), poet. Tr. 6--In the loft. Someone (Smith?) singing into mic. Mic check, static. Faint conversation btw Smith and woman.;

Note 1: "Part of Orpheus (TV). Duel of Angels on one side. Long John on other."; Note 2: CD 1: LJN telegrams--atheism v. agnosticism. Guest: Dr. Alexander. Followed by "Sunrise Serenade" w/ Harry Carlson and John McLane. Hamlet "To be or not to be" speech. 1960 World Series, Game 7 (DATE: 10/13/60). CD 2: Series cont'd. CD 3: Series cont'd, followed by interview w/ winners (Pirates) and analysis on WNBC radio. TV Show of Orpheus and Eurydice. CD 4: Orpheus cont'd.;

Note 1: "Wollensar. Monaural on 2 track. Parts of end on both sides is blank. 2 track recorder from small radio by mike. 1. Gospel singing. 2. Long John and Havnis."; Note 2: CD 1: Gospel Radio--Bishop Lawson's Choir on WADO. Ad that says "1960," ref. to Pres. Eisenhower. DATE: late 1959 or earl 1960. CD 2: LJN. Guest: Dr. Nandor Fodor, Author of new book "The Haunted Mind: A Psychoanalyst Looks at the Supernatural" (pub. 1959);

Note 1: "Private. 3 sides used. 1+stereo mike and radio. cont. - of WBAI "nite sounds." Hates and Haugh is , etc. Then Long John and Doctor "treatment.""; Note 2: CD 1: LJN. Guests: Dr. Elias R. Leikind, Bernard Corash (see 776, CD 3), HW Gabriel, Henry Trepley. Unnecessary medical operations, prostrate. CD 2: poor quality. Folk and old jazz on "Night Sounds," WBAI late night radio. CD 3, 4: LJN cont'd.;

Note 1: "Begins with end of T.V. Dybuk. Odds and ends. Bit of parr T.V. Eva Gabor, etc. Long John and editor of "Hillbilly Gazette.""; Note 2: CD 1: Bible Story on MTA-TV Ch. 13. Jack Paar Show on NBC w/ Eva Gabor, Bob Newhart, etc. CD 2-3: Jack Paar show cont'd; LJN: politics and popularity. Guests: Jim Comstock, editor of West Virginia Hillbilly; Bronson McClung (sp?), co-editor; Al Lottman, insurance broker; Harry Moses, advertising exec; Arnold Bergier, sculptor. CD 4: LJN cont'd.;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD 1-2: LJN. Guests: WC Weber, hypnotist; Stewart Robb, harpsichordist; Khigh Dhiegh, actor; HW Gabriel, science writer.CD 3: Another LJN show: communism, diplomacy, Russia, U.N. Guests: Max Lerner, author of "The Age of Overkill: a Preface to World Politics"; Khigh Deigh, actor (The Manchurian Candidate); Robert Eric Norden; Jack Hastings, transportation expert; Mel Hunter, illustrator, photographer, author. CD 4-5: Another LJN show: Pharmacy. Guests: Frank LaBarbra Jr., pharmacist; Bernard Garson, Barbazon exec; Robert L. Seigle (sp?), pharmacist; Khigh Dhiegh.CD 6-7: LJN. "Negroes in NYC." Crime, schools, dropout rate. Guests: Danny Crystal; The Amazing Randi, magician and escape artist James Randi, Khigh Dhiegh. CD 8: LJN ends, Phil Tomkins show begins. DATE: 1/5/63. Max Lerner on LJN cont'd. CD 9-10: WC Weber on LJN cont'd.;

Note 1: "One side. Nollensak continuation of "For Whom Really toll." Also Some Anastasia. 2nd side. 2nd Act "La Boheme.""; Note 2: CD 1: LJN. Guests: Dr. Paul Goodman, author of "The Community of Scholars" (Randomhouse); Prof. Ernest Partridge, Patterson State College; Peter Cohen (Cone?), young muralist; Dr. Edward Spingarn (sp?), English prof. CD 2: show cont'd: American education system. Race: should you say "colored," "negro," or "black"? CD 3: show cont'd. St. John's College (Tr. 2, 1:13). CD 4: Movie or TV show, someone (in loft?) whistling to theme song. More loft conv. begins tr. 3 1:50. "Larry." Smith enters tr. 4 3:00. Talks w/ visitor about photo layout for book on Japan. [Maybe "Japan, a Chapter of Image: A Photographic Essay" 1963 (?)]. Tr. 7 00:51: visitor proposes Smith participate in a "photographers' symposium" to promote a new magazine. Discussion ensues on possible topics. Tr. 10, 2:25: Smith suggests a topic: "A photographers defaulting their responsibility [to tell the truth, by becoming pawns for magazines]?" "Here, here." Tr. 13 01:36: Visitor: "Science in the big changing force that creates a different environment that then the artist has to come into, and point out the problems and difficulties that have to be addressed..." (See more in handwritten notes). CD 5: Loft conversation cont'd.Tr. 2 4:40: woman (Carole Thomas) enters. Tr. 6 2:05. Smith: "During the war when I was hit..." Tr. 8-end, CD 6: mostly background noise, faint conv. btw. Smith and Carole.CD 7: Tr. 1 1:48: Smith mic check w/ weather report in background. Brief news report. Beg. tr. 3: Smith sings briefly. End tr. 7: a man comes over, talks to Gene and Carole. Tr. 10: Japan. CD 8: Smith, Carole, and visitor, esp. clear starting tr. 4: Japan, visas, bringing Japanese friends to US (Yushiyama?). CD 9: Smith is compiling a list of missing objects: books, mikes, safelights, equipment. Smith and Carole talking-money, Japan.; Note 3: Extra CDI 1. film song with whistling (film is "Nice Girl", Channel 9) and talk in loft, Carole and other. 2. Jumps to Radio/TV with Secretary of State Dean Russ on USSR/China. Jumps to Loft, WOR, TV and newpaper strike and President Kennedy in news 3. Jumps to other News, House Committee Unamerican Activities Jumpst o lofe with Carole, Larry, Walter Trego metnion and book talk 4. Smith entrers and talk, Howard Chapnick, book talk 5. cont'd talk, layout , photos, "That's a Gene Smith picture" 6. More Photo talk, Japan, technicals issues 7. New Yorker piece, Japanese advertising, reason for visit Symposium Fundraisers. Photogarphy, and mention of purpose and Life Magazine 8. cont'd 9. discussion, food article and food fantasy photo 10. topics and george Hunt, Stanley Kramer 11. photo criticism, 12. cont'd 13. cont'd 14. cont'd, on art.

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD 1: LJN. Guests: Dr. Robert J. Quindlen, asst. editor of Webster's 3rd New Int'l Dictionary.;

Note 1: "Long John and A woman who edited a poetry book. Jan 1960."; Note 2: CD 1-4: LJN. Guests: Daisy Aldan, editor of "A New Folder: Americans, Poems, and Drawings"; Paris Flammonde, poet; Pat Tyler, wife of Steve Tyler (?), Dr. Edward Spingarn.Newsflash on CD 1: Bomb explodes in the home of one of the black students at Little Rock.;

Note 1: "Long John, Spirit Camera."; Note 2: CD 1-3: LJN. Guests: The Amazing Randi, magician; Paris Flammonde, poet; Sam van der Voort, photographer; William E Preston Jr., artist; Stewart Robb, "the skeptic". Making "spirit photographs" on air. CD 3: End LJN, "Sunrise Serenade" w/ Henry Carlson. Folkways record: "Murder Trial of William Palmer, surgeon." CD 4: LJN. Guests: Martin Berger, attny; Tamir Kalil, playwright; Paris Flammonde; Dr. Nicholas Como. CD 5-6: LJN cont'd: dangers of floridation. Sunrise Serenade. DATE: 12/3/59.;