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Note 1: "7 1/2 -Began with a chopped ending of Brahms Double concerto see other reel. 3 3/4 - "Romatic Guitar of? 3 3/4- Prokofieff - "Where the Don Meets the Volga." 1 7/8 - New Young Poets (missed opening then air raids sirens kept interropting. Art Farmenr. Gerry Mulliigan - "Catch can?" Count Basie - Rat Race."; Note 2: CD 1: Jazz on radio. "As Catch Can," Miles Davis, Anita O'Day, etc. Phinneas Newborn Trio live on air. **Tr. 9: "Monk's Mood" on radio, followed by ad for "Randall's Island Jazz Festival" on 8/22. CD 2: Brahms double concerto in A minor opus 102; Prokofiev's Volga Meets the Dawn; monologues. CD 3: monologues cont'd;

Note 1: "John Brown TV. channel 5. by Robert Herridge. Jan 27,1964. continues with news - Margaret Chase Smith announces her candidacy for president. Ends with movie version Cyrano de Bergerac. Jose Ferrer. 2nd side. inside tracks continues Cyrano - continued next tape. Inside on track #2."; Note 2: CD1-2: ads, drama about Cyrano de Bergerac on Ch 5. CD 3: John Brown dramatization. CD 4:News: 1/27/(64) reports on Vietnam. Tr. 2, 3:10: Margaret J. Smith runs for pres. WNEW-TV;

Note 1: "Both sides recorded. Sunday TV programs - Music - News - Speeches - Conglomerations."; Note 2: CD 1: "Look Up and Live: The Sandpile" on CBS. 2nd part of "experimental excursions into the thought of contemporary youth". "Eye on New York" w/ Bill Leonard. Station change to African drumming w/ [Babatunde] "Mike" Olatunji. CD 2: Sunday Sermon on TV: miraculous healing w/ Rev. Oral Roberts (O.R. Evangelistic Assoc.). ****CD 3: SMITH PHONE CALL to Peter Stackpole [photographer at Life 1936-1960]. Researching underwater photographic equipment for friend Peter Throckmorton. Tr. 2: talk about Smith's talk in Miami and subsequent magazine article. Met photo show--both are critical of curation. Tr. 2, 3:36: another call to Mr. Herlbert (sp?) at a magazine, making a 3 pm appt. to discuss layout. Tr. 3, 00:16: Call to a friend (George Orick?), joking about "Pollywog Diving Rescue School." Job photographing a building in Philadelphia. 04:19: Smith: "Desperate emergency! I gotta have some chemical accelerators!" Tr. 3. 2:05: "Send over a buck too, so I can have a bus fare [to get to appt. at magazine]". Tr. 4, 4:07: Talk about mutual acquaintance Leo Lionni and how "strange" he is. Tr. 6: ref. to Stackpole and Throckmorton. Tr. 9: Phone handed over to Henry (?--sounds like a spanish speaker). Shop talk about developing Smith's negatives. Tr. 9, 3:36: Phone call #4--funny wrong number. Smith thinks he's reached his friend. CD 4: recorded lecture. Muffled sound. CD 5: lecture cont'd: Jules ___, prof. of psychiatry at Northwestern on WNYC show "For Doctors Only". ****Tr. 4, 1:24--Smith calls someone applying for a fellowship at a university, but whose emotional troubles make him undependable. Smith counsels him on how to write a letter to univ. "Tr. 6: 2:35--"If you have any extra Benzadrine I wish you'd bring it..." Then, TV or radio interview about h-bomb.;

Note 1: "End Bit of "face in crowd." Ward Suicide and Girls weeping of admission of lying in court. Almost beginning of Face in Crown. Some Sad little cat meowing. James Baldwin. 1963. Reading from a book. Continued on next tape."; Note 2: CD 1: Story of Jerusalem on TV (Schaefer Award Theater). CD 2: TV Show: dance contest to "Mama Guitar." CD 3: Schaefer movie cont'd-WCBS-TV Ch. 2. Late Night News--Philip Graham committed suicide. DATE: 8/3/63. Then, show on race and crime in DC. CD 4: DC show cont'd, News report: MLK speaks about Alabama. CD 5: In the loft. Cats, footsteps. ***Tr. 4: James Baldwin reads the essay "After the Murder of Four Children," about the bombing in Birmingham. Long. Supports MLK's call for boycott on xmas gifts. "The only thing worse, these days, than being a black man in America is being a white man in America." 25:18--"It is not the negro who is in jail, it is the white people who are in jail." 43:45--JB speaking at NY Community Church on 9/25/63 [Broadcast 11/1/63 on WBAI]. CD 6: Classical: Edvard Grieg. Interview w/ William Malloch, KPFK's music director speaking w/ Director of Choral Union, Roger Wagner. Station change, then speeches at Princeton on civil rights. CD 7: Ch 13 WNDT--narrated documentary (?) about Indians. Station change. conv. w/ Max Fraenkel, diplomatic corresp. at NY Times and Tom Wicker, covers White House for NY Times. Int'l and domestic affairs. CD 8: cont'd. ***Tr. 6: 2:40--James Baldwin reading from "Giovanni's Room";

Note 1: "Early 1963. Sony phono (cartrige is E.V.) 1s -Stereo tests from my recording of Bernsteins performance of Copeland's "Rodeo" 2 speeds. Then from wrvr birmingham segreegation . A program with Jackie Robinson. Report on Birmingham part VI. Cleveland Robinson. Dr. Martin Luther King. Commentary by Dr. Baird Rustin of Fellowship of reconcilliation by James Baldwin. 3rd Church in action death of Pode and singing Freedom - Bill Conner. 2nd side: see - card Was twisted outside, backwards recording."; Note 2: CD 1-3: Copeland's "Rodeo." CD 4: "Blacks and Whites together: Birmingham, testament of non-violence pt. 6" on WRBR, FM station of Riverside Church. MLK speaks, introduces Cleveland Robinson. CR speaks. "He who would be free must free himself." "Commentary on Birmhingham" by Dr. Baird Rustin of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, then James Baldwin, MLK on Birmingham. Great "Freedom" spiritual, tr. 6 3:00. Details, Tr. 6, 4:10. "The Church at Work," Religious news. Pope John XXIII died this week, DATE 6/3/63. CD 5: MLK in Birmingham. Singing. ***Southern whites on integration. Tr. 4, 4:55: "I was raised in southern Alabama, where the negroes down there are completely uneducated altogether, where negro women have illegitimate children just so they can live on welfare. I've just been raised around very poor negro conditions. And for this reason, my viewpoint on integration would be that our blood would someday mix, and thoughts like this tend to make my stomach turn. I never want to see anything like that happen.";

Note 1: "3 3/4. WQXR - Round the World Folk songs. Some Tenor singing. Oscar Brand WNYC. Includes KKK song and ends one side and begins another. Elenor Lavsch - composed American songs. Copeland, Taylor, etc. ….."; Note 2: CD 1: Round the World Folk Songs. WNYC Oscar Brand. Elizabeth Cotton sings "Freight Train." Guest: Gil Turner. CD 2: Oscar Brand cont'd. Eleanor Lausch sings songs by American composers. Classical music. ;

Note 1: "Tape oddly, out of order put together. Open end (July 1959) with several correspondents form other countries. Dolores Gray - destry. Morton Gould on camera three. Open mind. Margaret Meade, Max Lerner, ect. Lagston Hughes - a touch of "smile" Governor Faubu - meeting "Student sustainers on TV. Touch of Prokofef Flaming Sword."; Note 2: CD 1: Sermon--Pastor Lowman, "The Voice of Prophecy." radio conversation about int'l affairs. ***WNEW-TV "Youth Wants to Know" Guest AK Gov. Orville Faubus. Youth question Faubus on integration. Interesting. CD 2: cont'd. Brief opera. WMTA-TV Ch. 13 "Open End". America as seen by diplomats (?) from other countries. CD 3: cont'd. Strange song: "Are you ready Chip Watson/ are you ready for to die?" Western musical? CD 4: cont'd. Interview w/ one of the performers. "Open Mind:The Life Goals of an American" Guests: Max Lerner, Margaret Meade, Eric Goldman.;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CD 1: Someone (not Smith?) humming into microphone. Radio: "The Scope of Jazz" w/ Martin Williams: Songs and analysis. Louis Armstrong w/ Bobby Hackett, Jack Teagarden songs. Last track: LJN. Funny wig story. CD 2: Interview w/ children's book writer, translator. "The American Literary Scene," w/ John Ciardi, editor and poet; Prof. Edward Huberman of Rutgers on WNBC-TV. '63 World Series, station changes. WWII (?) documentary. Station change: jazz. CD 3: "The Bohr Case," from the series "Famous Canadian Trials." CBC show, broadcast on WBAI. WBAI announcer refers to "Birmingham bombing of last month" ---> DATE: October 1963. Schumann and Brahms. CD 4: cont'd. 2 works by contemporary American composer Ben Weber. CD 5: "Lamp Unto My Feet," Christian talk show, on CBS. "Look Up and Live: The Issue--A Play with Comments, part 1," a play about civil rights. "Camera 3: Woman's Attitude toward Her Own State" Guests: Anita Ellis, singer; Jean Ritchie, folk singer; Marion Seldes, actress, poet. CD 6: American Musical Theater.;

Note 1: "3 7/8 1963 Academy Awards Madam. Butterfly act - Leontyne price. Rigalleto Finale from TV. Various TV. drama, excerpts (Japanese) Dialogue - Dick Ohtomo. Matato, Gene and Carole. 2nd side Radio Jazz." ; Note 2: CDI 1. jazz, alto sax from loft radio (Night Beat) with Smith talking intermittantly (several tracks, under music) Tony Scott, Blues for Charlie Parker on radio, mention of Abdul Ahmed Malik. 2. new tune 3. Ernie Wilkins conducting Cannonball Adderly Orchestra "The African Waltz" 4. John Lewis, Clifford Brown, and Smith's voice off mic 5. George Shearing, Nancy Wilson "All Night Long." Nightbeat is the show. 6. Sinatra with Oscar Petterson "Birth of the Blues" 7. Geore Shearing "The National Anthem of Jazz" 8. Jazz Court, Tokyo, on The Far East Network 9. Tokyo, Mightnight. Dan Smith with World News, USSR superbomb Arctic test, Satellite postponed: Ranger 2, New Orleans. Smith audible in background 10. Jumps to Nightbeat (same show?) 11. cont'd, Dan Smith with news 12. cont'd 13. Earl Grant, 12:14 AM, "The Money Tree" and "Not One Minute More" 14. Dave Brubeck "Take Five" 15. Peggy Lee "I remembe you" 16. "no Moon at all" Gerry Vale" 17. Felix Slotkin, Theme from the Sun Goddess 18. cont'd 19. Joe Williams with Count Basie "Lose the Blues" 20. Dean Martin and toehrs "South of North Carolina" 21. bob Wills and Texas Playboys "Billy Brown hop" 22. "If I were a little bird" CDII 1. April, 8, 1962. "the winner is Patty Duke, for the Miracle Worker" applause Academy Awards for 1962, Gene Broidy wins Gene Hirshfield Award 2. Art director 3. Ad Liquid Prell , Irving Berlin sung by Ethel Merman and Alexander's Ragtime Band medley 4. cont'd, 5. David Niven presents Best Cinematograpy, Donna Reed Presenter, Fred Young wins for Lawrence of Arabia. 6. Days of Wine and Roses, Mancini and Mercer, Sara Lee Cake ad, Best Driector. and Sir Lawrence Olivier 7. Joan Crawford, presenter, Bette Davis, Horton Foote wins award and Alan Pakula accepts 8. cont'd, Sophia Loren. Gregory Peck wins for Mockingbird 9. Maximillan Schell, the Miracle Worker, Olivia de Havilland 10. awards, cont'd 11.cont'd 12. ends of awards and Jumps to opera duet 13. cont'd CDIII 1. Smith's voice in loft and jazz on Night Beat, announcer after Dean Martin (cont'd from CDI) 12:38 AM, Bob Wills song and Smith singing along with radio 2. Jumps to opera, Act II of Puccini's Madame Butterfly-10. 11. Act II announced, new LP from RCA Victor, 3 records, Leontine Pryce and others, Jumps to narrative about a battle. A mystery, Heroism 12. war monologue with sound effects, cont'd (Collins) 13. Steven Crane announced Ambrose Bierce, Chickamanga CDIV 1. opera con'td 2. cont'd 3. cont'd and close with lots of applause 4. cont'd and Japanese announcer talking, Jumps to a Japanese radio drama 5. cont'd 6. cont'd 7. song and commercials 8. cont'd, then new content with narrator "Queen Bee" Jumps to Smithand Ohnono "Say a few words for our public, that was Ohnono....." Smith working close to mic, humming. 9. cont'd, with Smith talking about Soxmo, phone rings and Carole mentioned 10. cont'd, "car on the way down, Dick" Robbie and Lou also mentioned. References to Edmund Spenser and Truman Capote. 12. Smith silly song and phot work sounds, dogs audible outside. 13. cont'd work sounds;