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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;

Note 1: "Maybe erased. Stars 1/2 way in - Lena Horne, Fats Waller, Bill Robinson, Stormy Weather. Irish Potato family. Jules Peeiffer. Dr. Frank Baxter talking Shakespeare. Henry V Act 1, 2, 3. Judy Garland, Phil Sivers, Goulet. Jack Benny."; Note 2: CD 1: Showtunes on CBS Ch. 2. Ad for Acrylan carpets. Judy Garland. Ford convertible ad: "1963 and a half" WCBS-FM radio news. CD 2: Comedy. Luncheon w/ speakers (TV? Radio?) Guests: Mr. Axelrod, manager of Doubleday Bookstore; Walter Bradbury, Exec. Dir. of Trade Dept. of Harper Row; Jules Feiffer and wife; Cass Caulfield, Chairman of the Board of Harper Row; Alfred Knopf, Jr.; Mark Friedlander; Joe Duffy, Exec. Dir. of American Booksellers Assn.; Mrs. Cecil Woodham Smith, historian and author, who speaks about her book, "The Great Hunger," on the Irish Famine. Then Jules Feiffer speaks (SEE TRANSCRIPT). CD 3: "An Age of Kings," show about Henry V. CD 4: Movie. ;

Note 1: "A. Dr. Freud Pete SeeGN. Miles Davis, Shelley Berman, Lena Horne, Sinatra, Poetry and Norman B. Brooks?. E. Oakes. Beginning is BBC. Red Badge of Courage. (transfer this beginning to tandberg version for complete version. Same. Katherine Ann Porter reading "Ship of Fools." Part of "Boheme" with Tucker Moffo. (Last act on another tape.)"; Note 2: CD 1: Radio. Don Gold deejaying. WBAI, Norman E Oaks (sp?), reading his poetry on "New Talent." BBC presents "Red Badge of Courage." CD 2: Radio. Community announcements. Katherine Anne Porter on Spoken Words, talking about her book "Ship of Fools." 7/27/63 SEE TRANSCRIPT. News. CD 3: Red Badge cont'd. CD 4: Acts I and II of Puccini's La Boheme.;