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BROADCAST ON WNYC TODAY IN…
1951: William Bendix, Bing Crosby, Kirk Douglas, Billy Exdine, Rhonda Fleming, Bob Hope, John Herbert Lund, Ray Milland all take part in a spot announcement campaign to help children with cerebral palsey.
1969: Tracy Atkinson, Director of the Milwaukee Art Center, discusses the ways in which the Art Center in Wisconsin differs from its big city counterparts
1978: Kurt Vonnegut joins L.J. Davis in a lively conversation with Walter James Miller on The Reader's Almanac.
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Musicologist and author Sigmund Spaeth in a publicity shot as NBC's 'Tune Detective' show in the 1930s. (Photo: Courtesy of NYPL Digital)
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'Tune Detective' Comes to WNYC
"The highly entertaining and instructive Dr. Sigmund Spaeth starts a new weekly series tagged "Let's Write Songs" over the municipal station WNYC, tomorrow. He'll be heard at 5:30 p.m. The 'tune detective' will analyze current hit tunes very carefully to show the stuff of which they're made, and then tell listeners how to compose their own tunes. This department predicts that he'll have at least seven million citizens writing tunes in another week. He's that successful as a teacher via the kilocycles. Dr. Spaeth describes his new series as a kind of "A-B-C of popular song writing."
"Among other things, Dr. Spaeth is almost baldheaded and president of the National Association of American Composers and Conductors."
Source: Ranson, Jo, "Sigmund Spaeth In WNYC Series," The Brooklyn Eagle, September 27, 1939, pg. 26.
Editor Note: During World War II Spaeth was also heard on the WQXR program Dr. Sigmund Spaeth and His Record Library and was the author of two essays published in the WQXR Program Guide: The American Composer from October, 1941 and.Consider the Interpreters from November 1942.
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Giving Thanks
The NYPR Archives would like to thank the National Endowment for the Humanities for again granting us funds to continue our digitization work on the Municipal Archives WNYC lacquer discs and tapes. Beginning this September we will embark on the two-year project to add another 588 hours of material to the 700 already at WNYC.org. There will also be an additional 100 blog articles as part of the project. See: NEH regarding our previous grant.
The NYPR Archives would also like to thank the Metropolitan New York Library Council, Brooklyn Historical Society and Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for awarding us one of five National Digital Stewardship Residency positions in New York for the 2015/16 season. Our digital resident will aid in the creation of a robust digital preservation roadmap and help create recommendations for long-term, institution-wide digital curation policies. For more on the program see: METRO.
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