Starts Billy Faier's Midnight Special, featuring guests New World Singers: Gil Turner, Happy Traum, and Bob Cohen. Radio Unnameable thereafter: Unknown banjo/guitar/vocals; Slick Rock Band.

Joe Hunt covers "Going to Chicago" by Joe Williams and Bob Gibson's "Chicago Cops." Jeremy Steig and Eddie Gomez play freeform jazz live in the studio. Bob Fass mentions President Johnson, making the date between 1963 and 1968.

A discussion of how Bob Dylan and Joan Baez influence protests and the difficulty of leading a normal life when famous. A man (Michael Cooney?) covers "I'm Troubled and I don't Know Why" and "Percy's Song" by Bob Dylan.

Bob Dylan, guest, is talking with Fass. A jazz fan who says he is an insurance adjuster complains and is insulted in return by Bob Dylan. Some ask Dylan about his career, and some others offer encouragement.

Fass notes that it is Labor Day weekend

Meditative sitar music plays. A comedy skit (believed to be by Dick Davy) about searching for a job and demonstrations. Fass and Dick Davy are in the studio and take a phone call.

Fass and Jake Holmes discuss art, Leon Uris, satire, drugs, and the effect of bad reviews on the profitability of musicals. "Snoot Full of Snow," by Allen & Grier and "The Ballad of a Thin Man" by Bob Dylan play.

A comic sequence with an announcement for a nuclear bomb. A German song, "Charlie Brown" plays. A German version of "Ooh Eeh Ah Aah Ting Tang," plays. Fass says that this is the first in an "interminable" program. A clip from Walter Camp's fitness program plays.

Music performed by Jose Feliciano, who plays Spanish classical guitar and sings. He answers questions given to Fass by callers.

Charles O'Hegarty, folk singer formerly in the Greenwood County Singers, performs live and is interviewed by Bob Fass at the WBAI studio. Parts 2-3: Charles O'Hegarty performs "Mother's Lament." Rhythmic drum music plays. "Green, Green Rocky Road" plays. "I Found A Love" by The Falcons plays. "La Marseillaise" plays. Part 5: Bob interviews Charles. They discuss singing in groups and the perceived animosity between the Irish and English (O'Hegarty is from England). Parts 6-7: Bob plays some records, Charles O'Hegarty plays more live music and speaks with Bob. Part unspecified (23 minutes): Charles O'Hegarty plays various folk songs, including, "The Handsome Cabin Boy," "Cushie Butterfield," "Mother's Lament," "Shoals of Herring," "The Leaving of Liverpool," "Bridget Flynn," "What a Mouth," and "Play With Fire"

Chuck Berry is in the studio with Fass. "Sweet Little 16" by Chuck Berry plays.

Bob reads one report on "vulgarity and sexual promiscuity" in San Francisco and one on a potential ceasefire in the Vietnam War. Jeremy Steig debuts "Concerto for Flute and Atlantic Ocean" live.

"Ride and Roll" by Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, unknown blues, "What Did I Do but Be so Black and Blue" by Jackie Washington, "You're a Lucky Fellow Mr. Smith" by Sinatra interrupted by comedy sketch about marijuana, "Stars and Stripes Forever" interrupted by another comedy sketch, "Go Die Big City" by Lee Hazlewood, instrumental guitar. Jeremy Steig and Adrian Guillery, guests.

Instrumental music plays, "Moses, Don't You Let King Pharaoh Overtake You" plays, and "Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do" by Billie Holiday play. A man discusses an Indian adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's "My Fair Lady." Covers of "Wouldn't It Be Lovely" from "My Fair Lady" in different languages play. Jeremy Steig and Joel Freedman are guests.

Arlo Guthrie and Geoff Outlaw play along with a tape of "Alice's Restaurant."

Julius Lester live in studio, sings "Stagolee" and others, Peter LaFarge sends in telegram, Lester recites story of High John the Conquerer

Unidentified band, possibly Bob Dylan, performs "Will the Circle be Unbroken" live in the studio; Wavy Gravy gives a comic monologue; other guests speak; "Alice's Restaurant" live recording; clips from anti-war demonstration at Grand Central Station including Paul Krassner and Abbie Hoffman. Contains racial slurs and offensive language.

Peter Lane

Live music from Jeremy Steig and Tom Willis

Bob plays a recording of a February 24, 1963 Tiny Tim concert in New York. Clip ends with Bob and Tiny Tim's interview.

Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo, John Herald

Bob Dylan, Suze Rotolo, John Herald

Bob Dylan, John Herald, and Suze Rotolo.

Phil Ochs

Abbie Hoffman, etc. on Mississippi Summer Project and Worcester, Massachusetts segregation

Phil Ochs

Irwin Silber, Barbara Dane and Julius Lester in the studio discuss cultural appropriation; Radio Unnameable: Sandy Paul live in studio, "National Brotherhood Week" Tom Lehrer; Popular music.

Julius Lester in studio, discussing the folk scene, race relations, and performing his music.

Phil Ochs

Taxi Strike, delay of strike vote, Ochs and Kramer.

Bob reading Pornography press release

Tom Paxton and Barry Kornfeld

Guy Carawan and Paul Krassner. Carawan performs live, discusses his experiences at Highlander Folk School in Tennessee during its integration process, sings "Juba Dis, Juba Dat," "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize." Paul Krassner enters, they discuss childhood memories of the school

End of unidentified instrumental. Bob announces that he is back in the WBAI control room and asks for calls. Unidentified instrumental plays. Indian classical piece by Ustad Ali Akbhar Khan plays. "Army Man Blues" by Big Joe Williams (recorded 1961) plays. "Don't Talk Me To Death" plays. Guitar song in other language plays. "Aftermyth of War" (British comedy sketch) by Beyond the Fringe plays. "Trouble in Mind" plays. Guitar instrumental version of "Greensleeves' plays. A comedic parody of "Greensleeves" plays.

Part 1: Aired: September 25, 1965. Intro to Radio Unnamable (previous WBAI show has run over). Bob talks about Sing-In for Peace happening at Carnegie Hall. "Threepenny Opera" finale (Mack the Knife Reprise), story about a centipede told over Indian music, more talk from Bob; Part 2: Recorded music: Comedy sketch about Superman, talking blues satire, "Jelly Roll Baker" by Tom Rush, "Dough Rolling Papa" by Buddy Moss. Bluegrass plays over Bob's invitation to a sing-in protest of Vietnam and invitation for listener support. Full credits to satirical radio show "It's Your World and You Can Have It

Ravi Shankar, guest; Ann McMillan (WBAI musical director) is in the studio, along with others--possibly Isidora Bennett, Bill Dixon, Larry Josephson. Shankar discusses his work, and Fass plays recorded versions of his work

Julius Lester

Part 1 and 5: field recording in Tompkins Square Park after a concert; BF0548: Radio Unnameable with Israeli musicians (Neḥemyah Sharʻabi?) performing live

Danny Kalb and Andy Kulberg perform live in studio

Phil Ochs

Pterodactyls, guests.

Man covers "Stop Drinking that Wine Sonny Boy", Fred Engleberg "Somebody Finked to the Fuzz", comedy sketch about homosexuality plays over piano, group covers "Masculine Women! Feminine Men!" by Irving Kaufman, "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie, Fass refuses to play a caller's requests. Bob mentions the Diggers, making this some time in the late 1960s.

John Sellers, Paul Siebel, Dave Bromberg; discussion ofJimmie Rogers and Carter Family

Fass hosts; Danny Kalb performs live in the studio.

John Sellers, Bob McCann, Paul Siebel, and Dave Bromberg, guests.

Julius Lester

Julius Lester.

Jose Feliciano.

Fass plays Irish and green-themed music in honor of Saint Patrick's Day: "Wild Colonial Boy," the Irish National Anthem, Irish folk music, and "It's Not Time Now" by the Lovin' Spoonful, and others. Josh White, guest, discusses his career and performs live.

Fass and guests Jake Holmes, Dick Fariña, and Mimi Fariña perform a skit about LBJ, his mistress, George Hamilton, and Lady Bird Johnson. "The Cowboy's Dream" plays. "Carol" by Chuck Berry plays. "Around and Around" by the Rolling Stones plays. Holmes and the Fariñas talk about an album that they are recording with Joan Baez. "Chimes of Freedom" by Bob Dylan plays. Interview with Richard and Mimi Fariña, during which Richard sings two unnamed songs live--one is about daydreaming. Following interview, Bob plays a mix of daydream-related songs. Cut to an interview with Jake Holmes, a comedy singer-songwriter. Tape ends mid-interview. Mentions "Radio Unnameable" in this interview, mentions previous interview with a writer, Tom Lehrer.

Spring Mobilization talkback

Sandy and Jeanie Darlington live in the WBAI studio. They play songs including "Knoxville Girl" and Hank Williams' "Tennessee Border." Bob plays an acetate record the Darlingtons brought back from a recent trip to the United Kingdom. Sandy explains that it's a song called "Disguises" by a "new group" called The Who.

Sandy and Jeannie Darlington.

Monty Dunn, Peter Walker, Jerry Burnham, and David Schiffman (The Word), guests.

Fass and guests Peter Friend, Richard Fass, and unidentified woman discuss James Joyce and Joyce's Ulysses on the occasion of Bloomsday.

The Triangles, AKA the First Uniphrenic Bank and Church Band, featuring Charlie Simon and Debbie Harry, live in studio; recorded music, discussion.

Jeremy Steig, Eddie Gomez, John Hunt, guests.

Guest: Eric Andersen

Long Gone Miles (vocals), Bernard Pearl (guitar), Mable Hillery (piano, vocals), Dale Smith (bass), and Ed Cassidy (drums) play blues music live in the studio: "Shake it Baby" by Junior Wells, "Sinner's Prayer" by Ray Charles, "No Money, No Honey," and many others. Fass and the guests discuss Ali Akbar Kahn and the Newport Folk Festival

Robbie Basho, guest. Tapes of chants and recorded music. Bob signs off.

USCO

Eric Anderson with Jerry White, phone calls

Joe Heaney

The Pennywhistlers

Bill Dixon speaks and performs live, with Roy Norman, Don Heckman, Alan Silva, Frank Clayton.

Lord Rosti

Tom Rush, Jeff Gluck, Susie Rugloff

[Over] Come

The Godz (musical group), guests. Recorded blues and folk rock music. End of the show.

Discussion of George C. Wallace, Indiana University free speech protests. Folk, blues, steeldrum music play in between.

Ravi Shankar

Mike Edl, Summer of Love

Man reads story of Jonah and the Whale live in the studio with a woman on the phone. Bob Fass says the year is 1967. Another recording of Jonah and the Whale, an Asian string instrument plays, and women sing chaotically. A woman calls in praising Frank Meyer, a male caller argues the existence of agnostics with Bob and Jim McGraw, and another male caller asks about the May issue of "The Realist."

Dick Davy (?) is in the studio. He takes calls with Fass about no topic in particular.

Mix with Bob Dylan; Fass reads mail

Johnson mixes

Jeremy Steig and Warren Bernhardt, piano

Robert Downey, Sr.

Jody Stecher and Dave Bromberg in studio

Tiger Morse

Billy Faier

Jeremy Steig, Warren Bernhardt. Recorded of radio by Chuck McGregor

Human Fly-in Part II

Len Chandler, Fly-In

Fly-In

Fass discusses Lenny Bruce and unreleased Bruce concert film, plays tape of Fred Baker interviewing Tim Hardin about Lenny Bruce.

Barbara Dane, Irwin Silver, Al Cooper, and Howard Solomon, guests.

Talkback: Charlie O'Hegarty, Hunter Thompson, Tiger Morse ; Air Check #4

Jeremy Steig, Adrian Guillery, Warren Bernhardt, guests.

Recorded music. Bob says Arlo Guthrie is currently performing at the Café Gaslight.

Abortion talkback with W. Baird, W. Corton

3 members of USCO, including Gerd Stern, are guests in the studio. They discuss their art collective and Bob plays recorded music.

Bad aircheck

Peter Yarrow, guest, talking about the history of Greenwich Village folk music and taking phone calls.

Zero Mostel and Van Rank recorded music

Billy Faier in studio playing music and talking about his experiences with peyote.

Diggers, Emmet Grogan, Indian Music

After Central Park Be-In

Bob talks about an upcoming WBAI fundraising party at the Cheetah Club on Tuesday, April 11; mentions at 03:41 that "Radio Unnameable is scheduled to begin at midnight tomorrow night." Pre-recorded sign-off by a caller's infant daughter.

Aircheck, "Alice's Restaurant"

Sweep-In talkback, Hugh Marius (Director of Community Relations, Department of Sanitation)

Pre-Sweep-In, Paul Krassner, Alice's Restaurant

Sweep-In

Sweep-In talkback

Folk rock marathon

Walking Songs

Poverty and Powerlessness

Guests and callers. Host identifies guests as Marshall Efron, Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, and program as "Radio Unnameable for the final night hopefully without Bob Fass [...] who will be back on Monday"

Jeremy Steig, Adrian Guillery, Dick Davie, and Arlo Guthrie. The tape begins with a recording of a routine about a flat world. Bob comments that Radio Unnameable cannot play the version of "Alice's Restaurant" that it had been playing because Arlo doesn't like the recording. Arlo Guthrie introduces and plays "Alice's Restaurant Massacree Part 2," which is "Different than any other version." (The version played is the general mythic version with slight unique details like "dead cow in the hallway.") Bob says that Arlo Guthrie is in the studio. Arlo introduces Steve Elliott. There is a brief discussion about the different versions of Alice's Restaurant." Bob asks Arlo to stay. Jeremy Steig is also there. Bob discusses a variety of subjects with Dick Davie, who also takes phone calls. Callers choose which version of "Alice's Restaurant" is "better." Dick Davie mentions Jean Shepard. Bob joins in and mentions that "Alice's Restaurant" is not on any record that you can buy. The mikes are opened in the studio and Jeremy Steig and Adrian Guillery are playing an instrumental into "Let Me Tell You People (Just What's Going On)." Dick Davie continues to take calls. Callers like the first version of "Alice's Restaurant" better

Recorded music

Bob Fass, Jack [Elliott?], and Arlo Guthrie chat in the WBAI studio to raise money for the station. Bob recounts the four-day Cosmic Lie-In for Louis Abolafia's presidential campaign.

Arlo Guthrie, guest. Arlo sings "The Pickle Song" "OX 7-8506" (a pitching song). Arlo asks that people who know him from Howard Beach to please call in and pledge some money. Arlo plays an autoharp. Arlo and Bob get a $15 tally for the "Rainbow Roach" Fund. Arlo performs a guitar solo of Alice's Restaurant and tries to get pledges. Arlo picks out a "WBAI Song" to try to get people to pledge. Bob announces that the tally in total is currently $23,136.00 and names donors to Arlo's accompaniment of "America The Beautiful." Bob is rewinding an "Alice's Restaurant" tape and reads the names of people who have phoned in "barter" donations. Arlo is heard picking in the background. Arlo plays "Beethoven's Ninth" on autoharp for $5.00. Arlo plays "I Want Some Money" and Bob announces the new tally is $23,263.50. Arlo picks out the "Star Spangled Banner." A recording of "Percy's Song" by Bob Dylan is played for a $50 pledge. Discussion of "barter" donations

Arlo Guthrie, guest. Ramblin' Jack Elliott, phone call from Tom Rush.

Jeremy Steig and Adrian Guillery

Fass plays music and speaks with callers, including Fay Weinstein, belly dancer; guests include Jim Fouratt, Peter [Maloney?], Ellen [Maloney?] discussing activism and demonstrations, including Central Park Be-in

Pete Penna

Keith Lampe, Caryn and David, rock and roll

Alice's, Galahad, and Groovy; Fight in pool hall

Music, phone calls, and readings. Guests Rudi Stern, Jackie Cassen, Jack Carson.

David Santo

Ron Wolin (talkback)

Jeremy Steig and Joel Freedman

Unidentified guest provides phone number for Mobilization for Youth's lawyer, Margaret Taylor. They discuss police harassment of men between 18 and 40 years old for not carrying draft cards at all times, and an incident which took place that day where a group of people were arrested for sitting on the grass in Tompkins Square Park. Bill Tatum, deputy mayor, calls in. Recordings of eyewitnesses describing what they saw and other people who drop by the WBAI studio to do the same.

Recorded music. Bob explains that he has been making phone calls to ensure that 2 people arrested in Tompkins Square raise the funds necessary to make bail.

Galahad and Candy

Paul Krassner and the founders of Real Great Society

Fass and Group Image, guests, discuss problems with the legal system in America, establishment of a bail fund for the poor in San Francisco, and social work. Various unidentified rock songs play. They announce a concert the following day with the Grateful Dead. Group Image improvise a nonsensical meditation. "Visions of Johanna" by Bob Dylan plays.

Ron McLain, Bob Moorman, and Peter Walker, guests, performing live in the studio.

Ron McLain

Just records

The Pennywhistlers

Mediation, Swami Keshavadas

Steve Post

Ron McLain, guest, talks, sings and chews gum.

Abbie Hoffman Be-In Tapes

Abbie Hoffman, Be-In. Aircheck #2.

Phil Ochs singing "In the Heat of the Summer" and other songs; Paul Krassner, guest. New York Taxi strike, New York City arrests in relation to Watts riots.

Rapping about the demise of The Blues Project

Abbie Hoffman and Bob talk to a caller. Abbie explains about "hippies" as media invention, discussion about The System, etc.

Phone calls about Tompkins Square Park and police violence.

Bob Burnett, Clere Burnett, Henry Crowdog, Moses Big Crow Of The Rosebud Sioux

You're Next, Brother" tape

Jeremy and the Satyrs

Fass hosts; Dylan music; several guests arrive for an impromptu 5th anniversary party for Fass and Radio Unnameable in WBAI studio

Bob discusses Bobby Seale and the Chicago Eight trial after the 1968 Democratic Convention with callers, including Abbie Hoffman and Wavy Gravy.

Louis Abolafia discussing his current presidential campaign in studio with Fass, Billy Faier, and Alex Messina

Bob Fass and Jerry Rubin from Chicago

Jerry Jeff Walker, Dave Bromberg

Tuli Kupferberg, Bob Berket, Paul Krassner, and Country Joe McDonald, guests

David Santo

Tannis, Dave Bromberg, Jody Stecher, Winnie Winston

Jerry Jeff Walker

Marshall Efron

Grand Central Yip-In

Grand Central: interview with Sid Bernard, writer. "The kids were up on the clock for a good hour before the violence."

Sid Davidoff, Barry Gottehrer, Alan Levine

Dave Bromberg, Jerry Jeff Walker, David Santo call

Children of God, "Jammin

Incredible String Band: Mike Heron, Robin Williamson, Licorice McKechnie. "You Get Brighter"

Peter Walker

Pitts, Charles, 1947-2012

Tuli Kupferberg, Paul Krassner, and Country Joe and the Fish, guests; discussion and phone calls

Julius Lester, guest. Discussion with three North American Indians: Janet McCloud, Tulalip; Claude Red Hail Langer, Devil's Lake Sioux; Thomas Banyacya, Hopi.

David Amram and Jeremy Steig

Steve Post covering Radio Unnameable in New York; phone call from Bob in Chicago, continuity, Bob's feed from Chicago

Chicago tear gassing at the Hilton

Steve Post covering Radio Unnameable after Chicago Democratic National Convention protests. Guests: Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Marshall Efron

Bob Fass covers a Black Panther/Yippie gathering in Chicago. Events surround August 29, 1968. While not mentioned directly, these are likely the protests of the Democratic Convention of 1968, which occurred August 26-29, 1968. Fass has a conversation with Jerry Rubin about the gathering. Bobby Seale and Ted Kennedy are mentioned. Allen Ginsberg and Jean Genet are interviewed. Police break up a religious gathering in Lincoln Park. Various interviews with other gathering participants. The Beatles "Revolution" plays.

Ravi Shankar interview; last 10 or so minutes from Arlo Guthrie's new record

Steve Ben Israel on the Living Theatre

Paul Siebel, "Louise"

Benefit featuring play performance, Abbie Hoffman, Bob Collier from Fall 1968

Jerry Merrick and Dan English play folk songs live in WBAI studio.

Jeremy Steig

Happy And Artie Traum, Monty Dunn, Carolyn Cruz

Marshall Efron

Dave Bromberg, Jeremy Steig, Eddie Gomez

Ron McLean (Abdullah)

Marshall Efron

Incredible String Band

Jeremy Steig (with Marshall Efron in the beginning)

Danny Kalb

Abdullah

Marshall Efron. Discussion on freedom in singularity vs. multiplicity, caller calling in to complain about programming with party line confusion, Billy the Kid and the Governor discussing a book and a pardon, and Ben Hur.

Steve Elliott

Bob and Hugh Romney, Pudding Fest

Hugh Romney.

Steve Ben Israel

Abbie Hoffman.

Abbie Hoffman.

Abdullah

Proccaccino Songs on Tape

Members of the cast of Dionysius, 1969

Tiny Tim, Marshall Efron

Steve Elliott

Abbie Hoffman. Date probably circa 1969 August; contains references to Woodstock festival.

Jerry Sappir, Ali Hafid, Manny Dworman

Jerry Sappir, Ali Hafid, Manny Dworman

The Montgomerys

Steve Baron plays one song live

Lisa and Dave Bromberg

Phone calls: Keith Lampie and Hugh Romney on Hunger Show, Mayer on party at Electric Circus

Call from Hugh [Romney?] on Hunger Show

Abbie Hoffman calls

Paul Krassner

Bob and guest Michael Cohen discuss Dave Van Ronk, Mike plays Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game." They take phone calls, including one about Mike's song "Orion." Mike performs "Orion." Bob plays a recording of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" and Bob Dylan's "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts."

Native American WBAI programming promotional segment. Fass asks for donations/subscriptions to WBAI. "Asshole From El Paso," and "Ahab the Arab," by Kinky Friedman plays. "Do Doo Ron Ron," by The Crystals plays. "If I Needed You" by Melanie Safka plays.

"Last to Leave" by Arlo Guthrie plays. Fass and a caller discuss an upcoming election, a criminal revision bill, John D. Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, Nixon, engineered recessions, and magic.

Total of seven callers debate the Arab-Isaeli conflict with one woman briefly mentioning Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize (awarded December 1973); two women exchange views on racism and feminism.

Fass and callers talk about CIA, Rockefeller, the NCLC, President Ford, the news media, the inflationary spiral, and the cost of living.

Man calls in discussing his experiences with epilepsy and the drugs perscribed to him and how it might relate to Timothy Leary's court cases.

Fass advertises WBAI subscriptions. Mae Brussell calls in and discusses intelligence agencies, Alexander Butterfield, the White House taping system, and E. Howard Hunt.

Caller talks about Paul McCartney. Fass says that the station may have to make layoffs. Carnatic music. Cover of 'Okie From Muskogee.' Fass talks about last night's controversy and how he doesn't want to reveal the details. Plays more tracks.

Robbie Basho; Leonard Crow Dog ceremony; Harrisburg Defense Committee Call; Rubin Carter - John Artis; Paul Seibel; Country Joe McDonald; Jerry Jeff Walker; David Bromberg; Bob Dylan; Carly Simon

Larry Estridge sings live. Puts the poems of W.H. Auden into song. First song is "Death's Echo". Second song is "O What is That Sound". Third song is "September 1st, 1939." Estridge titles the fourth song "Ring Out the Drought," which is adapted from Allen Ginsberg's "September on Jessore Road.

Fass discussing the Panther 21. He plays a Lenny Bruce record.

Nazi/Hitler comedy and musical performance by Dave Herman. Discussion of Bob Dylan's new album 'New Morning' & interpretations (~1970).

Jaime Brockett

Bob takes calls from Donna Hanna, a woman who was arrested at the newly female-friendly McSorley's (a change which took place in August 1970); talks to 14-year-old Billy, who was arrested and beaten up by cops for taking acid in the park. Folk music and song by Timothy Leary close out the recording.

Abbie Hoffman, Bob Dylan, discussion of Che

Abbie Hoffman calls from Chicago: 1. January 6, 1970 Abbie re: Daley's testimony including Ed Wode and Lennox Raphael from Che 2. January 15, 1970 Abbie's call, 3. January 26, 1970 Abbie's call

Muddy Waters, Otis Spann sings live, "Hootchy Cootchy Man," McKinley Morganfeld; recorded in 1968

Artie and Happy Traum

Abbie Hoffman calls from Chicago, Anita Hoffman talks to Julius Lester

Night of conspiracy verdict, phone calls, Jaakov Kohn and Chris Cerf; Anita and Nancy Kurshan

Anita Hoffman, guest

Abbie Hoffman calls (they got out of jail this weekend)

Call from Abbie Hoffman in Chicago

GPCR with Melvin Van Peebles

David Peel and The Lower East Side Band perform live on air

Larry Lee call from KPFT

Gary Kupper

Marshall Efron and Madeline Kahn

Hog Farm, John Schule, Wavy Gravy

Phone call with a 16 year old girl about drugs (she's against them)

La, la mix

Two calls from Wavy Gravy

Whales, Roger Payne

Ballad in Plain D" by Bob Dylan (recording); "Going to Boston" folk song; Charles Mingus recordings; Ken McClaren reading his poetry

Bob talking over cosmic music

Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee

Baba Ram Dass, guest; talks about Timothy Leary leaving jail, phone call from Wavy Gravy in London

Artie and Happy Traum

Wavy Gravy reading the continuation of his book

Phone calls, dope, Vietnam vet

Pearls Before Swine live in studio: Tom Rapp, Gordon Hayes, Jon Tooker. They play "Another Time", "If You Don't Want To", "There Was a Man", "Freedom", "Riegal", "Rocket Man", "When the War Began", "Margery", "Suzanne", "Island Lady", "Abby."

Various men and one woman in the studio discuss potential of third world cultures in the context of a moneyless economic system, and ponder possible modes of society.

Eve Otto

Elephants Memory: talking about their house which was on fire, "Primal Scream," phone calls, "Arson Song," lyrics, phone calls

Caryl Ratner and Fass broadcast from a church. A story about a man returning to his home and learning that many of the people he cared about are dead. "Black Peter" by the Grateful Dead plays. "Cruel War" by Peter, Paul, and Mary plays. "My Name is Jack" by Manfred Mann plays; "I Get High on Jesus" and "Speed Song" Ralph Betza

Golden Melody Boys live in studio singing songs about drugs.

"Transsexual" person talks about operation.

Phone calls from Ken McLaren and Mark Feffer, recorded music

Trout Fishing in America Light Opera Co., guest, sings comic songs, including "The Story of the River Lovers," "Antonio the Poisoner," and "Jimmy."

Phone calls: Abbie Hoffman, Stew Alpert re: New York Times Pentagon Papers

Melody

Peter Kelley and Jack Nailon

Peter Kelley and Jack Nailon, guests

Stew Albert and Jacki Friedrich re: piggy bank, Capitol building bombing

Review of Johnny Got His Gun

Phone calls about cutbacks

Wavy Gravy

Wavy Gravy

Paul Geremia, Erik Frandsen

Bob talks about missing events because of when he works

Guru Prem Shankar, Michael Abbot, Roland Cohn

Dalton Trumbo

David Sutler, draft lottery

Ed Rosenthal - growing grass, Peter Pussydog

Steve Ben Israel calls

Steve Ben Israel, Alan Weberman

Future of Free Form Radio, Kathy Morales discussing Dana Beal

Steve Ben Israel, phone calls about drugs

Steve Ben Israel: Poem about Brazil

Discussing George Jackson; phone calls with Andy Nadelman

Jim Anderson, Raleigh Jugger, and Steve Ben Israel re: Quincy 5

Discussing Guru Maharaj, with Jane Patterson, John Berzner, Suzy Witten, and Billy Fairchild

Phone calls about Attica with Steve Ben Israel

Earth Peoples Park, phone call about Attica

2 welfare phone calls

Paul Krassner, guest. Phone call from Abbie Hoffman

Eve Otto

Melody Moore

Poetry Day phone calls; Fred Mogubgub, Jaakov, and Susan Kohn; phone call from a good cop who got hit by a kid

Townes Van Zandt

Call from Abbie Hoffman

Pearls Before Swine

Conversation with Marshall Efron and Marvin Garson

David Peel

Phone call about Green Haven (conclusion)

Phone calls about demonstration at rent commission (and problems of tenants), and demonstration at USSR mission protesting treatment of nine who attempted to hijack plane

Bob's review of "Inside Dope" by Marvin Slobodkin

Off the air: re: suicide

About Martha's Vineyard. Nixon's trial. Paul Krassner

Phone call about demonstration outside Capitol Records (funny), David Dellinger re: war

Patrick (Pat) Small from Milwaukee on Dana Beal, Paul Krassner phones in from KPFA

Phone calls. Jared November (EVO) talks about being imprisoned in the Tombs; caller discusses Panama: jails, police, conditions for the poor, education

Phone calls from "Connie's Spirit" (spacey woman) and David Amram about "Pull My Daisy," his music, and music in general

Phone call about social structure and work; Steve Ben Israel: "Spinning Wheel

Phone call about man made into sausage (Kathy Streem); Rap "Bad Night

Clockwork Orange," Wavy Gravy on his operation (in California), the hospital, Hog Farm, and Howdy Dogood

Discussing Christmas, VPRO, Holland, and music with Jan Danker; phone call from a GI about WAC anti-war paper

Paul Cowan takes calls about Sister McAllister and Philip Berrigan's trial in Harrisburg (1972), then after a recording of children's singing, chats with callers about feminism, psychiatric institutes, and the consciousness raising movement

David Bromberg and the Flying Torpedoes

Tripp, a singer, is guest

Tripp, a singer, is guest

Blown fuse, Mike Goodstein, transmitter tests, and gross things

Phone calls about Citizens for Bangladesh, Roy Bookbinder

David Santo et. al.

A. J. Weberman on Dana Beal benefit, John and Yoko show, Bob Dylan, Chinese food story

Bean Calendar

Pirate Radio, "God Bless America" calls to station, Jud Yalkut

Phone calls about Edgar Snow, handicapped, activism, Weather Underground Statement

Phone call about Ralph Ginzburg. Yoyo Comix. Promo for Leonard

China and Jeremy Steig

Bob Greenblatt

Phone calls about the Harrisburg Defense Committee

Free speech

Ed in Jail with Costello and Soloway, phone calls, news feed

Missile race, media objectivity, kids stealing, visiting the zoo at 3 A.M

Rahul, Kiran, and Nona

Bob discussing 42nd Street

Calcutta monsoon, Garland Jefferies, Alan Friedman

Phone call from documentary producer about press and Vietnam, phone call from Dana Beal

Phone calls about war and demonstrations

Stuyvesant High School demonstration, YIP in Miami, Frank Rose

Phone calls on Ramparts vs. phone company, Tombs and trial

Phone call from Nancy Stearns about abortion law repeal, discussion of McGovern and political process with Steve Ben Israel and Charlie Mingus

Abbie Hoffman and Steve Ben Israel, guests; phone calls about Miami

Atomic energy misuse mix, phone calls about Jim Garrison and Garrison article

Jeremy

Ellen Mac Dwankie, Kate McGarrigle, George Gerdes

Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright

Bob talks about cutbacks, plays some music, and takes phone calls about cutbacks

Oregon: Paul McCandless, Colin Walcott, Ralph Towner

Birthday, Abbie Hoffman re: Miami

Strobe light game

Hoochie Coochie Dream Band: Bill Folwell, Rock Martarano, Luke Faust

Review of Greaser's Palace with rap about eclipse

Abbie Hoffman re: Miami, phone calls

Comments on POW tape (tape itself is elsewhere), Ron Nadel letter from USSR, Marshall Efron in studio talking about UFOs, drugs

Phone calls re: women, abortion, candidates, and Kurlian device, with A.J. and Guy Archer of NORML

Phone call from Miriam Rosen about peddling calico (Earth Peoples Park), Michael Riesman, Bob talks about being locked out

Phone calls about alternate phone company, not voting, and finding Harmon Kardon; A.J. phone call

AJ Weberman re: Republican Convention

Danny and Judy Rose-Redwood

Opens with unidentified jazz music; Gerd Stern of USCO (media art collective) is on air, along with others connecting from various radio studios to discuss their projects and topics like high speed communication and real time

Mae Brussell on phone; phone calls. Early reference to murder of Evelyn Wagler in Boston, so date is likely circa 1973

Abbie Hoffman.

Come Home, Armenia, phone calls, etc.

Video Access Committee members, guests

Recorded interview with Godfrey Cambridge (interviewer Larry [?]) about his involvement in drug awareness, racial injustices and violence in America, and CIA involvement in drug trafficking. Unidentified music playing. Bob takes a call, talking about Ram Dass.

Phone call to Chicago

Marathon pitching

Live music in the studio by Edwin Birdsong. He performs five songs. He mentions "Bob Fass" before the fourth song, and says the date is July 22, year unknown, though possibly 1973 since Bob says he's been on the radio for about ten years.

Edwin Birdsong live in the studio. Acoustic versions of "My Father Preaches That God Is The Father of Us All." Leon Russel's "If The Shoe Fits" plays. Edwin Birdsong performs "Turn Around Hate" "Rising Sign", "Grow Some Flowers You Will Learn To Love the Rain", "God's Home", and "Old Messiah."

Fass plays music and discusses case of Jerome Washington.

Bob and guests rapping

Man from the Bowery Residents' Committee is in studio talking about their work to help people gets off alcohol and drugs. He and Bob take calls. Calls include information about a peace demonstration for South America and discussion of anarchism

Mae Brussell aircheck for Dialogue Conspiracy

Melody Moore

Bob reacts to newspaper headlines

"Midnight Hour" plays. A poem about Watergate written in emulation of "T'was the Night Before Christmas" plays. Another poem about Watergate is written in the style of "The Raven." Steve Ben Israel calls about the Industrial Workers of the World union. "When the Ship Comes In" by Arlo Guthrie plays. An anti-war poem is read.

Done right after Bob Dylan's concerts, taking calls about concert and benefits

Marshall Efron, guest. Draft dodger calls in, discussion of prison and Nixon presidency/impeachment.

Bob recalls [club on?] 39th Street, plays music and comedy sketches, and identifies the year as 1974.

David Bromberg with Steve Rathe, "David Tells a Dirty Joke!," the Midnight Story of Watergate, phone calls to David

Robin sings and plays guitar

Callers debate LSD and Timothy Leary

Mental Patient Liberation Project

Abbie Hoffman Bust: phone call from Anita Hoffman

Mae Brussell on Patty Hearst

Melody Moore sings and talks with Bob in between

Ron Kovic of American Veterans Movement, with phone calls; Jimmy Cliff

Phone calls

TeleRecords

Records and tapes

David Amram and Bob pitch for money for the station. David plays a song on the dollar bill

David Amram

Bob Fass and Wavy Gravy

Mike Sheehan, guest. Continuation of discussions of Fascism, Nazism, monopolies and the U.S

Melody Moore, Wavy Gravy

Melody Moore and Wavy Gravy. Tape 2.

Phone calls about Abbie Hoffman, laws

Phone calls

Mae Brussell on the telephone, talks to listeners about just about everything, including Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Bob talking to Ron Kovic about Veterans' demonstration in Washington, Mae Brussell tape

Phone calls, phone phreaks

Phone calls with Marshall Efron

Bob Dylan marathon

Robbie Barris and Mark Spector leave after pitching

Malachy McCourt, guest; Marathon pitching

Phone calls about cutbacks

Pendleton Brown sings

Guests: Mayer Vishner and Anita Hoffman

Raun MacKinnon live in studio, recorded music

Jean and David Ames live

After Yellow Submarine

Allan Edmonds, astrologer

Nixon resignation speech night

Phone calls

Lindsay Audin, phone calls, topic: bill amendments and more

Phone calls and music

Phone calls; critique of psychology

Jordan Kaplan plays some of his music on the piano

Bob, guest (Dr. Grossinger?) taking calls from listeners, silly accents; calls about security for cab drivers, more calls

Jeremy Steig and Adrian Guillery

Mae Brussell on phone

Mae Brussell and Lewis Tackwood

Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick discussing folk music, integration of Homer, Louisiana, and Grambling and Prairie View Colleges in the South

Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, Dr. Matt Jones, and Karen Landy, guests, rapping with and without callers

Caller speaks with Mae Brussell about medical induction of diseases for political expediency

Florynce Kennedy on air with Bob, taking calls from listeners.

Bob Fass talking, taking phone calls

Matt Alperin on Crafts Fair; Mix beginning with "Hip Hooray for America

Rap about political prisons with guests

Aliens

Garetti, OPEC

Matt Alperin and callers discuss Crafts Fair

Phone calls

Piper O'Dockerty, guest

Fass and callers discuss the military, World War II, and ways to dodge the military draft. "My Dream of the Big Parade" plays.

Discussion of Vice President Rockefeller. Bev Grant performs a song about feminism/gender roles in marriage. Call-ins about the Joan Little case, rape, feminism, and unemployment.

#24: Fass hosting at WBAI, playing Rocky Horror Picture Show album, taking callers. Teenagers playing billiards.

Bob Dylan boot; Discussion of Warren Report with Jean Herman; NYC bankruptcy

Phone calls with Mae Brussell

Roger McGuinn, Tom Pacheco, Larry 'Ratso' Sloman. Prepared Statement from Leonard Crowdog's supporters. Poem from Ratso by Bob Dylan about Rolling Thunder

Phone calls, Kostellanetz

Mae Brussell calls and talks about Watergate, the importance of investigating political murders and talks about an upcoming public conference in Boston about the deaths with other researchers. Paul McIsaac is on the show; Jeremy Steig and Adrian Guillery performing in studio at WBAI; Lindsey Audin

Pitching, Mae Brussell

Calls

Calls, mix with guest Robin Ludwig

Bill Horwitz and The Human Condition

Music including 'You're a Big Girl Now' by Bob Dylan, 'Idiot Gray' by Bob Dylan, 'Buckets of Rain' by Bob Dylan, 'Candy Man' by Bill Horwitz

Flo Kennedy and callers

Calls, mix; Michael Cohen live and Flo Kennedy

Carl Oglesby conspiracy theories

Music, calls, cheap sci-fi sound effects. Caller wishes Bob Fass a happy Valentine's day (no year). Discussion of police riot at Grand Central Station

Flo Kennedy and Irene call; discussion of assassinations, criminal proceedings, Assassination Information Bureau, conspiracy courses on college campuses

Assassination of M. L. King and Malcom X and JFK, tape of the The Incredible String Band, tape of Wayne Chastain discussing the details of MLK's killing

Karen Landy sings; Paula Styker reads from her Ireland journal

Phone calls

Adrian Guillory

Assassination Information Bureau Conference Saturday session, "Who Done It?" A Dallas Conspiracy with Peter Dale Scott and Mark Lane. Includes Q and A session about RFK's commitment to blow JFK assassination open, questions about videotaping

Phone call from Kay Thomson, Eloise at the Plaza Hotel

Theodore Charach, Paul Krassner on phone

Phone calls from Hyde and others

George Demmerle tape, Flo Kennedy on phone, talking about Jane Alpert and feminism; music, callers

Caller talks about the early closure of Boston schools. He discusses compares the coverage of the Watergate and of the Chappaquiddick scandals, saying that conservatives are given unfair coverage and unfair justice. Karen Landy and Paulette Spicer are guests. One performs music. They read poems by Mark Landy.

Chilean music; call about Chile

Steve Ben Israel, Stephen Gaskin, and two women from The Farm collective, guests

Stephen Gaskin of the Farm collective. Reel 8 of 10.

Calls and music

Phone calls about JFK, censorship; Peter Stampfel and friends

Mike Sheehan, guest; Phone calls about conspiracy theories; Stavy Ann's mix

Phone calls about Carter

Mike Sheehan, guest; calls on politics and poetry

Call-ins with Fass, Chuck Zlotkin and Robert Grodin about Kennedy Assassination, Nixon; Rory Block is a guest

Calls about assassinations, the showing of Executive Action at the Elgin Theater, and the Grodin and Baysruder films; Sound Equation live in studio

Mae Brussell: calls on NYU conspiracy conference, Baker Documents, other topics

Mae Brussell on phone and Lindsay Audin in studio discussing various conspiracies and conspiracy conferences in the upcoming week

Mae Brussell and Lindsy Low in studio answering questions; call from Flo Kennedy

Mike Sheehan, Ted Gandolfo, and callers; discussion of Vietnam War, JFK assassination, and other topics

Mae Brussell, Ted Gandolfo, and others on phone discuss Mae's theories

Cosmic Cornbread Trio

Bob pitches, then does a mix of music and past airchecks of marathon and programs

Susan Mannheimer, guest; pitching, phone calls about police brutality and other topics

Fass asks for people to donate to WBAI. Fass and callers talk about new bill S1 that infringes civil freedoms. Fass says that Sammy Walker comes into the station. Callers discuss the importance and value of WBAI.

Pitching, phone calls from Malachy McCourt, David Amram, and others; various topics discussed

Sammy Walker and Larry Estridge live in studio

"Underground Nation, or Fugitive for the Hell of It," a spoof of Ron Rosenbaum's interview with fugitive Abbie Hoffman. Interspersed with comments, elaborations, pitches, songs, and phone calls. Guests are Ron Rosenbaum, Mayer Vishner, Eve, and Larry Estridge

Bob pitches with drums and then with Lindsay Audin on phone

Ken Kelsheim, Steve Ben Israel, Lindsay Audin, phone calls on tax resistance

Sammy Walker and Duane Storey live in studio; Pitching, recorded music

Recorded music, tape of phone call with Bob Fass and Ken McLaren, Stacy Ann's Fourth of July War Mix

Stacy Ann's Fourth of July War Mix

Callers discuss the Rosenbergs and various conspiracy theories; pitching

Phone calls, Mae Brussell

Night of WNET's recreation of Chicago 8 trial, phone calls

Mae Brussell on phone discussing Butterfield and Nixon

Call-ins about foreign visas and citizenship, universal amnesty, how to dodge the draft, ways to stay in Canada, and Gerald Ford

Fass, Flo Kennedy, and other callers discuss various topics

Music of Richard Evers and Harlan Roth

New York financial crisis, recorded music, phone calls

Sammy Walker, recorded and live in studio

Mayer Vishner

Discussion by Performers Lou Cage and Juan Capra

Costume Ball, caller on New York City's problems

Bob takes calls from listeners on feminism, divisions within the left, and other topics