Bob Fass Recordings and Papers, 1935-2011, bulk 1963-1991

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Series II: Other radio shows, circa 1960s-2006

Series II contains recordings of radio shows other than Radio Unnameable, which were also hosted by Bob Fass.


Subseries II.1: Beyond the Unnameable, 1972-1976


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass plays the end of a tape of Mae Brussell talking about the San Quentin Six and other topics. He plays another tape of her talking about Richard Nixon's ill health. She mentions LBJ's death, and points out several other suspicious deaths. She talks about the last week being Sep 9


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Lindsay Audin, Fass, and others talking about models of state, communism, distribution of wealth and resources


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Terry Noble from Jerusalem reporting on recent events in the Israel-Arab War (1973)


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob takes calls, including one from "Enema Lady', a frequent caller who tells a story; and a man who suggests supporting WBAI by selling photos of the radio personalities


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Peter Stampfel is in the studio playing live music, including "Griselda," "Down the River," "Dueling Banjos," "God What Am I Doing Here," "I Don't Sleep Here," and "Low-Down Dog." Fass plays Lead Belly


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A call in about Muhammad Ali, sports, Nixon, the Bay of Pigs, the Criminal Code Reform Act of 1973, communism, and the deep state. It is believed to be 1974 from a mention of the Mets losing the world series the prior year


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers. One talks about the strike happening at Macmillan and Co. publishers. Dick Hogman (another WBAI host?) discusses NASA and broadcast satellites, Pacifica, and listener supported radio. Fass, Dick, and Margot debate whether or not to give out the specific radio frequency on the air or to individual listeners


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass takes call-ins about classical music, playing music on radio stations, the financial viability of radio stations, and advertising


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers discuss WBAI in the 1940s, who dictates music tastes, Senator James Buckley, modern art, classical music, and the relations between commerce and art. Callers compare WQIV to WBAI


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Aircheck, phone calls


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Danny Kalb


Beyond the Unnameable, circa 1972-1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1972 October 6, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 September 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 September 29, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 October 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Nixon Conference, music, callers


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 November 1, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Music


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 November 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Barbara Dane, guest


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 November 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dave Amram


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 November 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Poetry by William Craig, one of the Harlem 6


Beyond the Unnameable, 1973 December 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Melody Moore, Fass aircheck


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 January 16, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Members of the Mental Patients Liberation Project are in studio with Bob taking calls. MPLP puts blame on civil liberties union for working with the psychiatric industry instead of supporting those institutionalized. Most callers disagree with members' stances, including a refusal to recognize any standards of mental health and idea that most patients in psychiatric wards are placed against their will


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 January 19, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Melody Moore with Bob Fass


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 January 25, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recorded music by Bob Dylan and others


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 April 10, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 April 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 April 17, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

1974, between mid-February and mid-April: Bob reads from a SoHo Weekly News interview with Abbie Hoffman, who was arrested in his home for cocaine possession and intent to sell cocaine August 28, 1973. Hoffman claims that drug laws targeting cocaine as opposed to heroin are based in racism, as cocaine is not addictive and doesn't cause death. Bob has Anita Hoffman on the phone. Between phone calls regarding the date of a march on Washington to impeach Nixon, Bob plays a 1968 tape of Abbie Hoffman in the studio with him. Hoffman tells of his experience being arrested for a crime aboard an aircraft, the instance of which led to the Chicago Seven trial. Bob takes a few more calls, including one from a man impersonating Hoffman, and one from a woman objecting to playing tapes of Mae Brussell


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 April 19, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Part 1: Anita Hoffman and Paul Krassner; Part 2: A woman [Carla Rotolo?] sings "Wide is the Water," "Summertime," "Who Killed Cock Robin," "Single Girl


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 April 24, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Week of April 21, 1974: Mae Brussell is on the phone taking calls with Bob. Brussell says that brain analysis of Charles Whitman was released to justify future experiments on minorities. Brussell claims that Manson killings were part of conspiracy to create hate for hippies and that all dead rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix and Jim Croce, were murdered


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 April 26, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Calls on surveillance, privacy, Watergate, a veterans' march, and various other topics


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 May 15, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

WBAI Marathon


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 May 18, 3 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls on SLA and Israel; John Cappadona, Marshal Rosenberg, Jerry Burnham, Raun MacKinnon play live in studio; Mae Brussell phone call


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 June 29, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 July 6, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recording of "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland" (George Martin orchestration) plays. Bob asks for calls. "The Shooting of Dan McGroo" by Lord Buckley plays. A caller (Ken) who works with the Bowery Residence Committee describes the work they do and appeals for listeners to send games to the residence


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 7, 6 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Allen Edmonds, astrologer, takes phone calls with Bob in the studio


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 9, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Nixon resignation speech night, Mix, phone calls; calls from Mae Brussell, Paul Krassner, and others chiefly on Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 10, 6 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls: Livia Dropkin's song, women's non-power, sewers, Nixon, taxicab driver labor conditions, and various other topics


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 14, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Finish of excerpt of Chilean Report, phone calls


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 16, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guest musicians Larry Estridge and Sugar Blue perform original folk rock songs


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 23, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

August 23, 1974: Anita Hoffman and Mayer Vishner live in studio. Hoffman talks about her disappointment with Timothy Leary likely testifying against Weathermen, reading "Prairie Fire" by Weather Underground, and the 1960s


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 24, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Anita Hoffman and Mayer Vishner, and a call to Mae Brussell; Topics include Watergate and JFK assassination


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 August 28, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Music, talk, McIssac tape


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 4, 7 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Adrian Guillery with Jeremy and the Satyrs perform live jazz in studio; discuss prison rebellion in Texas, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, live music


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 7, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers talk about what they are hearing on other radio shows, on and off WBAI. Discussion of Bertolt Brecht, dramatization of fiction about overpopulation ('The Space Merchants' by Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth), a rewritten Declaration of Independence by Atlanta listeners, existence of late night call-in shows other than Fass's. Bob defends the existence of government and regulation. Bob defends callers to radio programs in the South, saying that there is real American weirdness all over the country. Callers discuss problem of unemployment and government overspending at cost of citizen inequality. Bob continues to advocate for government. Callers discuss fear that police will be federalized


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 9, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

September 7, 1974: Bob takes calls. First caller is a schizophrenic man on vacation from an institution and callers discuss schizophrenia. Talk of radio host Bill Watson and the (im)possibility of WBAI buying shuttering WNCN's record collection on condition of switching to classical radio station


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 11, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Marshall Efron as Dr. Grossinger


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 14, 3 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mae Brussell and callers discuss rumors about Kennedy, conspiracy theories about national emergencies; folk music plays; Mae returns with conspiracy theories about the deaths of a White House staff members


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 20, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Discussion of Leary, Rubin, Kangaroo court on Leary; Live performance by Jerry Moore and Tom Yalberg


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 21, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mix, bullshitting with and without callers, True Love Comics, phone calls; Sing Along with God ; Live music of Kip Sullivan (vocals), John Lewis (piano, but not same as John Lewis of Modern Jazz Quartet), Tom Yulberg (Eulberg? Yalberg?). Call about unemployment unfairness


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 25, 6 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recorded music, calls, open letter from Krassner, Ken McLaren reads poem live


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 September 28, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Morris Kramer, Mae Brussell, and Mr. Tagwood from Watsonville taking calls with Bob and Larry Kramer in New York


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 4, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob's guest is Brother Kirk (Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick). Discusses the ways black people are being and have been used and abused by the US government (sickle cell anemia, drugs, Great Northward Migration). Discusses political and apolitical music (Pete Seeger, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack). They take calls


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 5, 6 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Matt Jones, Karen Landy, Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick and callers; Mae Brussell and callers on Dialogue: Conspiracy


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 6, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 8, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 9, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls, Boston, free speech


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Pilk on Jordan


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 24, 5 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Danny Kalb performs live in studio; Bob plays a tape from Mae Brussell's Dialogue: Conspiracy on prisoners, Sirhan Sirhan


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 October 27, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Sun Moon; Coffee grounds # 1, Fat Black Pussycat


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 1, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Watergate. Guests: Marshall Efron, Richard Elman


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 2, 12 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Silent Film Night: callers on various current events, filmmaker (Bill Mulkay?) in the studio, discussing racism, showing movies in the studio with Bob narrating for listeners


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 4, 3 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mae Brussell


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 7, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Rap on change of WNCN; Bob and callers discuss the public's view of animal rights vs. the rights of Vietnamese people, free enterprise vs. freedom, "minority programming" on radio


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 9, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Moody Blues mix


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 10, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls on Judaism, the Palestinian refugees, and blowing noses in flags; Ken McLaren


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 11, 4 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phillipine protesters taking calls. Lindsay Audin, Charlotte Moorman, and others on phone; Charlotte Moorman talks about Avant Garde Fest with Bob and callers


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 November 23, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mimi And Dick Fariña discuss the correct pronunciation of "Fariña" with Bob Fass


Beyond the Unnameable, 1974 or 1975, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A female caller from the WNCN Listeners Guild recounts the group's petition to the FCC to regain WNCN's license to air from William F. Buckley, the apparent owner of frequency 104.3. Classical station WNCN has become rock station WQIV, which Bob predicts will be a flop. The caller speaks about WNCN, 'serious music," and its listeners. Other callers are also on the line throughout


Beyond the Unnameable, 1976 December 21, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob plays Timothy Leary's Zeitcraft(?). Abbie Hoffman visits, talking about arrest, trial for contempt, as well as cocaine trade and racist drug laws


Subseries II.2: Night Into Day, 1966-1972


Night Into Day, circa 1966-1972, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Thomas P. Hoving, former Commissioner of Parks


Night Into Day, circa 1966-1972, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Conversations with Lord Rosti


Night Into Day, 1966 September 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Rebroadcast of Radio Unnameable from previous week, with guest Israel Young and live performance by Lou Killen


Night Into Day, 1966 October 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Conversations with Lord Rosti


Night Into Day, 1966 November 06, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Lord Rosti


Night Into Day, 1967 February 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Rebroadcast of program with Jeremy Steig and Adrian Guillory


Night Into Day, 1967 December 21, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Felix Greene, producer of North Vietnam, interview and phone call


Night Into Day, 1968 March 3, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jerry Jeff Walker, David Bromberg


Night Into Day, 1968 June 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guests Agustín Lira, Danny Valdez, and Doug Riffie of Teatro Campesino perform music and discuss the agricultural labor movement with Bob


Night Into Day, 1968 July 18, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Sanjac of Novipazar


Night Into Day, 1968 September 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Paul Siebel ("Louise," "No Need to Explain"), David Bromberg, Keith Sykes ("Everybody's Talkin'"), David Santo


Night Into Day, 1968 September 29, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

David Bromberg, Sanjac of Novipazar


Night Into Day, 1968 November 28, 1968 December 05, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Incredible String Band and Jack Landron


Night Into Day, 1968 December 24, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Ron McLean (Abdullah)


Night Into Day, 1969 February 6, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Tiny Tim


Night Into Day, 1969 September 21, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Steve Barron


Night Into Day, 1969 October 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dave Bromberg, Lisa Trigg, Jerry Saper, Ali Hafit and Manny Dworman


Night Into Day, 1969 November 9, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

David Amram and Jeremy Steig


Night Into Day, 1969 November 9, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Night Into Day, 1970 February 1, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

David Bromberg and Steve Burgh


Night into Day, 1970 April 10, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Supports of Holding Together Fund, raising money for Timonthy Leary. From Radio Unnameable


Night Into Day, 1970 May 17, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Night Into Day, 1970 May 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Rosemary Leary


Night Into Day, 1970 May 31, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Marshall Efron and Madeline Kahn


Night Into Day, 1970 July 29, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Night Into Day, 1970 July 29, 1970 August 2, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Rev. Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick


Night into Day, 1970 August 1, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Steve Baron live in studio


Night Into Day, 1970 October 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Europe Peace Pipe Ceremony, Henry and Leonard Crowdog, Sioux Indians from Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota


Night Into Day, 1970 November 8, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Hog Farm and Wavy Gravy's travels


Night Into Day, 1970 November 13, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Revolting Theater, Tuli Kupferberg, Lannes Kenfield


Night Into Day, 1970 November 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Hog Farm and Wavy Gravy's travels


Night Into Day, 1970 November 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Hog Farm and Wavy Gravy's travels: Woodstock Festival


Night into Day, 1970 December 11, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dave Bromberg, Bobby Thomas, Pam Ostergren. From Radio Unnameable


Night Into Day, 1970 December 13, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Wavy Gravy


Night into Day, 1971 June 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dick Gregory, Wavy Gravy, Back from India


Night Into Day, 1971 July 1, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Keith Lampe and anonymous New York Times staff member


Night Into Day, 1971 July 25, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

David Suttler, author of "IV-F : a guide to medical, psychiatric, and moral unfitness standards for military induction


Night Into Day, 1971 September 5, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Vin Scelsa in the studio, discusses playlists at WPLJ, radio ratings, being fired from WPLJ and crackdowns from the FCC, the future and nature of freeform radio


Night Into Day, 1971 September 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone call from a woman who identifies herself as the window of an inmate killed in Attica State Prison on September 13


Night Into Day, 1971 September 30, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Marshall Efron, Dr. B. "Bats" Heyman, Dave Amram, and A. J. Weberman


Night Into Day, 1971 October 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Townes Van Zandt; 'Night Into Day' rebroadcast of 'Radio Unnameable'; Rebroadcast date of 1972 November 14


Night Into Day, 1971 October 31, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guests Lenni Sinclair, Garland Jeffreys, and Alan Freeman


Night Into Day, 1971 November 7, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

American psychedelic folk band Pearls Before Swine plays live in studio; "Snow Queen," "When the War Began," "Margery," "Butterfly," and various other songs


Night Into Day, 1972 January 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Staff of the New York Ace, a recently founded underground newspaper, vs. New York Times reporter Mark Perlgut; music of Larry Estridge


Night Into Day, 1972 January 25, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig, Colin Wolcott, Dave Johnson, Ralph Towner, Glen Moore, Carmen Halburian


Night Into Day, 1972 February 13, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Frederick Rzewski, Steve Ben Israel, and Judd Yalcott


Night into Day, 1972 April 2, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Indian music. Selected from Radio Unnameable, March 1972


Night Into Day, 1972 April 9, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jephtha side 5, phone calls


Night Into Day, 1972 April 30, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls for and against the Vietnam War and the Columbia University demonstrations


Night into Day, 1972 May 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dave Amram


Night Into Day, 1972 June 20, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig


Night Into Day, 1972 July or August 31, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Abbie Hoffman and American prisoners of war in Hanoi endorse McGovern, Marshall Efron gives advice about influencing people, and Al Bell of YIPL warns about how the phone company influences people


Night into Day, 1972 July 4, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Sherlene Mitchell, Rob Baker of the Committee to Free Political Prisoners. Talk with Rob Crocker about Angela Davis


Night Into Day, 1972 August 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie Chin, Maribeth Soloman, Bill Stevenson, Don Brooks, David Amram


Subseries II.3: Bob Fass show, circa 1965-1990


Bob Fass Aircheck, circa 1965-1990

Bob asks listeners trivia about a line from a radio program. Various folk, gospel, and bluegrass songs play, as well as comedy sketch, "One Leg Too Few"


Bob Fass Aircheck, circa 1965-1990

First 9:30 is an eerie but soothing humming sound, perhaps supposed to be used for meditation. "My Dream of the Big Parade" plays. Ron Kovic discusses veterans' affairs in New York City during Mayor Beame's administration (1974-1977).


Bob Fass Aircheck, circa 1965-1990

with Insanities


Bob Fass Show, circa 1965-1990

About Lyn Samuels


Bob Fass Show, 1966 June 28

Martin Lee, Bruce Stein, Steve Ben Israel


Bob Fass Show, 1966 September 1

Take me right back to the track jack,"Cactus," and "Hang me" song


Bob Fass Show, 1973 April 21, 1985 December 15

Includes a rebroadcast of WBAI Free Music Store (hosted by Steve Rathe) featuring a live concert of Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk, Patrick Sky. Phil Ochs is then live in the studio with Bob Fass.


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1973 December 21

Fass Aircheck


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1973 December 28

Mae Brussell phone call


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 January 4

Bob takes calls, talking about mental health and resources for people with mental illness


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 February 1

Bob Fass Aircheck


Bob Fass Aircheck, circa March 1974

Ron Kovic of AVM talks with listeners


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 March 16

Ron Kovic of AVM talks to callers about the Army


Bob Fass Show, 1974 March 20

Phone calls and recorded music


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 April 3

Pandit Roy, Michell Reisman


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 April 12

A woman (Melody Moore) sings an unknown political song. Discordant jazz music plays. A Senate hearing about John Dean and Watergate plays


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 April 17

A group of callers' conversation about Abbie Hoffman turns to personal insults. Bob interrupts by playing comedy sketch "The Hexorcist" (William Peter Blatty makes deal with the Devil) before phone conversation briefly resumes. "Go Tell the People" by Dr. John plays. Week of April 13, 1974: Lindsay Audin in the studio reports news, mostly related to Nixon and government conspiracies. Tells of SUNY Purchase students' plan to visit Pepsi headquarters and CEO Ron Kendall on May Day. Bob closes show over unidentified psychedelic-rock song. Sound effect of eating chocolate chip cookies is played


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 June 21

Caller talks about WBAI's cutbacks and openly doubts and criticizes WBAI's ability to use their fundraiser money wisely; other callers call in with words of support for the station's decision to make cutbacks


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 August 21

Phone calls and Living Theatre segments


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1974 August 22


Bob Fass Show, 1986 February 8


Bob Fass Show, 1986 February 8


Bob Fass Show, 1986 February 15

Abbie Hoffman, Lord Rosti, Skip La Plante, Laramie, Breslin


Bob Fass Aircheck, 1986 February 22


Bob Fass Show, 1986 March 22


Bob Fass Show, 1986 April 26


Bob Fass Show, 1986 April 26

Brother Theodor, Susan Billing


Bob Fass Show, 1986 May 3

Frank the carpenter


Bob Fass Show, 1986 May 30


Bob Fass Show, 1986 June 14


Bob Fass Show, 1986 June 21


Bob Fass Show, 1986 June 21

Nuke free harbor


Bob Fass Show, 1986 July 5


Bob Fass Show, 1986 September 27

Maureen Sullivan, Mark Litwak


Bob Fass Show, 1986 October 11

Diego Rivera mural, Jeremy Steig, Judith Malina


Bob Fass Show, 1986 October 25


Bob Fass Show, 1986 October 25

Great Peace March


Bob Fass Show, 1986 November 1

Shanti Darnes, Ichbal Singh


Bob Fass Show, 1986 December 28

Howard Beach, Mike Feder talks about Texas Christmas


Bob Fass Show, 1987 July 4

Andrew Kaufman


Bob Fass Show, 1987 November 14

Jon Kalish interviews John Trudell


Bob Fass Show, 1988 February 13

Rzowski, live piano, Malachy McCourt, Steve Ben Israel


Bob Fass Show, 1990 February 2

Richard Hirsch, guest; phone calls


Subseries II.4: WFMU, circa 1980-1984


WFMU, circa 1980-1984, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, circa 1980-1984, 1 audiocassettes

Meditations, bell ringing, empty of sky, [illegible], eviction (of Rene Castillo), KKK call


WFMU, circa 1980-1984, 1 audiocassettes

Danny Kalb, Kathy, Bobby Johnson


WFMU, circa 1980-1984, 1 audiocassettes

Bob and Cathie's opinion


WFMU, circa 1980-1984, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, circa 1980, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Fass and Cathie Revland broadcasting from WFMU. Recorded music and phone calls discussing Abbie Hoffman and bipolar disorder. Comedy skit of Fass interviewing Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.


WFMU, 1980 December 13, 1 audiocassettes

Hostage return


WFMU, 1980 March 31, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 January 9, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 February 27, 1 audiocassettes

Cathie and Bob's opinion


WFMU, 1981 March 3, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 April 10, 1 audiocassettes

Abbie after sentence.


WFMU, 1981 May 25, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 July 31, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 July 31, 1 audiocassettes

Kathy and the News of the Week, Da Prince


WFMU, 1981 August 7, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 August 14, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 August 27, 1 audiocassettes

Abbie Hoffman on trial


WFMU, 1981 August 28, 1 audiocassettes

Clarence, mix, Betsey Montana


WFMU, 1981 September 4, 2 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 September 18, 1 audiocassettes

Bob and Cathie


WFMU, 1981 September 24, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 September 25, 1 audiocassettes

Bob and Cathie, Nixon tapes


WFMU, 1981 November 27, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 December 4, 1 audiocassettes

Bob and Cathie


WFMU, 1981 December 11, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1981 December 19, 1 audiocassettes

Terminal temporaries, equal time for Weathers, Hurricane Carter


WFMU, 1982 January 15, 1 audiocassettes

Segregation academies, Soldier of Fortune


WFMU, 1982 February 20, 1 audiocassettes

Siren


WFMU, 1982 February 28, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1982 March 7, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1982 March 14, 1 audiocassettes

Good Reagan song


WFMU, 1982 March 21, 1 audiocassettes

Cispes


WFMU, 1982 June 27, 2 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1982 August 1, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1982 August 8, 2 audiocassettes

Karen Dalton


WFMU, 1982 August 15, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1982 October 20, 1 audiocassettes


WFMU, 1984 October 24, 1 audiocassettes

Night of The Fugs


Subseries II.5: Radio show unidentified, 1963-2006, undated


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1963, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Live performance of bouzouki music plays. The year is 1963. "My Baby," a Greek bouzouki song plays. More unknown Greek music plays. "The Adventure of the Lone Ranger and the Booneville Gold" plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1963, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Tom Whitmore is in the studio with Fass. "The Wonderful City" by Jimmie Rodgers and Sara Carter plays. "Mississippi Sawyer" by J.E. Mainer's Mountaineers plays. "Statesboro Blues" plays. "Good Morning Mr. Railroad Man" plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1963, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1964 September 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guitarist guest talks about sitars


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1965 March 04, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick phone call


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Interview with Velvel Pasternak, Chassidic music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966 January 05, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jim and Jean


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966 January 19, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966 February 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig, Moe Adrian, D. Hoagle (Sculptors).


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966 March 25, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A caller with depression speaks about his fears and his need to speak with somebody about them. Vietnam Parade Committee interview


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1966 April, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Peter Stampfel


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966 June 05, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Monty Dunn, Peter Walker, Jerry Burnham, David Schiffman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1966 July 12, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Joe Hunt on drums, Eddie Gomez on bass, and Jeremy Steig on flute.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967, 1984 January 15, 1 audiocassettes

Julius Lester and Paul Krassner in 1967.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 January 11, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 February 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 February 17, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

(Begins with rest of Leary mix)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 March 17, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 April 01, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone call from Brooklyn, Last Exit


Sound Picture of a Yippie Meeting of a Demonstration / Negotiation, 1967 April 11, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Snippets of field recordings at demonstrations (esp. 1967 Central Park Be-In). Fass narrates as host and identifies WBAI as broadcaster.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 May 08, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Sweep-In


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 May 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

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


Last 7 minutes of Mayday '67 Marathon, 1967 June 2, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 November 14, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 November 20, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Wavy Gravy, guest. Fass plays a tape of "om" chanting by Allen Ginsberg and Rosemary Leary


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 December 04, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Whitehall Clarke-Rubin


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1967 December 21, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Felix Grene interview


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1968, 1972, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Talks about public screening of home movies; Brother Marsh; guest named "Eugene McBird," claiming to be former presidential candidate; music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1968, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Charlie O'Hegarty live in studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1968 May 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Billy Bob and Reverend Scotty Johnson


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1968 July 13, 1973 February 20, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls received in late May 1968 from users of hard drugs; Jody Stecher, guest


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1968 October 07, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Abbie Hoffman is a guest on the program. Hoffman mentions Jose Feliciano sang the National Anthem at the World Series game that day, so the date is probably October 7, 1968. "Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones plays. Hoffman discusses the Cox Commission Report about the Columbia University protests of 1968.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1968 October 10-1973 January 23, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Steve Ben Israel and Mary from the Living Theatre


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1968 December 11, 1972 December 05, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Hugh Romney and Jeremy Steig, guests


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1969, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Paul McCartney is dead


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1969 January 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dave Bromberg, David Nichtern, Jon Sholle, Terry Flynn, and Marshall Efron, guests


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1969 April 12, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

An episode of "Super Spade" plays. Skip James is in the studio playing folk/blues music, including "Devil's Blues."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1969 August 10, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig and Eddie Gomez.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Discussion with Mae Brussell. Theories about Nelson Rockefeller-CIA connection, Howard Hughes' political contributions, Warren Report and JFK assassination.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass and Mae Brussell discuss Brussell's desire for public officials to pursue assassination leads suggested by private investigators. "Rehearsals for Retirement" by Phil Ochs plays


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1970s-1980s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers talk about their experiences as black women in both feminist and black liberation movements, as well as the feminist separatist movement.


Anita Hoffman phone calls on the Chicago 7 trial, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Compilation of calls from a woman (believed to be Anita Hoffman) about Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago 7's trial, the Chicago 7's living conditions in jail, and the Panther 21.


The Chicago Conspiracy: Now that the Contempt Trial is Over, circa 1970, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1970 July 06, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

First Hour


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1970 September 01, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1970 September 01, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1970 October 25, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Donald Duncan, former Green Beret


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Call-ins discuss Attica Prison riot, prison system.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 March 02, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Gorman, rap re: Vietnam, phone calls


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 March 19, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recording of "May You Never Be Alone Like Me" Hank Williams, and another song, recording of singing and flute music from the dome of the Taj Mahal, recording of "Jesus Will Fix It Alright"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 April 9, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Day in the Life" The Beatles, "Day of Silence" Pete Townshend, man describes spiritual master "Baba" Ram Dass, "Mary Jane" Pete Townshend, "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" the Beatles, "It's Getting Better All the Time" by The Beatles plays on top of "Come On In My Kitchen" by Robert Johnson, "Love Minus Zero" by Bob Dylan, unidentified song, "The Circle Is Unbroken" The Incredible String Band, unidentified instrumental music.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 April 14, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Caller, a cab driver, talks about his experience at the Manhattan Center union meeting and his confrontation with Harry van Arsdale, the labor and community leader


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 April 14, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Reproductive rights pioneer Bill Baird, guest, talks with Bob about his upcoming Supreme Court Case after being jailed for his actions at a lecture he gave at Boston University on April 6, 1967


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 May 07, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Carly Simon and musicians. WBAI Marathon.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 July 11, December 19, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bill Williams live in the studio, performing and speaking with Bob Fass and Woody Mann in advance of Williams' appearance at the Folkore Center


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 July 20, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Calls about Johnny Got His Gun, Ron Wolin


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 August 6, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guests discuss arrest of Dana Beal for drug possession


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 September 12, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Steve Ben Israel and Bob discuss The Night of the Living Dead and the Roberta Flack concert in Central Park


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 October 20, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Marshall Efron


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1971 December 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls about being fired for turning down a Christmas bonus, planning to trash company which laid caller off, an "anti-drug" put-on, a "monk" commenting on "anti-drug" call, and a letter from Captain Trash


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 January 30, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Stew Alpert, Judy Miller, and Kathy Streem discuss the San Diego convention and the music of Larry Estridge.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 February 2, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

David Bromberg and the Flying Torpedoes.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 March 11, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Tony Lucas, Jeff Greenfield, Ed Goodman, Peter Weiss, and Paul Gorman on WBAI court call


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 March 13, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Keith Lampe, Mae Brussell, Paul Krassner, Malachy McCourt


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 March 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Paul Gorman; double dactyls; Fass reads


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 March 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeff Gordon voice, piano, guitar; discussion of "elite"; calls about "puppet parade" and Appleseed Italy demonstration


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 May 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Loudon Wainwright III and George Gerdes perform live; Fass is heard, identifying this as a WBAI broadcast


Unidentified WBAI radio show, 1972 July 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Discussion on gay rights movement starting in the 1960s and gender identities; WBAI callsign is given.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 July 25, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phoebe Laub, guitar, voice; Bob discusses public baths


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 August 04, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls about awful commercials


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 August 08, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

John Wilcox


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 September 19, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Doris Abrahams and Guy Phillips


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1972 November 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973, 1 audiocassettes

Brian Ferry


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973 April 07, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Melody


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973 April 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Aircheck, phone conversation with Mae Brussell 2


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973 November 08, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Abbie Hoffman and Mark Feffer


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973 November 15, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Barbara Dane and callers


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973 November 17, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Tim Leary movie


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1973 December 21, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Aircheck/Daniel Music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1974, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Shirley Temple sings "Come and Get your Happiness", The Fat City High School Fight Song, "Bip Bop" by Paul McCartney and the Wings, "Company Way" from How to Succeed in Business. Woman calls in talks about happiness in jobs. Man talks about paranoia. They discuss Ford's wife's mastectomy. Fass complains about taxes. Ends with 20 year old man dying of leukemia.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass proposes that callers try to call in music that might work with the music being played and performed at the studio.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 January 18, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mental Patients Liberation Projects


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 January 19, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Melody Moore and Larry Kramer. Melody reads from her book (Damnation), Larry (on the Mainline)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 January 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mental hospitals, J. Ruby, De Freen, Panthers


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 February 05, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A. Selvin, Watergate


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 April 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Calls from listeners and Mae Brussell.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 June 29, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guests: Mayer Vishner and Raun MacKinnon. Phone calls, including from Mike Goodell - Will Lewis report. Bob reads from New York Times report of mystery of intelligence chief's body.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 July 06, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Song about Earl Durand, "Rocky Racoon" The Beatles, "Rocky Racoon" covered by unknown band, speech for the resignation of President of Yale Kingman Brewster, "Buzzin' Fly" Tim Buckley, 1936 Dodge ad, comedic ad for a housing development, sounds of the ocean, "Dames at Sea", "Sing This All Together" Rolling Stones, folk song "I love my Lula Bell", sketch about a barber shop


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 July 12, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Aircheck I: Bright Lights


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 August 14, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guests are members of the band Bright Lights: Michael Simmons (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Chuck Goldberg (harmony vocals). They perform live: "Long Black Veil," "As I Walk By the Moon," "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You," "Wine Do Yer Stuff," "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun," "Sin City," "Crazy Arms," and original goodbye song ('Faculty Flunky'?). Promote band's upcoming shows with Bob. Beginning of "Awaiting On You All" by George Harrison.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 August 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Larry Estridge and Sugar Blue, guests


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 August 16, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Larry Estridge and Sugar Blue, guests


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 September 20, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1974 October 27, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1975, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Too Much of Nothing, "Tiny Montgomery," and "I Shall Be Released" by Bob Dylan play. Fass and callers discuss prison, Rikers Island, a hostage situation on Rikers Island (believed to be the November 24, 1975 Rikers Island riot), Muslim prisoners, and racial tensions in prisons.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1975, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Flo Kennedy, guest. She and a caller discuss corruption, Assata Shakur, and a bombing at Fraunces Tavern (allegedly by Puerto Ricans).


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 January 03, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Discussion of voting, Jacob Javits, unions, and the "S1 bill," believed to be the NY State Senate Bill S1. A caller reads an excerpt from "Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 January 3, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob talks about the Yippies and Abbie Hoffman, their coverage in the media, and views on Communism. A self-identified racist calls.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 January 10, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass and guests discuss an article about poverty/welfare in white communities.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 January 10, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

#2: Fass in studio with guest taking callers, pitching, gives WBAI callsign; guest and caller talk about Clark Mollenhoff (journalist); Mae Brussell mentioned by guest and Fass


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 January 12, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

Fass on the air at a radio station, presumably WBAI.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 January 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Flo Kennedy with Mae Brussell on phone


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 February 3, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob reads an essay about the assassination of JFK; takes calls from Mr. Cheery(?) and Paul (Gorman?) about coverups and the news


End of the war celebration, 1975 May 11, 1 audiocassettes

WBAI coverage of Central Park rally at the end of the Vietnam War, featuring performances from Patti Smith, Joan Baez, The Human Condition, Phil Ochs, Paul Simon, Ritchie Havens and others.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 June 01, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Charlie Brown sings the Ballad of Earl Durand; caller reads articles about Earl Durand in 1930s magazines


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1975 December 12, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jack Elliott call with Bob Neuwirth and Joni Mitchell; [Tuli Kupferberg?], Ratso Sloman, Morita, and Geraldine Smith are with Bob in the studio. Rolling Thunder tour.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1976 January 24, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jazz music by Ken Simon and Wade Barns plays. "Looking for the Right One" plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1976 February 01, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1976 February 02, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Spoof commentary on music and absurdist renditions, including a mash-up of Neil Young songs. Followed by requisite Dylan. Carole Kings finishes this up


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1976 March 14, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Blues music, possibly live in studio; improvisational skat and big band jazz and back to blues.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1976 July 06, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

News report on 1974 jailing of KPFK reporter Will Lewis, Marshall Efron and Paul Krassner segment "Neutrino News Network", Bob Dylan and jazz plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1976 November, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Call-ins about various topics. Discussion about abortion, birth control, and the Kent State shooting. Mention of Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, Jimmy Carter, and Peter Camejo. Various unidentified songs played. Segment seems to take place shortly after the 1976 Presidential election.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1977 February 11, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1977 March 11, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Pattie Hearst, Colston Westbrook


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1978 September 30, 1 audiocassettes

Recorded music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1979 August 28, 1 audiocassettes

Melody Moore


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1979 November 11, 1 audiocassettes

Smoke


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1980s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob promotes a fundraiser for the Abbie Hoffman Defense Fund at the Village Gate, which is ongoing at the time. Clips of singing in Hebrew (?). Danny Kalb speaking clips, Kinky Friedman performs "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1980 May 01, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Florence Mophosho, Anti-Apartheid Seminar, Montreal


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1980 December 08, 1 audiocassettes


Yoko Ono interview, after 1980, 1 audiocassettes

Partial recording of Bob Fass and an unidentified woman (Cathie Revland?) interviewing Yoko Ono.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 March 27, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 March 30, 1 audiocassettes

Recorded music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 July 31, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 August 01, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 August 21, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 August 21, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 August 28, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 September 11, 1 audiocassettes

Amalie, "The Dark;" Bob and Cathie


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1981 September 11, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982, 1 audiocassettes

Pitching


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 February 21, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 March 14, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 March 28, 1 audiocassettes

Calls about Reagan as the Beast


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 March 28, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 April 11, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 April 19, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 May 18, 1 audiocassettes

Steve Ben Israel


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 June 22, 1 audiocassettes

Father's Day


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 August 01, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 August 01, 1 audiocassettes

FBI file. Also Nick Van Hoffman, homeless, David Ackles, Jack Harry


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 August 15, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 October 13, 1 audiocassettes

Paul Krassner, Steve Ben Israel


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 October 20, 1 audiocassettes

John Stanley


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 November 17, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 November 24, 1 audiocassettes

Cathy reads Star Hotel


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1982 December 09, 1 audiocassettes

Yoko Ono Aircheck. Rough edit


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983, 1 audiocassettes

Pitching, D[?] Vance


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983, 1 audiocassettes

Pitching, Muddy Waters


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983, 1 audiocassettes

Father's Day


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983, 1 audiocassettes

Morton Stavis about McSlurdee


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 January 25, 1 audiocassettes

Yoko Ono, Surrender to Peace


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 February 22, 1 audiocassettes

Steve Ben Israel


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 March 16, 1 audiocassettes

Andy Krents and Abe Camhy


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 March 29, 1 audiocassettes

Nicaragua


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 April 12, 1 audiocassettes

Tuli Kupferberg, circumcision, Washington vs. Epton


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 April 12-13, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 April 12-13, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 April 19, 1 audiocassettes

Excerpts


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 April 26, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 May 17, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 May 24, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 May 30, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 June 07, 1 audiocassettes

Ballentine, planning


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 June 29, 1 audiocassettes

David Amram, Pete Bowen, Thunderbird [?], Steve Ben Israel sings


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 July 18, 1 audiocassettes

Rod MacDonald


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 August 20, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 September 20, 1 audiocassettes

Pitching


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 October 24, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 November 01, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 November 13, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 November 23, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 December 07, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1983 December 13, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 January 04, 1 audiocassettes

Rod MacDonald, ACLU


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 January 26, 1 audiocassettes

Living Theatre


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 February 08, 1 audiocassettes

Phone


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 March 07, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 March 07, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 June 20, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 June 26, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 July 25, 1 audiocassettes

Steve Ben Israel's blind date


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 August 14, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 10, 1 audiocassettes

Transit cop calls


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 10, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 10, 1 audiocassettes

Rip Torn's Richard III, Bill's tape, Breslin talking about soup kitchen, David Eisenhower, homelessness, gun control, Reagan, Mondale, John Stanley


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 17, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 17, 1 audiocassettes

File 1, 12:13: Fass states, "I've been playing excerpts [..] from a series that's gonna be on the Today show this week about cobalt, the latest of the bad-news products polluting the workplace." 14:22, "This is WBAI in New York" followed by recorded rock music. File 2: recorded folk, rock, and jazz, including Jeremy Steig and David Amram, 1968.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 17, 1 audiocassettes

Part 3 file 1, 15:40: Fass states "I think to save myself the trouble of getting on the air between every song and saying, Ellen McIlwaine, that's who it is." Ellen McIlwaine live in studio, performing songs and talking with Bob. Recorded music in between takes.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 October 24, 1 audiocassettes

The Fugs


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 November 01, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1984 November 07, 1 audiocassettes

Post-Election '84: Larry Estridge, Corey, Ohio Killing Fields, Paul, Aaron


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1985 January 30, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1985 June 30, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1985 October 22, 1 audiocassettes

Melanie


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1985 November 02, 1 audiocassettes

Tom Daluca


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1985 November 23, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1985 December 28, 1 audiocassettes

Tuli Kupferberg


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Interview with Bob Dylan (calling in), Robert Knight and Steve Ben Israel also in the studio on air, listeners call in to ask Bob Dylan questions, ends by playing a recording of Dylan's "Rainy Day Woman #12 & 35.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986 April 6, 1 audiocassettes

Egginks: David, Daniel, Abigail. Life in Welfare Hotel, open phones, David sings.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986 May 03, 1 audiocassettes

Marilyn Sokol, phone calls, jokes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986 May 21, 1 audiocassettes

WBAI "Phone Interview" with Bob Fass and Bob Dylan


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986 May 23, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dr. Ruth, guest, in the studio. Fass promotes the station, last few lyrics of "San Francisco Bay Blues", Dr. Ruth takes calls, an unknown man tells Fass about his adventures in Nicaragua, "Ramblin' Boy" by Tom Praxton, cassette player breaks, "Clean Cut Kid" by Bob Dylan, interview with Jimmy Breslin about Parking Violations Bureau scandal.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986 September 13, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1986 October 01, 1 audiocassettes

Elaine de Beauport


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1987, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Wavy Gravy, Marshall Efron, Steve Ben Israel, Steve Cohen, Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1987-1988, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Jay Stevens and other guests discuss Stevens' book Storming heaven, and the use of LSD in American counterculture


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1987 April 11, 1 audiocassettes

Barbara Contardi


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1987 June 06, 1 audiocassettes

Lichtenstein offer, Mark Greenberg; William Kunstler


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1987 September 19-October 4, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Jonathan Silvers and Janet Restino on the book Steal this urine test, cowritten with Abbie Hoffman; Rod McDonald


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1987 October 12, 1 audiocassettes

Conversation between Mark and Melody (Mark's message to Bob Fass), plus Jerusalem Blues Band


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1987 October 31, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1987 November 14, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

WBAI studio broadcasting


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Frank Morales speaks of Tompkins Square squatters, police suppression at the park, and housing activism; Buzzy Linhart performs live in studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

John from WBAI Listeners Action on Homelessness and Housing and Professor Louie live in studio; Discussion of homelessness in New York


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Jerome Washington, guest, speaking about slave literature and prison literature in the United States


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1988 February, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with housing activist Oscar Castro


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Kinky Friedman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 January 8, 16, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Terry Noble and callers on Arab-Israeli conflict


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 March 07, 1 audiocassettes

Jewish and other concerned artists on protesting


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 March 26, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Deborah Snow


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 April 26, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Dave Van Ronk


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 June 11, 1 audiocassettes

Peace Rally, Deborah Snow


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 June 18, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with guests from Protean Forms Collective performing satirical radio play


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 July 09, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with two urban homesteaders from the South Bronx [possibly from Casa del Sol, East 136th Street]; they discuss attempts to kick them out of their building despite being involved in the NYC Sweat Equity program


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 August 05, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Mingus Mingus


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 August 06, 1 audiocassettes

Pre-Tompkins Square


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 August 6, 13, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob visits Paul Krassner at Wally's: footage of Bob hosting show in WBAI studio, guests including John Penley, with home movies intercut, including footage of Fass, Paul Krassner, and others inside a home


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 August 19, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

In Studio A, WBAI


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 September 11, 18, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob in WBAI Studio speaking with members of Squat Theatre. Bob proposes doing a scene, Bob pitches, Steve Cohen is there, Marci arrives after Cindy's wedding, Lynne is there. Bob talks about his mathophobia due to his accountant father's nudging, people confusing Abbie Hoffman with Jerry Rubin, and the famous Wall Street/dollar bills story. Tape of Tally Room. Bob talks about David Susskind and Herbert Huncke


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 September 17, 1 audiocassettes

Marathon, Barbara Garson (MacBird), Writers' Union


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 October 01, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 October 11, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady live with Marlowe; call from R. Danko


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 October 24, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with musician Peter Walker


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 November 12, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Wavy Gravy in WBAI studio with Fass


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 November 16, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 November 19, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with poet Sal Salasin


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1988 December 25, 1 audiocassettes

Homelessness


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, before 1989, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Abbie Hoffman is in the studio speaking with the owners of a private school in Mount Tremper, Morty and Susan Carey. They discuss alternative systems of education where the children are given a lot of control over how the school operates.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, before 1989, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Morning Song to Sally, "Mr. Bojangles," "Broken Toys," "I Keep Changin'," and "I Make Money (Money Don't Make Me)," by Jerry Jeff Walker plays. Jerry Jeff Walker reads a poem called "Insults and Apologies to a Seagull." Abbie Hoffman tells listeners to come to a meeting the next morning.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, before 1989, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Abbie Hoffman calls in and helps Fass sell WBAI subscriptions


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1989, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob Fass and Abbie Hoffman on the air at WBAI, talking about drug policy.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989, 1 audiocassettes

By B. T. with A. H


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 January 07, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Pitching in the studio at WBAI


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 January 7-8, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 February 11, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 February 11, 1 audiocassettes

John Penley talks about demonstration


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1989 April, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass and callers discuss the Columbia student protests and alternative sources of electricity (steam, hydro, nuclear). Most of this show is a eulogy of sorts for Abbie Hoffman, who had recently died (placing this recording sometime around April 1989). Fass reads from Hoffman's book "Revolution for the Hell of It" snd plays one of Hoffman's final recordings on Radio Unnameable.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 April 01, 1 audiocassettes

Abby Smith


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 April 07, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

The Accountant, Paul Robeson's birthday


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 April 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Steve Ben Israel, Tuli Kupferberg, David, WPAX, Poet


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 April 29, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Two lawyers discuss Red File, implications, and what to do. Guests are Anne Marie [Botrago?], FOIA (Fund for Open Information and Accountability) and Franklin Siegel, COPS (Committee Opposed to Police Spying)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 May 06, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Marathon: caller talks about Rainbow Family picnic in Central Park and other Rainbow Family events


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 May 30, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Footage of Abbie Hoffman memorial, then footage of Hoffman in WBAI studio with Fass


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 June 03, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

China, Nat Finkelstein, Judith Malina, Steve Cohen, Bill Propp, Sam Fass, Hanon Reznikov; The Living Theatre


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 June 24, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob Fass, Frank Morales, Flash of the East Village Shadow, Andy Krents, Charles Patterson, Linda Twigg, and poet Martin Matz on the air at WBAI


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 June 24-25, July 1, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with activists, poets,artists, and squatters of Tompkins Square Park area


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 June 30, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 July 01, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Quentin Crisp and Peter Orlovsky


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 July 19, 1 audiocassettes

Tompkins Square Park and homelessness


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 July 21, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob Fass and Seth Farber on the air at WBAI


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 July 25, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Fass interviews Jim Carroll


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 September 26, 1 audiocassettes

Andy Krents and Abe Camhy


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 October 28, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass takes callers, plays music; Stanley Cohen live in studio; general topic of squatters and abandoned buildings, particularly in Lower East Side and near Tompkins Square Park


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1989 November 03, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990, 1 audiocassettes

David M. Knapp


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 February 03, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Sidney takes us up in elevator, Dorothy and Bill are there, Pussifica is the greeter, the Reagans speak out on drugs, Cliff Roth tape, Bob says 279-3400, Moogy Klingman arrives; homegrower lobbyist "John Doe" in the WBAI studio with Bob; Michael Moran, Linda and Joseph; Dave Kelly of Missing Foundation in the studio, discussing squats on Lower East Side; Steve performs Phil Ochs songs


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 February 16, 1 audiocassettes

VKR call, Finger, Moon Water, JFF Music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 April 09, 1 audiocassettes

Discussions on Dinkins


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 April 21, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Stanley Cohen, Wobbly Chorus from Living Theatre's Body of God, Butch Johnson jazz ensemble live in WBAI studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 April 27, 1 audiocassettes

Beyond the Interim


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 April 29, 1 audiocassettes

Exavier Wardlaw Muhammad and actors give a live reading in the WBAI studio of Wardlaw's play The human mouse, currently in performances at Theatre for the New City; Bob hosts and discuss the Tompkins Square Squatters' Mayday festival with them


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 May 25, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Dylan's 49th Birthday


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 September 22, 1 audiocassettes

Squat discussions, rap about carnival barker


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 October 21, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

A. J. Weberman: Dylanology, garbology; Larry Estridge


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 October 30, 1 audiocassettes

Larry Davis story, Hanon Reznikov talks about dog


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 November 02, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Exavier Wardlaw, Curt, Roger Manning


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1990 November 23, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Frank Morales and live music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1991, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Tuli Kupferberg, guest


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1991 May 11, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1991 August 17, 1 audiocassettes

Peter Jamieson with Sam Levin


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1991 December 06, 1 audiocassettes

Marilyn's detainment


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1991 December 22, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Footage of Fass and guests Chico Freeman, Lech Kowalski, Moogy Klingman, Joe Homeless, Irwin Corey after housing rights demonstration


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1992 January 31, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Fass 6 Hour Special


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1992 March 08, 1 audiocassettes

Daniel Berrigan


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1992 July 01, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Dylan imitators, Don't Shoot the Dog, phone conversations


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1992 July 11, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Socrates, Bob's college friend


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1992 July 18, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob talks with Fran Luck, housing activist, and with tenants about to be evicted from HPD-owned properties, especially in Harlem and the South Bronx


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1993 January 16, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Bob Fass interviews Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1993 January 23, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1993 November 13, 1 audiocassettes

Telephone conference with 8 medical researchers on AIDS


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1994 October, 1 audiocassettes

Bernard White


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1995 March 30, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Wavy Gravy, Robert Lederman; callers on harassment of street artists in New York


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1995 July 06, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Frank Christian and Nancy Cohen; evictions of squatters in New York


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1995 November 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 1996, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Paul Krassner in WBAI studio with Bob Fass


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1996 March 1, 10-11, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Start-00:56:45: Bob Fass with a musician (Rosalie Sorrels), March 1, 1996. 00:56:46-01:00:39: footage of a building on fire, March 1, 1996. 01:00:40--01:06:01: headline and live news covering the building on fire in Manhattan, March 1, 1996--Metropolitan Career Building, northwest corner of 36th Street and 8th Avenue. 01:03:51- 01:25:07: discussion of old photos and cartoons, with Tuli Kupferberg, broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, undated. 01:25:07-end: 60 Minutes segment on Mousa Mohammed Abu Marzook and Hamas, undated (mid 1990s). Audio is slightly distorted towards the end and there are several black and white fuzzy screens in between segments.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1996 June 29, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob's birthday, Bill Ring


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1997 April 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

John Penley talks about his and Stanley Cohen's encounter with police over a free speech issue.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1997 June 20, 1 audiocassettes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1998 January 12, 1 audiocassettes

Ron McGee


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1998 January 19, 1 audiocassettes

Produced by Spyder Blue for Janis' birthday


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1998 March 26, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Mark Israel and Michael, live music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1999 January 22, 1 audiocassettes

Paul Krassner on the phone with Bob Fass, discussing impeachment, recollections about Anita Hoffman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1999 January 28, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 1999 February 05, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob Fass and guest Ben Katchor on the air at WBAI.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2000-2001, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

WBAI Crisis; Hanon Reznikov and another guest with Bob in the studio; Bob talks with colleagues about management problems at WBAI [possibly relating to lockouts and firings in December 2001]; long shot from car (upstate N.Y.?) while Bob talks about WBAI issues; footage of a meeting about the situation at WBAI, Pacifica


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2000 July 12, 1 audiocassettes

MPAA case against Emmanuel Goldstein


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2000 November 28, 1 audiocassettes

Marshall Efron, Bob Fass, and Moogy Klingman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2001 May 24, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Bob Dylan's 60th birthday special


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2002 August 23, 1 audiocassettes

Mary Lou Kortes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 2003, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

With Tuli Kupferberg and Thelma Blitz


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 2003 February 14, 1 audiocassettes

Valentine's Day: Bob takes callers on love, hate, and the military


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, circa 2004, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Fass in WBAI studio with David McReynolds, speaking about the latter's campaign for Senate; Heather Lev performs live


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2004 June 27, 1 audiocassettes

George Danrow


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, 2006 November 29, 1 audiocassettes

Larry Davis and Bob Fass


Bob Fass Aircheck, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob Fass Aircheck (music, planes taking off, heartbeats, etc)


Clips on the Grenadian Revolutions, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A series of clips related to the Grenadian Revolutions and the U.S.'s interference in the revolution. Speeches about a new Grenadian education system and the Grenadian election system


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass and callers discuss the responsiveness of the WNYC radio station, voting, taxpayer revolts, shutting down of NYC libraries, the FCC, and commercial radio stations. Ken McLaren is on the phone.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recording of three unidentifiable country/folk songs, recording of "If Not for You" by George Harrison, Bob asks for listener support and reads WBAI program announcements and a text book catalog, low quality recording of "All Along the Watchtower." He mentions that Peter Stampfel is gone now; possibly he was a guest in the studio earlier.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Guest Dick Davy playing live music, with some conversation with Bob.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Maybe I'm Amazed" by Paul McCartney plays. "Tangled Up in Blue" by Bob Dylan plays. "Stoned Soul Picnic" by Laura Nyro plays. "Chelsea Hotel #2" by Leonard Cohen plays. Jazz music plays. Phone calls.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Barry Kornfeld and Konrad Gersen (?) are in the studio playing acoustic songs and talking with Fass. They play "Railroad Bill with Friends," "High Society," "and Soldier's Drill." The guests and Fass discuss homosexuality, television, and infants.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Acoustic guitar music, French music, and "I Gave My Love A Candle" by Bonnie Raitt play. Call-ins about mental health/hospitals and Mental Patients Liberation Project fundraiser.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

David Amram Quintet is in the studio with Bob. They play the last movement of his "Triple Concerto for Woodwind, Brass, Jazz Quintets and Orchestra"; David promotes his new record, pitches WBAI subscriptions, and plays live.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Sitar music by Ravi Shankar and "The Threepenny Opera," by Bertolt Brecht.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A song about the story of creation in the Bible. A cover of "Ain't Necessarily So" plays. A report about the Scopes Monkey trial. "Sinner's Prayer" by Lightnin' Hopkins plays. "Oh When the Saints Go Marchin In" plays. A cover of the Beatles's "Help!" plays. A skit making fun of Christian revival healing missions plays. A song containing audio clips of the "1964 Goldwater Speech" plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Roaming In the Gloaming" by Harry Lauder plays. An Irish song plays. Parade/instrumental music plays. "I'll Take You Back To Italy" by Irving Berlin plays. The Edison Military Band plays "The Blue Ribbon March." "A Stein Song" by Richard Hovey plays. "Sweer Adeline" plays. "Under the Anheuser Bush" plays. "Just Plain Folks" by a woman believed to be Ada Jones plays. The Edison Concert Band plays a song.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob takes a few calls about Abbie Hoffman. "Simple Twist of Fate" by Bob Dylan plays. Recording of a child yelling "bye bye."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Musicians (including Peter Stampfel?) are in the studio. They play "Cajun Polka," "Silver Wings," "The Bottle Let Me Down," "Okie from Muskogee'/'Hippie From New York City," "It's Time For Lovin'" (original), and "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight." A recording of a Bob Dylan concert, likely 1974, plays. Songs performed are "Lay Lady Lay," "It Ain't Me Babe," "Ballad of a Thin Man." Unidentified song plays ('Ace of Diamonds'?).


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig and other jazz musicians playing experimental jazz music live in the studio.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A caller reads a poem/lyrics about pollution, religion, and drugs. Callers discuss drugs and Paul Krassner.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Sam Card, Pawn; Phone call, J. L


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Irwin Corey, Tom Foner


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Schnall, Truitt


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Aircheck, Charles Anthony Rivera


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Aircheck


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Lennon's FBI File


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Bob and Corey's tape


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Man tells Jewish folk story of justice in fictional "Chelm"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Justice in Chelm [?], Abbie Hoffman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Eyewitness


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass and guests from "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance" discuss the play and its reception


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass interviews members of a "mystery club" (purpose of club unknown). Fass tries to get members to buy WBAI subscriptions


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Collages, Muslim call to prayer, praise songs


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A woman discusses abortion and birth control in Cuba. She then reads "pro-abortion" poems


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Steve Forberg


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Rita tells about a Tasmanian circus


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Mystery caller


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Beatles music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Danny


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Eleanor Elizabeth Forman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Pitching


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

with guest Robert Cutler


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Male speaker with Ra[?] (his lady), their child is Rasheeda, "Happy Mother's Day"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Rebecca Finch, S. Workers Party


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 2 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Actors from the play "The Hostage," including Bill Christopher (?), Joe Mahar (?), Ian Thompson (?), England Hawkins (?), Dennis Tate (?), Elliot Kuger (?), and Kylie Rogalo (?) are in the studio discussing their play. They sing "What's The News" and "There's No Place Like Earth on the World" from the show.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Hell's Angels


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Lord Rosti


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

How can we achieve peace?; phone calls


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Farewell, Malachy


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Fass returns


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

After The Fugs left. Open phones, Frank Thompson, sun chant, New Wilderness Orchestra, Frank laments lost gallery on Cornelia Street


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Aircheck


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Sunday morning aircheck, Living Theatre


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Margot, Bob Fass, Ken Jenkins, Lex Hixon


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Phone calls


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob and unidentified man (probably Jake Holmes because of discussion of the song "Counterman," possibly Holmes's "Counterman's Lament" recorded as Allen & Grier) discuss art criticism, what makes a good review, the Vietnam War, and working in customer service. Signs off with a recording of "Counterman Song"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Paul Gorman fields calls; religion without authoriarianism; music after first 10 minutes of calls.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A theatre student's account of the events of the Kent State Massacre on May 4th, 1970, as well as the campus environment immediately preceding the shootings


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob interviews Steve (?) a folk singer from Wauwatosa, WI, who performs three songs live: "Mobile Line," a song about whales, and "The Gong of Zero"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Piano and Tabla music Michael Grisman (?) and Padal Roy(?) live, jazzy classical music plays


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig plays jazz on the flute, possibly live, for 17 minutes


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

An unknown soft rock/folk song plays


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Richard Elman, Isaac Meyer, Joan Paul, Belba Pastrach, etc., High Holidays program


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Man (Jerry Moore of Children of God?) covers "I Wish I Knew How It Felt To Be Free" by Nina Simone, "I Don't Want No Aggravation", "Excuse Me For Living" (not Bonnie Owens), "It's About Love" (not Jana Alarya)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn" by Lightnin' Hopkins plays. "That Crazy War" plays. A man reads a letter from a Vietnam War soldier to his brother talking about the importance of a high school diploma. Unknown folk songs play. Paul Krassner and Fass are in the studio. A comedy skit believed to be by Lenny Bruce plays


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass takes a call from a man who robs banks


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A man covers "Cup Of Coffee" by Johnny Cash and "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" by Arlo Guthrie


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

John Hardy by Leadbelly plays. Sitar music plays. "Que bonita bandera" plays. A skit about a blind date plays. A song about the Cuban revolution plays. The first (?) episode of "The Lone Ranger" radio program plays


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Fass and Cathy Revland, Rita, Larry Estridge


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

FBI, FOIA


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Excerpts from Abbie Hoffman, Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick; Pawn in Their Game


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Discussion of "Grogan"


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Rainbow Gathering remix, Aunt Emma, Jeremy, call from 70 year old who loves Cathy, Ginsberg Tribute


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Malachy McCourt


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Larry Estridge, Melody Moore reading from her book


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Various call-ins from listeners, recording of Willie Nelson's "Philadelphia Lawyer," New Age/classical Indian music.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob plays Don Imus record "Imus in the Morning: One Sacred Chicken to Go."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Music including Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower"; Patti Smith "Gloria"; Sammy Walker (live?): "The Ballad of Johnny Strozier," "Catcher in the Rye," "Tom Swilley," "Little New Jersey Town."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass plays a recording of a discussion with Abbie Hoffman about various political topics, globalism, socialism, communism, etc. He pitches WBAI subscriptions.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass plays a mix, including a cover of "Tambourine Man" by unknown artist, "California Dreaming" by unknown artist, "Ukelele Lady" by Arlo Guthrie, and a comedy skit.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass plays a mix, including experimental music by unidentified artist, "Hang On Stupid" by unidentified artist, "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" by Bob Dylan.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Various songs performed live in the studio by Ellen McIlwaine, including "Up From the Skies" by Jimi Hendrix, "Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith, "Underground River" by Ellen McIlwaine, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" by Kitty Wells, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King, and "Wade in the Water".


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Call-ins about how to create a radio station unregulated by the FCC and about hosting a commercial radio show. "I've Got a Little List," from Monty Python plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Female choral group Pennywhistlers singing traditional songs, mostly Russian folk songs, Bob speaking with Abbie Hoffman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Wavy Gravy, Marshall Efron and Jack Hardy


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

René Dubos responds to questions. He discusses existential topics. Jazz music plays, including "And I Love You So" by Perry Como


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recording of Champion Jack Dupree playing 'T.B. Blues'. Clip from The Lone Ranger


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"Working Class Woman" by Barbara Dane, "I'll Be There (If You Ever Want Me)" by unknown artist, "Johnny Too Bad" by The Slickers, "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan, "People World" by Lords, and "We Gotta Get out of this Place" by The Animals, play.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Folk music, including a song called "the Googoo" by two unknown artists, possibly Arlo Guthrie and Jake Holmes. Fass announces the end of his show and says goodbye to Jake Holmes. Steve Post reads the signoff.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A musician plays the saxophone and the flute in the studio.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass talks with Abbie Hoffman on the phone about comics, drugs, politics, movies, Russ Meyer, advertisements, and the government's surveillance of Abbie (first hour of the call). "Quinn the Eskimo" by Dylan plays. "If Not For You" by George Harrison plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Ferdinand the Imposter," "Ruben Remus," "Katie's Been Gone," "Orange Juice Blues," and "Yazoo Street Scandal" by Bob Dylan and the Band play. "One Night Stand" by Janis Joplin plays.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

"I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" by Stanley Holloway plays. Kenneth Miller goes to an antique show and listens to music boxes. Unknown live performers at McCarthy's Saloon sing Sammy Davis Jr.'s "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," Al Jolson's "You Made Me Love You," and another unknown song.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Musicians in the studio play "Sinner's Prayer," "Mercury Blues," "Honey Hush," and "Honey Bee." Fass and the musicians discuss Ali Akbar Khan.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Paul Krassner


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob and Julius Lester. Lester plays acoustic blues music live


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass and guests in WBAI studio discuss electronic music and other topics, take calls


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Covered Wagon Singers live in studio with Bob and guests


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Starts with reading from book "The Shermsters" (sic?), other guests include people from Red Cross, Bard College, and others. This is a very long recording: 3+ hours


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recorded music, comedy skits, and an episode of "Super Spade." Jody Stecher and Dave Bromberg are live in the studio.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Musicians live in the studio.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass hosts on WBAI; Peter LaFarge reads poetry and discusses his life live in studio; Eugene Smith calls in; recorded popular music plays; Irwin Silber and Barbara Dane join in the studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

On LSD, consciousness, etc. Not Timothy Leary, but about him


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Phone calls about aircraft c[?]


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Phone calls, music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Where Is Bob Fass? Mike Edl, Conrad John Sokul (sp?)


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Jack and Ann Whetstone, Preacher and Jane


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Gay Civil Rights


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jerome Washington


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Eric Anderson, Dalton Trumbo


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Steve Baron, folk singer, songwriter, and producer of Age of Involvement, guest


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Lem discussion


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Mike, Rod, etc.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob Fass, Linda Twig, and Jef Shero Nightbyrd on the air at WBAI


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Abbie Hoffman


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Christmas, Louis et al.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Stern interview and Bob Fass


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Fass and the Windbag. Kenny at Loon Lake


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Wavy Gravy


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Bob Fass, My Life


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Off the air first time, final resumption


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Phone messages


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Fass and Socrates


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Judith Malina and Julian Beck of the Living Theatre


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Pope Mickey from jail


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

Women's School. Public event on abortion and/or women's health


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

Kid who wants to be a cop, girl who is bored, girl who is not


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel videotapes (1/2")

Space Union and Bob, Apollo/Soyuz, Prison Show, good poetry and music, poor light, #35


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Wavy Gravy in studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Kupper, Mastrangelo, Troy


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Nancy Sam, Wavy Gravy, Richard Evers, Toulouse and the Angel


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

W. Eugene Smith speaks with Fass about his life and career


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Fass and unidentified musician in WBAI studio


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Musicians at the studio, including Mark Klingman on the keyboard and Buzzy Linhart, who perform. They play "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "The Love's Still Growing," "Sloop John B," and "Yonder Comes the Blues."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A radio program episode with Tuli Kupferberg. Instrumental music, facetious advertisements for "Learn to Talk Gay," "Learn to Talk Cop," a "Piece of Garbage," and "Spot-A-Narc Life Insurance." Various other short miscellaneous and comedic skits. A comedic version of "Blue Danube" plays.


WBAI staff meeting clips, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

WBAI staff meeting clips interrupted by recorded music


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob and an unidentified guest finish a call as the guest leaves; a recording of "All I Really Want to Do" by Bob Dylan; Bob gets cut off at the recording's end, as he signs off.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers discussing Feenjon Café, Middle Eastern music from Feenjon Café.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Loudon Wainwright and George Gerdes (both actors from "Jackknife," (1989) directed by David Jones) live in the studio sing "Peas Porridge Hot", "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road", "The Great Dichotomy", satirical version of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold", "Say that You Love Me", "I Am the Way", "Weed Room Blues", "Surfing Queen", "Will You Love Me When I'm Dead", "Red Guitar", "Life is Like a Mountain Railway", "Son of Obituary", cover "Soldier's Last Letter" by Ernest Tubb, cover "Coming Home to You" by Jack O'Harris, cover "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by Bob Dylan, "Everybody I Know Wants to Look Pretty".


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Various blues/folk music plays, including "Little Maggie" and "That's All Brother" by Mae West. Fass discusses the Hell's Angels and Charlie Starkweather


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Jeremy Steig, Tom Willis, and Billy Mitchell as guests. Someone performs 'Lullaby of the Leaves.' Jeremy plays 'Willow O' Weep,' and Tom plays 'King Arthur.'


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers. One caller advertises his protest against behavioral modification clinic. Bluegrass music. Caller and Fass talk how the show used to include news. Fass talks about a talk on WMCA about Media Ecology with Malachy McCourt and others.


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Gil Turner sings "Benny 'Kid' Paret." Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, and Sis Cunningham are in the studio talking about folk music and Broadside Magazine. Dylan sings "The Ballad of Donald White." Pete Seeger sings "I Can See A New Day."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Unidentified musician(s) play blues music, including "Ahab the Arab", "Jabberwocky", "Outlaw Blues", and "Louisiana Blues."


Unidentified Bob Fass radio show, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Two guests talk. They play music, including "I'm A Loser" by the Beatles, "It's Howdy Doody Time" by Buffalo Bob Smith, "Honk Tonk Blues" by Mad Dogs & Englishmen, "Battle Hymn of Lt. Calley" by Terry Nelson, "The Fightin' Side of Me" by Merle Haggard, "School Days" by Chuck Berry, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones.


Subseries II.6: Smaller radio production projects, circa 1960s-1989


Bust Trust #1, circa 1960s-1975

Track begins with static, then Bob introduces, live, maybe at an outdoor concert, a band called Mortal Savage (?) after thanking Allen Ginsberg for his time; the band, decidedly folk, plays three songs


Bust Trust #5, circa 1960s-1975

Experimental music plays by Burton Green. Fass reads a letter from Paul Krassner. Rock music plays.


Bust Trust #6, circa 1960s-1975

Concert featuring rock music and stand-up comedian Joe Keyes, possibly pre-recorded; no commentary


Bust Trust #7, circa 1960s-1975

Joe Keys performs "Yesterday" by the Beatles, guitarist Peter Walker performs several instrumentals, Bruce Murdoch performs "Get Together" by the Youngbloods and one unnamed song


Bust Trust #9, circa 1960s-1975

Unknown Rock n' Roll music plays. Fass talks to an audience about successfully opening a store. The band the Left Banke performs. The band the Mothers of Invention performs.


Bust Trust #10, circa 1960s-1975

Live and recorded music, some overlain with speeches about Vietnam War


Talkback, 1965 March-April

Call-ins about the movement for a taxi cab union, breakdown-pay for cab drivers, and prejudice in picking up Black passengers. One caller mentions Selma, Alabama overshadowing the New York City taxi union fight, placing this episode some time in March or April, 1965.


Bob Fass hosts The Inside, 1965 April 10

[File 2]: 19:54: "This is WBAI [...] This is Bob Fass, and you're listening to the Inside. Uncle Chris is away." Mix of popular music and spoken word clips.


Bloomsday, 1966 June 16


Gaggle of Commentators, circa 1970

First Agnew speech, continual portions


Gaggle of Commentators, 1970 September 9

Bob Fass and a "gaggle of commentators" listening to and commenting on NBC 11 o'clock news


Demo tape, 1978

Mae Brussell; Chicago Gas; Dalton Trumbo and Abbie Hoffman; Otis Spann and Muddy Waters; Phone calls - rats; Jeremy Steig; Marshall Efron; Lightning call; Eric Andersen; Tin Tin ; Bob Dylan


Jan Alpert, Fate of the Earth, circa 1981-1982


Fate of the Earth, circa 1981-1982

pages 38-43; Hiroshima survivor quotes, Georgia Seid and Paul Enseki.


Fate of the Earth mix, circa 1981-1982

Recordings of people reading a report of US preparations for nuclear war with the USSR, from "The Fate of the Earth" by Jonathan Schell, are played over each other and soft music.


Fate of the Earth, 1981 February 1

Several people in a group reading of "The Fate of the Earth" by Jonathan Schell


The Fate of the Earth, 1982 June 26-1982 July 12

Various individuals reading sections from Jonathan Schell's book The Fate of the Earth (1982).


Vocal music, circa 1982


Doonesbury, circa 1983


Doonesbury Song, circa 1983


Doonesbury music interviews, circa 1983


Doonesbury, 1983 December 20


Requiem for a Woman's Soul, circa 1986

Bob Fass reading a story, title unmentioned, but most likely Omar Rivabella's 1986 novel "Requiem for a Woman's Soul."


WBAI Bob Dylan Marathon, 1986 May 22

Izzy Young, Bob Fass


Bob Dylan Marathon begins, 1987 May 22


Bob Fass on WQXR, 1988

Fass introduces a Symphony Hall program in different tones, reads an ad for GTE, reads the news, and other ads.


Abbie Hoffman special, 1989 May 20

Marathon WBAI pledge drive, "all day Abbie" / "Abbie lives" with Bob Fass and Steve Robinson; Fass plays clips of Abbie and speaks with guests Ponderosa Pine, John Silver, John Reilly, Aron Kay, and others ; Paul Krassner calls in. Includes clips from previous appearances by Abbie on Radio Unnameable, including: Abbie Hoffman calls in to WBAI and discusses Delaware River Nuclear Power Plant (probably Limerick Generating Station) in Pennsylvania with Fass and guests


Gaggle of Commentators, undated

48 seconds of "gaggle of commentators"


Gaggle of Commentators sentence, undated


Shortcuts through the Air, undated

Music plays, including "Let's Misbehave" by Cole Porter. Different shows are announced, including 'Easy Aces,' an unknown game show, a Shakespeare play, as well as advertisements for various products. A series of interviews with Bob Dylan are mixed.


The Inside with Bob Fass, undated

Bob Fass covers as host for The Inside. Clancy Brothers' "Johnny MacAldoo", duck hunting instructions, bluegrass, Sinatra's "I Love Paris", Memphis Jug Band's "Sugar Pudding", man discusses garbage strike, Hebrew song, man covers Judson Brown's "You Don't Know My Mind", "No Irish Need Apply" (Clancy Brothers?), rocket launch audio, moon comedy sketch.


Samuel Beckett, "The Expelled", undated

Bob Fass reading "The Expelled" from The Texts of Nothing by Samuel Beckett.


Subseries II.7: Announcements, routines, and other recorded components for radio, circa 1960s-2003, undated



Box 1 Item BF0049 Lyndon Johnson, "No one in this country should ever take the chance of eating bad meat again", circa 1960s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 13 Item BF0486 Comedy routine, circa 1960s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Two person comedy routine about guns, food, eating habits, Tiny Tim, and Quaker Oats. One is possibly Bob Fass.



Box 65 Item BF2181 Super Spade, circa 1960s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass records a satirical radio episode of "Super Spade" about a white supremacist villain.



Box 14 Item BF0495 Pilkington, circa 1960s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A short skit about Lyndon B. Johnson at a dinner party bragging about his scar.



Box 56 Item BF1874 Baldness Poem by Joseph Busch (Richard M. Elman), read by Bob Fass, 1963, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 277 Item BF6004 News Archive, 1963 March 5, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass's voice, followed by muffled voices, followed by a snippet of live music by an unidentified singer



Box 14 Item BF0524 "Bob Jam," Super Spade 1 and 2, 1965 December 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 28 Item BF1033 Santa Stop the War in Vietnam by 12 year old Angie Westevig, circa 1965-1975, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Santa Stop the War in Vietnam song by 12 year old Angie Westevig



Box 89 Item BF2961 Mayor Lindsay's Blood Donor Appeal Xmas message, circa 1966-1973, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 71 Item BF2404 Columbia University protest coverage, 1968 April, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Reports and interviews from Columbia University 1968 protests: inside Grayson Kirk's office in Low Library and Hamilton Hall.



Box 13 Item BF0468 Nixon comedy sketch, circa 1968-1974, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Comedy sketch about Nixon and other politicians, with Bob Fass.



Box 2 Item BF0057 Bob Fass, "Buy our 10 million teenagers", circa 1969, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Includes discussion of Life Magazine article about marijuana (article published 1969 October 31).



Box 89 Item BF2967 Tape Sent to Bob from Roger Barrett, 1969 April 3, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

BBC Commercials



Box 41 Item BF1470 Comedy skits, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A series of facetious advertisements/skits plays, including an advertisment for Glad bags and a skit about the moon landing.



Box 72 Item BF2442 Unidentified mix tape, circa 1970s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Folk and rock music; comedy sketches, including on Patty Hearst.



Box 1 Item BF0009 Benjamin Chavis, circa 1970s-1980s, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Dr. Benjamin Chavis discusses apartheid and South Africa.



Box 41 Item BF1477 Review of Shards of God by Sanders, 1970 August 27, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 26 Item BF0927 Closing commentary on the "Winter Soldier Investigation", 1971 January 31, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 53 Item BF1757 Both Sides of the Bars, 1973 December 28, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Callers discuss various experiences in drug rehab, hospitals, psychosurgery, and fraudulent doctors.



Box 21 Item BF0771 Cartha Deloach at Senate Hearing, circa 1975, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 25 Item BF0906 Joan Little news report, 1975 July 14, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

News report on the Joan Little Solidarity Committee March in New York as Little's trial begins that day.



Box 88 Item BF2954 People's Bicentennial Commission PSAs, circa 1976, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 1 Item BF0010 Haig vs. Dissenters, circa 1982 May, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Haig speech on May 24 with overdubbed dissent. Produced by Jim Motovalli for Bob Fass.



Box 66 Item BF2226 Grenada, demo (45 sec.), 1983 October 26, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 52 Item BF1734 Richard Elman and Robert Houston "co-interview" about Nicaragua, 1986 January 25, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 37 Item BF1341 Tompkins Square Park squatter eviction and rally commentary, circa 1988, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Commentary about events around Tompkins Square Park, including an eviction of squatters and a rally to protest this eviction



Box 52 Item BF1725 Bob Fass audition kit, 1988, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 116 Item BF3633 Bob Fass reading for WQXR radio, circa 1988 February, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Bob reads ads, promos, and news



Box 224 Item BF5423 Peter Yarrow promo spot, circa 1988 October, 1 videocassettes (Video 8)

Yarrow recording a promotional announcement for a walkathon benefitting medical aid to Central America



Box 111 Item BF3485 Abbie Hoffman call, before 1989, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 52 Item BF1724 Writers Conference Testimonial, 1989 April 22, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 212 Item BF5121 Fully Informed Jury Association, PSAs, 1992-1994, 1 audiocassettes



Box 158 Item BF4075 WBAI announcement regarding transmitter maintenance, 2003 April 24, 1 videocassettes (VHS)



Box 61 Item BF2044 Alfred [Alan?] Partridge story, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Alfred [Alan?] Partridge tells a story of a family who came in to meet their favorite radio personalities and learn about radio broadcasting.



Box 72 Item BF2444 Bob Dylan song for WBAI, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob Dylan sings promotional version of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" for WBAI.



Box 291 Item BF6469 Bob Fass satirical newsreel, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Satirical newsreel on the Youth International Party and the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests.



Box 21 Item BF0774 Chesterfield commercial, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Chesterfield Queens jingle about gay Fire Island



Box 33 Item BF1185 Commercials, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

1. Condom that glows in the dark commercial, 2.-6. Garbage can commercial



Box 5 Item BF0167 Commercials, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A series of commercials for IHOP, Carnation Instant Breakfast, A1 slacks, and Jack Poet Volkswagen dealerships.



Box 36 Item BF1318 Cooper Rothschild Soap, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A news report by David Lynch about the Connecticut budget crisis and a proposed Connecticut income tax.



Box 87 Item BF2918 Dan Ingram, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A variety of radio news reel bloopers.



Box 44 Item BF1578 Getting Busted, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Interview with former drug dealers and heroin addicts.



Box 31 Item BF1131 Giving Up Tobacco, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A group of people trying to quit smoking and their counselor are in studio discussing their experiences during the past week. Discussion includes why one member started smoking and why he joined the group. Only one member expresses confidence that he is successfully quitting smoking



Box 26 Item BF0939 Grand Old Gospel Hour, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Fass plays a song that satirizes the presidential campaign process.



Box 63 Item BF2118 ITT Corporation commercials, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A number of commercials from ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) focusing on their impact on the American economy, their international impact, and their contribution to American social programs.



Box 41 Item BF1463 London during World War II and antiwar demonstrations, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A man discusses his experience living in London during World War II and public demonstrations against wars.



Box 67 Item BF2263 The Lone Psychiatrist, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Two episodes of a parody of "The Lone Ranger" called "The Lone Psychiatrist."



Box 13 Item BF0462 "Marijuana, on my honor", undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Comedy song recording.



Box 24 Item BF0866 Maximum Base Rent protest segment, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A report of demonstrators gathering in front of City Hall to repeal the MBR (Maximum Base Rent) system of rent control in New York City.



Box 41 Item BF1473 Monologue on W.C. Fields, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Bob Fass monologues about W.C. Fields, and the other names he may be going under (including the famous writer Leon Uris, who is pilloried in this). An opportunity to sarcastically discuss how Uris writes terrible books and promotes politically questionable, if not outright conservative perspectives. Such a man can only exist if he is the creation of the brilliant W.C. Fields' imagination.



Box 1 Item BF0008 New York Radio Spots, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 88 Item BF2953 Operation Golden Eagle, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

U.S. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation PSAs



Box 35 Item BF1276 PAC High Sound Effect, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Recordings of various city soundscapes



Box 61 Item BF2028 Pat Sky Bit, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Joke openings. An unidentified announcer introduces a singer Mississippi Jones, who sings, literally, the words "Gilbert and Sullivan"



Box 13 Item BF0485 Phys Phit, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

WBAI response to "presidential" call for fitness, three physical exercises offered with big band accompaniments, "It's the office that's to blame" song.



Box 68 Item BF2307 Police brutality recording, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A woman tells a story about her son who was a victim of a fatal incidence of police brutality.



Box 60 Item BF2002 Rent and Housing, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A satirical advertisement for Disneyland. A man reports on Walt Disney, commenting on the racist aspects of the place, and interviewing employees, who have varying attitudes towards the company.



Box 30 Item BF1103 Riche et al., undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Comedic sketches.



Box 280 Item BF6110 Sacred, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Announcement seeking volunteers for WBAI FM Corps



Box 25 Item BF0920 Satirical political skits, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Satirical skits with parody candidates for a presidential primary.



Box 1 Item BF0046 Snow Report, Commissioner Mueller, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A series of short announcements from the sanitation department preparing for a snowstorm in NYC



Box 10 Item BF0457 Tragic and Hilarious World as Aesthetic Realism Sees It, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A series of facetious bulletins about the Vietnam War.



Box 283 Item BF6196 Unidentified woman reads WBAI promotional script, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 37 Item BF1351 WBAI announcement parody, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A parody of an announcement for WBAI subscribers about a delay in sending out WBAI Folios.



Box 73 Item BF2483 WBAI News report, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Man talks about Operation Entebbe's effect on local exuberance in Israel. News report by Celeste Wesson about Taiwan's participation in Olympics, Communist party in and elections in Spain, Cuban elections, and Argentina refugees' hunger strike.



Box 25 Item BF0916 WBAI parody, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

A parody of WBAI programming presented by an announcer. Includes mock interviews, warped songs ostensibly played backwards, a documentary called "Citizens Aroused," and faulty tape machinery.



Box 284 Item BF6249 WBAI promos / Ethnic promos, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")



Box 3 Item BF0109 WBAI Turning Point fundraiser promos, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes (1/4")

Various similar promo ads for WBAI Turning Point fundraiser benefit at Piermont, New York.