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Lost & Found Sound: Winken, Blinken and Nod

July 30, 1999 • In our year-long weekly feature, Lost and Found Sound, NPR's Kathleen Schalch describes how some old records and tapes gave her a new perspective on her maternal grandmother, a member of the singing group Winken, Blinken and Nod.

Lost & Found Sound: Winken, Blinken and Nod

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Lost & Found Sound: Man with a Horn

July 23, 1999 • In our weekly series, Lost and Found Sound, a collaboration between NPR and independent producers, we learn about self-appointed disc-jockey Eric Byron.

Lost & Found Sound: Man with a Horn

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Radio Free Georgetown

July 16, 1999 • In the late 1960s and early 1970s, young, mostly left-wing students and radicals found a voice on FM community radio across the country. Ken Sleeman was the general manager of one such station, WGTB-FM in Washington DC. As part of our Lost and Found Sound series, Sleeman shares some of his recordings from that time.

Radio Free Georgetown

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Lost and Found Sound: Studio Nine

July 9, 1999 • As part of our year-long collaboration with independent producers, Lost and Found Sound today turns to veteran broadcaster Robert Trout for a look back at CBS Studio Nine. The New York newsroom was the source of much of the century's news for millions of Americans. During the studio's operation from 1938 to 1964, Trout was one of the men who spent the most time there. He recently discovered some of his tapes.

Lost and Found Sound: Studio Nine

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Lost and Found Sound: "Stars and Stripes Forever"

July 2, 1999 • Noah talks to Loras Schissel of the Library of Congress about Washington native son John Philip Sousa who wrote the march, "The Stars and Stripes Forever." It was an anthem of the Spanish-American War. Sousa considered it the greatest march ever written and got his wish of hearing it just before he died. We also hear Sousa talking on the radio in 1929, and conducting the great march.

Lost and Found Sound: "Stars and Stripes Forever"

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Lost & Found Sound: Jack Mullin Obit

July 2, 1999 • We remember Jack Mullin, the California man who brought two German tape recorders back from the Second World War and introduced the technology to America. Mullin was an member of the US Army Signal Corps, and stumbled upon reels of magnetic quarter-inch tape and machines in a town near Frankfurt. He came back and perfected the machines. On Novermber 16, 1946, he demonstrated how they worked to a meeting of audio engineers in his home state of California. Soon Bing Crosby started using them to pre-tape his radio show for ABC. Crosby also pioneered the efforts to make tape recorders and recording tape in this country. Mullin worked for Crosby and later for Ampex. Mullin died last week at his California home at age 84.

Lost & Found Sound: Jack Mullin Obit

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Independence Day 1963

July 2, 1999 • As a 13-year-old, NPR's Art Silverman took his first crack at radio. The coordinating producer of Lost and Found Sound anchored and reported the July 4th celebrations in his hometown, Livingston, NJ.

Independence Day 1963

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Lost & Found Sound: Bride, Groom & Microphone

June 30, 1999 • Noah and Linda escort us through a series of recordings of weddings from the 40s, 50s and 70s. Not many people put their weddings on wire, tape or record -- but some of our "Quest For Sound" callers did. We hear a professionally narrated wedding from Manhattan, a "flower power" wedding from Ohio in the 1970s, a traditional church wedding in Mississippi, and even a wedding on the radio. This story is part of our series LOST & FOUND SOUND, a collaboration between independent producers and NPR.

Lost & Found Sound: Bride, Groom & Microphone

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Lost And Found Sound: Restoration

June 25, 1999 • In another installment of our year-long series, "Lost and Found Sound," Quest for Sound Curator Jay Allison takes us behind the scenes, to hear old recordings sent to us by listeners. We learn of the difficulties of finding equipment to play some rare audio formats, and how an expert, Steve Smolian, takes a defective item and tries to extract sounds from it. We hear some home recordings by relatives of listeners who have since passed away. Smolian warns laypeople against trying to listen to old formatted items themselves, for fear the original will be destroyed.

Lost And Found Sound: Restoration

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Lost & Found Sound: Her Father's Voice

June 18, 1999 • Susan Stamberg marks Fathers Day by dusting off 78 rpm home recordings made in 1940 and later by her father. He's been dead three decades. She never had the heart to listen before, feeling his loss was still too near to deal with.

Lost & Found Sound: Her Father's Voice

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