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Guide to the Richard Finnie Collection ARS.0117
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst Archive of Recorded Sound Braun Music Center 541 Lasuen Mall Stanford University Stanford, California, 94305-3076 650-723-9312 [email protected] © 2011 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 1 Collection ARS.0117 Descriptive Summary Title: Richard Finnie Collection Dates: 1951-1980 Collection number: ARS.0117 Collection size: 8 boxes: 315 open reel tapes (64 3-5" reels ; 251 7" reels) ; 2 small boxes of slides Repository: Archive of Recorded Sound Abstract: Open reel tapes recorded by Richard Finnie, including Bechtel Corporation film soundtrack material featuring traditional music and sound effects from Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere, and broadcasts and live performances of classical music, jazz, folk, and other types of music. Language of Material: Multiple languages Access Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for assistance. Publication Rights Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound. Preferred Citation Richard Finnie Collection, ARS-0117. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Source The Richard Finnie Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Anne Ackerman Finnie in 1987. Sponsor This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Scope and Contents The Richard Finnie Collection consists of a variety of open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer and historian Richard Sterling Finnie (1906-1987), largely in the 1950s and 60s. Finnie worked for the international engineering company Bechtel Corporation for twenty-five years, and as a producer for their industrial film division he recorded music from around the world, as well as sounds related to Bechtel's oil pipeline and refinery projects. This material was used in soundtracks for Bechtel films such as Oil Across Sumatra, Petrole de Zarzaitine, Exploring Libya, and Bechtel in Europe. Finnie, who had extensive prior experience documenting his travels in Northern Canada, made on-location recordings of traditional music from such countries as Korea, Libya, Tunisia, Sumatra, South Africa, Lebanon, Cambodia and Venezuela, utilizing the talents of local musicians and songwriters. Rights contracts are enclosed with a few tapes; in fact Libyan composer Mohammed Murshan was hired to write a special Petroleum Song for Bechtel. Additionally, environmental sounds, such as street noise, a call to prayer, "mule cart sounds," "crowd noises at Tripoli race track," and an "overloaded radio," were recorded for sound effects and beds. Some of these field tapes also include Bechtel business matters (i.e. meetings, phone calls, and speech rehearsals). In addition to his work with Bechtel (which ended with his retirement in 1968), Finnie captured copious amounts of radio broadcasts on tape, particularly from Pacifica station KPFA, but also from programs on KDFC, KCBS, KEAR, and KKHI. These include Phil Elwood's jazz shows, New York Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony performances, rebroadcasts from classical music festivals such as Salzburg, Warsaw, Carmel Bach, Edinburgh, and Vienna, and a multitude of other programs. Finnie's radio tapes are a testament to the richness of Northern California radio offered during that time. Finnie, who lived in Belvedere, California, was also a jazz fan, and the collection contains some remarkable artifacts, such as original Earl Hines and Muggsy Spanier Club Hangover recordings (recorded off-air with Robert L. Ingram), informal jam sessions with local traditional jazz musicians, Turk Murphy at Grace Cathedral (from a KMPX broadcast hosted by Phil Elwood), the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at Marin Junior College in 1975, and the audio portion of a Coleman Hawkins memorial television program from 1969. The vast majority of recordings were made by Finnie himself, although there is not always attribution present. There are a few copies of commercially-released recordings, some of which were shellac discs borrowed from the Indonesian consulate. Most tapes contain inserted material such as notes, photographs, newspaper clippings, review logs, Bechtel contracts, and correspondence.
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 2 Collection ARS.0117 Arrangement Tapes have been organized in the following general series: 1. Bechtel-related recordings (non-ethnic) ; 2. classical music broadcasts ; 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts (many of which were for Bechtel) ; 4. jazz recordings and broadcasts ; 5. miscellaneous. Please note that many tapes contain multiple recordings and are grouped alphabetically according to the first words of the first recording listed on the tape box. Some tapes are edited transfers of other tapes in the collection, and may be listed elsewhere. Related Materials The Archive of Recorded Sound separately houses approximately sixty instantaneous discs recorded by Finnie, some of which are the original sources for tapes in this collection. Stanford University Special Collections holds the Richard Sterling Finnie Papers, 1945-1967 (M0694), which is focused primarily on Bechtel and also contains a variety of audiovisual media. The National Archives of Canada holds the Richard Sterling Finnie Fonds, 1890-1987. Indexing Terms Finnie, Richard Sterling Bechtel Corporation.
1. Bechtel recordings (non-ethnic), etc.
Box 8 S.D. Bechtel's Tribute to W. Morrison 1965-08-02 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Neil Buckley, piano. Lake Tahoe 7/13/63 ; Gordon Way Interview 9-10/62 ; Chocolate Bayou Dedication 12/4/1962 1962-1963 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Cal-Tex Voice Auditions 1960-10-07 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Chocolate Bayou Dedication Speeches 1962-12-04 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 B.F. Fairless. Cuidad Bolivar 2/27/53 ; Fairless Works 6/20/54 1953-1954 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Fritz Speech Rehearsal ; Alyce Story ; South Seas Music on Dinah Shore Show ; Lonnie Adair Ballads ; Sidney Bechet Recordings ; Sound Effects ; Sfax Orchestra 1960 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Geneva. Al Moritz and Colleagues 1963-11-01 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Johanson Family 11/18/59 Concluded ; N.Y. Management Meeting. Original Field Tape 1959-11 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 C.B. Lester Interview for Bechtel Briefs Article 8/62 ; Mediterranean Pipeline Crossing Discussion ; Bells of Strasbourg Cathedral ; Purchasing, Pipeline Offices, Paris ; Israel Leviant's Views on Story Treatment for Film and Book on Bechtel in Europe. Field tape 1962 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 3 Collection ARS.0117 1. Bechtel recordings (non-ethnic), etc.
Box 8 Luncheon at Mercier ; Alexander Rignault Audition ; Zelten Road 1961 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 E.B. Mulkins 1965-01 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Music Box in London ; Fragment of Phone Conversation ; London Traffic Noise ; Drafting Room Background ; Purchasing Office with Typewriters ; Walt Hillman At Radio, Ras Es Sider 5/9/62 ; Welding At Pipeline at Dahra ; Radio Operator at Dahra ; Libyan Voices and Effects 1962-05 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Rhine Crossing ; Pipe-laying near Cologne ; Supervisors Meeting, The Hague ; London Office Meeting ; A Visit to the Johansons, Copenhagen. Original Field Tape 1959-11 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Southern Pacific. Sound Effects (Bechtel) Reels 3, 5, 6 Physical Description: 3 5" open reel tapes
Box 8 Submarine Sounds ; Ivan Manning And Clay Wheeler In Four-Handed Jam Session At Hawaiian 1960-08-03 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Slides : Zelten, Libya ; Kuwait [oil refinery?] 11-12/58 1958 Physical Description: 2 boxes
2. classical music broadcasts
festival broadcasts 1958-1963
Box 2 Aldeburgh Festival, KPFA. Menuhin, Britten 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Ascona Festival ; Bergen Festival 1962 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Ascona Festival ; Golden Voices - Caruso 1962 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Carmel Bach Festival, KPFA 1960-07-23 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes
Box 6, Box 7 Carmel Bach Festival, KPFA 1961-07 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes
Box 3 Festival Casals ; David Del Tredici live KPFA 3/30/59 1958-1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Casals Festival, KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 3 7" open reel tapes
Box 6 Chimay Festival '60 KDFC International Music Hall 12/24/61 ; Presti and Lagoya, KPFA from CDC 9/1/63 1960-1963 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 4 Collection ARS.0117 2. classical music broadcasts festival broadcasts 1958-1963
Box 3 Chimay Festival ; Liege Festival 1962 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Chimay Festival, Zabaleta KPFA 1963-08 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Donaueschingen Festival '58 KPFA 1960 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Dubrovnik Festival ; Golden Voices - Kathleen Ferrier. KPFA 1960 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Edinburgh Festival KPFA 1958 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Edinburgh Festival '63 ; Bergen Festival '63 1963 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Enesco Festival, Bucharest, Rumania. Menuhin- Brahms, Beethoven 1959-04-10 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Ghent Festival '62 ; A Concert From Berlin 1963 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 A Concert from Liege 1961-09-15 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Liege Festival 1962 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Haslemere FestivaL, KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Montreux Festival, KPFA. Ravel, Debussy 1961 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Les Nuits de Sceaux ; Delius ; KPFA Studio Concert. William Corbett Jones, piano 1959-01 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Les Nuits de Sceaux, KPFA 1958 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Les Nuits de Sceaux, KPFA 1959-01-18 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Prades Festival, KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Prades Festival ; Salzburg Festival 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 5 Collection ARS.0117 2. classical music broadcasts festival broadcasts 1958-1963
Box 1, Box 2 Prague Spring Festival 1962-10-25 Physical Description: 3 7" open reel tapes
Salzburg Festival broadcasts Box 1, Box 7 Salzburg Festival 1957 Physical Description: 8 7" open reel tapes
Box 2, Box 7 Salzburg, KEAR, KPFA 1958 Physical Description: 10 7" open reel tapes
Box 1, Box 2, Box Salzburg Festival, KPFA 1959 6 Physical Description: 9 7" open reel tapes
Box 2 Salzburg Festival 1961 Physical Description: 4 7" open reel tapes
Box 1, Box 2, Box Salzburg Festival 1962-12-09 3 Physical Description: 17 7" open reel tapes
Sibelius Festival broadcasts Box 3 Sibelius Festival, KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes
Box 2 Sibelius Festival, KPFA 1960 Physical Description: 3 7" open reel tapes
Box 3 Sibelius Festival ; Chimay Festival 1963-08 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Sibelius Festival '63 1963 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 From Spoleto, KPFA. Bach, Brahms 1962 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Vienna Festival broadcasts Box 1, Box 2, Box Vienna Festival, KPFA, KCBS 1961 7 Physical Description: 13 7" open reel tapes
Box 1, Box 7 Vienna Festival, KPFA, KDFC 1962 Physical Description: 8 7" open reel tapes
Box 1 Vienna Festival 1962. Bruckner's Ninth, Te Deum ; Grieg Festival 1962. KDFC 1963 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Warsaw Festival ; Edinburgh Festival. KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Warsaw Festival, KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
New York Philharmonic broadcasts 1956-1966
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 6 Collection ARS.0117 2. classical music broadcasts New York Philharmonic broadcasts 1956-1966
Box 3 Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. CBS. Strauss, Stara 1956-10-28 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, CBS. Beethoven, Mozart, Stravinsky, Ravel 1956-12-16 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 NY Philharmonic, Menuhin. KCBS 12/15/57 ; Bernstein, NY Philharmonic 8/28/58 1957-1958 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. KCBS 11/3/57. Prokofiev ; Eva Heinitz Recital, KPFA 3/3/64 1957-1964 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, CBS. Haydn, Bartok, Ravel 1957-01-06 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 NY Philharmonic, CBS. Prokofiev, Sibelius 1957-01-20 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 NY Philharmonic, CBS. Bach, Schuller, Beethoven, Glazinov 1957-03 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 NY Philharmonic on CBS 1957-03-03 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 NY Philharmonic, CBS. Mussorgsky, Grieg 1957-03-31 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 NY Philharmonic, CBS. Lalo, Brahms, Wagner 1957-04-07 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Shippers, NY Philharmonic, KCBS 10/27/57 ; Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. Prokofiev 10/13/57 1957-10 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Mitropoulos, NY Philharmonic. KCBS 1957-11 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 NY Philharmonic, KCBS 1958-03-16 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Vivaldi, Copland 1958-12-07 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Milhaud, Gershwin 1958-12-14 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic KCBS 2/1/59 ; Monteux, NY Philharmonic KCBS 3/1/59 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 7 Collection ARS.0117 2. classical music broadcasts New York Philharmonic broadcasts 1956-1966
Box 1 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS 2/59 ; KPFA live studio concert 3/30/59 David Del Tredici, pianist. La Monte Young, Seymour Shifrin. Alla Von Buch, pianist. Shostakovich, Scriabin, Beethoven 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic. Piston, Ravel, Walton 1959-02-15 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Monteux, NY Philharmonic. Ravel, Berloiz 1959-03 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Mahler, Hindemith 1960-02 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic, KCBS. Mahler 1960-02-21 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Walter, NY Philharmonic. Mahler, Das Lied. KCBS 1960-04-17 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Shapira, NY Philharmonic KKHI 3/14/65 ; Nelsova and Newmark, Hindemith KPFA 9/19/63 ; BBC Symphony, Mahler 9/21/63 1963-1965 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Krips, NY Philharmonic, KKHI 2/21/65 ; Paray, San Francisco Symphony KKHI 2/26/65 1965-02 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Bernstein, NY Philharmonic. Smit, Copland. KKHI 1966-02-12 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
San Francisco Symphony broadcasts 1964-1980
Box 6 Krips, San Francisco Symphony. KKHI. Mozart, Brahms, Mahler 1964-02-07 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Krips, San Francisco Symphony. Mozart. KKHI 1965-03-19 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Krips, San Francisco Symphony 1970-03-05 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, KKHI 1972-02-18 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 De Waart, San Francisco Symphony. KQED 1980-08-24 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
miscellaneous classical broadcasts
Box 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra, KPFA 1960 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 8 Collection ARS.0117 2. classical music broadcasts miscellaneous classical broadcasts
Box 6 BBC Mahler 6th Conclusion 9/21/63 ; Donaueschingen, Stravinsky 12/7/63 ; Mozart Recital, Daniel Abrams 2/9/64 1963-1964 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Beecham, Royal Philharmonic, Berlioz. KPFA 1963 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Belgium, Segovia KPFA 1961-07 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Boston Symphony, KBRG. Gunther Schuller, Seven Studies ; Van Cliburn-Liszt 1965-01-27 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3 Capella Strings live studio recital, KPFA 1958-12 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Van Cliburn in Moscow 1958-12-28 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes
Box 4 Kathleen Ferrier BBC ; Sounds Our Fathers Heard. KPFA 1960-03-19 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 The Hague Philharmonic, KPFA 1964 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Handel, Royal Fireworks Music ; U.C. May Festival, Milhaud. KPFA 1959-05-29 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Handel-Purcell Anniversary, BBC program. KPFA 1959 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 International Music Hall, KDFC 12/3/61 Martine, Corelli, Bartok ; Vienna Festival '61 KPFA 1961 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 International Music Hall, KDFC. Strauss, Leclair, Ingegneri, Haydn 1961-12-10 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Library of Congress Concerts, KPFA 1961 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Ludwig, London Symphony. Mahler, KPFA 1960 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Music From the Netherlands, KPFA 1961 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Music From the Netherlands, KPFA, KDFC. Handel, Mozart, Roussel 1962 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Music From the Netherlands, KPFA 1962-01-20 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 9 Collection ARS.0117 2. classical music broadcasts miscellaneous classical broadcasts
Box 7 Netherlands Chamber Orchestra ; Library of Congress Concert, Budapest Quartet. KPFA 1961 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Netherlands Symphony ; Quarteto Italiano, Library of Congress. KPFA 1961-06 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Ormandy, Philadelphia Orchestra. KDFC 3/1/64 ; Eva Heinitz Studio Recital KPFA 3/3/64 1964 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 Quarteto Italiano, Utrecht Orchestra, KPFA 1961-06 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Sibelius, Labrador Score. Finnie Arrangement 1967 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Sons of Bach. East German Radio. KPFA 1962-01-27 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Standard Oil of California Symphony, W.A. Palmer experimental stereo recording 1954 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 2 TWA Royal Composers, KKHI 1964-01-14 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Tanya Ury Plays An Ancient Pleyel, KPFA 1963-07-16 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 Verdi's Requiem from Vienna, KPFA 1963-12-13 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts
American folk 1952-1960 Scope and Contents Like Richard Finnie, Prentice G. "Spike" Downes (1909-1959) was an explorer and ethnographer in Canada's far north, known for his work with Cree and Dene people as well as his mapping expeditions. These tapes suggest that he was also an amateur musician, and although the type of material performed is unknown, the songs appear to be related to the occupational folk songs of pipeline workers. Likewise, Lonnie Adair's choice of songs are not evident without listening (probably William Olonzo "Lonnie" Adair, 1910-2007).
Box 8 Lonnie Adair, voice and guitar [photograph affixed to tape box] 1960-04-12 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Spike Downes in Concord, Mass., Pipeliners Mobile Radio Talk [correspondence between Finnie and Mrs. Downes enclosed] 1952 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape Subjects and Indexing Terms Downes, P. G. (Prentice Gilbert), 1909-
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 10 Collection ARS.0117 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts American folk 1952-1960
Box 6 P.G. "Spike" Downes. Words and Music. Recorded by RF 1952-06-24 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Australian Folk Songs. Lionel Long 1965
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Brazil, Mato Grosso (Weyer)
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Cambodia
Box 1 Cambodian Royal Palace Orchestra - Filtered Transfer 1958-10-16 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Royal Cambodian Ballet, Palace Hotel. AC Hum, Transfer from Original 1958-10-16 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Image of Chile, KPFA 1964
Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes
Box 1
Chinese Classical Pipa Music, KPFA 1963-05-14
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Cuba and Trinidad [from discs]
Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 1
Bechtel in Europe. Music and Effects 1964-03-23
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 11 Collection ARS.0117 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts Cambodia
Hawaiian Orchestra at Royal Hawaiian 8/60 ; Equipment Sounds for Submarine Pipeline Operation ; Marty and Ted Elliot Duet 9/60 1960
Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 5
Indian Music: Talas, Ragas. Ethnic Music, KPFA 1962-12-08
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Indonesia/Bali/Sumatra 1953-1958
Box 8 Music of Bali, courtesy Indonesian Consulate 1958 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 5 Music of Bali ; Indonesia, Popular. Radio Republik Indonesia. Transfer From Tape Loaned By Indonesian Consulate, San Francisco 1958-10-14 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Indonesian Popular Music from 78 rpm Discs ; Rumbai Five, Neles Sahamaja, Leader and Singer. From Finnie Original 8/2/58 1957-1958 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Folk Music of Indonesia. 1.Transferred from tape borrowed from Indonesian Consulate ; 2. Radio Republik Indonesia Transcription Service 78 rpm Disc Transfers 1953 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Sumatra 1958-02 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 5 Oil Across Sumatra. Live Sound 1957-1958 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Selematan Speeches at Dumai, Sumatra. Caltex Pacific Oil Company 1958-07-15 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Sumatra. Classroom ; Pipe-making 1957 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Sumatra, Sounds. Test Recordings: Mostly Chinese Music From Radio ; P.L. Shore Dictating on Promotion of Private Enterprise in Indonesia ; Pipeline Spread ; Pumping Well ; Jungle Sounds ; Hornbill ; Indonesian Story ; Jungle Clearing ; Chinese Story 1958 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Sumatra. Sounds and Music 1957 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Rumbai Recital, Sumatra. Original and Transfers 1958-02-13 Physical Description: 5 5" open reel tapes
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 12 Collection ARS.0117 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts Indonesia/Bali/Sumatra 1953-1958
Box 3, Box 8
Christmas in Italy, KPFA 1962
Physical Description: 2 open reel tape:1 5" reel ; 1 7" reel
Japan
Box 4 Gagaku ; Japanese Music. KPFA 1962-03 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 A Concert of Japanese Music, KPFA 1965-02-12 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Korea
Box 8 Groundbreaking at Tangin-Ri, Korea. Soundtrack Transfer from 35MM Korean Newsreel Footage 1955 Language of Material: Korean Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Korea 1956 Physical Description: 3 5" open reel tapes
Box 1 Korean folk songs - PBC waitresses in Masan 4/21/56 ; A Night at Nick's [nightclub recording] 1956 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Court Music Recital, Seoul, Korea. Korean Court Orchestra (Lee Palace) 1956-04-26 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Korea - Chin Mae, etc. 1956-04 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 5 Music of Korea and Tahiti. Lee Palace Orchestra and Folk Singers, Recorded in South Korea by RF (Transferred Selections) ; Lure of Tahiti, ABC Paramount [photo and program from Korean performance enclosed] 1956-04 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Korean Music. A Recital by Hwang Byongki, KPFA 1965-08-07 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Middle East/North Africa
Box 1 Music of Aden and Lebanon 5/19/1957 ; Music of Lebanon 11/14/1951. Finnie Recordings 1951-1957 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 13 Collection ARS.0117 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts Middle East/North Africa
Box 8 Music of Aden. Aden Musical Association [photographs enclosed and affixed to tape box] 1957-05-19 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 5 Oil from Zarzaitine [Algeria]. Music and Effects 1961-04-17 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Oil from Zarzaitine. North African Music. pt.1 1961-04-17 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Oil from Zarzaitine effects Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Bahrain. Music and Sounds. Recorded by Bapco 1957-06 Physical Description: 2 5" open reel tapes
Box 8 Kuwait Orchestra. Original and Transfers 1957-06-11 Physical Description: 4 open reel tapes: 2 5" reels ; 2 7" reels
Box 8 Music of Lebanon. Original 1951-11 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 5 Exploring Libya. Sound Effects and Voices Recorded on Location 1960-05 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Exploring Libya. Petroleum Song ; Call to Prayer [lyrics to Libyan Petroleum Song by Mohammed Murshan enclosed] 1960-09 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Exploring Libya. Music Composed by Mohhamed Murshan of Libyan Broadcasting Station. Recorded in Tripoli 1960. Equalized transfer Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 [Libya] Petroleum Song by Mohammed Murshan, Master 1960 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 5 Music of Libya, Murshan. Master 1960 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Music of Libya. Composed by Mohammed Murshan. Played by Libyan Broadcasting Station Orchestra 1964-07 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Music of Libya. Aoud, Nye 1965-02-17 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Libya. Sirtica Music. Murshan Physical Description: 6 3" open reel tapes
Box 5 Music of Tunisia. Sfax Orchestra 11/26/60 ; Ivan Manning and Clay Wheeler, 4 hand piano at Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu 8/3/60 ; Bill Dunham piano, Tripoli 12/8/60 1960 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 14 Collection ARS.0117 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts Middle East/North Africa
Box 5 Music of Libya, Transfer. Murshan ; Call to Prayer 1960-05 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Moslem Call to Prayer, Tripoli, Libya 1960-05-31 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 6 Tuareg Music from Ghadames. From Master Recording by Issa Belkheir, Tripoli, Libya 1960-12 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 North Africa Field Tape. Miscellaneous Live Sound for Exploring Libya ; Sfax Orchestra ; Bill Dunham Piano ; Zelten Field Drilling ; Marsa al Brega 1960 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Field Recording in Saudi Arabia 5-6/57 1957 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Music of Hasa, Saudi Arabia. Sa'ad Bin Majid, Nye With Essa Bakeet, Percussion. Finnie Recording 1957-05-26 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Tunisian Music, Original. Off-the-Air Through Mike. Courtesy Herb Coste, Sfax 1960 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 5 Musique Tunisienne. Original. Orchestre Aloulou. Hotel des Oliviers. Sfax, Tunisia 1960-11-26 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Tunisia Live Sound Effects 1960-04 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8 Tunisia and Libya Live Sound Effects 4-5/60. Mule Cart Sounds ; Crowd Noises at Tripoli Racetrack ; Overloaded Radio [etc.] 1960 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
Panama, Live Sound. Original 1961-05
Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 8
South Africa, Palabora. Railroad Work Sounds, Chanting 1966
Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 1
Venezuelan Orchestra At Puerto Ordaz 10/1952 ; Dr. Jose Martucci, Piano, And Orchestra 1952
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 15 Collection ARS.0117 3. ethnic/field recordings and broadcasts Middle East/North Africa
4. jazz recordings and broadcasts
Box 5 Herb Alpert, Louis Armstrong. Kraft Music Hall, TV 1967-09-13 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5 Louis Armstrong, A Boy From New Orleans. TV Channel 7 1972-09-09 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Burt Bales, Bob Helm, Dick Oxtot, Bob Mielke et al. Recorded by W.R. Heick for Dave Walker for Jazz Film 1977-05 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Burt Bales Live KGO. First Stereophonic Dixieland Jazz Broadcast. Pier 23 Nightclub. Bales, piano ; Dick Oxtot, banjo ;Bob Mielke, trombone ; Don Marchin, Bill Erickson, Frank Goudie. Estuary Jazz Band 1959-05-10 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tapefolders
Box 6 Bechet - La Nuit (Ballet) 1963-12-15 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4 The Big Band Sound and All That Jazz - Television Special 1973-05-02 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Dixieland, Monterey Jazz Festival 1968-05 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Phil Elwood KPFA broadcasts
Box 1 Phil Elwood, Bechet Memorial 1959-07-08 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes
Box 3 Phil Elwood, Mouldy Jazz, Unedited 1967-05-24 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Phil Elwood, Japanese Dixieland Jazz 1962-02 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 3 Phil Elwood, Jazz Archives. Kid Ory, Orson Welles, Standard School 1944-45 1963-06 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1 Phil Elwood, Rowland Working Memorial 1959-01-09 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Phil Elwood, Muggsy Spanier Memorial [includes photograph and Christmas card from Ruth Spanier] 1967-02-15 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Phil Elwood, Fats Waller Program ; The Feather Ball, An Introduction to Jazz by Cannonball Adderly, KPFA 1966 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 16 Collection ARS.0117 4. jazz recordings and broadcasts Phil Elwood KPFA broadcasts
Box 1
Falter Jam Session Pt.2. Ralph Sutton (guest of honor), Al Hanson, John Falter, Joe Rushton, Skip Moore, Jack Coon, Bob Travis, Al Parker, Dave Wheat, Brad Collins. 1956-06-24
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Falter Mixed Bag. Jazz and Jokes 1970
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6
Benny Goodman at Wolftrap. KQED TV 1977-12-06
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tapefolders
Box 5
Coleman Hawkins Memorial. TV 1969-07-08
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3
Earl Hines, Piano. Live KCBS 1957
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 3, Box 4, Box 6
Earl Fatha Hines and Club Hangover All-Stars. Muggsy Spanier, Darnell Howard, Jimmy Archer, Popps Foster, Earl Watkins. 7-8/59 1959
Physical Description: 5 7" open reel tapes
Box 6
The History of Jazz Piano. Earl Hines, Eubie Blake at UC Berkeley. KQED 1977
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Japanese Modern Jazz. Makoto O-oka, Suite for Jazz Band, 1960. From Japan Broadcasting Corporation tape. KPFA 7/3/61 ; Koto 1961
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 17 Collection ARS.0117 4. jazz recordings and broadcasts Phil Elwood KPFA broadcasts
Box 6
Jazz on Angel Island. Stone Age and Magnolia Bands 1976-06-20
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Just Jazz. Art Hodes, Wild Bill Davison, TV 1971
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Ragtime with Max Morath. Eubie Blake. KQED TV 1975-08-31
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Turk Murphy Jazz Band, Grace Cathedral. KMPX. Phil Elwood Commentary 1977-10-21
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Newport Jazz Festival 7/4/73. Tribute to Louis Armstrong. Channel 9 TV 1973-11-05
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 4
Dick Oxtot's Golden Age Jazz Band with Terry Garthwaite. Macy's San Francisco. KJAZ 1978-09-12
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Marin Junior College 1975-07-11
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
5. miscellaneous
Box 5 Jack Benny on TV 1967-02-04 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Blooper's Soap. Courtesy W.A. Palmer 1959-01-26 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 18 Collection ARS.0117 5. miscellaneous KPFA miscellaneous broadcasts
Box 5 Chaplin, Modern Times Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 Noel Coward Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 7 Gibson Sextet. Song Rehearsal 1959-12-14 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 History of Sound Recording, KSFR 1962-06-01 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 6 John F. Kennedy on Cuban Missile Crisis 1962-10-22 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
KPFA miscellaneous broadcasts
Box 1 Cohen on the Telephone, produced and narrated by Byron Bryant, KPFA 1968-09 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Cohen Gets Married. KSFA 1959-05 Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 6 Croswell Speech Reel 1 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8 Anna-Livia Plurabelle ; Brendan Behan on James Joyce. KPFA 1963-03-17 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 8 Sing Me A Song of Social Significance, KPFA 1962-02-23 Physical Description: 1 3" open reel tape
Box 3
Dr. George McManus, piano 1964-02-23
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 8
Minesolini [?] ; Xmas Music. Both Tracks To Be Re-recorded, Background Hum
Physical Description: 1 5" open reel tape
Box 6
Miscellaneous, Off-The-Air, Mostly Popular 1956-12-15
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 19 Collection ARS.0117 5. miscellaneous KPFA miscellaneous broadcasts
Edith Piaf. I Regret Nothing, KQED TV 1976-03-06
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Popular Discs of the Late 20's, Early 30's [voice of Finnie at end]
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 5
Redwood Empire Score. Carmen Dragon 1965
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Box 1
Rock at the San Francisco Yacht Club, Belvedere. Cleveland Wrecking Company, Marble Farm 1968-09-14
Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tape
Guide to the Richard Finnie ARS.0117 20 Collection ARS.0117