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Collection Overview

Title: Possible Tape Exchange Sound Recordings, 1969-1975

ID: 9/50/50

Primary Creator: National Federation of Community Broadcasters Program Service (ca. 1970-1985)

Extent: 3.0 cubic feet

Subjects: Music - United States, National Women's Music Festival, Radio Broadcasting, World Music

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of 1/4" audio reels from the library of the Possible Tape Exchange and its subsequent incarnation the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) Radio Program Exchange. Programs were recorded from community radio broadcasts, and cover subjects including blues music; classical music; ragtime music; jazz in the Soviet Union; the music of Madagascar, Argentina, and Mexico; American gospel; and the 1974 and 1975 National Women's Music Festivals held in Urbana, IL.

Biographical Note

The Possible Tape Exchange grew from an informal network of American non-commercial community radio stations formed in the late 1960s. At that time, Bill Thomas of Urbana, IL began publishing a newsletter to explore the notion of sharing programs among these stations through the dubbing and exchange of programs recorded to tape, titling it the "Possible Tape Exchange Newsletter". Thomas eventually established such a library of programs collected from public radio stations. The library started in his homes in Urbana and Champaign, IL, and later moved to commercial space in downtown Champaign. According to Bill Thomas, the newsletter had been using the phrase "possible tape exchange" for long enough that it seemed natural (and amusing) to use it as the official title of the program exchange. This network of Possible Tape Exchange participants later evolved into the National Alternative Radio Konvention (NARK) and its descendant the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB). The Possible Tape Exchange and NFCB Program Exchange served the NFCB member stations until approx. 1985, when the Exchange and Bill Thomas became part of the Pacifica Program Service.

Sources:

Bill Thomas, personal correspondence, January 28 & February 14, 2014.

"History", National Federation of Community Broadcasters, http://www.nfcb.org/history/

Subject/Index Terms

Music - United States
National Women's Music Festival
Radio Broadcasting
World Music

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Access Restrictions: None.

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Reel 1: Clarence Johnson & Andrew Cauthen - Blues, November 30, 1971 (date recorded): "Old time, funky blues from E. St. Louis, Clarence picks and sings and Andrew plays harp." Interview by Barry Berger, recorded in St. Louis at KDNA-FM.; Subject(s): Blues Music; East Saint Louis (Ill.); Call Number: TAPE M098352 Reel 1
Reel 2: Clarence Johnson & Andrew Cauthen - Blues, November 30, 1971 (date recorded): "Old time, funky blues from E. St. Louis, Clarence picks and sings and Andrew plays harp." Interview by Barry Berger, recorded in St. Louis at KDNA-FM.; Subject(s): Blues Music; East Saint Louis (Ill.); Call Number: TAPE M098352 Reel 2
Reel 3: Booker White at Shelden Memorial (Auditorium), May 5, 1972 (date recorded): Recorded live in St. Louis.; Subject(s): White, Bukka; Blues Music; Call Number: TAPE M098353 Reel 1
Reel 4: Booker White at Shelden Memorial (Auditorium), May 5, 1972 (date recorded): Recorded live in St. Louis.; Subject(s): White, Bukka; Blues Music; Call Number: TAPE M098353 Reel 2
Reel 5: Booker White at Shelden Memorial (Auditorium), May 5, 1972 (date recorded): Recorded live in St. Louis.; Subject(s): White, Bukka; Blues Music; Call Number: TAPE M098353 Reel 3
Reel 6: Bob West Blues, undated: Subject(s): Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937; Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939; KRAB-FM; Call Number: TAPE M098354
Reel 7: Prewar Blues, October 31, 1969 (date recorded): Intro - Kokomo Arnold; Let's All Do That Thing - Minnie Wallace; Mistreatin' Mama, Pretty Mama Blues - Furry Lewis; Going Away Blues, Rolling Log Blues - Lottie Beaman w. Miles Pruitt; All By Myself, Stove Pipe Stomp - Big Bill Broonzy; Hot Mattress Stomp - Edwards, Shine, & Smith. Bob West, KRAB.; Subject(s): Edwards, Bernice; Black Boy Shine; Smith, J. T. (John T.); Blues Music; Call Number: TAPE M098355 Reel 1
Reel 8: Prewar Blues, October 31, 1969 (date recorded): Bob West, KRAB.; Subject(s): Blues Music; Call Number: TAPE M098355 Reel 2
Reel 9: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Karen Horwitz (Champaign-Urbana). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 1
Reel 10: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Karen Horwitz (Champaign-Urbana), Barbara Hollok (Carbondale). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 2
Reel 11: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Barbara Hollok (Carbondale), Deborah Ketai (Chicago?). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 3
Reel 12: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Deborah Ketai. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 4
Reel 13: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Iris Bell (alone) (Ann Arbor, MI) Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 5
Reel 14: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Holly Tannen (dulcimer player from West), Terry Garthwaite (guitar) (San Francisco - Berkeley). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 6
Reel 15: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): You Do; You're Fine; Ticket to Chicago - Terry Garthwaite and two friends. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 7
Reel 16: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Introduction to Terry Garthwaite; part of "Rock 'n Roller At Heart"; Intro to Jeanne Mackey and Mary Trevor ; Truck Driving Woman; Lay Lady Lay; Lay Me Down. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 8
Reel 17: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "One's Who've Gone Before Us" - Jeanne Mackey and Mary Trevor (Washington D.C.); "Ain't No Metaphor", "I Took A Walk Today", "Cock Rock" - Sally Avedikian. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 9
Reel 18: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Sweet Angelina", "Oppression Song", "Women in Love", "Four Women", "Harlot and the Lady", "Don't Cry Now" - Sally Avedikian. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 10
Reel 19: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "What Do You Do In the Morning", "Jesus Song", "Being All Right", "The Best of My Love", "Going Home Again", "Spend Some Time With Me", "Leaving" - Deirdre McCalla (Los Angeles). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 11
Reel 20: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Falling Out of Love", "Sister Glow" - Deirdre McCalla; "Instrumental", "Red Wine and Beer", "You Laugh in Colors" - Carol Rowe and April Kasiver (Toronto); "Cotton Mill Girls", "Invocation" - New Harmony Sisterhood (Boston). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 12
Reel 21: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Working Class Women", "Relating to Women", "Sojourner Truth" - New Harmony Sisterhood; "Don't Tread On Me", "Assault in the Night", "Stuffed Dog" - Kristin Lems. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 13
Reel 22: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "I Wasn't Surprised" - Kristin Lems; "Union", "More Love", "Lay Down", "Come By Here", "Allen Lee", "Cotton Needs Pickin'" - Bessie Burkes. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 14
Reel 23: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Saints Go Marching In", "Amen" - Bessie Burkes; "When I Was I Was Young Girl", "Street Walker Blues", "I Hate the Capitalist System", "Song by Violetta Parra" - Barbara Dave (New York). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 15
Reel 24: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 16
Reel 25: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Amazing Grace", "Once I Was" - Rachel Faro (California); "Song About Police", "Antonia", "Rockefeller" - Suni Paz (Argentina; New York). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 17
Reel 26: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Gloria Martinez", "Latin American Women", "Juana Lewis" - Suni Paz; "Hard is the Fortune", "I Can Always Count On You", "All Your Nothing's Gone", "Something About Winning", "Here Comes the Bride", "Older Women" - Dee Warner (St. Louis). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 18
Reel 27: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Song to a Bad Audience" - Dee Warner; Catherine Brantilan (comedy, Milwaukee); Vicki Randle. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 19
Reel 28: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): "Lady-O", "In the Name of Love", "Twisted", "Miracle in My Soul", "Sweet Darling Woman", "Spinning and Spinning" - Vicki Randle; "Walking in the Parlor/Soldier's Joy" - Boyer Family and Melissa Trier. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 20
Reel 29: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Boyer Family: mother and three daughters from St. Louis, MO. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 21
Reel 30: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Cathy Winter (Virginia). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 22
Reel 31: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Judy Roberts and Band (Chicago). Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 23
Reel 32: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Holly Tannen, Barbara Dave, Kristen Lems, Rachel Faro. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 24
Reel 33: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Holly Tannen; Jeanne Mackey and Mary Trevor; Terry Garthwaite and Friends; Barbara Dave; Rachel Faro. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 25
Reel 34: National Women's Music Festival, June 1975 (date recorded): Rachel Faro; Mary [Trevor] & Jeanne [Mackey]; Kristen Lems; Barbara Dave; Holly Tannen. Produced by Ceil Muller, National Women's Music Festival.; Subject(s): Music Festivals--Illinois; Call Number: TAPE M098356 Reel 26

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