WVBR - live audio, 1956-1960.
Collection Number: 35-9-3768

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
WVBR - live audio, 1956-1960.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
35-9-3768
Abstract:
Collection includes 35 CDs of WVBR recordings from the 1950s and 1960s.
Creator:
Mayers, Robert A.
WVBR (Radio Station : Cornell University)
Quanitities:
.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Bob Mayers '59 graduated from Cornell in 1961 with a B. Arch. degree. As a student, he was an announcer for WVBR, the Cornell radio station.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Collection includes 35 CDs of WVBR recordings from the 1950s and 1960s, compiled by Bob Mayers, with a "Sampler Disc" with excerpts from the CDs and "WVBR - Live Audio," a booklet describing the background and content of the WVBR recordings, with photographs for tapes, discs, campus, WVBR, and people on the recording. Recordings include music, comedy skits, information about Cornell and the Ithaca area, local advertisements, a lecture by artist and prankster Hugh Troy, election night coverage of the 1960 Kennedy and Nixon Presidential election.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

WVBR - live audio, #35-9-3768. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Troy, Hugh.
WVBR (Radio Station : Cornell University)
Cornell University -- : Students.
Subjects:
College radio stations.
Radio stations -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
CD-5584
CL-5
1958
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Scope and Contents
Recorded live from the air in the 1950s and 1960s Collaborata with Boy Mayers, Lou Costanza and Steve Segal
Series I. WVBR Discs
1957-1959
Scope and Contents
 Discs' titles labeling key: OI = Out Of It; CL = Collaborata; MR = Mayers on The Rocks; SC = Straight to The Country; LC = Let There Be Cool; TT = These Foolish Things; EN = Election Night 1960; WC = The World Around Cornell
I. A. Collaborata
1957-10-6-1959-05-24
Box 1 CD-7653
Collaborata - DISC 1, CL-1
1957 October 6; 1958 January 12
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Track 1: Second show, with Steve Segal and Bob Mayers Skit: Interview with J Fornue Prudine, Faculty Advisor on Student Affairs; explains new rules for student conduct and Faculty Advisor on Student Imbibment (a take-off on actual proposed revisions to Cornell social code). Music: "New Fangled Tango". Skit: Interview w/ Milton Deathly, Medical Salesman. "Commercial" for United Press International Music: "Melody d'Amour" Skit: Interview w/ Simmons Turish, WVBR Travel Correspondent (first live radio broadcast of a bullfight). "Commercial" for United Press International Skit: "Safety Division", the shocking story of crime and misapprehension. Music: Johnny Mathis, "Chances Are". "Commercial" for United Press International. Time: 6:38, WAV-MBs: 309, Content: COLLABORATA Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Commercial: WVBR "Concert Hall" Skit: Eisenhower preparing for a State of the Union address (before a hidden microphone) Music: Doris Day? Lou Costanza delivers a serious defense of satirizing the President, free speech, etc. Skit: Interview Slamely Fronsky, author of "Through the Nasal Passage with Gun and Camera" Music: Sinatra, "Come You Back to Mandalay" Skit: "Swiss Family Cheese", sponsored by Fiducci, the Greatest Name in Fudge. (Family Cheese lives on an island in the center of Fourth Avenue). Skit: "The University President's Committee on Social Codes." Discussion with Miss Terrence Hump," on requiring chaperones over age 63 at all campus social events (a takeoff on actually proposed revisions to Cornell social codes and Theresa Humphreyville) Commercial for WVBR's "ReveilIe Club." Time: 28:8, WAV-MBs: 284, Content: COLLABORATA
Box 1 CD-7654
Collaborata - DISC 2, CL-2
1958 January 19 and 26
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza and Bob Mayers Obviously, a very early show Skit: Lou interviews Zombly Fredovsky, (Bob) impresionist (of elevator man, etc.) Music Skit: "Commercial": Race between Bufferin and Aspirin inside intestinal tract. Music: "Autumn Leaves" "Commercial": Peter Atsedes' College Spot Rest. Skit: "Big, Big, Big Earth": (shirt demo) Music Skit: Interview: Sturtevant Brone, Song Lyrics Debunker (Lou). Skit: (serial): "Saddle Sores". Bob, Lou, and Steve talk about how unplanned and rough this show was. Ends with fragment of a French show. Time: 28:16, WAV-MBs: 285, Content: COLLABORATA. Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Skit: Bob interviews Mr. Klutz, head of the US Space Program (at launch of Vanguard rocket) Music: "Put a Light in the Window" Skit: Bing Bang Sports Spot: Interview with identical "Teagle Twins", hammer-throw champions. Skit: "Commercial" for Guillotine Razor Blades Music: Sinatra: "The Lady is a Tramp." Skit: "Lone Man's Grovney" (with commercial for "Bell's Phone System", explaining how to dial). Skit: Audience interview with union leader James Hoofer and his wife. Time: 28:07, WAV-MBs: 283, Content: COLLABORATA.
Box 1 CD-7655
Collaborata - DISC 3, CL-3
1958-03-15
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Music: Mickey and Sylvia Skit: Interview with Crovney Underwood, winner of Academy Award for "Best Movie Extra of the Year." Commercial: "Carl Cold" (Joe Herzberg '59) reads a commercial for the Cozy Corner restaurant in Collegetown. Skit: "The Collaborata How Did it Turn Out Club of the Week" (with reports of how TV shows turned out during the week - for people who missed the shows). Music: Calypso. Skit: "Mr. Sadist" (horrible science demos). Commercial: "The Cornell Engineer" (ad lib). Skit: Interview with Gladney Blodklotz (Lou) ("squash" player who plays in "Grub-bed Hall"). Commercial: Rheingold Beer Skit: "Just Complex Charles" (in the operating room). Skit: Piano and vocal by "Tory Collins" (Anthony Kovner '57). Skit: "Mr. Do-it-Yourself" (who is nagged by a kid to "please do something") Music: Elvis: "Sittin in the Balcony" Commercial: The Cornell University Theatre. Skit: "Bing Bang Sports Spot". Bing in Sarasota, FL, for news of baseball season (but Bing only speaks of his dog) Bob and Steve speak of the Boardman Hall Closing theme. Commercial: Cornell Recording Society. Commercial: Lucky Strike Cigarettes. Bob and Steve read the news (with ad-libs). Time: 49:22, WAV-MBs: 498, Content: COLLABORATA
Box 1 CD-7656
Collaborata - DISC 4, CL-4
1958 February 23; 1958 March 22
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers "Cool Collaborata" (starts with "cool" voices) Commercial (botched) for The Concert Hall (Lou). Skit: "Fraternity Rushing Exposé" (what's really behind rushing in the freshman dorms). Music: Doo Wop. Skit: Bob interviews the "Pres. of Venezuela (Lou) during a revolution. Skit: "Johnny Birdseed, Boy Vandal". Skit: "Johnny Mattress" (hoarse-voiced singer demonstrates equipment that smooths his voice for recordings). Music: Johnny Mathis. Skit: Dr. Otto Pretzel (demonstrates dream analysis with a sleeping subject). Time: 31:06, WAV-MBs: 313, Content: COLLABORATA Track 2: With Lou Costanza and Bob Mayers "Ad" by Fidel Castro: "Marecon Firearms" Skit: "Dean Machine" (a satire on Pres. Mallott and campus social code changes). Skit: "Talent Hunt" (a takeoff on Arthur Godfrey Show - featuring the PS 148 Drum and Bugle Corps and other questionable talents). Skit: Steve interviews Mayor John Roon of Ithaca (nee: Ryan) and Police Commissioner Skit: "Commercial" for University Clinic. Skit: "Deane Machine" (serial - university president plots ways to harm the campus). Skit: Bob interviews 'Premier Niki' (Lou) in Red Square - Cutoff at the end. Time: 31:15, WAV-MBs: 315, Content: COLLABORATA.
Box 1 CD-5584
Collaborata - DISC 5, CL-5
1958 March 25; 1958 October 5
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers. Skit: "The Bridge on The River Flanken", Skit: Mock Eisenhower Press Conference (Ike answers questions about the recession). Skit: "Deane Machine" (serial - university president plots ways to harm the campus). Interview: Bob Mayers discusses Cornell campus riots with George Winnacker. Interview: Bob talks with newspeople (Lou Costanza and George Winnacker). Time: 31:44, WAV-MBs: 319, Content: COLLABORATA Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers First FM Broadcast of the program. Lou intros the show, emulating local AM radio stations (with much fanfare, local news, and events on 'WFMF and WFMF-FM'). Skit: "Community Blackboard" (announcements of minor local lost and found with much fanfare) Skit: Takeoff on upstate AM radio stations. Music: Sinatra (cut off) Skit: "Pops with a History". Music: Elvis: "It's Christmas Time Pretty Baby" (interrupted by bulletins of minor local traffic incidents). Skit: Weather reports from around the country: Hale Eddy, Deer Crossing, etc. Skit: Bing Bang Sports Report: Interview with Battling Gatling (has-been fighter - Lou). Skit: From Red's Phonograph Emporium, interview with "Red". Time: 16:58, WAV-MBs: 171, Content: COLLABORATA
Box 1 CD-7658
Collaborata - DISC 6, CL-6
1958 October 12; 1959 February 22
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers First fully-sponsored Collaborata show Opens with "Governor's plea for all to be vaccinated against Parakeet Fever. Skit: "Commercial" for Boredom Gazelle, Dog Photographer. Skit: "Beverly Barker with Absynthe at the Asiatic." Interviews with diners. (The (awful) 'Asia Restaurant' was the only Chinese restaurant in Ithaca at the time). Skit: Spoof of local upstate NY AM radio station ads and announcements. Commercial (actual) for the Plaza Liquor Store on Elmira Road and interview with Margaret Heinz, the owner (actual). Skit: Dean Molton Cross with Opera Ex-pert Sr. Dominico Lagrima, who analyzes lyrics of 'Pagliacci.' Skit: Interview with a sportsperson (who is the wrong person in the wrong field). Time: 25:37, WAV-MBs: 258, Content: COLLABORATA Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Skit: Edwin R Bird: Program on Crime (interviews w/ politicians, criminals) Skit: "Commercial": Ad for Nevada Slot Machine Parking Meter Co. Commercial: Schaefer Beer. Skit: Pres. Eisenhower Press Conference (Bob) (discussion of cars; unemployment; Berlin crisis). Time: 18:10, WAV-MBs: 183, Content: COLLABORATA
Box 1 CD-7659
Collaborata - DISC 7, CL-7
1959 March 1 and 15
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Commercial: Al Fontana Shoestore Bob Monologue: "Syracuse Post Standard" article on last week's program ad for Nevada Slot Machine Parking Meters. Skit: "Just Plain Rocky" (spoof on Governor Nelson Rockefeller) Skit: "Commercial": Shark Loan Co. Commercial: Schaefer Beer. Skit: Bob interviews Moscow Dr. Igor Sadisky (who trains animals and infants for space). Commercial: Schaefer Beer. Skit: News bosses meet to plan next year's news (famines, hurricanes, etc.). Time: 21:48, WAV-MBs: 220, Content: COLLABORATA. Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Reading of various current (bizarre) news articles "Commercial": for a very long-playing record: (2 RPM with cuts of symphonies). Skit: "Throbbing World" (worldwide reports - US Ambassador interviewed in Gringo Plaza during a revolt) Music: "La Bamba" Commercial: Schaefer Beer Skit: Interview w/ Japanese Prince upon his marriage to a commoner. Commercials for Easter Seals and Rothchilds Ithaca Department Store. Time: 23:22, WAV-MBs: 235, Content: COLLABORATA.
Box 1 CD-7660
Collaborata - DISC 8, CL-8
1959 March 22 and 29
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Track 1: Crazy Shingle, Baseball Manager (Lou) Commercial: Schaefer Beer Skit: "Summit Bit": Ike, Khrushchev and Macmillan Commercial: Schaefer Beer Music: Mahalia Jackson (fragment). Skit: (serial) "One Man's Farm," Soil Bank "commercial" (with strane farm animal sounds). Time: 23:53, WAV-MBs: 241, Content: COLLABORATA. Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Skit: "The World Around Cornell" (a satire on the actual WVBR program - Bob interviews a mysterious and hostile foreign student (Lou) Skit: Serial: "Dr. Northcord" - O.R. drama (Bob operates on the station's janitor) Music: 'Life is Funny' Skit: Bing Bang Sports Interview: Tag team wrestling brothers. Music: Modern Jazz. Time: 31:23, WAV-MBs: 316, Content: COLLABORATA.
Box 1 CD-7661
Collaborata - DISC 9, CL-9
1959 April 12 and 19
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers start of the show is pre-empted by "Presidential Address" (Pres. Eisenhower (Bob) addresses world issues - Berlin, Taiwan, Missle Lag and exhibits a Missle nose-cone, "the Nose of our first spaceman John Cohen") Skit: 'Commercial' - "3-Year Floor Wax". Skit: "Academy Awards (interviews as celebrities arrive - Walt Dizzy; Marlene Dietrich) Commercial: Schaefer Beer. Skit: Interview with "The Poncho Lama" "Commercial": Jotgate invisible shield toothpaste. Time: 24:42, WAV-MBs: 249, Content: COLLABORATA Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers missing show introduction. Skit: "Commercial": 'Chock Full o Gelt' Coffee. Skit: Household Industries Amalgamated presents: "Man and Wife," a live wedding (interrupted by commercials). Music break. "Commercial": They Said It Couldn't Be Done (cigarette without tobacco) Bob: "This is the baseball season.." Steve interviews Orville Chicken, Umpire. Skit: "Beat The Press," questioning of 'John Hoff,' intl. Labor organizer (Lou). Time: 19:45, WAV-MBs: 199, Content: COLLABORATA
Box 1 CD-7662
Collaborata - DISC 10, CL-10
1959 April 26; 1959 May 10
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers. The hosts explain how they 'prepare' for the show Skit: Interview w/ Orville Chicken, Singer Skit: "Commercial" for Cool Jazz Skit: "Dear Elvira" (offering personal advice). Skit: Dr. Senile Overshoe Poetry Corner - 'They Went to Sea in a Sieve'. Time: 22:07, WAV-MBs: 223, Content: COLLABORATA Track 2: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers. Memorial Room interviews (humorous) with AG College farm exhibitors. Commercial: Schaefer Beer; Memorial Room Interview with a professor at Mink Exhibit. Skit: "One Man's Fanny Goes Into Town." Skit: Chicken Hatchery (interview with Professor Rodant) (Bob and Lou). Time: 25:59, WAV-MBs: 262, Content: COLLABORATA.
Box 1 CD-7663
Collaborata - DISC 11, CL-11
1959-05-17
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Starts w/ "All reference to purples, peoples, and preems is purely inaccurate." Skit: Tuning an AM radio to hear old-time dance band P25 from the Silver Slipper Grille in downtown Homer, NY Commercial: Schaefer Beer (by Steve, Lou, Bob) Music: Sinatra (cut) Skit: More old-time radio dance band announcers Skit: Station break: "WART - Radio Mediocrity" Skit: Steve interviews Orville Chicken (Lou - about his many careers) Skit: Poetry Dept: Dr. Senile Arlington Overshoe reads his own contemporary poetry (with unusual background) After show's close Bob reads current news. Time: 29:58, WAV-MBs: 302, Content: COLLABORATA.
Box 1 CD-7664
Collaborata - DISC 12, CL-12
1959-05-24
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Lou Costanza, and Bob Mayers Starts with Pres. Eisenhower speech (Bob). Skit: WART, Educational Radio presents Prof. Senile Gearshift's course: English 321 (college English for people who hate college and hate English). Repetitive Commercial Music: "La Bamba" Skit: Lou as Khrushev Humorous commercials. Time: 21:50, WAV-MBs: 220, Content: COLLABORATA SPECTACULAR - Part 1. Track 2: Skit: (serial): "Johnny Birdseed, Boy Vandal." Skit: "Commercial": 'Chock Full o Gelt' Coffee Music: Rock n Roll Skit: Interview: Orville Chicken, Umpire. "Commercial": They Said It Couldn't Be Done (cigarette without tobacco) Skit: "Commercial" for "Boredom Gazelle, Dog Photographer." Skit: Dr. Senile Overshoe, Poetry Corner reads 'They Went to Sea in a Sieve' "Commercial": Fraternity Rushing ("Be in - wear a pin." Music Skit: Bing Bang Sports Interview with Crazy Shingle, Baseball Manager. Time: 33:32, WAV-MBs: 338, Content: COLLABORATA SPECTACULAR - Part 2.
I. B. Mayers on the Rocks
1959-1960
Box 1 CD-7665
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 1, MR-1
1959 September 10; 1954 October 4
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers, Bob asks the audience to comment on the name of the show (talks about being alone on the air; what M.O.R. show will be; reminisces about last year's 'Collaborata') Music: Chet Baker. Music: German group sings "Charlie Brown" (in German). Monologue: Bob's trip to Berlin and behind the Iron Curtain. Monologue: Movies of the 1940s, tap-dancing Music: Primitive Spanish Cave music (with comments) Monologue: "Actual" dialogue between Eisenhower and De Gaulle in Paris. Music: Mahalia Jakcson: "Josha Fit de Battle of Jericho". Closing Monologue: What will this show be like? (with bizarre background pre-recorded by Bob and friends. Time: 23:53, WAV-MBs: 261, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS - 1st SHOW. Track 2: With Bob Mayers Station Break: 'You have been listening to Radio News w/ CBS analysis'. Bob starts: "Are we on the air? Stanley, I want to start with a real upstate NY opening, "Skit: Bob shows how an echo machine makes Johnny Mathis sound good. Big intro to: "The Robert Alan Mayers Radio Workshop of the Air." Monologue: Bob has Mononucleosis, and talks of his blood count, lack of sleep; Kamikaze mosquitoes; Fibonacci's number Skit: First Clyve Klein Performance at the Paddock Bar, Ithaca. Music and Monologue: "Historic Jazz Concert" - (talk of Bob's failing health) Music: "Orienta". Skit: Clyve Klein, a new star in the Ithaca area: "Rock Island Line". (Clyve's first performance on WVBR) Monologue: Bob's illness Music: Jazz piano. Monologue: Bob talks (with bizarre background music made with combs, tools, and flyscreen - pre-recorded by Bob and friends). Time: 28:58, WAV-MBs: 292, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS - 2nd SHOW.
Box 1 CD-7666
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 2, MR-2
1959 October 11, 18 and 25
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers Monologue: Bob talks of a head-on car crash and his blood count. Bob Monologue: "Life is a 5 and 10 Cent Store" Bob Monologue: "Life is a Bob Hope show" - (TV's 'canned' emotions; comments on the 1950s) Music: Fats Waller. Skit: Clyve Klein's 2nd appearance: "Blue Suede Shoes." Time: 29:08, WAV-MBs: 190, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers Bob Monologue: "Excuse me when I pick up the mike and move it closer to me." (with a sick voice, Bob talks of Cornell Coeds serving drinks at Jim's Place, the teen crime wave, etc.) Skit: "Commercial": Conservative Gang Services Skit: Poetry Corner: Dr. Seely Overshoe reads a poem: "Homecoming Weekend"' Bob says, "Stan put on Ape music." Bob Monologue: Radio medical ads; cure-alls. Steve intros Lou as 'Marshall Niki' with Bob as a translator. Skit: Clyve Klein at Ski Lodge: "Midnight Special" Bob Monologue: Autumn leaves; music/memory experiment. Ends abruptly with a music introduction. Time: 27:57, WAV-MBs: 284, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 3: With Bob Mayers. Start of the show is missing Skit: Bob mimics a local AM radio rock DJ; plays Chuck Berry with dedication. Music: Sinatra: "Autumn in NY." Bob Monologue: "Watching TV in an Ithaca Restaurant" (American culture, the Cold War) Skit: Clyve Klein at The Brooklyn Armpit Theater: "All Shook Up." Bob's Monologue on Illness; Proposal for "Anti-Measle Measles." Time: 18:28, WAV-MBs: 186, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7667
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 3, MR-3
1959 November 1 and 8
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers Commercial: Bob and Ray for LandM cigarettes. Bob starts the show: "I am utterly un-prepared; talks of the visit to Enfield Park. Skit: "Mystery Voice Contest" on "W-Knockout" (WTKO, local station). Clyve Klein: At Ithaca's New "Le Pavilion Oizeau" Restaurant sings "The Tide Rushes In" (with man-made seagulls and waves background). Bob Monologue: A guy driving home to Trenton on the New Jersey Turnpike in a decrepit car. Music: Old Jazz Bob's Monologue: Old car junk yards. Skit: "The Ladies' Corner w/ Elvira Bool." (Bob plays all parts as Elvira answers audience questions on women's clothing. Sponsored by "Short-a-Rella" Height Reduction Salon) Music: Steel drums. Time: 31:50, WAV-MBs: 320, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers Commercial: LandM commercial (Ted Osborn '62). WVBR increases power. Monologue: Driving thru Deposit, NY; flying on a Boeing 707; Pay TV; Jack Paar. Bob's Study Collage of American Culture (a combo of ads and music - Arthur Godfrey, Briar's Ice Cream; "In my new Dodge Truck," cuts from a speech by Mayor Wagner) Skit: "Dinner Music w/ Jacques Frey" (Bob w/ French accent) Ad: Obie's Ithaca Diner Music: Mexican guitars Clyve Klein enters studio (drunk) and sings "Waltzing Matilda." Skit: 'Bing Bang Sports Report': Bing covers the "The International Cigarette Lighter Championships." Time: 29:27, WAV-MBs: 297, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7668
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 4, MR-4
1959 November 15 and 22
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers, Bob states: "I went ice skating tonight" Skit: Ice skating on the radio, from Lynah Rink (with commentary and sound effects). Skit: Bob intros Clyve Klein and his group, live from the Memorial Room: "I Got Rhythm" Bob Monologue: "Sunday Supplements and "The World of Anette Funicelli" (current culture). Music: Bessie Smith (fragment) Skit: Bob plays a hateful Charlie Applewhite record (and screams in the background) John Jensen '60: Chief WVBR Announcer: Promo. Time: 22:21, WAV-MBs: 225, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers Bob's homage to Marty Munter '59, who's in an Ithaca hospital after a serious car accident. Music: Doo Wop Bob's Monologue: I rented the Memorial Room for a lecture on Zen (given in doubletalk); "Bit-A-Rama Inc," performing practical jokes on the campus Music: Fats Waller: "Blueberry Hill." Skit: The first and only interview with Clyve Klein Music: Rock n Roll (w/ screaming fans). Bob's Monologue: "Background Being - A Human Blur." Music: Fats Waller Skit: Clyve Klein sings, live in Memorial Room with The Delawares: "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" Commercial: Rheingold Beer Commercial: AD White Art Museum photo Competition (John Jensen '60, Chief WVBR Announcer).Time: 31:20, WAV-MBs: 318, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7669
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 5, MR-5
1959 December 6 and 13
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers, Bob talks of the Beaux Arts Ball at White Hall. Commercial: Cornell "Hotalent" (fundraiser at the Hotel School). Skit: As Bob reads from the Miami Herald, Dick Hamlet enters with payola Music: Michel Legrand Skit: Clyve Klein plays at the Eldora Iowa Bowl: "Tweedle Dee" Bob's Monologue: War Toys (Fall-out Kit; Plastic Home Shelter; Strontium-90 Flakes) Music: Jazz piano. Commercial: Rheingold Beer Skit: Dick Hamlet offers Bob more payola. Time: 32:05, WAV-MBs: 323, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers Commercial: 'The Cornell Engineer' (J. Jensen) Music: Josh White Skit: "Nostradamus Predicts." Bob introduces "Conrad Gozo" Bob Monologue: "The Tingler," with Vincent Price Skit: Clyve Klein sings "Home for Christmas." Skit: Celebrity interviews at the Paddock Bar with Beverly Bird. Music Commercial: Rheingold Beer Theme: "I Wanna Live in a Friendly World." Time: 27:42, WAV-MBs: 279, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS
Box 1 CD-7670
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 6, MR-6
1959 December 20 and 1960 January 10
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers Pre-Recorded show (Bob is in Miami). Skit: The show is a Dixieland Jazz DJ show. Music: Mugsy Spanier Jazz Monologue: Bob bit into a roasted chestnut that exploded; proposes a "Beer and Travel" Full- bright program; Music: Lionel Hampton, Ziggy Elman Music: Dukes of Dixieland Monologue: Bob tells (true) story of blasting sound effects from his freshman dorm window; plays a 'cool' WBVR Cornell Rhythm Club announcer. Music: Hot Lips Henry Levine Music: Dixieland Jazz. Commercial: Rheingold Beer. Time: 29:21, WAV-MBs: 296, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers Music: Steel drums Skit: "World News Symposium - President Eisenhower's State of the Union" Music: Sinatra: "Too Close for Comfort." Skit: Democratic Party TV Spectacular (with tap dancers; Clyve Klein sings "Earth Angel" and "Sincerely" - with doo-wops) Commercial: Rheingold Beer w/ Nat King Cole Skit: More "Democratic Party Spectacular" - (a guest plays the silverware). Time: 27:20, WAV-MBs: 275, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7671
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 7, MR-7
1960 January 17 and 24
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers Music: Toussaint: New Orleans Jazz. Bob Monologue: Artificial Organs. Music: Ray Charles: "Suwannee River". Skit: Bob's take-off on upstate New York AM radio station announcers. Music: Modern Jazz Bob's Monologue: Physical changes on the Cornell campus; (proposes paving the campus; using the campus as a highway; holding classes in service stations). Skit: Clyve Klein sings "Because of You" Commercial: Rheingold Beer Skit: "The World of Big-Time Charlie" (the pulse of Ithaca as felt in downtown eateries). Music: Toussaint: New Orleans Jazz. Bob's Monologue (true): Cornell seniors posing as freshmen go on a corridor date to Noyes Lodge Bob promises to do a "Fraternity Exposé". Time: 31:26, WAV-MBs: 317, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Skit: Takeoff on the WVBR "Marathon." Music: "Fiorello." Skit: "Commercial: Omega Mail Order Fraternity Kit." Music Bob Monologue: Cornell Fraternity Exposé. Skit: Clyve Klein: "St. James Infirmary". Commercial: Nat King Cole for Rheingold Beer. Music: Sinatra "Lady is a Tramp". Time: 32:48, WAV-MBs: 331, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7672
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 8, MR-8
1960 January 31 and February 14 and 21
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. Commercial: LandM Cigarettes (Bob) Bob reads NY and National News. Commercial: Bob and Ray for LandM cigarettes. Bob's Monologue: Spy story. Music: "Look Out" Bob's Monologue: "Editors make up the news. Ending is abruptly cut off. Time: 16:19, WAV-MBs: 164, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers, Bob does show as a takeoff on a local AM Radio Rock n' Roll station. Skit: Clyve Klein sings: "60-Second Man" Bob's Monologue: "My Corridor Date." Music Bob's Monologue: "World Flick Zones" Bob does a Jack Paar farewell. Time: 21:29, WAV-MBs: 217, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS Track 3: With Bob Mayers. Steve Segal and Lou Costanza return for a visit. Lou does spot as a novice announcer. Skit: 'Opera Expert' (Lou) analyzes the lyrics of "Rigoletto." Political 'Commercial' for "Slik-Kit Home Candidate Plan." The music break fades in and out. Skit: "Profiles in Poetry by Thos. Dillon." Time: 23:58, WAV-MBs: 241, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7673
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 9, MR-9
1960 February 28 and March 6
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. Commercial: Bob and Ray for LandM Cigarettes. Skit: A "compet' announcer tries out for the show (Stephan Klein '60). Bob Monologue: Crossing Atlantic on a Dutch ship filled with international students. Music: Steel drums. Skit: Rock 'n Roll. Battle of the Century: The Phantom vs. Clyve Klein (with the audience voting throughout the program). Bob Monologue: On his disillusionment (Iosing respect for age for age's sake; stories from childhood; Miss Weed; standing on the 3rd rail in the NYC subway). Music: Dixieland Jazz. Monologue continues: Crazy things we did when young. Cuts off in mid-sentence: "Clyve….". Time: 28:41, WAV-MBs: 289, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Skit: Compet announcer introduces the show. Bob announces the results of last week's Clyve vs. The Phantom contest and asks for requests for Clyve Klein to sing. Music: Toussaint: New Orleans Jazz. Skit: Bob's take-off on RRN, the local Rural Radio Network (with local recipes, produce, and weather reports). Music: "Politics and Poker" from "Fiorello" Bob Monologue: Review of the movie, "On The Beach" (commentary on current politics; culture as a great sideshow; Gov. Rockefeller's Fallout Shelter program; nations as TV networks). Skit: More takeoffs on Rural Radio Network (with "The Egg Market Report" and weather reports from all over NY State). Skit: Dedications and requests as Clyve Klein sings "Jelly Jelly." Skit: Another compet announcer tries out for the program and closes the show. Time: 31:06, WAV-MBs: 313, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7674
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 10, MR-10
1960 March 13 and 20
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. Commercial: Bob and Ray for LandM Cigarettes Ithaca weather report. Station break. Show is introduced by a compet announcer. Theme: "I Wanna Live in a Friendly World." Music: Caribbean. Monologue: Bob reads exotic entertainment ads from Miami newspapers. Music: Jazz. Skit: Bob does tap dance on the radio Bob's Monologue: My amazing (true) "Story of Ringo Ranch". Music: Bessie Smith: "Nashville Women's Blues." Commercial: Rheingold Beer. Skit: From the Silver Slipper Grill in downtown Homer, NY: Clyve Klein sings a medley of old favorites. Time: 33:05, WAV-MBs: 333, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Starts after a delay. Show introduced by a compet announcer. Music: Latin. Skit: Dr. Seeley Overshoe of the Cornell Department of Poetry reads an original poem: "Ode to Spring in Ithaca." Music: Bessie Smith: "Oh, Judge, send me to the electric chair." Skit: Pres. Eisenhower Press conference (with questions by John Jensen '60, WVBR Chief Announcer). Show closing by a compet announcer. Time: 23:01, WAV-MBs: 232, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7675
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 11, MR-11
1960 March 24 and May 1
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. Commercial: Camel Cigarettes Ithaca weather report (Ted Osborn '62) WVBR station break Bob: "Good Evening - better late than never" Music: Bix Beiderbecke (with grinning sounds). Skit: "Cornell Contemporary Arts Festival": Clyve Klein in Willard Straight. Music Room: "Composition for Guitar and Voice" (as dogs and wart hogs bark and cause mayhem in the background). Music: Little Richard: "Keepa Knockin." Skit: "Friendship Project 60" w/ Edwin R. Birdley (a census of love for America abroad: from Laos. Havana and Seoul). Music: Jerry Lee Lewis: "Great Balls O'Fire." Skit: Cornell Contemporary Arts Festival (action-painting in the Straight). Music: "Kansas City." Time: 30:49, WAV-MBs: 311, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Guest Steve Segal intros show. Bob spoofs a 'cool' radio announcer. Skit: "The Adoless'n Session." Skit: Little Clyve and the Sideburns: Tutti Frutti." Music: Bessie Smith (fragment). Bob's Monologue: Anti-Parents Weekend. Skit: Calvin Frost, Campaign Manager (who's backed only losers for 40 years), discusses the 1960 candidates. Music: Toussaint: N.Orleans Jazz Piano. Skit: Steve intros "Dr. Sealey Overshoe Poetry Corner." Music: Ragtime Jazz Bob closes the show (as Arthur Godfrey). Time: 26:41, WAV-MBs: 269, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7676
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 12, MR-12
1960 May 8 and September 25
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. Bob describes a corporate Monopoly game staged in Willard Straight Hall. Music: "100 Guitars." Monologue (true story): Bob responded to an Ithaca apartment ad claiming he needed an apartment for experiments on rabid Rhesus monkeys, raising his rent offers to overcome the Landlord's objections. Music: Django Reinhardt: "Sweet Georgia Brown." Skit: "Harrison Garth, World Traveler," with a story from a "far-flung land" (a visit to the island of 'Los Borados'). Music: Leadbelly: "Rock Island Line." Monologue: Bob rambles, telling stories of his practical joke escapades. Skit: Report from WVBR Weather Plane. Commercial: The Collegetown Store. Time: 29:43, WAV-MBs: 300, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. First show of Fall 1960. Music: Bessie Smith: "Cakewalkers." Monologue: Bob warns Freshmen against joining committees and clubs. Music: Jazz Bob's Monologue: "My Summer in Turkey." Music: Ella Fitzgerald: "S'wonderful." Skit: Day Hall. Interview w/ Commissioner. Music: Fats Waller: "Squeeze Me." Time: 31:47, WAV-MBs: 320, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7677
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 13, MR-13
1960-05-10
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Track 1 and 2: With Bob Mayers Hugh Troy '1926: Legendary practical joker visits the campus and tells his stories. Time: 19:39, WAV-MBs: 198, Content: MAYERS ON ROCKS W/ HUGH TROY - Part 1; Time: 23:17, WAV-MBs: 235, Content: MAYERS ON ROCKS W/ HUGH TROY - Part 2.
Box 1 CD-7678
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 14, MR-14
1960-05-22
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. Includes skits with Steve Segal and Lou Costanza. John Jensen '60 interviews Charles Manniken, Director, Ithaca Art Gallery (Bob). "Commercial": "Suave Gangs." Music Bob's Monologue: "Background Beings." Skit: Ice skating on the radio. Music: Leadbelly: "Springtime in The Rockies." Bob: "This is WART - Radio Mediocrity." Skit: Dr. Senile Overshoe Poetry Corner, "They Went to Sea in a Sieve." "Commercial": They Said It Couldn't Be Done (cigarette without tobacco). Clyve Klein at swank dinner club sings "Ebb Tide." Music: Jazz. Time: 29:21, WAV-MBs: 296, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS "SPECTACULAR". Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Bob Monologue: A guy driving thru NJ. Music: Jazz Political 'Commercial' for "Slik-Kit Home Candidate Plan." Music: Jazz. Bob's Monologue: "World Flick Zones." "Commercial": 3-Year Floor Wax (Lou). Music: Jazz. Bob Monologue: "Life is a 5 and 10 Cent Store." Bob Monologue: "Life is a Bob Hope show." Time: 32:31, WAV-MBs: 328, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS "SPECTACULAR".
Box 1 CD-7679
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 15, MR-15
1960 October 2 and 16
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Track 1: Music: Dixiel and Jazz. Skit: Mock Nixon/Kennedy Debate. Time: 30:02, WAV-MBs: 302, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Commercial: (actual): 'Nixon for President' Music: Leadbelly: "High Powered Woman." Skit: Nixon-Kennedy Debate (with Bob's coaching dubbed in). Music: Django ReInhart. Bob Monologue: Watching the Echo Satellite pass overhead in Sardis, Turkey. Music: Bessie Smith. Skit: Bob interviews the studio 'audience' (playing all parts).Time: 20:27, WAV-MBs: 307, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
Box 1 CD-7680
Mayers On The Rocks - DISC 16, MR-16
1960 October 30 and November 6
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Track 1: With Bob Mayers. "Political commercial" (Bob). Bob's Monologue: "Fall Weekend." Music: "No Moon at All." Skit: Bing Bang Sports Report: 'Band Day' at Columbia (ends in a flaming stadium). Music: Honky tonk piano. Skit: Elvira Bool Campaign commercial. Bob Monologue: "Voice of America Radio Story": Writing the News in Turkey. Music: Leadbelly. "Commercial": Bob in Girl's Dorm for TV Pamphlet No. One - to put TV's in dorm rooms. Campaign Commercial Bob Monologue: "Age of the Cool." Commercial: Nat King Cole for Rheingold Beer Station break Start of "Burning the Midnight Oil," the show that followed "Mayers on The Rocks." Time: 33:27, WAV-MBs: 337, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track 2: With Bob Mayers. Bob coaches Dick Hamlet, a novice announcer doing a commercial for Unicorn Motors on the Varna Rd. Skit: "And now, coming to you directly from the beautiful Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall…Clyve Klein and his group perform "A Foggy Day in London Town." Bob's Monologue: True story of last Saturday when Clyve Klein entered Schoellkopf Stadium at the head of the Columbia College Marching Band. Bob's Monologue: "Movies and people who watch them"; describes the lousy WVBR radio studio. Time: 16:31, WAV-MBs: 166, Content: MAYERS ON THE ROCKS.
I. C. Other Programs
1959-1960
Box 1 CD-7651
Out Of It - DISC 1, OI-1
1956-04-12
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Track 1: With Steve Segal, Dick Hamlet and Bob Mayers broadcast on WVBR - 640 KC, Thursday, 5:00-5:50 PM. One of the earliest shows; before Lou Costanza joined. Much music. Music: Four Lads, "Watching all the Girls Go By." Music: Ivory Tower. Commercial for "Ballads by Dan Isaacson." Skit: "The First Out of It Travelogue" (interrupted by Mohawk Airlines commercials). Music: Louis Armstrong. "When It's Sleepy Time Down South." Commercial: The Cornell Dramatic Club production of "The Flowering Peach." Music: Doris Day, "We'll Love Again." Skit: "Cornell Poetry Dept presents an original poem." Music: "Out of the Picture" (interrupted by a commercial for Rheingold Extra Dry Beer). Music: Theme from Picnic, "Moonglow." Skit: Bing Bang Sports Spot: Bing reviews the season's programs and covers the "North Atlantic Underwater Typewriting Championships." Music: Lonny Donnegan: "Rock Island Line." Commercial: Ithaca Movie Theatres. Time: 46:10, WAV-MBs: 466, Content: OUT OF IT.
Box 1 CD-7652
Out of It - DISC 2, OI-2
1956-05-24
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Track 1: The last "Out of It" program, with Steve Segal, Dick Hamlet and Bob Mayers Music was subsequently cut from tape. A review of past shows with commentary Skit:"Fraternity Rushing Exposé": What's behind rushing in the freshman dorms? Skit: "Out of It Travelogue": Nome, Alaska "Commercial": "The Students' Cleaning Center "Straight To The Country", interviews with exhibitors at the AG School exhibit in the Memorial Room. Skit: "Edward R Marone" subs for Bing Bang; visits the home of Frome Navish, Human Fly (as he descends the building façade) Skit: Cornell Dept of Poetry presents Dr. Overshow, who reads an original poem, "Spring in Ithaca" Skit: "On The Spot" (Bob covers a theft in China). Time: 32:20, WAV-MBs: 326, Content: OUT OF IT.
Box 1 CD-7682
Let There Be Cool - DISC 1, LC-1
1959 March 17 and May 3
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Track 1: Bob Mayers sits in for Steve Segal. Bob's Monologue: Spring on campus; future careers for graduating seniors; riffs on the U.S. "Post Office commercial." Music: Fats Waller. Skit: Bob talks (with strange background music played on glasses, typewriter, comb, etc.).Time: 30:33, WAV-MBs: 307, Content: LET THERE BE COOL. Track 2: The last show; with Bob Mayers. Time: 30:14, WAV-MBs: 305, Content: LET THERE BE COOL
Box 1 CD-7685
The World Around Cornell - DISC 1, WC-1
1959, March 21
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Track 1: Bob Mayers interviews Australians. Music: Australian Folk Music. Time: 22:58, WAV-MBs: 221, Content: THE WORLD AROUND CORNELL Track 2: Bob Mayers interviews two Venezuelan students on politics, music, etc. Time: 29:39, WAV-MBs: 298, Content: THE WORLD AROUND CORNELL
Box 1 CD-7683
These Foolish Things - DISC 1, TT-1
1959-10-29
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Track 1: With Dick Hamlet '59. Commercial: Smith Typewriters. Commercial: Clyve Klein's live. Fall Weekend, concert in the Memorial Room. Skit: "Redstone Snark" at Cape Canaveral (covers the launch of the Tyrannosaurus, Rex Missle. After the musical interlude, Dick Hamlet introduces "These Foolish Things". Skit: Back to the Cape for the launch of Music. Skit: The International Monopoly Championships (with an audience and play-by-play commentary). Dick Hamlet Monologue: "In Detroit, they have color radio." Commercial: The Cornell Campus Store. Music, Dick Hamlet Monologue: Proposes a new "Real Radio." Commercial: The Cornell Campus Store. Commercial: Clyve Klein's live Fall Weekend concert in the Memorial Room. After show, Bob Mayers does two spots for Clyve Klein's Fall Weekend Live Concert in the Memorial Room.Time: 20:21, WAV-MBs: 205, Content: THESE FOOLISH THINGS
Box 1 CD-7681
Straight To The Country - DISC 1, SC-1
1959-05-18
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Track 1: With Dick Hamlet and Bob Mayers. The AG College's annual exhibition in the Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall. Introductions by Dick Hamlet '59. Bob's humorous interviews w/ farm exhibitors. Commercial: Cornell Campus Store. Time: 25:49, WAV-MBs: 260, Content: "STRAIGHT TO THE COUNTRY" Track 2: With Dick Hamlet and Bob Mayers. More farm exhibit interviews: Jordani Fish Club with snakes, chicks, etc. Saddle Club.Time: 26:21, WAV-MBs: 265, Content: With Dick Hamlet & Bob Mayers.
Box 1 CD-7684
The Election Night 1960 - DISC 1, EN-1
1959-11-08
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Track 1 and 2: Live Coverage from Memorial Romm, Part 1 and 2. Bob Mayers, Anchor. Nixon/ Kennedy Election Night, 1960. Track 1: Time: 32:25, WAV-MBs: 327, Content: KENNEDY/NIXON ELECTION NIGHT 1960; Track 2: Time: 32:24, WAV-MBs: 327, Content: KENNEDY/NIXON ELECTION NIGHT 1960.
Box 1 CD-7657
Collaborata and Mayers On The Rocks -16 Trucks
1959-04-12-1960-11-08
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WVBR Sampler Disc. Programs recorded live from the AIR - WVBR AM and FM, Ithaca, NY. Cornell's Radio Station "THE VOICE OF THE BIG RED." Programs restored and gifted to the Cornell University Archives, October 2009 by Bob Mayers '59, B. Arch. '61. Program notes by Bob Mayers '59. Transcribed from the original reel-to-reel tapes by John Ward, Audio Engineer. Note: Unless noted otherwise, all programs were broadcast live. Time: 49:06, WAV-MBs: , Content: COLLABORATA, MAYERS ON THE ROCKS. Track: 1. Time: 0:26. Title: Commercial (Collegetown Store) & Station Break. Date: 1960-5-18 Track: 2. Time: 0:53. Title: Three-Year Floor Wax Commercial. Date: 1959-12-04 Track: 3. Time: 6:49. Title: Opera Analysis - Pagliacci. Date: 1958-04-12 Track: 4. Time: 1:15. Title: Station Break & Chock Full O'Gelt Coffee Commercial. Date: 1959-04-19 Track: 5. Time: 3:08. Title: Cornell Poetry Corner - Spring in Ithaca. Date: 1960-03-20 Track: 6. Time: 5:09. Title: President Eisenhower Address. Date: 1959-04-12 Track: 7. Time: 1:08. Title: Station Break & Dog Photographer Commercial. Date: 1958-10-12 Track: 8. Time: 6:56. Title: The Saga of Deane Machine. Date: 1958-03-22 Track: 9. Time: 1:00. Title: Local Weather Reports. Date: 1959-01-05 Track: 10. Time: 4:40. Title: Ask Elvira Bool. Date: 1959-03-29 Track: 11. Time: 5:49. Title: The World Around Cornell (Spoof). Date: 1959-03-29 Track: 12. Time: 10:00. Title: Fraternity Rushing Exposé (Monologue). Date: 1960-01-24 Track: 13. Time: 2:09. Title: Payola. Date: 1959-06-12 Track: 14. Time: 1:46. Title: Obie's Ithaca Diner Commercial. Date: 1959-08-11 Track: 15. Time: 3:48. Title: Answering an Ithaca Apartment Ad (Monologue). Date: 1960-05-08 Track: 16. Time: 0:29. Title: Station Break & Commercials (Closing). Date: 1959-03-15
Series II. WVBR Documentation Files
2009
Box 1
Introduction, WVBR Programs from the 1956-1960
2009
Scope and Contents
Written by Bob Mayers '59, B. Arch. '61 to the Cornell Community. Includes background information, as well as infromation about the programs and the tapes.
Box 1
WVBR Tape programs with details
2009