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What's going on : two programs.

Title
What's going on : two programs. Interviews conducted by John Ogle and Leida Snow.
Publication
[1978].

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Fox, Charles, 1940-
  • Flack, Roberta
  • Leather, Edwin
  • Jackson, Tom, 1932-
  • Tauber, Peter
  • Steinem, Gloria
  • Snow, Leida
  • Ogle, John
  • WPIX-FM (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Found In
Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.
Description
2 streaming audio files (approximately 124 minutes) : digital, stereo.
Summary
  • Part 1 (00-30:00 minutes). Leida Snow interviews American singer-songwriter and musician Roberta Flack. Flack talks about her professional background and career that she switched from classical singer to blues, folk, pop and jazz singer. She also talks about the release of her new album Blue lights in the basement (1977), and about her plans to produce her own album (Roberta Flack, released in 1978). Various recordings of songs are performed by Flack during the program such as "Killing me softly with his song" that won the 1973 Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
  • Part 1 (30:00-44:00 minutes). John Ogle interviews Edwin Leather who talks about his book "The Vienna elephant" (1977) on a soldier-art detective for the Allies at the close of WWII who is now a distinguished art dealer in Vienna, and the search for Nazi loot that leads him to the dark side of Eastern Europe.
  • Part 1 (44:57-60:45 minutes). Leida Snow interviews Tom Jackson who speaks about various problems related to structural unemployment, underemployment, and misemployment that he describes in his book "28 days to a better job."
  • Part 2 (00-16:18 minutes). Leida Snow interviews American singer-songwriter Richie Havens due to his upcoming concerts on Long Island, New York. Various excerpts from Havens's recordings are played during the interview such as "Shalom, salam alaikum," written after watching Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat's visit to Jerusalem, that became a huge hit in Israel.
  • Part 2 (21:45-36:50 minutes) John Ogle interviews Peter Tauber who talks about his novel "The last best hope" (Harcourt, 1978) on the political and social turbulence of the 1960's. The interview interspersed with excerpts from the recordings of The Beatles.
  • Part 2 (37:50-53:20 minutes). Leida Snow interviews Gloria Steinem, American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, who discusses various topics related to feminism and womens rights such as reproductive freedom of women, and a federal funding for abortions in the United States.
  • Part 2 (53:23-63:27 minutes). Includes news, various radio commercials, and announcements of cultural events such as the upcoming concert of Angel, American glam and hard rock band; and others.
Alternative Title
  • Interviews conducted by John Ogle and Leida Snow
  • Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Radio interviews.
Note
  • Title provided by cataloger.
  • Identical recording of Part 1 (00-00:30 minutes) also available in *LTC-A 1911.
  • Streaming files transferred from original audiocassette.
Access (note)
  • Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only at the Library for Performing Arts Research Center.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1911.
Source (note)
  • Leida Snow
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of: Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts, *L(Special) 09-02.
Call Number
*LTC-A 1911
OCLC
952192253
Title
What's going on : two programs. Interviews conducted by John Ogle and Leida Snow.
Production
[1978].
Type of Content
spoken word
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Performer
John Ogle, Leida Snow, interviewers and hosts ; Roberta Flack, Edwin Leather, Tom Jackson, Richie Havens, Peter Tauber, Gloria Steinem, interviewees.
Event
Part 1 Broadcast on WPIX-FM [1978 January 16] New York, N.Y.
Part 2 Broadcast on WPIX-FM [1978 January 23] New York, N.Y.
Access
Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only at the Library for Performing Arts Research Center.
Additional Formats
Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1911.
Linking Entry
Forms part of: Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts, *L(Special) 09-02.
Source
Gift; Leida Snow, 2009.
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Added Author
Container of (work): Fox, Charles, 1940- Killing me softly with his song.
Flack, Roberta, interviewee.
Leather, Edwin, interviewee.
Jackson, Tom, 1932- interviewee.
Tauber, Peter, interviewee.
Flack, Roberta, performer.
Steinem, Gloria, interviewee.
Snow, Leida, interviewer.
Snow, Leida, host.
Ogle, John, interviewer.
Ogle, John, host.
WPIX-FM (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Snow, Leida, donor.
Added Title
Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.
Found In:
Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.
Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1911
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