Bob Dylan - The Radio Songs 1961- 63 Vol. 1 stewART Compilation 2006 - 1 CD (76.55) A collection of all the songs from Dylan's early radio appearances but without the interviews and most of the introductions, etc - a few parts of talk over actual song intros and some other very small sections of dialogue have been retained, but essentially the music is presented alone ! Below are the radio show details if you want to track down the unedited versions. Vol. 2 to follow with songs from "Billy Faier Radio Show" Oct. 1962 WBAI radio, NYC / “Wireless Waves” - Skip Weshner Show WBAI radio, February 1963 NYC / “The World Of Folk Music” with Oscar Brand - March 1963, WNBC/New York City / "Studs Terkel's Wax Museum" - April 1963, Chicago WFMT Sources - "Saturday Of Folk Music" a 12-hour Hootenanny Special - 29 July 1961 Riverside Church New York City WRVR radio (broadcast same day) - from Riverside Church - Les Kokay Remaster "Oscar Brand's Folk Song Festival" - 29 October 1961 WNYC radio New York City Mono FM recording - - from "Early Dylan" remaster "Folksinger’s Choice" with Cynthia Gooding - 13 January 1962 WBAI Studios New York City (broadcast 11 March 1962) - from "Folksinger’s Choice" Yellow Dog / 017 (Only known Dylan recordings of Smokestack Lightning, Hard Travelin' and Roll On, John) 'Broadside show' May 1962 - WBAI-FM, New York City, (Broadcast Fall 1962).Mono radio recording - tracks 119 & 120 from 'Official Rarities' / 121 from 'Broadside' / Gunsmoke Records Vol. 1 "Saturday Of Folk Music" 12 hour Hootenanny Special, WRVR radio - 29 July 1961 - Riverside Church, New York City 101.Handsome Molly (Trad.) 102.Omie Wise (Trad.arr.Clarence Ashley/Doc Watson) 103.Poor Lazarus (Trad.) 104.Mean Old Railroad (Danny Kalb) - with Danny Kalb (vocal & guitar) 105.Acne (Eric von Schmidt) - with Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (vocal & guitar) "Oscar Brand's Folk Song Festival" - 29 October 1961 - WNYC / New York City 106 Sally Gal (Woody Guthrie) 107 The Girl I Left Behind (Trad.) Only known recorded performance "Folksinger’s Choice" with Cynthia Gooding - 13 January 1962 - WBAI Studios, New York City - (broadcast 11 March 1962) 108 Lonesome Whistle Blues (Hank Williams/Jimmy Davies) 109 Fixin' To Die (Bukka White) 110 Smokestack Lightning (Howlin' Wolf) Only known recorded performance 111 Hard Travelin' (Woody Guthrie) Only known recorded performance 112 The Death of Emmett Till (Dylan) 113 Standing on the Highway (Dylan) 114 Roll On, John (Trad.arr.Bob Dylan) Only known recorded performance 115 Stealin' (Trad.arr.Memphis Jug Band) 116 Long Time Man (Trad.arr.Alan Lomax) 117 Baby Please Don't Go (Big Joe Williams) 118 Hard Times in New York Town (Dylan) 'Broadside show' - May 1962 WBAI-FM, New York City 119 Ballad of Donald White (Dylan) 120 The Death of Emmett Till (Dylan) 121 Blowin' in the Wind (Dylan) - with Gil Turner, Pete Seeger & Sis Cunningham (backup vocal) Bob Dylan - vocal, guitar, harmonica Notes - WRVR Radio - from http://www.southstation.org/wrvr/ What began as a community service of Riverside Church of New York City in 1961, WRVR changed gears in the 70s to become an internationally-recognized jazz station. Max Cole remained it's leading personality ftom the outset until his recent death in 2006. The station began broadcasting on January 1st 1961 at 12 noon as an inaugural member of a newly formed non-profit Educational Radio Network. It was one of the seeds planted for what we now know of today as National Public Radio. WRVR was charged with "the responsibility of serving the tastes, interests, needs and desires of the people of the Metropolitan New York City Area… presenting information, fine arts, religious and educational programming." By all standards, as a media innovator for the religious community, Riverside Church was at the top of its class. The words of the then Senior Minister, Robert Mc Cracken, captured the spirit of those times. "Christianity is concerned with every province of human life. The church should weild a broad cultural influence and endeavor to lift the whole level of the life of society…Our radio station is a pioneering venture with this as an objective." WNYC FM broadcasting was a recent innovation on February 24, 1943, the date WNYC began experimental FM operations on 43.9 megacycles* under the call letters W39NY. Only a few stations in the U.S. had adopted the technology after Major Edwin Armstrong, a Columbia University professor, began his pioneering transmissions from atop the Empire State Building in 1934. But as General Electric and other companies began making FM receivers commercially available in the early 1940s, it was only natural that WNYC would make the leap. WNYC-FM began full operations on March 13, 1943 from a one-kilowatt antenna on the Municipal Building (above). What led WNYC to adopt FM during frugal wartime conditions? According to a report by Morris Novik, WNYC's director from 1937-1946, the station saw several advantages to FM. For one, it allowed WNYC to remain on the air around the clock, since FM stations didn't interfere with one another (whereas WNYC-AM shared its wavelength with WCCO in Minneapolis). FM also represented an acoustic improvement over the raspy, static-plagued AM band. And the FM transmitter was erected without any additional costs to the city. In its early years, WNYC-FM was the only FM station in the U.S. that broadcast programs created expressly for FM. Among these was "Nights at the Ballet," a series of broadcasts of the ballet orchestra from the Metropolitan Opera House and the New York City Center. Also featured were opera broadcasts by the City Center Opera Company (later New York City Opera) and the San Carlo Opera Company. New York listeners soon came to associate FM with classical music. During the 1950s, WNYC-FM became known as the "high fidelity voice of New York City," and a surge in listenership led to gradual lengthening of the FM airtime, until November of 1956, when the station began a 24-hour-a-day operations. Audience ratings skyrocketed in response to many live concerts and music-and-discussion programs including Speaking of Music, Music Roundtable, This is America's Music, Music for the Connoisseur, Ballet Time, the annual Opera Festival, and the American Music Festival, among others. Further improvements came in 1966, when the station moved its transmitter to the 102-story Empire State Building. A year later came the debut of stereophonic broadcasting, a development that bolstered the station's summer season of outdoor concerts. While the antenna moved to the World Trade Center during the 1970s, it returned once again to the Empire State Building on November 26, 2002. Today, both the AM and FM signals can be heard around the globe, streamed on the station's newest broadcast voice, WNYC.org Oscar Brand's FOLKSONG FESTIVAL - WNYC Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Oscar's Folksong Festival, the program has been awarded entry into the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records for the "Longest Running Radio Series With the Same Host." "In December 1995, Oscar Brand celebrated his 50th anniversary as host of the Folksong Festival on WNYC, New York's municipal radio station. In that half century, Mr. Brand has personally championed folk music and has provided a platform for its most important and influential proponents. The artists featured by Oscar Brand include Woody Guthrie, The Weavers (who took their name from a listener's suggestion) and Huddie Ledbetter. In the McCarthy 1950s, many performers blacklisted as communists by commercial broadcasters found their only radio airplay with the courageous Mr. Brand. New folk performers soon made their way to Oscar's studio: Bob Dylan, Judy Collins Harry Belafonte, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Harry Chapin, Arlo Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, among many others." ( excerpt from the Fifty-Fifth Annual Peabody Awards Program Guide, The Waldorf-Astoria, New York) 2005 - WNYC and folk music icon Oscar Brand celebrate WNYC-FM's 60th anniversary in this two-hour special highlighting the wide range of folk music's innovators who have appeared in the WNYC studios since the late 1940's. Featured are exclusive performances from Bob Dylan, Suzanne Vega, Simon and Garfunkel, and many other folk legends. Brand's weekly Folksong Festival is the longest running program with a single host in the history of radio, having launched in 1945. Over the years it has survived battles with mayors and blacklists, all the while promoting traditional and contemporary folksong Oscar Brand : I went with Dave van Ronk to see Dylan's early performances at Folk City... I thought Bob was pretty crummy. He was a pale version of Woody, and I thought some of his songs were maladroit... Once in a while, he would hit the right element of poetry. He was like Woody, in that he wrote bad and he wrote good. When he wrote good, he was a genius. He was a performer of some considerable fire; and that makes you overlook a lot of things... Robbie Woliver, Hoot! A 25-Year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene, New York, NY, 1986; p. 67. http://www.oscarbrand.com/ Oscar Brand's radio show FOLKSONG FESTIVAL WNYC - 29 October 1961 Oscar Brand - November 4th, Saturday Bob Dylan will be singing at the Carnagie Chapter Hall. And that should be a very special occasion. Bob was born in Duluth, Minnesota. But Bob you weren't raised in Duluth were you ? Bob Dylan - I was raised in Gallup, New Mexico. Oscar Brand - Do you get many songs there ? Bob Dylan - You get a lot of cowboy songs there. Indian songs. That vaudeville kind of stuff. Oscar Brand - Where'd you get your carnival songs from ? Bob Dylan - Uh, people in the carnival. Oscar Brand - Do you travel with it or watch the carnival ? Bob Dylan - Travel the carnival when I was about 13 years old. Oscar Brand - For how long ? Bob Dylan - All the way up till I was 19 every year off an on I'd join different carnivals. Oscar Brand - Well I'd like to hear one of the kinds of music that you've been singing and I know you've been doing quite well, and I know you'll be singing at the Carnegie Chapter Hall. Do you wanna pick something out ? Bob Dylan - Well I'll pick a carnival song that I learnt. Wrote. Do you wanna hear one of them ? < plays Sally Gal > Oscar Brand - Thank you Bob Dylan for Sally Gal and we'll expect you back tonight before the end of the tonight's Folk Song Festival. I'm Oscar Brand and I'm here on WNYC New York. Now lets return to our guest this evening. His name is Bob Dylan and on November 4th he will be at Carnegie Chapter Hall in a very exciting concerts of songs that he's collected since his first days. When he was born in Minnesota, and then he went down to the south west. He traveled around the country with carnivals and as we heard earlier he's collected a lot of many songs from many people Bob I know that that means when you travel that much that you hear a lot of songs. But doesn't it also means, mean that you forget a lot of songs that way? Bob Dylan - Oh yeah. I learned, forgot quite a few I guess. An once I forgot 'em I usually heard the name of them. I looked 'em up in some book and learned 'em again. Oscar Brand - Can you read music? Bob Dylan - No I can't. But this here song's a good example. I learned it from a farmer in South Dakota. An err he played the autoharp. His name was Wilbur, live outside of Sioux Falls, when I was visiting people and him. Heard him do it an .., I was looking through a book sometime saw the same song and remembered the way he did it. So this is the song. < plays The Girl I Left Behind > Oscar Brand - Thank you very much Bob Dylan. And the very best of luck on your concert November 4th at Carnegie Chapter Hall. In which I know as your audience realises there'll be a lot of exciting material, new and beautifully presented. And thanks very much Israel Young for bringing Bob down and for sponsoring the concert he's gonna have too. Cynthia Gooding "Folksinger’s Choice" WBAI 'Tall, beautiful, intelligent, multilingual Village folk singer'. one of Jac Holzman's first signings on Elektra, and an early mainstay of the Greenwich Village folk scene. Recordings - The Queen Of Hearts - English Folksongs 1953 / Mexican Folk Songs 1953 / Italian Folk Songs 1954 / Theodore Bikel and Cynthia Gooding A Young Man and a Maid (AKA: Love Songs Of Many Lands) 1956 / French And Italian Folksongs - Cynthia Gooding and Yves Tessier