Sound Restoration
On June 25, we broadcast a special segment on the craft of sound restoration. Here are some specialists in the field who may be able to give you advice or assistance in restoring your old recordings.

Books

Edison, Inventing the Century ~ Neil Baldwin / New York: Hyperion, 1995

A History of Broadcasting in the United States, (vol. 1 A Tower in Babel and vol. 2&3 In Preparation, ~ Erik Barnouw / New York: Oxford University Press, 1966

Looking Backward 2000-1887 ~ Edward Bellamy / New York: Penguin Books, (first published 1888)1982

Taking Charge-The Johnson White House Tapes 1963-1964 ~ Michael Beschloss / New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Wheelin’on Beale – How WDIA-Memphis became the nation’s first all-black radio station and created the sound that changed America ~ Louis Cantor / New York: Pharos Books, 1992.

Thomas A. Edison : A Streak of Luck, ~ Robert Conot / 1986

Blues & Gospel Records – 1890 – 1994 ~ Robert MW Dixon, John Godrich and Howard W. Rye / Oxford, 1997

Sounds of the Century – The Fabulous Phonograph 1877-1977 ~ Ronald Gelatt / New York: Collier Books, 1954

It Came From Memphis ~ Robert Gordon / Massachusetts: Faber & Faber, 1995

Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica ~ Zora Neale Hurston / New York: HarperCollins, 1990

Holding On ~ David Isay / Norton, 1996

Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago ~ Ibid / Scribner, 1997

Into a Wild Sanctuary, A Life in Music & Natural Sound ~ Bernie Krause / California: Heyday Books, 1998

Sex and Broadcasting: A Handbook on Starting a Radio Station for the Community ~ Lorenzo Milam / Dallas: Dildo Press, 1975.

American On Record: A history of recorded sound ~ Millard, Andre / Australia: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Journey in the Middle of the Road ~ Muriel Murch / Oregon: SIBLY Publications, 1974.

Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment ~ Ithiel De Sola Pool / New Jersey: ABLEX Publishing Corporation, 1983

The Christmas of the Phonograph Records ~ Sandoz, Mari / Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1966

The Responsive Chord ~ Tony Schwartz / New York: Achor Press/Doubleday, 1973

Wireless Imagination ~ Gregory Whitehead and Douglas Kahn / Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992

The North American Indians, A Selection of Photographs by Edward S. Curtis ~ Text Compiled with an introduction by Joseph Epes Brown / New York: Aperture, 1972

Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of a Vanishing Race ~ Text by Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Bosen / New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976

"Amelia Earhart. Her Final hours and her last words," Sean Griffin, San Francisco Examiner, July 6, 1997

"The Man who Made the Heavens Crackle", Terry Teachout, Civilization, Feb/Mar 1997

"When Victory Turned On the Radio," Wall Street Journal, May 4, 1995

"The Ballad of A Mexican Musical Tradition," Elijah Wald, Arts Etc. The Boston Globe, January 18, 1998.

"Eddie McCoy’s Struggle for Freedom," David S. Cecelski, Carolina Comments, Vo. 46, no. 4, July 1998.

"Emory Cook, First Take," David Lander, Audio Magazine, September 1989.

"Sound," Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, November 21, 1964

"Late Night with Sam and Dave", Robert Gorell, Southern Music, issue 35-40

"13 Presidents Speak," New York: Columbia Special Products

"A Century of Recorded Poetry," Rhino Records, 4CDs, 1996

"Anthology of American Folk Music," Edited by Harry Smith, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Folkways records, 84 selections, 6CD, 1997

"The Beat Generation," Rhino Records, 1992

"Great Speeches of the 20^th Century", Rhino Records, 1991.

"Howls, Raps and Roars – recordings from the San Francisco poetry renaissance," Fantasy, 1993

"I Can Hear It Now – Edward R. Murrow 1919-1949," New York: Columbia Records, circa. 1950s

"I Can Hear It Now – Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, 1933-1994," New York: Columbia Records

"Mapelson Cylinders – 1900-1904, the Complete Edition", Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, Performing Arts Research Center, New York Public Library, New York: 1985

"Mean Old World – The Blues From 1940 to 1994" Washington, DC: Smithsonian Collection of Recording, 1996