Red’s radio broadcast career has spanned more than fifty years, from which he has carefully saved many tapes – almost 400 – and he has put them into SPARC’s hands. There are celebrity interviews, old radio shows, station jingles, and some priceless airchecks. You should be hearing some of these over the next while on the museum floor! To think we were adjusting to having received Cullen’s collection (see below)…
The late adored broadcaster, Jack Cullen, had accumulated a huge collection of LPs, 78s and other recorded rarities over six decades. After his passing, most of his treasure was sold off to the corners of North America. We’re happy to report that a large number of Jack’s private archive of recordings did not meet that fate and fell to the care of Red Robinson. Red is also a veteran and current broadcaster who is passionate (and very knowledgable) about radio history. Red has shown his support for SPARC by donating this collection to us. There are over 700 tapes and a two-foot-high stack of 16-inch transcriptions. We have listened to a sampling of these, and what we’ve auditioned are really engaging. We hope to be sharing these somehow, as audio archives on our website, or by streaming them on our audio server. Visit our Internet Radio page at Program Schedule and link to learn of our progress.
Thanks doubly, Red!