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Friday June 18, 1999

Father's Day

Lost & Found Sound: Her Father's Voice

June 18, 1999 • Susan Stamberg marks Fathers Day by dusting off 78 rpm home recordings made in 1940 and later by her father. He's been dead three decades. She never had the heart to listen before, feeling his loss was still too near to deal with.

Lost & Found Sound: Her Father's Voice

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Friday April 9, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Lost And Found Sound: The Art Of The Carnival Talker

April 9, 1999 • As part of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED's year-long Friday series, we travel to the world of the Carnival Talker. Many call them "Barkers," but they dislike that term.

Lost And Found Sound: The Art Of The Carnival Talker

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Friday April 2, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Extinct Tongues

April 2, 1999 • A linguist in Flagstaff, Arizona, Bonny Sands, told us about her colleague from South Africa, Tony Traill. Traill took some old wax cylinders and documented a lot of the now extinct languages of South Africa. He has now put out a CD copy of the original, which was recorded in 1936. We hear excerpts.

Extinct Tongues

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Lost & Found Sound

Lost And Found Sound

April 2, 1999 • Our Friday feature this week comes from a tip sent by Bonny Sands, a linguist in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Lost And Found Sound

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Friday March 19, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

The Sound of Movies

March 19, 1999 • In anticipation of this weekend's Academy Awards. Critic Bob Mondello, reflects on the indelible sounds we've received from the movies, from Tarzan's Yell to the breathing of Darth Vader in Star Wars.

The Sound of Movies

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Thursday March 4, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

F.D.R.'s Inaugural

March 4, 1999 • Today marks the 66th anniversary of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first inaugural address, famous for the words "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." We'll look back.

F.D.R.'s Inaugural

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Friday February 26, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Lost & Found Sound: Tony Schwartz

February 26, 1999 • As part of the year-long collaboration between independent producers Jay Allison, The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) and NPR, we present this Friday's installment of the series about recorded sound this century.

Lost & Found Sound: Tony Schwartz

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Monday February 15, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Eyewitness at Gettysburg

February 15, 1999 • Quest for Sound curator Jay Allison has unearthed a unique recording:

Eyewitness at Gettysburg

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Friday February 5, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Quest for Sound

February 5, 1999 • Lost and Found Sound wants your recordings. If you have audio treasures to send us, call us first at our National Quest for Sound Hotline.

Quest for Sound

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Friday January 29, 1999

Lost & Found Sound

Introduction to the Quest for Sound

January 29, 1999 • We invited listeners to phone us at 202-408-0300 and tell us about recordings they have saved, from their families, friends, public figures. Quest for Sound Curator Jay Allison tells us how we might use their material and why we care.

Introduction to the Quest for Sound

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Lost & Found Sound

Thomas Alva Edison, Part I

January 29, 1999 • Thomas Alva Edison founded recorded sound. He invented the repeating telegraph and the phonograph, among others. He was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park," his hometown in New Jersey.

Thomas Alva Edison, Part I

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