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Wilt Chamberlain on Tall Tales
Interview by Ann Liguori Original interview recorded in 1992 for the syndicated television show, Sports Innerview with Ann Liguori Transcript Wilt Chamberlain: My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn’t just my [...]
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Beastie Boys on Being Stupid
Interview by Rocci Fisch for ABC News Radio 1985, Washington, D.C. Cassette Tape Transcript Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz: “I wouldn’t be surprised if when we come back from this tour and we start recording our album we have like a song that’s just like a classic hit like The Beatles’ ‘Baby You Can Drive my Car.’” [...]
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Jim Morrison on Why Fat is Beautiful
Interview by Howard Smith Los Angeles, November 1969. Reel-to-reel tape recorder The Smith Tapes, available on iTunes and Amazon MP3. Transcript Jim Morrison: Are you hungry? Howard Smith: Why do you ask that? Jim Morrison: Well, maybe we could order out for some sandwiches or something. Chicken delight or something. Music The Doors “Soul [...]
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Larry King on Getting Seduced
Interview by Cal Fussman Los Angeles, 2001 Related article appeared in Esquire Transcript Larry King: All these tales, any of the stories were not funny when they were happening. I was scared to death going to the principal’s office. Having firemen come running in when you’re asleep on the air. Scared to death. The night [...]
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Sam Pickering on The Art of Teaching
* Interview with the professor who inspired Robin Williams character in “Dead Poets Society” by John Dankosky | studio recording in September 2012 * Hear the entire conversation from WNPR’s Where We Live Music: Maurice Jarre “Keating’s Triumph | Aimee Mann “It Takes All Kinds” | Sondre Lerche “Love You”
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Art Blakey on How to Build a Band
Interview by Ben Sidran in 1982 | Originally aired on NPR’s Jazz Alive Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Amy Drozdowska Music: Art Blakey “Free For All” “A Night In Tunisia” “Fuller Love” Photo: Serge Corrieras via Flickr| Drummerworld
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David Sedaris on Breast Milk, Tips, and Book Tours
David Sedaris interviewed by phone by Gabe Bullard in June 2009 Related piece aired on WFPL – Louisville Executive Producer: David Gerlach Producer: Amy Drozdowska | Slideshow: Libby Walker Photo Credit: Lilja Hrnn Helgadttir via Flickr
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Brian Selznick on Einstein, God, and Reaching His...
Interview by Joe Fassler in 2012 | by phone | digital recorder Related profile appeared on The Atlantic.com Executive Producer: David Gerlach Producer: Amy Drozdowska | Slideshow: Libby Walker Music Credit: Howard Shore “The Movies” “Coeur Volant” | Motion Trio “Stars” | Jean-Michel Bernard “Stephane Visite Appart” Photo Credit: Joella Marano Transcript David Gerlach: This [...]
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Jack Black on Prayer, Video Games, and Satanic Rock
Interview by Brian Raftery in 2003 Diner in Los Angeles | Microcassette recorder Related profile appeared in GQ magazine Executive Producer: David Gerlach Producer: Amy Drozdowska | Slideshow: Libby Walker Music Credit: Blue Oyster Cult “Don’t Fear the Reaper” | Jack Black + “Legend of the Rent” Photo Credit: Bigstock Extended Audio version
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Rodney King on Forgiveness and Being a Negro
Interview Notes Interview by Bobbi Booker April 16, 2012 — weeks before he died // By Phone, King at home in Southern California // Digital recorder Related article appeared in the Philadelphia Tribune Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Amy Drozdowska Photo Credit: Music Credit:
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Muhammad Ali: The Lost Interview from 1966
The Animated Video Short The Extended Audio Version The Backstory Interview by Michael Aisner // Chicago, 1966 // reel-to-reel tape recorder It was in the summer of 1966 when a star-struck 17-year-old set out to interview his idol: Muhammad Ali. Twenty miles from the South Side of Chicago, in Winnetka, Ill., Michael Aisner was calling [...]
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Amber Heard on Not Sitting Pretty and Shutting Up
Interview Notes Interview by Jason Feifer // Manhattan Hotel in 2011 // digital recorder Jason’s Related profile appeared in Women’s Health Magazine Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Amy Drozdowska Photo Credit: Asim Bharwani via Flickr Music Credit: Fourtet “Circling” | Air “Modular Mix” |Electrelane “This Deed” |The Kinks “Animal Farm” Transcript Amber Heard: I [...]
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Andre Agassi on His Mullet and Finding Himself
Interview Notes Interview by James Sullivan //By phone in 2011 // Digital recorder // Related Q&A appeared in the Boston Globe Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producer:Amy Drozdowska Photo Credit: Carine 06 via Flickr Music Credit:Air “J’ai Dormi Sous” | Myslovitz “theme from the road movie” Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. Where Lost Interviews [...]
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Adman Alex Bogusky on Rebranding His Competitive Self
Interview Notes - The Scene: Boulder, Colorado 2010 - The Source: Digital recorder - Read Danielle’s profile of Alex Bogusky, “The Adman Wants a Soul,”in Fast Company Magazine. Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producer:Dave McGuire Illustrations by Paul Swartz Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank, and thank you for joining us as we build this [...]
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Mark Barry on Fighting for Manchester United
Interview Notes - Interviewer: Suhrith Parthasarathy - The Scene: Mark Barry’s apartment in Queens - The Source: Digital recorder - Read Suhrith’s profile of Mark Barry “Glory, Glory for a Man for United” @ The Classical sports website. Music Credits: “Glory Glory Man United” | “Passion”Nightmares on Wax | “we all hate leeds scum” Manchester [...]
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Tony Bennett on Making Love to Music & Shy Stars
Interview Notes - Interviewer: Jeanne Wolf - The Scene: Tony Bennett’s Hollywood office - The Source: Cassette tape recorder Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Amy Drozdowska Music Credits: Tony Bennett “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” |”For Once In My Life” | ”(with Frank Sinatra) Lady is a Tramp” | “The Very Thought [...]
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Christina Ricci at 18 on Anorexia and Other Taboo...
Interview Notes - Interviewer: Thomas Beller - The Scene: Restaurant and apartment in New York City - The Source: Cassette tape recorder - The Article: Thomas Beller’s profile of Christina Ricci, “Hello Nasty”, appeared in SPIN Magazine Transcript David Gerlach: Sometimes when you’re a print journalist and you’re writing a profile, a feature, you get [...]
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Kiki Smith on Tattoos and Making Your Own Art
Interview Notes - The Scene: Kiki Smith’s kitchen/studio in New York City - Listen to the entire interview and more of Tift’s conversations with artists of all stripes via The Spark Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Amy Drozdowska Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank. Where lost interviews come to life. Distributed [...]
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Jon Hendricks on Learning How to Communicate & The Swing...
Interview Notes - The Scene: Recording studio in New York City - Listen to the entire interview and conversations with nearly 60 other jazz legends @ bensidran.com Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Amy Drozdowska Music Credits:Lambert, Hendricks, Bavan “Cousin Mary” |Jon Hendricks and the Horace Silver Quintent “The Preacher” |Jon Hendricks “Gimme That Wine”| [...]
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Martin Scorsese on Soundtracks in Movies and His Life
Interview Notes - The Scene: Via telephone - The Source: Microcassette - The Article: The related article first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach and we’ve added another lost interview to the archive. It’s a conversation with Martin Scorsese and it’s about all [...]
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Bill Draper on Fidel Castro and Their $20 Bet
Interview Notes - The Source: Digital Recorder - The Scene: Bill Draper’s office in Silicon Valley - The Article: Read Danielle’s extended profile on Bill Draper and his family in the July/August 2012 issue of Fast Company magazine. Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producers:Amy Drozdowska Photo Credits:Las Razones de Cuba via Flickr Music Credits:Ellen Allien”Zauber” |Belle and [...]
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Allen Ginsberg and Julian Beck on Reagan, Recordings &...
Interview Notes - The Source: Tape Recorder - On tape: Allen Ginsberg and Julian Beck - The Scene: Room at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City - Tape generously provided by the Living Theatre in New York City. Learn more @livingtheatre.org Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producers:Amy Drozdowska &Libby Walker Photo Credits: The Allen Ginsberg Project [...]
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke on Wankers & Confronting Who You...
Interview Notes - The Source: Digital recorder - The Scene: Library-like meeting room at Philadelphia’s Loews Hotel - The Article: Read Brian Raftery’s profile of Thom Yorke in SPIN magazine. Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producer:Amy Drozdowska Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank. Where lost interviews come to life. Distributed by the Public Radio [...]
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Caroll Spinney on Creating Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch
Interview Notes - The Source: Digital recorder - The Scene: Sesame Street Studios - Read James Sullivan’s 2007 profile of Carroll Spinney in the Boston Globe. Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producer:Shawn Wen Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. Where lost interviews come to life. Presented by the Public Radio Exchange, PRX.org. I’m David Gerlach. [...]
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Thomas Bradshaw on Humor at Funerals
Interview Notes - The Interviewer: Margo Jefferson - The Source: Digital recorder - Read the entire interview with Thomas Bradshaw at Bombsite.com. Executive Producer: David Gerlach |Producer: Shawn Wen Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank where lost interviews come to life. Presented by the Public Radio Exchange, PRX dot org. I’m David Gerlach. [...]
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Dave Brubeck on Fighting Communism with Jazz
Interview Notes - The Scene: On stage at the Litchfield Jazz Festival - The Source: Digital recorder - John Dankosky’s entire interview with Dave Brubeck originally aired on >Where We Live on WNPR Connecticut. Executive Producer: David Gerlach |Producer: Amy Drozdowska Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank, where lost interviews come to [...]
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Jonathan Alter on How to Interview a President
Obama Interview Notes - Date: November 30, 2009 - The Scene: The Oval Office - The Source: Digital recorder - Interview was central to Jonathan Alter’s book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One. Available from Amazon Executive Producer: David Gerlach |Producer: Amy Drozdowska Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank, where lost interviews [...]
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Bono on His Dad’s Final Days
Interview Notes - The Scene: By phone right after 9-11 - The Source: Minidisc recorder - Anthony recorded this interview while writing forRolling StoneMagazine Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Shawn Wen Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach. Thank you for tuning in as we build this American interview archive. [...]
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Surfer Kelly Slater on Problems in His Perfect Life
Interview Notes - The Scene: The Bowery Hotel, New York, NY - The Source: Digital recorder Transcript David Gerlach: Welcome to another edition of Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach Thank you for joining us as we partner with journalist and publications from across the country. Together we’re transforming untapped reporting into a living audio [...]
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Tim Gunn on His FBI Agent Father
Interview Notes - The Scene: Office of Liz Claiborne CEO, New York, NY, 2008 - The Source: Digital Recorder - Read Danielle’s profile of Tim Gunn,“Project Rehab”, in Fast Company Magazine. - Film produced by Nick Michael Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach, and thanks for listening as we partner [...]
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Ellen Degeneres on Her Comedy Start in New Orleans
Interview Notes The Source: Micro-cassette recording of phone call The Article: James Sullivan interviewed Ellen DeGeneres while writing for the San Francisco Chronicle Executive Producer: David Gerlach | Producer: Dave McGuire Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank. And we’ve added another lost interview to the archive. James Sullivan: Hi. Ellen Degeneres: Hi! [...]
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Ricky Gervais on Loving Atheism and Jetpacks
Interview Notes - The Scene: By phone from England - The Source: Cassette recording - The Article:Time Out New York Producer:David Gerlach Transcript David Gerlach: You’re listening to Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach, and thank you for joining us as we partner with journalists and interviewers, writers and authors. Together we’re building an archive [...]
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The Bunny Mother on Life at the Playboy Club
Interview Notes - The Scene: Upper West Side of Manhattan, Spring 2003 - The Source: Microcassette Recorder - Related profile originally appeared in “The L Magazine.” Producer:Dave McGuire Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank and thank you for tuning in as we build this archive of lost American interviews. I’m David Gerlach. [MUSIC: [...]
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Zelda Kaplan on Fashion and Nightclubs at Age 87
Interview Notes - The Scene: Irish pub, New York City - The Source: Minidisc recorde - Related profile originally ran in The L Magazine. Transcript David Gerlach: Today’s conversation speaks for itself. Zelda Kaplan was 87 when we sat down. She’s now 94 and when we met at a bar in Manhattan her night was [...]
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Bob Marley’s Dietitian on Feeding Him Before He Died
Interview Notes - The Source: Recording of Skype call, Spring 2011 Producer:Dave McGuire Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank and thank you for tuning in as we bring you this archive of lost American interviews. I’m David Gerlach. [Music: Bob Marley & the Wailers - “Dreamland”] Rona Steinberg: David, I feel almost like [...]
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Terry O’Neill on His Rolling Stones and Beatles Photos
Interview Notes - The Scene: Via telephone, 2010 - The Source: Digital recorder Transcript David Gerlach: Welcome to another edition of Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach and thank you for joining us as we partner with journalists and interviewers, writers and authors. Together we’re building an archive of the American interview. Today we get [...]
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Pete Seeger on “We Shall Overcome”
Interview Notes -The Scene: Seeger by phone on the way to perform live - The Source: Digital recorder Executive Producer:David Gerlach |Producer:Thea Chaloner Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach, and thanks for listening as we partner with journalists and interviewers, writers and authors, to build this archive of American interviews. [...]
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Chris Elliott and His Dad on Family Comedy
Interview Notes -The Scene: By phone, Chris Elliott driving and Bob Elliott at home - The Source: Cassette Recorder - The Related Article: Read it @Timeoutnewyork.com Producer:David Gerlach Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach and thanks for listening as we partner with journalists and interviewers, writers and authors, to build [...]
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Horror Author Peter Straub on His Love for Soap Operas
Interview Notes The Scene: Straub’s House on the Upper West Side of Manhattan The Source: Recorded on an iPhone with external mic Producers: Dave McGuire & Eric Mennel Transcript David Gerlach: This is Blank on Blank. I’m David Gerlach, and thank you for listening as we build this archive of lost American interviews.Some months back [...]
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