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(DIR) Post #AvCl4aiKij7QeI6atk by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:47:53Z
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The Internet Archive gets many donations over the months and years - some are dealt with immediately, while others might not be gotten to for some time, or are redundant. In one case, a treasure trove sat for a few years and has finally come online: The Bob Lardine Tapes.https://archive.org/details/boblardinetapesThere are three sets of materials here: Interviews, Personal Tapes, and Jewish Hour Radio Tapes. Let's talk about the first.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4f4oV5TgBAebUe by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:49:47Z
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Bob Lardine was a journalist all his life, doing writing and interviews. Among his long history, these interview tapes are from his time working for the NY Post in the 1970s and 1980s. His work included the Hollywood beat, talking to actors, producers and directors about their projects and life, and then putting them into the Sunday NY Post edition.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4jfpPPSkR80Dk8 by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:50:44Z
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These are audio tapes he used to do those interviews. He would often use the same tape multiple times, overwriting with each new interview, but he obviously didn't know I'd be coming down the line decades later.In the 56 interview tapes we recovered, digitized, and put up, we have extensive interviews with stars both here and gone, television and movies, stars at the end of their careers and stars just starting out, speculating on what comes next.All are of spectacularly terrible quality.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4njsIJ4n2pvVbc by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:52:21Z
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Clearly, Bob would put the tape machine on the table in the dressing trailer, restaurant, or home of the interviewee and let it rip while he took notes. I suspect he was working mostly off the notes and just kept the tapes as a drop-dead verification he wrote something down. But we get to hear the tone, thoughts, and voices of the people being interviewed, and it's quite illuminating. Bob is a VERY good interviewer, and these stars are not putting up a front as they chat.
(DIR) Post #AvCl4sN14ilLPOGpAe by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-16T23:55:00Z
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A personal favorite for me is Henry Winkler, just recently given co-star status on Happy Days in the third season, and speculating about where his career could go. People have talked about how Winkler seems so gentle and thoughtful in interviews for later years, but he's definitely like that here: Humble, realizing his luck, worried about typecasting, respecting his temporary status on the "throne", and being ready for the next stage of life when it comes.https://archive.org/details/Henry_Winkler_Interview_by_Bob_Lardine
(DIR) Post #AvCl4wgf1cqwnTUZLU by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-17T00:00:03Z
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Finally, there's another bit of precious history in these tapes that came out - Bob did work with something called the Jewish Hour in Arizona, which was syndicated to other parts of the country. It has Yiddish sequences, songs, and other aspects of variety and news radio, and as far as my multiple searches can tell, there's basically no information on the net about this. And here we have recordings!https://archive.org/details/Jewish_Hour_Recordings_And_Interviews
(DIR) Post #AvCl51RbL2mHYDU74C by textfiles@mastodon.archive.org
2025-06-17T00:01:59Z
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I hope there's other amazing recordings out there, other sets we can bring to life. If there are, I'll be proud to do it.