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Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings

Title
Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings [sound recording], 1942-1966.
Author
Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.
Supplementary Content
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Additional Authors
  • Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.
  • United States. Armed Forces Radio Service.
Description
  • 747 sound discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm; 16 in.
  • 52 sound tapes : analog.
  • 31 sound tape : analog, mono., 15 ips ;
  • 346 sound tapes : analog ;
  • 35 sound tapes : analog ;
Summary
The Lawrence and Lee collection includes a broad sample of the material that this important team created for radio, television, and the stage.
Uniform Title
  • Command performance, U.S.A. (Radio program)
  • Date with Judy (Radio program)
  • Mail call (Radio program)
  • Railroad hour (Radio program)
  • Request performance (Radio program)
  • Words with music (Radio program)
  • Yarns for Yanks (Radio program)
  • Young love (Radio program)
Alternative Title
Favorite story.
Access (note)
  • Access to acetate discs restricted; advance notification required.
Source (note)
  • Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert E.
Biography (note)
  • Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee were a creative team who wrote, adapted, and produced scripts for radio broadcasts, television programs, and musical theatre productions from the 1940's into the 1970's.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Detailed finding aid available in repository. In: *L-Special 88-03.
Provenance (note)
  • Gift of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
*L (Special) 88-03
OCLC
NYPW88-A22
Author
Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-2004.
Title
Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings [sound recording], 1942-1966.
Access
Access to acetate discs restricted; advance notification required.
Biography
Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee were a creative team who wrote, adapted, and produced scripts for radio broadcasts, television programs, and musical theatre productions from the 1940's into the 1970's. Lawrence and Lee began their collaboration with the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS), which they helped to create in 1942. While with the AFRS, they wrote a wide variety of programs that were broadcast to troops overseas - comedy programs, dramatic programs, and informational programs - including such titles as Command performance, Yarns for Yanks, and Mail call.
After the war, Lawrence and Lee continued their collaboration, working in commercial radio and producing such programs as The Railroad hour, Request performance,Favorite story, and Young love. At the same time, they began to write musicals and television scripts, such as the television adaptaion of James Hilton's Lost horizon, which was aired under the title Shangri-La, and the musical production of Auntie Mame. Overall, Lawrence and Lee produced many major works for radio, television and stage.
Both Lawrence and Lee were active in later years as teachers and lecturers, giving talks to a wide range of academic and industry groups around the country and world.
Provenance
Gift of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee.
Indexes
Detailed finding aid available in repository. In: *L-Special 88-03.
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Finding Aid
Added Author
Lee, Robert Edwin, 1918-1994.
United States. Armed Forces Radio Service.
Added Title
Command performance, U.S.A. (Radio program)
Date with Judy (Radio program)
Mail call (Radio program)
Railroad hour (Radio program)
Request performance (Radio program)
Words with music (Radio program)
Yarns for Yanks (Radio program)
Young love (Radio program)
Favorite story.
Research Call Number
*L (Special) 88-03
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