{"id":2819,"date":"2013-01-06T21:46:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2013-03-18T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:13:00","slug":"joe-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/2013\/01\/06\/joe-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Smith Interview Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Over a two year period from 1986 to 1988, Capitol Records\/EMI President Joe Smith recorded interviews with more than 240 recording artists and executives. \u00a0\u00a0Clocking in at 238 hours, this 263 cassette collection of oral histories served as the basis for Smith\u2019s 1988 book \u201cOff the Record: An Oral History of Popular Music\u201d.<\/p>\n

After publication of \u201cOff the Record<\/a>\u201d, these remarkable recordings were moved to \u201cstorage\u201d where they remained until early 2012. \u00a0Smith was convinced to remove the interview tapes from his garage and donate them to the Library of Congress where their enormous value was immediately recognized.<\/p>\n

It is of note that this historic collection was preserved and made freely available after a conversation between Joe Smith and a member of the first band he signed to Warner Brothers Music. \u00a0Mickey Hart, drummer for the Grateful Dead and one of the interview subjects, successfully urged Smith to consider donation of tapes. \u00a0It is also of note that the Grateful Dead have promoted live \u201cbootleg\u201d recordings of their shows<\/a> for decades and it is in this spirit that Smith\u2019s interviews are made available to the public.<\/p>\n

On November 28, 2012, an initial installment consisting of approximately 25 hours of interviews with 25 individuals was made available to the public. \u00a0The index page for the existing public collection can be found here<\/a> and a list of the interview subjects is given below.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Tony Bennett<\/td>\nDavid Bowie<\/td>\nRuth Brown<\/td>\nDave Brubeck<\/td>\nBurt Bacharach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ray Charles<\/td>\nDick Clark<\/td>\nNatalie Cole<\/td>\nBo Diddley<\/td>\nAhmet Ertegun<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Frampton<\/td>\nMilt Gabler<\/td>\nEllie Greenwich<\/td>\nHerbie Hancock<\/td>\nGeorge Harrison<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mickey Hart<\/td>\nMick Jagger<\/td>\nB.B. King<\/td>\nGeorge Martin<\/td>\nPaul McCartney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Graham Nash<\/td>\nYoko Ono<\/td>\nJoe Perry &\u00a0Steven Tyler<\/td>\nLittle Richard<\/td>\nLinda Ronstadt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Not sure who some of these modern luminaries are? \u00a0Want to find out? Pop on over to the Music Subject Guide<\/a> page created by Music and Arts Librarian Chris Schiff to discover more from the Oxford Music Online<\/a> and the RILM Abstracts of Music Literature<\/a> databases hosted at the Ladd Library.<\/p>\n

Interested in researching how a musical artist charted over time? \u00a0Perhaps you’d like to compare how a specific single or album charted in the U.S. vs. the U.K.? \u00a0Find out by searching over 60 years of data available to the Bates community at Academic Charts Online<\/a>. \u00a0In addition to stats from over 40 international music charts, you can also follow links to articles from journals like\u00a0Popular Music,\u00a0Journal of the Society for American Music (JSAM),\u00a0Journal of Popular Music Studies,\u00a0Popular Music and Society and\u00a0Rock’s Back Pages.<\/p>\n

A finding aid containing details of the complete Joe Smith\u00a0interview\u00a0collection as well as a short bio of Joe Smith are provided at the Library of Congress site here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From 1986 to 1988, Joe Smith recorded interviews with more than 200 recording artists and executives. The source tapes from these interviews are being made available to the public from the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":3221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collection-highlights","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3364,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/3364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}