Family Recordings

(circa 1940-1956)

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Date
original mp3
duration

JML Reading a story about boats to Butch
Jun 10, 1941
19.4M
341k 1:55 Download
Butch reciting "Mary had a Little Lamb", "Ol' King Cole"; Music
Jun 10, 1941
19.4M
682k
1:55
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Butch reciting "Littlel Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner","Humpty Dumpty" and more!
Rest of recording is recorded music from the radio.
Jun 12, 1941
25.2M
808K
2:17
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Butch asking 'What's going on" in many different ways
??
3.4M
124k
0:20
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Millicent crying, Aunt Eva and Ethel trying to get a word from her;
Eventually she asks Butchy to "come here" as well as other babblings
Aug 31, 1941
40.6M
1.4M
4:01
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Grandpa Kapner (no processing) addressing Joseph Edward

Grandpa Kapner (slightly processed)
Sep 9, 1941
11M
356k
1:00
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JML narrating a family movie of a "Trip to Fort Davis" ???,??,1942
33.6M
1.2M
3:19
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Uncle Morris talking to Millicent before leaving
May ?, 1943
21.9M
354k
1:00
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Butch telling us about a trip (with two flat tires on the way back and
other adventures
Aug 31, 1943
21.6M
690k
1:57
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Grandma Loewenstein (no processing) talking to Butch

Grandma Loewenstein (slightly processed)
Sep 4, 1944
20.4M
660k
1:51
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Grandpa Loewenstein (no processing) talking to Butch

Grandpa Loewenstein (highly processed)
Sept 4, 1944
16.6M
535k

476k
1:30

1:20
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Butch sings " Swinging on a Star"
Bobby babbling and crying
JML giving date

Bobby crying
Butch giving date
Millicent reciting "Mr. March"
Feb 15, 1947



Mar 18, 1945
72.2M
1.1M
3:17
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Bobby babbling
Butch giving date
Radio hurricane report
Butch "testing, testing..."
Sep 11, 1947
22.7M
796k
2:15
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PTA radio program interviewing JML and "Joseph"
Ethel (apparently with a cold) reading "Little Red Riding Hood
Oct 8, 1947 43.3M
1.3M
3:40
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PTA radio program with Bea Thompson, Mary Carmen Fredeman,
  Bobby Barnes (piano), Katherine Barnes (accordion), Bill Fredeman,
  Henry Fredeman, David Thompson, Joseph Loewenstein, Jerry & Judy
  McInnis (piano); Last bit a song from the radio
Mar 3, 1948
177.9M
6M
17:37
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Bobby unintelligible; JML giving date
Jul ?, 1948
5.5M
197k
0:33
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Ethel on radio about newly founded Jefferson County Health Council
 (Lots of stops and starts on cueing disk - never heard Ethel)
  JML on PTA Forum on radio
Jul 30, 1948
85.8M
1.4M
3:54
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Bobby interviewed by JML (who is too far from the microphone) Dec 26, 1949
67.3M
1.1M
3:03
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JML giving date
JML prompting Bobby to recite "Jingle Bells" (2 verses); "Night Before Xmas"
  and insisting Arthur Elster is a cousin
Another JML interview with Bobby
Dec 26, 1949
125.8M
2M
5:43
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Bobby singing Jingle Bells; quickly interviewed by Ms. Pardue (2nd grade teacher)
Dec ?, 1952
5.2M
188k
0:31
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"Music for Men" - KPAC radio program in tribute of JML
1955 or 56
180.2M
14.8M
16:07
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Unidentified or non-family





"The Masquerade Party" - a joke told by an apparent friend of JML with a Yiddish accent
?
30.3M
1.1M
3:00
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Mrs. Irving Kaplan - recording made in Alabama, then sent to JML and Ethel
before Aug '43
12.6M
605k
1:42
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