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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains Siday's recorded output, including commercial, non-commercial, and informal work. It includes music and sounds for advertising; logos and identification for radio and television stations and networks; demonstrations and explanations of Siday's production techniques; interviews and speeches; Siday's compositions; experimental synthesizer and electronic recordings; Siday's violin performances; home recordings; stories for children, including readings by the actress Hermione Gingold; Siday productions unrelated to advertising or broadcast identifications; recordings not connected to Siday; and unidentified recordings. Each grouping is arranged alphabetically by title or subject.</p> <p>The series holds notes on original tape contents, some compiled by Siday, others by his estate; these can be found at the top of the container list. Many items in this series bear more than one identification number. The six-digit number is assigned by the library. The other numbers appeared on the original tape boxes and were used for identification in the content listing and inventories prepared by Siday or his estate. A few of the recordings were also cataloged separately by the library and have call numbers.</p> <p>The advertising recordings comprise the bulk of the series. They consist of multi-track recording sessions, mixes, and various versions of finished advertisements, either for radio or television. In some cases, the audio recordings are the sound portion only of television commercials, but video of commercials is present as well. The recordings incorporate traditional musical instruments and voices in advertisements of the 1950s and early 1960s, with the Moog synthesizer incorporated in 1964 and later. Represented companies and brands include AAMCO, Birds Eye, Brazil Coffee, Bufferin, Contac, Dexol, Downy, Eveready, Excedrin, Ford, Foster Grant, Helena Rubinstein, Listerine, Maxwell House, Old Spice, RCA, Sprite, Texaco, and Westinghouse, among others.</p> <p>Radio and television identifications and promotional recordings, like the advertising music, incorporate traditional instruments and vocals before 1964, and become almost wholly synthesizer sounds afterward. Networks and station identifications heard here include the American Radio Network, CBS, and many local stations across the country, including in Puerto Rico, such as WCAU, WCBS, WDSU, WNBC, and WMCA. There are also recordings made for stations in Mexico. Some recordings here are grouped under Siday's Identitones company, and a few recordings are of news radio station broadcasts that incorporate Siday's work. This section also includes Siday's work on a radio program titled <span class=\"title\">Celebrity Horoscopes</span>; generic weather logos for use by any broadcaster; and compilations of work for multiple radio or television stations.</p> <p>Demonstration recordings consist of Siday narratives and sound examples explaining the use of new sounds in advertising and brand identification (these may have been promotional and marketing items produced for radio and television executives). Also present are demonstrations of Siday's methods in recordings for children; demonstrations of the Moog synthesizer and sound processing methods; and a recording of a proposed radio program by Siday, <span class=\"title\">The World of Sound</span>, meant for a general audience. There is also a recording titled \"Electronic Modification of Trumpet Sounds Using the Moog Synthesizer\" which is narrated by Robert Moog.</p> <p>The interviews and speeches include two radio interviews and three speeches to advertising executives. There is also a radio interview with the organist Carl Weinrich, unrelated to Siday or advertising.</p> <p>Recorded compositions by Siday include <span class=\"title\">Concerto Ritmico</span>; <span class=\"title\">Islands</span> (assembled as multi-track recording); <span class=\"title\">Moog Man</span> (for synthesizer and vocalist); and other pieces.</p> <p>The experimental recordings are mostly multi-tracks which are combinations of Moog sounds, electronically processed natural sounds, and acoustic instruments and natural sounds.</p> <p>The recordings of Siday in performance on violin date from 1939.</p> <p>The home recordings consist of audio letters, telephone conversations, room conversations, field recordings of natural sounds, and one home movie. The room conversations are between Siday, his wife Edith, and unidentified other people. There are also home recordings of a man named Irving Gerber. The audio letters are to or from Siday. One is from an unidentified United States soldier in Vietnam during the war. The telephone conversations, recorded by Siday, concern business or legal issues.</p> <p>The stories for children are meant to be demonstrations of another use of the Moog synthesizer. Those featuring Hermione Gingold are a recitation of <span class=\"title\">The Story of Ferdinand</span> by Munro Leaf, and an unidentified story about two animals, Paula and Harriet.</p> <p>Other Siday productions include an album of music from Andrew Lloyd Weber's <span class=\"title\">Jesus Christ Superstar</span> arranged for synthesizer; a project called \"Primative\" (other details unknown); and synthesizer recordings grouped under the title Hare Krishna.</p> <p>The recordings unrelated to Siday (but likely collected by him) include a Friars Club Roast of Harry Brown; recording sessions for the cast album of the musical <span class=\"title\">Stop the World I Want to Get Off</span>; a recording of the comedian Betsy Walker; and a 1955 radio program called <span class=\"title\">The World of Jazz</span> featuring discussion of that year's jazz record releases.</p> <p>The unidentified audio or moving image items are a combination of recording sessions, films, sound effects, and a radio call-in show, among others.</p>"}