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Mar 2021

Two Days in April 1968:

James Bevel at the American Friends Service Committee - Rec Feb 25, 1968; KRAB Apr 7, 1968

Seepage with John Cunnick - KRAB Apr 7, 1968

Jesse Fuller Sings and Plays - KRAB Apr 12, 1968

La Chinois: Political Cinema, a panel with Jean Luc-Godard - Rec KPFA Mar 7, 1968; KRAB Apr 12, 1968

Commentary by Frank Krasnowsky - KRAB Apr 12, 1968

Alan Watts, Philosophy East and West - Technical Philosophy and Simultaneous Discovery - KRAB Apr 12, 1968

The Milky Way Mind Warp with "Baron" Rory Funke - KRAB Apr 12, 1968

Lorenzo and Duke on TV: The Hardwick Show - KTNT-TV, Tacoma Channel 11; Apr 14, 1965

The Writer Speaks with Walter Starkie - KRAB Apr 1, 1965

Commentary (excerpt) by John Caughlan - KRAB Apr 11, 1965

The Girl in the Chair (The Roots of Madness) - All about the KTAO music makers

The Genesis of Sex & Broadcasting by L W Milam

Hoi To Irkil Fa Giu - The Message Bearer: Hamza El-Din interviewed by Robert Garfias - KRAB Aug 6, 1970; Rec Jul 17, 1970

Aug 2020

Punkin' Patch produced by Dave Gardner

Punkin' Patch: W. E. B. Du Bois - KRAB Sep 30, 1978

Punkin' Patch: HOLY CATS! - KRAB Nov 11, 1978

Punkin' Patch: "Out of the mouths of babes . . ." - KRAB Jun 9, 1979

Punkin' Patch: There's a Muse in My Classroom - KRAB Jun 16, 1980

Punkin' Patch: Kids Do It Best! - KRAB Jun 15, 1981

Punkin' Patch: Sugar Dolly, Nutcracker and Duke - KRAB Dec 13, 1981

Punkin' Patch: The Readers Digest - KRAB Dec 27, 1981

Punkin' Patch: The Zoot Suit Riots - KRAB Jun 11, 1982

Punkin' Patch: An American Sampler: Four Decades. Part II: The Forties - KRAB Oct 29, 1982

Punkin' Patch: An American Sampler: Four Decades. Part III: The Fifties - KRAB Nov 12, 1982

Punkin' Patch: An American Sampler: Four Decades. Part IV: The Sixties - KRAB Nov 26, 1982

Trade Winds: Mexico - KRAB Mar 16, 1984

Jul 2020

Japanese America: Contemporary Perspectives on the Internment -The Seattle Conference - Rec Jan 19, 1980; KRAB Feb 11, 19, and 25, 1980

The Photographs, a radio play by Donald Barthelme

Mar 2020

The Theory and Practice of Radio Station KRAB - A Documentary Film About KRAB, Seattle - Circa 1964

Program guides from KAOS, Olympia; KBOO, Portland; KCHU, Dallas

The KRAB Top 10 - Only to be heard on KRAB, over and over - Just added: John Fahey and Jimmy Giuffre

Also of interest: Jose Fritz, in his blog Arcane Radio Trivia, has published an article featuring an interview of KRAB program producer Elliott Swanson. For a short time in 1971, Elliott produced a biweekly program of the music of John Fahey. Sometime in the last few years I tracked Elliott down, and he generously shared some of his remaining Fahey collection with me. Jose's interview is alternately funny and insightful, as they talk about Fahey, turtles, a bit about KRAB, and radio. It is a good break from corona virus.

Feb 2020

Japanese America: Contemporary Perspectives on the Internment - Rec Jan 19, 1980; KRAB Feb 19, 1980

PATCHWORK, The Original Optimist Radio Hour, and Mondo Bando - KRAB Mar 19, 1977

Maybe She Go, by Winifred Eades, performed by the Maybe She Go Collective - KRAB Jun 2, 1973

Bob Gwynne introduces the Seattle Bop Orchestra - KRAB Aug 19, 1973

The Saturday Morning Show with Lorenzo Milam - KRAB Sep 14, 1968

Jean Shepherd Buys His First Car - KRAB Sep 5, 1968

Jan 2020

Lorenzo Milam talks with Jeremy Lansman of KDNA about the KRAB-FCC Hearing of Nov 1970 - Jan 1971

KRAB's American Folksong Festival - 1963 or 1964

A Talk by Richard Hubbard, Former Manager of Quality Assurance for General Electric Nuclear - KRAB Apr 5, 1976

Sixteen Characters Walking Softly on a Dead Horse, by T.M. Lopez; And A Show of Force from WBAI - KRAB Jun 13, 1966

Science Forum - Physicist Victor Cook on "The Sun and the Atom: New sources of energy" - KRAB Dec 20, 1973

What Music Michael Vaughan Saved - 1963 to 1966

Dec 2019

Baba Ram Dass - The Transformation of a Man - Rec Sep 25, 1968; WBAI Nov 10, 1968; KRAB Nov 8, 1970

Shan Ottey Collection of KRAB-FM Lesbian-Feminist Radio Program recordings, 1971-1982

Education and Ecstatics; Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzner, and Roger Wescott talk about the ecstatic life - KRAB Spring 1964

Chango Rodriguez from Argentina - KRAB Jan 12, 1969

Ralph Nader Talks about Pollution and Asks if Suffering Citizens really have Access to Redress and Legal Recourse - Rec May 1, 1970; KRAB Jun 23, 1970

Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman - Party Time - KRAB Mar 20, 1971

Nov 2019

Marriage: The First Step Toward Divorce - KRAB Apr 25, 1974

Who are the [Black] Panthers? - KBOO Summer 1970; KRAB Aug 1971

Jazz Now with Lowell Richards - KRAB Dec 14, 1966

Vintage Rock with Gregg Whitcomb, Walkin the Chalk Line - KRAB Jul 12, 1981

Tim Elliott - The Art of the Mime - Art is All Over produced by Pamela Jennings - Rec Nov 1973; KRAB Jan 11, 1974

Ustad Vilayat Khan and Nikhil Ghosh at the Aldeburgh Festival - Rec Jun 14, 1958

Apr 2019

Vintage Rock with Gregg Whitcomb, Bird Groups - KRAB Aug 16, 1976

Ashley Montagu: Race, Racism and Possible Solutions - KPFA Mar 11, 1968; Mar 29, 1968

New and improved version! Rabble's Babble, Hot Licks By Bix - Seattle Magazine does a story about KRAB, Jun 1964

Allen Yonge with Flamenco Y Sus Estilos Y Sus Flamencos - KRAB Dec 19, 1975

Poets Charles Potts and Diane di Prima are interviewed by Lorenzo Milam - KRAB Mar 30, 1967

Education of a Record Collector with Ed Mignon - Russian Songs - KRAB 1966

Robert Hunter, Lyricist for the Grateful Dead, in a benefit concert for KRAB - Jun 23, 1978

Jan 2019

Henry Leland Clarke and the Puget Sound Cinquain (an update)

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Music of Moslem Africa - KRAB Sep 22, 1971

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - The Music of Malagasy - Part 2 - KRAB Oct 15, 1966

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Music of Romania Part of a series - KRAB Jan 11, 1966

The Folk Show with Southfork (Cliff Perry, Jack Hansen, Gordon Brickett, and Paul Anastasio) - KRAB May 30, 1975

Live from the Inside Passage - Willow Creek Ramblers with KRAB's first show from the Inside Passage - KRAB Sep 6, 1974

Publishing Pornography and Literature - A Live Panel Discussion - KRAB Nov 30, 1965

Bob West with Kid Thomas and Friends - 1968

Anarchy Is Order: Government Is Civil War - KRAB Mar 6, 1971 - Prof Jon Gallant reads from George Woodcock's History of Anarchism, Chapter 2 about the Diggers

Anarchy Is Order: Government Is Civil War - KRAB Mar 20, 1971 - About Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Dec 2018

The Paranoid's Notebook with Tom Allen - The History of Plant Patenting up to 1980 - KRAB Mar 19, 1980

Travelling [sic] Over the Underground - Love from J Lansman and P Sawyer - KRAB Feb 12, 1967

Commentary - William Hanson - The Sears Roebuck Catalog of Spring/Summer 1968 - KRAB 1968

Commentary - William Hanson - The Death of John Kennedy - KRAB Dec 5, 1963

Germany and the Germans, a Lecture by Thomas Mann at the Library of Congress - Rec May 29, 1945; KPFA Oct 14, 1961; KRAB Dec 6, 1967

The Legends of the Ramayana as Sung in India, Thailand and Laos - KRAB 1963-1966

Deleted Records with Professor Jonathan Gallant - KRAB 1963-1967

Nov 2018

Bluegrass Freakout with Virginia Slim - KRAB 1965 or 1966 or 1967

Letter From England with Michael Scarborough - Accents - 1976 - KCHU

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Music of the Korean Court - KRAB 1963-1965

Dr Fred Exner Plays Some Jazz - KRAB Nov 29, 1968 or Nov 28, 1969

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy and Ray Skjelbred - KRAB Dec 14, 1967

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Japanese Ofuro and Yosei - KRAB 1965

A Visit with John Howard Griffin - Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Earplay - KRAB Jan 28, 1977

The First Principle of Racism - John Howard Griffin at Seattle Pacific College - Rec May 12, 1967; KRAB Jun 8, 1967

Update: Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman and his guests from Bremerton - KRAB Apr 10, 1971

Oct 2018

A map of KRAB studio and transmitter locations

Brother Theodore - KRAB Feb 7, 1975

By the Light of the Dial - Dimension X: The Outer Limit - KRAB Nov 11, 1970

The Responsibility of Corporations to the Public - Kenneth MacDonald interviewed by Phil Andrus - Rec Sep 23, 1975; KRAB Nov 7, 1975

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Music of the Tuareg of the Sahara - KRAB Jul 12, 1968

Black Culture - From the Beginning - Full Gospel Pentecostal Church Nbr 1 - Rev M. L. Whitman presiding - KRAB 1983

The White Horses of Vienna by Kay Boyle, read by Lisa Kolb Liebert - WBAI Nov 15, 1963; KRAB Nov 12, 1968

Korean Temple Bells - KRAB Feb 17, 1967

KRAB's First Bluegrass Program, with Ron Ginther - KRAB Jul 1, 1964

Sep 2018

Government Inspected: Public Transportation - KRAB Jul 23, 1975

The Radio Letters AKA The WEAF Experiment, read by Lorenzo Milam - KTAO 1970; KRAB Aug 25, 1970

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy and Ray Skjelbred - KRAB Oct 15, 1965

Syncopated Ecstasy with Roswell - KRAB Nov 6, 1977

The KRAB Timeline - 1967 - Documents, dates and events in the history of the KRAB Nebula

First Edit of Nancy Keith's Documentary Running the Bulls in Blue (TDA Demonstration) - KRAB Mar 16, 1970

Vintage Rock with Gregg Whitcomb, NW Recording Groups of the Early 1960's - KRAB May 19, 1982

Aug 2018

François-Louis Ganshof, of the University of Ghent, discusses Gregory of Tours - Rec Apr 1, 1964; KRAB Apr 22, 1964

Two differing opinions (Mark Lane and Joe Schiebel) about the assassination of President John F Kennedy - KRAB Apr 22, 1964

Poetry Showcase - Six NW Poets Read at Otto Borsodi's Coffeehouse - Rec Feb 8, 1977; KRAB May 31, 1977

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival 1977 - A day on the KRAB stage - KRAB May 30, 1977 - Added 3.3 hours

Folk Music with Rolf Cahn presents Reverend Overstreet at The Cabale - Rec May 19, 1963; KRAB Dec 10, 1965

Poetry Windows - Karen Waring reading at The Book Project - Rec Nov 11, 1977; KRAB Jan 3, 1978

"I Give Myself to my Own Life" - Poet Carolyne Wright speaks with Danae Lauran - KRAB Mar 8, 1976

Zoo Story, by Edward Albee - KRAB Dec 29, 1965

Government Inspected: Zoo Story - KRAB Jul 16, 1975

George Lincoln Rockwell, founder and Commander of the American Nazi Party Speaks at the UW - Rec May 29, 1964; KRAB Jun 10, 1964

Jul 2018

Government Inspected: The First Program: Is the government that is closest to the people, the government that is best? - KRAB Jun 11, 1975

Age of Involvement - Timothy Leary talks of Mexico, Texas, Law, and Order - WBAI Apr 26, 1966; KRAB 1966

Facade, An Entertainment, Dame Edith Sitwell and William Walton - KRAB Sep 29, 1964

Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics - A report on what the KRAB Archive has created since Dec 2012.

Jun 2018

The Radio Papers, From KRAB to KCHU, Lorenzo W Milam, Mho & Mho Works, 1986 (pdf)

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival 1976 - KRAB May 29 and 31, 1976

Peace Pilgrim Speaks with Pamela Jennings and Ruth-Claire Weintraub - Rec Jul 20, 1973; KRAB Aug 30, 1973

Champion Fiddler Mark O'Conner visits KRABgrass - KRAB Jan 25, 1977

KRAB Reporters Cover The Day After and Air the Results the Same Day - KRAB Feb 17, 1970

The Second Edition of Sex and Broadcasting, by L Milam, Dildo Press, Saratoga, CA, 1972, Two Dollah (pdf)

The Myrkin Papers, essays of Lorenzo Milam, Duck Press, 1969 (pdf)

May 2018

Poetry Windows: Christina Pacosz and Barbara Wilson (Barbara Sjoholm) reading at the Women's Cultural Center - Rec Jan 13, 1978; KRAB Feb 28, 1978

The First Edition of Sex and Broadcasting, by L Milam, Dildo Press, Saratoga, CA, 1971, One Dollah (pdf)

Charles Smith, of the John Birch Society, speaks before University of Washington Young Americans for Freedom - KRAB May 17, 1973

The Last Letters From Stalingrad Read by Bob and Etsu Garfias - KRAB 1964

Rory (Baron von) Funke reads about the Hells Angels on the Milky Way Mind Warp - KRAB Aug 1967

Mike Russo and Ron Brentano in Concert - Rec Apr 13, 1963; KRAB Summer 1963

Ten more program guides from KTAO, Los Gatos, 1970, courtesy Linda and Leonard Good

A 49 Hour Concert-Rally of the Music of South America-Mexico-Cuba-Guatamalan-Celebroffering to the Sun . . . - KRAB Dec 24 - 26, 1967

Four "new" 1970 KRAB program guides (nbrs 194, 203, 205, and 209), courtesy of Linda and Leonard Good

Apr 2018

Apr 28, 2018 is the 50th anniversary of the KRAB-Helix Piano Drop - See the event in the KRAB Archive

Son House interviewed by Margaret Ellsworth - Rec Mar 1968 - Aired KING-FM May 5, 1968

Furry Lewis interviewed by Margaret Ellsworth - Rec May 1968 - Aired KING-FM Jul 7, 1968

Vintage Rock with Gregg Whitcomb - Older music for A Real Wild Child - Nov 20, 1977

KRABgrass Live with Doug Bright and Dennis Flannigan - KRAB Oct 1976

The complete version: Mr Tremendous Interviewed by Gene Johnston and Lorenzo Milam - KRAB Apr 10, 1967

The Art of the Solo Songster, with Stephen Stubbs - KRAB 1972

Music of Japan Nbr 7 - Shakuhachi: The Bamboo Flute of Japan with Robert Garfias - KPFA Jul 21, 1955

The KRAB (Nebula) Timeline - 1966

From KRAB to KSER 1986-1991 - JSMF Newsletters and KSER Guides

KTAO, Los Gatos Program guides - a sample

Mar 2018

Carl Martin interviewed by Bob West, followed by Martin, Bogan and Armstrong in concert at the Seattle Folklore Society Clubhouse - KRAB Jun 27, 1975

Music of Japan Nbr 9 - Shibai: The Theater Music of Japan with Robert Garfias - KPFA Aug 18, 1955

Vintage Rock with Gregg Whitcomb - Serebrin calls it "older music" - Sep 18, 1977

The Outside with Steve Post, Marshall Efron, Spiro Agnew, and the Talking Duck - WBAI Nov 9, 1968; KRAB sometime later

The Evening Reading: John Bennett reads from "Vagabond" - KRAB Jul 5, 1982

From Textbooks to Nudists - An interview of a High School English Teacher - KRAB Aug 19, 1968

Barrelhouse Chuck Calls Bob West From Chicago - Rec KRAB Jul 6, 1982

The Morning Reading with Paul Stanbery - The Inn Outside the World by Edmond Hamilton - KRAB Apr 18 and 19, 1977

Mrs McWilliams and the Lightning, by Mark Twain - KRAB 1977/1979

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival 1982 - May 30, 1982

Feb 2018

KRAB Archive contributes to other projects

At last, the complete Allen Ginsberg at the University of Washington - KRAB Apr 23 and 29, 1970

"Am I Really an Eichmann?" - A dog and cat license inspector is interviewed by Lorenzo Milam - KRAB Aug 29, 1966

Jan 2018

The KRAB Timeline - 1965 - Documents, dates and events in the history of KRAB

Big Joe Williams at the University Friends Center - Rec Dec 27, 1969; KRAB Jan 17, 1975

From African Periodicals with Simon Ottenberg - KRAB Jun 3, 1970

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Romanian Gypsy Music - KRAB Jul 4, 1979

An Excerpt from King Biscuit Time - KRAB Sep 24, 1972

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy and Bob West - KRAB Jun 11, 1970

Rock 'N' Roll Marathon - KRAB Jun 6 - 8, 1980

Dec 2017

Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw produced at the 1956 Cambridge Drama Festival - KRAB May 21, 1965

KRABGrass - Dennis Flannigan's "Last Show" - KRAB June 2, 1979 - Updated

The Africa Program - with Robert Kauffman and the music of Africa - KRAB Dec 30, 1970

Poetry Windows: Kathleen Fraser Reading at Women's Writers Conference - KRAB Mar 21, 1978

Poetry Windows: Olga Broumas Reading at Women's Writers Conference - KRAB Mar 28, 1978

Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan presented by the Bijou Ensemble - Mar 19, 1972

Vintage Rock, Gregg Whitcomb with The Signifying Monkey - Sep 4, 1977

KRAB Visits KPTZ in Port Townsend - Phil Andrus and Chuck Reinsch talk about KRAB

Fred McDowell playing at the Friends Center (AFSC) - Red Nov 15, 1966; KRAB Feb 14, 1975

Chaucer for an August Evening - A reading by Robert Payne, followed by music of Lester Trimble - KRAB Aug 27, 1964

Live Christmas Service from the House of Refuge Church of God Pentecostal - KRAB Dec 25, 1974

Nov 2017

Concerts Sponsored by the Seattle Folklore Society, with help from KRAB - KRAB Jun 3, 1968

Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman - KRAB Jul 15, 1969

Oct 2017

Bob West interviewed by Clare Conrad, then Bob plays a little piano

Gene Johnston Interviews Sergeant Joseph E M Snow, Korea and Vietnam Veteran - KRAB Nov 8, 1968

The Folk Show with Timberbound and Mike Seeger - Rec Oct 29, 1976; KRAB Dec 10, 1976

Updated: A Tale of Three Cities - Louis E Lomax speaking about race in America - KRAB Jan 30, 1964

Out of Bounds with Doug Honig - An Interview of PI Sportswriter Art Thiel - KRAB Nov 3, 1981

Somebody's having a party - The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 - Nov 7, 1967

Sunday Vol 3 Nbr 2 - KRAB Nov 5, 1970 - The Roachdale Salute to the Future!

Bearing Down, A Childbirth Poetry Anagram, by Penn Kemp - Rec Jul 13, 1973; KRAB Aug 13, 1973

Mississippi Fred McDowell plays and talks with Bob West – Rec Aug 9, 1969; KRAB Sep 13, 1969

Sep 2017

About the KRAB Archive

KRAB Founders and Friends talk about the beginnings of KRAB - The Last Night - Apr 15, 1984 - New Version

Commentary of Gene Johnston - The Farmers Market - KRAB Aug 29, 1967

Commentary of Frank Krasnowsky - King, Carmichael, Ali and the Vietnam War - KRAB Apr 28, 1967

Aug 2017

Commentary of Gene Johnston - About the University District - KRAB circa 1968

Poetry Windows - Diane Wakoski and Ishmael Reed at Bumbershoot - Rec Sep 5, 1977; KRAB Oct 18, 1977

Vintage Rock, Gregg Whitcomb Free, Single and Disengaged - KRAB Nov 10, 1982

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Classic Improvisations - KRAB Jul 18, 1979

Music of Japan Nbr 11 - Koto Demonstration with Robert Garfias - KPFA Sep 15, 1955

The Bear Facts News with Jon Leland - KRAB Dec 10 and 14, 1970 - Seattle Seven Mistrial

Letter From England with Michael Scarborough - 43 episodes, 1966 - 1978 - KRAB, KTAO, KCHU

Jul 2017

Uncle Henry at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church for a Happening - Rec May 26, 1968; KRAB Aug 24, 1968

Home-Made Music with Melissa Gustafson, Candace Sieger, and Danae Lauran - KRAB Mar 18, 1976

Sunnyside Up! a Program for Children, produced by Don Finkel and Libby Sinclair - KRAB 1976

Okie Doke String Band Live on KRABgrass - Jan 14, 1978

Jun 2017

Commentary of Jonathan Gallant - KRAB's Scientist in Residence discusses the Scientific Method - KRAB Oct 27, 1968

First Avenue, Seattle, produced by Jim Simon and Roz Barnett - A 5 part oral history of people living in downtown Seattle - KRAB Apr 1982

The Robotnor Hours - Ray Serebrin - KRAB Apr 2, 9, or 16, 1972

Poetry by Raul Salinas at the CCLM Conference - Rec Nov, 12, 1977; KRAB Jan 24, 1978

Commentary of Gene Johnston - About Seattle Media - Part 2 - Jan 9, 1967

Music of Japan Nbr 10 - History of the Koto with Robert Garfias - KPFA Sep 1, 1955

May 2017

International News on KRAB? - A Chronology

The International News - KRAB Feb 8, 1977

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy - KRAB Apr 16, 1966

KRAB Broadcasts Seattle City Council Meetings 'Live' - KRAB Apr 30, 1973

The Diary of a Madman, by Nikolai Gogol produced by Erik Bauersfeld for Black Mass - KRAB May 20, 1966

The Diary of a Madman, by Nikolai Gogol, read by Mark Klyn - KRAB Nov 17, 1964; KPFA Jul 13, 1961

Vintage Rock, Gregg plays the newest dances - KRAB Mar 02, 1983

Commentary: Jonathan Gallant - Oswald, the press, communism - KRAB Jan 5, 1964

Tuesday Night Live at KRAB: Blues and Hokum: Part I - KRAB Feb 8, 1977

Documents and other ephemera from events and meetings of the Chinese Media Committee

Chinese Radio - produced by the Chinese Media Committee (CMC) - KRAB Jun 2, 1980

Chinese Radio - produced by the Chinese Media Committee (CMC) -KRAB May 5, 1980

Apr 2017

Anarchy Is Order: Government Is Civil War; Jonathan Gallant Reading from Anarchist Literature - KRAB 1971

More Emphyrio Dub - KRAB Aug 6, 1977

And even more Emphyrio Dub - KRAB Aug 20, 1977

Peggy Deleers Reading Selections From Grimm - KRAB Sep 23, 1976

Judith and Michael Make Their Own Music on The Folk Show - KRAB 1976

Horny Porny - Gene Johnston Investigates Seattle's Sex Book Trade - KRAB Feb 22, 1968

KRABgrass with Live Bluegrass Gospel: Amen Corner and the Hillbilly Sunday Band - KRAB Feb 7, 1981

Photographs from events and meetings of the Chinese Media Committee

Mar 2017

An index to Archives of Non-commercial "Community" Radio on the Internet

Patchwork with Patchman - An interview of Arnold Grizzley - KRAB Aug 25, 1979

Professor Simon Ottenberg talks about the Background of the American Negro - KRAB Nov 1, 1965

Sunday Master Vol 3 Nbr 1 - KRAB Oct 22, 1970 - Sunday tackles race. Yikes!

December 2005: The Silent Towns by Ray Bradbury - read by Rory Funke - KRAB Oct 9, 1964

Vintage Rock, It's Gonna be a Wild One - Feb 16, 1983

J W McClure with Some Yodeling, Singing, and Picking - KRAB Sep 5, 1975

Poetry Windows - Six Poets in Three Days: Prydz, Olson, Frontside, Satya, Consuelo, and Burks - Rec Feb 8, Mar 18, and May 10, 1977; KRAB Jun 21, 1977

Poetry Windows - Keith Abbott - KRAB Sep 13, 1977

Poetry Windows - Jim Heynan and Coleen McElroy at Bumbershoot - Rec Sep 3, 1977; KRAB Nov 15, 1977

Government Inspected; Prisons Part 3 - The Future of Local Corrections - KRAB Aug 13, 1975

The Rise of Solidarity, Produced by Doug Honig - KRAB Apr 26, 1982

KRABgrass with the Tall Timber String Band, and a bit of Bill Monroe - KRAB Nov 1, 1980

Feb 2017

The Story of Greenwood Mississippi - KRAB Mar 25, 1965

A Panel on Sexual Practice and Pursuits - KRAB Jan 23, 1970

Malcolm X - The Last Message - Ford Auditorium, Detroit - Feb 14, 1965

Julius Lester and H Rap Brown in NY, Aug 29, 1967 - KRAB Dec 26, 1967

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Music of Peru - KRAB Oct 8, 1963

Government Inspected: The Unemployed Individual - KRAB Sep 10, 1975

Government Inspected: Unemployment - KRAB Sep 17, 1975

Jan 2017

Malcolm X with The Ballot or the Bullet - KRAB Dec 26, 1967 and Feb 21, 1968

Experiments in Democracy - Cooperatives in the Pacific Northwest - KRAB Nov and Dec 1981

The Diary of Anais Nin - KPFK Jun 13, 1966; KPFA Jun 4, 1966; KRAB Mar 3, 1967

Dec 2016

Commentary of S Balakrishna Pillai about The Ultimate Truth, introduced by Robert Friede - KRAB Aug 24, 1973

Mike Rotkin, Socialist and Mayor of Santa Cruz is interviewed by Doug Honig - KRAB Sep 14, 1982

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy and Ray Skjelbred - KRAB Mar 18, 1967

The Autobiography of Kenneth Rexroth - KPFA Jan 5, 1968; KRAB 1968

Emphyrio Dub with Karl Kotas - KRAB Mar 19, 1977

A Philosophical Basis For Environmental Activism - A Talk by S P R Charter - Rec May 3, 1976; KRAB Jun 15, 1976

An Old Timey Christmas Tape - Dennis Flannigan's Traditional Ozarkian Hill Country Production

Poetry Windows - Steven Jesse Bernstein reading at The Book Project - Rec May 8, 1977; KRAB Aug 23, 1977

Poetry Windows - A Reading at Otto Borsodi's Coffeehouse - Rec Jun 14, 1977; KRAB Jul 19, 1977

KRABgrass with Dennis Flannigan and Three Damp Duck Live in Studio - KRAB Oct 11, 1980

Nov 2016

The Robotnor Hours with . . . A Postcard From Mexico! and Fathers Day! - KRAB Jun 17, 1973

Democracy in an Age of Scarcity - Can We Avoid 1984? Robert Theobald Speaks - KRAB Dec 12, 1975

Arnold Toynbee: History and the Hippies - KRAB Jan 23, 1969

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy - Dedications and Requests - KRAB Oct 22, 1965

Saturday Afternoon Blues with Jack Cook (maybe?) - KRAB 1978

KRAB Music Hall with John Jay - KRAB 1980 (Census time)

Jawbreaker, with Peggy Deleers reading The Chronicles of Narnia - KRAB Jun 16, 1977

The Turkey LIfter Marathon - A Night of Live Bluegrass Hosted by the Three Phils: Andrus, Williams and Bannon - KRAB Nov 10, 1975

Night Into Day with Bob Fass, Arlo Guthrie and Jeff Outlaw - The Multi-Colored Rainbow Roach Affair - KRAB Jul 28, 1967

Chinese Radio - produced by the Chinese Media Committee (CMC) - Apr 7, 1980

Roachdale Election Returns, Seattle USA - KRAB Nov 4, 1969

The Great Carpet Sweep, A Noisy Party and fund raiser for KRAB - The Northwest's First Light Show - Nov 5, 1966

Oct 2016

US Labor Movement in Story and Song, produced by Libby Sinclair - KRAB Dec 1975

Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Alfredo Arreguín - Oct 2016

Vintage Rock - Live It Up Pretty Baby Mau-Mau - Feb 2, 1983

KRAB Music Hall with John Jay - Jul 11, 1982

Poetry Windows - Carol Orlock reading at The Book Project - Rec Sep 11, 1977; KRAB Dec 6, 1977

Poetry Windows - Charlie Burks at A Different Drummer Book Store - Rec Oct 2, 1977; KRAB Dec 13, 1977

Poetry Windows - Sean Bentley, Patricia Ver Ellen at Otto's Coffeehouse May 10; and Jim Heynen at the Book Project May 20 - KRAB Jun 7, 1977

Poetry Windows - Diane Wakoski at the University of Washington - Rec May 5, 1977; KRAB Jun 14, 1977

Jazz Vocalist Mark Murphy is interviewed by Nick Johnson on Round About Jazz - KRAB Jul 2, 1983

Libby has been found - KRABgrass - Final reel of The Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Show, Live on KRAB May 20, 1978

Nuclear Sabotage - How Easy Is It? - KRAB Sep 27, 1975

Jody Aliesan on The Folk Show - KRAB Mar 21, 1975

Sep 2016

Chandu The Magician Part 4 - KRAB Dec 9, 1970

Chandu The Magician Part 5 - KRAB Dec 14, 1970

Chandu The Magician Part 6 - KRAB Dec 16, 1970

Sing Out a Woman's Story with Leslie Larsen - KRAB Feb 1980?

Furry Lewis Live at the KRAB Studios - Rec May 20, 1968; KRAB Jun 10, 1968

The Study of Man - From the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association - KRAB Jan 5, 1969

Professor Andre Martin talks with Jon Gallant and Lorenzo Milam about the strike at SF State - KRAB Feb 21, 1969

The Labyrinth, with Pamela Jennings - Rec Dec 17, 1973; KRAB soon thereafter

Jul 11, 1968 - The Tall Timber Boys - Recorded live in Phil and Vivian's basement for KRAB

Jul 25, 1968 - The Tall Timber Boys - Recorded live in Phil and Vivian's basement for KRAB

Aug 8, 1968 - The Tall Timber Boys - Recorded live in Phil and Vivian's basement for KRAB

Sep 19, 1968 - The Tall Timber Boys - Recorded live in Phil and Vivian's basement for KRAB

Oct 3, 1968 - The Tall Timber Boys - Recorded live in Phil and Vivian's basement for KRAB

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 15 - Feb 4, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 16 - Feb 18, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 17 - Mar 4, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 18 - Mar 18, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 19 - Apr 1, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 10 - Apr 15, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 20 - May 13, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 21 - May 27, 1971

Aug 2016

Remembering Bob West - John Ochs shares some memories of Bob West

New Letters and Things, including the recollections of former KRAB volunteer Bruce Greeley in "Novel Novel"

Chinese Radio - produced by the Chinese Media Committee (CMC) - Feb 25, 1980

A Few Mild Thoughts On Reality, AKA Radio Sociology - Programs About Ideas - Mar 1964

Beating the Game - Timothy Leary speaking in Ellensburg - Rec Apr 26, 1963; KRAB Jun 17, 1963

Suburban Sadness - Part 4 of David Riesman's lecture series "The American Future" - Rec Feb 3, 1958; KRAB Feb 17 to Mar 23, 1964

Emotional Involvement - Dr Ralph Greenson - Rec Oct 16, 1962; KRAB 1963

The Robotnor Hours - KRAB Memorial Day Eve 1970, 1971, or 1972 - Now with Part 2

The Afternoon Reading: Peggy Deleers reads more from Grimm - KRAB Aug 2, 1976

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 12 - KRAB Dec 24, 1970

Vintage Rock with forty visitors from the Star Teenage Club in Sheffield, come all this way to hear Eddie Conchrane's new recording - Jan 19, 1983

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 13 - KRAB Jan 7, 1971

Sunday Vol 2 Nbr 4 - KRAB Feb 5, 1970 - Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the 3rd annual Ypsilanti professional bowling semi-finals

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 14 - KRAB Jan 21, 1971

KRABgrass with Dennis Flannigan interviewing Frank Ferrel - KRAB Mar 3, 1979

Country Fiddling with Frank Ferrel talking with Mark and Michelle O'Connor - KRAB May 19, 1975

Jul 2016

Duane Niatum Reading His Poetry at the UW - KRAB Dec 26, 1976; Rec Oct 8, 1976

The Last(?) Live KRABgrass, Baby Gramps and Guests - KRAB Nov 19, 1983

Toward a Neuter Gender - Ralph Greenson and Elisabeth Mann Borghese - CSDI - KRAB May 9 1966

Sunday Vol 2 Nbr 3 - 1969 Review - KRAB Jan 8, 1970

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 11 - Dec 10, 1970

Radio Theatre Bastille Day Spectacular: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat - KRAB Jun 8, 1966

The Robotnor Hours - KRAB Jul 4, 1971

Jun 2016

Poetry Windows - Paul Hansen and Robert Sund at Skagit Voices (Excerpts) - KRAB Aug 8, 1978

Poetry Windows - Colleen McEroy at the Women's Cultural Center - Rec Jun 3, 1977; KRAB Jul 5, 1977

Marshall McLuhan - From Gutenberg to Batman - KRAB Jul 10, 1968

Bluegrass Jamboree with the Tall Timber Boys recorded live for KRAB - KRAB Jun 27, 1968

Art is All Over: An Interview of Victor Steinbrueck by Pamela Jennings - KRAB Nov 16, 1973

Poetry Windows - Dick Bakken at The Book Project - Rec Jun 26, 1977; KRAB Aug 2, 1977

Poetry Windows - Jody Aliesan at the Women's Cultural Center - Rec Aug 5, 1977; KRAB Oct 4, 1977

True Blues with Dave White - KRAB sometime between 1978 - 1982

Sunday Vol 2 Nbr 1 - First Show of Second Season - KRAB Oct 30, 1969

Science Forum - John Prothero on "What the scientist can do outside the laboratory" - KRAB Dec 27, 1973

Vintage Rock - Kick'n off a New Year with a Nut Rocker - Jan 5, 1983

Bryan Bowers and Dan Crary Live in the KRAB Music Studio - KRAB Nov 24, 1975

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 10 - Dec 10, 1970

May 2016

William F Buckley and Professor Giovanni Costigan Debate US Foreign Policy - Rec Nov 11, 1971

Bluegrass Jamboree with the Tall Timber Boys recorded live for KRAB - KRAB Jun 13, 1968

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy - Dead Cat on the Line - KRAB Nov 20, 1965

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 9 - Nov 26, 1970

Theodore Roethke, I Cry Love, Love - Rec KPFA 1954; KRAB Jun 11, 1964

All Poets are Aphasics - Diane Wakoski poet, reading - Rec May 9, 1969 at the SF Poetry Center; KRAB Jul 4, 1975

Marge Piercy: Poems - Produced by Radio Free People; KRAB Aug 25, 1970

Anne Waldman in Seattle - Rec at the U of W Nov 20, 1972; KRAB Dec 10, 1972

Sunday Vol 1 Nbr 14 - KRAB May 22, 1969

Poetry Windows - Rec May 5, 1978 at the Women's Cultural Center; KRAB Jun 6, 1978

Earth Music - Third world music with Leory Backus and Fred Katz - KRAB Mar 12, 1977

Apr 2016

Letter from England - Michael Scarborough has sent us a couple more artifacts

Bluegrass Jamborees with the Tall Timber Boys recorded live for KRAB - KRAB 1968

Radio Theatre: The Squaw, by Bram Stoker, produced by Erik Bauersfeld at KPFA - KRAB Oct 10, 1964

1976 Pacific Northwest Asian American Writers Conference - Rec Jul 1976; KRAB 1976-1977

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Concert of South Indian and Japanese Classical Music - KRAB Nov 11, 1964

The Sunday Show Production Masters - Volume 1 Episodes 12 and 13 - KRAB Apr 17 and May 8, 1969

The Robotnor Hours Presents: The Pencils - KRAB Jul 8, 1973

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 8 - Nov 12, 1970

The KRAB Timeline - 1964 - Documents, dates and events in the history of KRAB

Mar 2016

An Interview with Composer Morton Subotnick - KRAB Apr 14, 1971 - Rec Feb 22 or 24, 1971

Radio Theatre: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley - KRAB Dec 10 and 11, 1971

The Politics of Ecology - Aldous Huxley speaking at the CSDI - KRAB Dec 8, 1963

The Sunday Show Production Masters - Volume 1 Episodes 7 and 8 - KRAB Feb 8 and Feb 22, 1969

A Commentary by Jean Andre About Sex - KRAB May 22, 1966

The Robotnor Hours - Mystery of Tautology - KRAB Aug 8, 1971

Back to the Garden - the improvisational interviews of Richard 'Dick' Parker and Gregory L Palmer - KRAB 1971

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Jan 30, 1973

Mike Wallace at Large - Mike sends KIRO's Dick Harris to find out about An Unusual Radio Station in Seattle - 1967

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 7 - Oct 29, 1970

International Women's Day - Ellen Thorne, Jill Johnson, Gwen Harrel, Mary Litchfield - KRAB Mar 8, 1977

Feb 2016

KRAB archive receives donation of significant collection of recordings of Northwest and visiting writers and poets! Click here for details.

The KRABettes Do Christmas - KRAB Dec 1976 or 1977

The Sunday Show Production Masters - Volume 1 Episodes 5 and 6 - KRAB Jan 11 and Jan 25, 1969

Four more program guides, including two (May and Aug 1973) previously missing

Changes, also known as The Houseboat Summit - Watts, Leary, Snyder, and Ginsberg look into the future and see their past - KRAB Jun 18, 1967

The Robonor Hours - Its Marathon Time LIVE with Hedy Lamar Harrington - KRAB Dec 3, 1972

Letters and Things - Volunteer Dave Ingebright shares his memories of KRAB at Doughnut Shop and Fire House

Letter from England - Lorenzo Milam Appoints Michael Scarborough KRAB Correspondent for the United Kingdom

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 6 - Oct 1, 1970

Jan 2016

The Status of the KRAB Archive - About Program Guides and Audio - Jan 31, 2016

The Irish American String Band at The Town Tavern in Port Townsend - Rec Mar 27, 1976; KRAB May 24, 1976

Emmett Watson interviewed by Kay Hutchins for Conversations About This, That and the Other Thing - Rec Nov 30, 1982, but rejected for airplay

Letter from England - Michael Scarborough talks about the English and the Irish

The Lady's Not For Burning, by Christopher Fry - KRAB Feb 16, 1963

Not Insane or Anything You Want To, by The Firesign Theatre - KRAB Nov 6, 1972

The Sunday Show Production Masters - Volume 1 Episodes 3 and 4 - KRAB Dec 14 and Dec 28, 1968

An Hour with Thich Nhat Hanh - KRAB Jun 4, 1968

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Dec 14, 1971

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 5 - Sep 17, 1970

Dec 2015

1066 And All That - A Memorable History of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 Good Things, 5 Bad Kings and 2 Genuine Dates - KRAB May 1, 1969

The Sell Out, a play for radio by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (NPR Earplay) - KRAB Oct 22, 1976

The Robotnor Hours - KRAB Memorial Day Eve 1970, 1971, or 1972

The Sunday Show Production Masters - Volume 1 Episodes 1 and 2 - KRAB Nov 16 and Dec 7, 1968

Fifty years ago - John J Eckhart writing in the Catholic Northwest Progress - A KRAB is a Radio Station

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Jun 19, 1973

The Poetry Program with Robert Sund talking with Galway Kinnell - Rec Nov 5, 1966; KRAB Jan 16 and Feb 13, 1967

KRAB Covers the TDA Demonstration, Federal Courthouse, Seattle from "Running the Bulls in Blue" - Feb 17, 1970 and May 24, 1970

Government Inspected: A Day with the Seattle Police - Rec Mar 3, 1976; KRAB Mar 9, 1976

Vintage Rock - Gee Oh Gee! Gregg is wearing his Vintage Rock T-shirt, are you? - Aug 3, 1983

Ed Mignon with Education of a Record Collector, Number 4 - Jul 31, 1966

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 4 - Sep 3, 1970

Nov 2015

Traff's Hipness Test - Traff's Christmas Collection

William Mandel before the House Un-American Activities Committee May 13, 1960

What's Goin' Down, with Flo Ware talking with Charles Royer - KRAB Jul 18, 1977

IAMB Said the Lamb - Yeats Poetry Theatre - KRAB Mar 17, 1979

KRABgrass with Dennis Flannigan - A Tribute to Lester Flatt - KRAB May 12, 1979

A Talk by Barry Commoner - Feb 3, 1977; KRAB Apr 26, 1977

The Robotnor Hours - KRAB Dec 2, 1973

America's Town Meeting of the Air (ATMA): Which Way America - Fascism, Communism, Socialism, or Democracy? - May 30, 1935, KRAB Aug 18, 1964

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 3 - Aug 20, 1970

Are you now, or have you ever been........a KRABer, a KRABee, a KRABite, a KRABist?

Oct 2015

The KRAB Timeline - 1963 - Documents, dates and events in the history of KRAB

Vintage Rock, Whoa Mabel, Watch It, Sprocket - Jul 20, 1983

The Land, part 2 - Private Property - American Land and Law - Produced by Nancy Keith - KRAB Sep 19, 1980

The Service From the Seattle House of Refuge Church of God Pentecostal - KRAB Aug 18, 1968

The Original Bevel Tape, with an introduction by Lorenzo Milam - KRAB Dec 9, 1967, Jan 24, 1968, Oct 10, 1971

A Birth, by Daphne Marlatt, read by Peggy DeLeers - KRAB Nov 5, 1976

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Nov 9, 1971

Letter from England - Michael Scarborough reporting from Riddlesden, Keighley, Yorkshire, England, 1966-1972

American Fiddle Tunes Festival in Port Townsend - Jul 2 to 4, 1981

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 2 - Aug 6, 1970

Sep 2015

You Must Go Home Again - Norris Hart talks with John Cogley at CSDI - KRAB Dec 6, 1969

The Music of Bertram Levy - produced for KRAB by Phil Andrus - Jul 23, 1976

Ain't No Ambulances for no Nigguhs Tonight - Stanley Crouch speaks to a LA BSU - KRAB Dec 21, 1969

The Robotnor Hours - Ray Serebrin from the Doughnut Shop - Aug 1, 1971

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Burmese and Indian Music - KRAB Mar 12, 1964

Home Movies with David Meltzer - Comedy relics - 1971 to 1972

Government Inspected: Seafair - KRAB Aug 20, 1975

A Child's Garden of Vegetables, with Dick Parker - The Sunday Morning Program 1970 to 1972

Professor Roger Sale with Writing a History of Seattle - part 1 - Jul 23, 1970

IAMB Said the Lamb - Art Wicks with Thirteen Student Poets - KRAB Mar 29, 1980

Aug 2015

IAMB SAID THE LAMB - KRAB 1977 to 1982

Vintage Rock - Let's Stay (stuck) Together - Jul 6, 1983

From African Periodicals with Simon Ottenberg - Nov 10, 1968

Jean Shepherd Interviewed by Greg Palmer, Lorenzo W Milam and Helen Norton - KRAB Oct 23, 1971 LIVE

Classic Jazz with Mike Duffy: Alternate Takes - KRAB Jul 3, 1965

Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman and the Tall Timber String Band - KRAB Feb 20, 1972

Commentary of Gene Johnston - Malice in Blunderland - Jan 9, 1967

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Jun 5, 1971

Tuesday Night Concert: Nancy Shank, Hank Bradley, and Jack the Greek - KRAB Dec 25, 1979

Jul 2015

Letters and things - emails we have received

Dave Harris at Reed - Recorded Jul 20, 1968 - KRAB Aug 2, 1968

More of Greg Palmer's Sunday shows - The Sunday Over-The-Air Collection - 20 Sunday's; 1 Roachdale Players Production; and an It's Your World and You Can Have It from WBAI

A Tabla Concert, introduced by Robert Garfias - KRAB Dec 12, 1963

Commentary of Jonathan Gallant - Keeping an eye on the Immigration Service - KRAB Feb 2, 1964

Frank Krasnowsky and Lee Mayfield reading from "The Three Marias"

Jun 2015

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB May 22, 1971

Music of Seattle's Taverns - KRAB Apr 6, 1976

Saul Alinsky speaking at the University of Washington - KRAB Apr 7, 1970

Nelson Bentley Poetry Reading - KRAB Feb 1, 1975

The Saga of Goatbird by poet Michael Lyons - KRAB Jul 20, 1968

Vintage Rock - Let the Boogie Woogie Roll - Jun 22, 1983

Flux Art - An interview of George Maciunas - KRAB Nov 18, 1977

The nonlectures of ee cummings - nonlecture six - KRAB Sep 16, 1965

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival 1982 - May 31, 1982

May 2015

KRAB Music Hall with John Jay - KRAB Jul 4, 1982

A Reading by Charlie Burks - KRAB May 18, 1977

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival - Rohde and Kinzie - KRAB May 30, 1974

Equal Time with Fred Lieberman - KRAB Nov 29, 1976

William Kunstler at UW Hec Edmunson Pavilion - Oct 3, 1970 - KRAB Oct 6, 1970

Let Sleeping Kaisers Lie - KRAB Oct 11, 1971

The Man Who Fished With Silver Spoons - Tales of Algot Piersson - KRAB Jul 29, 1980

Life Elsewhere with George Romansic and Jim Anderson - KRAB Nov 3, 1979, now with part 2

The nonlectures of ee cummings - nonlecture five - KRAB Sep 2, 1965

True Blues, with Dave White - KRAB Aug 26, 1981

The KRAB Timeline - 1962 - Documents, dates and events in the history of KRAB

Apr 2015

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Nov 16, 1971

Hesse, Blake, Jung - Dr June Singer - KRAB Jan 20, 1973

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Sunda, West Java - KRAB Jul 15, 1963

Vintage Rock - Hickory Dickery Dock - Jun 8, 1983

The KRAB - Helix Media Mash and Great Ol' Time Piano Drop - Apr 28, 1968

The 10th San Diego Folk Festival, broadcast live on Public Radio West and KRAB - Apr 24, 1976

The nonlectures of ee cummings - nonlecture four - KRAB Aug 19, 1965

The KRAB Timeline - 1959 to 1961 - Documents, dates and events in the history of KRAB

A Few Words From Captain Baltic about Bop - KRAB guide 184, Jan 1970

Mar 2015

Late on a Wednesday Night in 1981......Moskowitz and Nearly Normal Neil - KRAB Feb 18, 1981

La Hora de los Sephardim - The Seattle Sephardic - KRAB Feb 29, 1980

Start at the Start, with George Romansic - KRAB Sep 13, 1981

Being Mike Page - Lorenzo Milam speaks with the ex-psychotherapist - KRAB May 30, 1968

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Love Songs - KRAB Jun 4, 1963

Yet another KRABgrass Marathon: Live and In Person, The Gypsy Gyppo String Band - Apr 1, 1978

The nonlectures of ee cummings - nonlecture three - KRAB Aug 5, 1965

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB May 1, 1973

(In the spirit of) International Women's Day - KRAB Mar 8, 1973 to 1983

Feb 2015

Admiral Rickover: A Warning (Eisenhower redux?) - Jan 28, 1982 - KRAB Sep 8, 1982

David Meltzer Reading - KRAB Jun 22, 1972, recorded May 8, 1972

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Balkan Dance Music - KRAB Apr 9, 1963

Vintage Rock - It Really Was Buddy Knox - May 25, 1983

Drug Addiction and the Law - A Panel Discussion - Spring or Summer 1963

The One That Got Away - produced by Howard Weiss and Phil Andrus - Jul 30, 1980

The nonlectures of ee cummings - nonlecture two - KRAB Jul 22, 1965

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival - KRAB May 24-26, 1975 or May 29-31, 1976

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Bulgarian and Macedonian Brass Ensembles - KRAB Apr 1963

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB May 29, 1971

Jan 2015

Free the Seattle Eight - KRAB Oct/Nov 1970; KPFA Nov 23, 1970

The nonlectures of ee cummings - nonlecture one - KRAB Jul 6, 1965

Life Elsewhere with George Romansic and Jim Anderson x 3 - KRAB Nov 3, 1979, Feb 23 and Apr 13, 1980

Commentary by Marshall Windmiller - KRAB 1968

Okie Doke String Band Live on Patchwork - KRAB Apr 9, 1977

Memorial for Lenny Bruce at the Judson Memorial Church - KRAB Jan 20, 1967, WBAI Aug, 12, 1966

Urban Blues with Dick Shurman - KRAB Mar 6, 1971

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival - KRAB May 28, 1979

The White Handed-Gibbon - KRAB Mar 7, 1975

Murder at Kent State - KRAB Aug 10, 1970

Seattle's Chinese: Asian Arts in an American City - KRAB May 27, 1980

KRABgraph - Posters, flyers, t-shirts and other KRAB publications

Dec 2014

This summer the Jack Straw Foundation (JSF) arranged for the papers of the former law firm of Haley, Bader and Potts, which represented KRAB and JSMF before the FCC, to be brought to Seattle. A couple of weeks ago I started digitizing these documents, and you can already see examples in Part 3 of the short-term license renewal story (below). So far approximately 3,330 pages have been scanned.

Recordings of KRAB programs continue to be found in a few other dusty repositories (former KRAB Nebula affiliates for example).

Making Caskets - Produced by Phil Andrus - KRAB Dec 21, 1983

FCC vs KRAB: The Adventure of the Short-term License Renewal - Part 3 - Reverend James Bevel and the Movement Against Political Suspensions - KRAB Dec 9, 1967 and Jan 24, 1968

Commentary by Geoff Hewings - KRAB 1967 or 1968

Vintage Rock with Gregg Whitcomb - Doing the Santa Claus - KRAB Dec 22, 1982

Live from the Inside Passage - Willow Creek Ramblers and The Old Hat Band - KRAB Nov 1 and 8, 1974

Jean Shepherd gets Ethnographic and does "The Witchdoctor" - KRAB 1971

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias, Indian Music parts 3 and 4 - KRAB Jan 14, 1963

Jean Paul Sartre Memorial No Exit Rooming House, a Photo Essay by Michael McKeag

Nov 2014

Reverend James Bevel and the Movement Against Political Suspensions - KRAB Dec 9, 1967, Jan 24, 1968

Hula Blues - Polynesian Music in Seattle - KRAB Jul 19, 1980

The Breadline Theatre does Three Stories by H P Lovecraft - KRAB Jun 14, 1971

Vintage Rock, with Gregg Whitcomb - Apr 13, 1983

Ethnic Music: African Mbira - With commentary by Robert Garfias - Part 1 and 2

KRABgrass Marathon with Dennis Flannigan - KRAB Apr 23, 1979

Steve Lalor and Group with a LIVE concert from the Doughnut Shop - KRAB Mar 12, 1965

Tim Weatherly with the Electrifying Warriors at the Tender Mercy Deliverance Center - KRAB 1983

Oct 2014

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - An interview of U Han Men - KRAB Apr 13, 1977

Music of Burma with Joan Rabinowitz - 1982-1984

Bluegrass with Dave Wertz - Grand Old Uproar - KRAB Jan 30, 1968

Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman - KRAB Sep 13, 1969

Alan Watts Philosophy East and West Nbr 42: Truth and Relativity - KRAB Sep 15, 1964

Commentary - Bill Hanson The Word Is and Is Not - Mar 8, 1982

Vintage Rock, with Gregg Whitcomb - Mar 30, 1983

The Land, part 1: The Human Landscape - Looking for the Secret Garden - Produced by Nancy Keith - KRAB Sep 16, 1980

Seattle Symphony review with Geoffrey Hewings - KRAB Mar 25, 1969

Roswell with Live Jazz: The Chrono Synclastic Infundibula - Aug 12, 1973

Malvina Reynolds in Concert, with Phil Andrus - KRAB Nov 5, 1979

The George Jackson Brigade Sends a Message - May 1977

Barbara Dane talks with Bob West - 1983

The Outsider, Colin Wilson interviewed by Gene Johnston - KRAB Jan 30, 1968

Aug 2014

The Tibetan Book of the Wet - A Spontaneous Improvisation of the KRAB Staff - KRAB Sep 3, 1975, recorded Aug 18, 1975

Jul 2014

Radio Theatre on KRAB - JB, by Macleish, A Visit with John Howard Griffin, Dinosaurs by Antrobus, The Photographs by Barthelme

Commentary - David Trader speaks about legalizing prostitution- KRAB Mar 22, 1966

The Okie Doke String Band Live on KRABgrass with Dennis Flannigan - KRAB Nov 11, 1978

Saving the Old Seattle Armory - Lorenzo Milam talks with a couple of protesters - KRAB May 24, 1970

Vintage Rock, with Gregg Whitcomb - Aug 31, 1983

Elizabeth Cotten interviewed by Liza Dietrichson - KRAB May 24, 1982

Whale Hunting and Halibut Fishing - Makah heriditary chief Lester Hamilton Greene talks with Phil Andrus - KRAB Nov 2, 1979

Ethnic Music with Robert Garfias - Japanese Music - 2 of 4 - KRAB Dec 1, 1971

Added Search bar for www.krabarchive.com

Aldous Huxley speaking about the Visionary Experience, KRAB May 1, 1967

Call Me "X", Whitey! - A prescient Gene Johnston talks about post-neoliberal civil rights - KRAB circa 1968

World Affairs - Geoffrey Johnson Smith interviewed by Geoffrey Hewings - KRAB Apr 1967

200 Years of Obnoxious American Music - Greg Palmer with a Bicentennial Special - Jun 7, 1976

Jun 2014

KRABgrass Marathon - Dennis Flannigan, Tall Timber and Friends Live - KRAB Apr 9, 1978

She Packed Up My Heart and Took a Kenworth to Tulsa - Tiny Freeman interviews Billy Joe Stillwell - KRAB Apr 29, 1972

Belly Dancing: Art or Arousal? - Produced by Nancy Donnelly and Phil Andrus - KRAB Apr 28, 1980

Alan Watts - Philosophy East and West Nbr 41: Art of Psychoanalysis III - KRAB Sep 8, 1964

Vintage Rock, with Gregg Whitcomb - May 17, 1981

Allen Ginsberg at the University of Washington - Mar 30, 1970

Seattle Symphony Review with Geoffrey Hewings - Oct 10, 1967

From African Periodicals with Simon Ottenberg - Dec 16, 1963

Son House interviewed by Bob West - KRAB Apr 4, 1968

ISCM: Contemporary Concert - Recorded Apr 23, 1966 - KRAB May 27, 1966

Self-Accusation by Peter Handke, produced by the Empty Space Association at Stage One, 1971

May 2014

Part 2 - FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson visits KRAB, Oct 1967 (text and audio)

Confusion in "the cloud" - ubiquitous befuddlement - Program guide numbers we thought we understood (text)

KRAB-FM: The time of my time - Former Program director Michael Wiater writes about KRAB in the early 1970's (text)

Pictures at a Fire House - 1406 Harvard Ave - 1972 to 1980 (photos)

"Pinetop" Perkins chats with Bob West and performs in the KRAB studio - KRAB air date May 3, 1982

Commentary by C. H. West - On the Ethics of Killing - Aug 10, 1966

Allen Ginsberg at KRAB with Michael and Joanne Wiater - Mar 29, 1970, rebroadcast Oct 11, 1971

Tom Scribner, Musical Saw Virtuoso interviewed by Phil Andrus - Dec 22, 1976

Ethnic Music: African Mbira - With commentary by Robert Garfias Part 1

Aldous Huxley - Tangents of Technology - CSDI - KRAB May 24, 1965

History of The Blue Moon Tavern Part 2, KRAB Oct 21, 1980

KRABgrass - The Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Show, Live on KRAB May 20, 1978

Jean Shepherd talks about Radio Sorehead (KRAB) - Aug 30, 1965

NPR Affiliates read the Watergate Transcripts - May 4 and 5, 1974 - (unintelligible, er, uh unintelligible, @!!$!, unintelligible)

April 2014

FCC vs KRAB: The Adventure of the Short-term License Renewal - Part 1 - The Tape-Recorded Autobiography of Paul Sawyer

The Murderer, by Ray Bradbury - read by Rory Funke - Sep 17, 1963

Commentary by Gene Johnston - Cigarette smoking vs Dope - 1966

Women and Wildlife - Harriet Bullitt and Joy Spurr interviewed by Pamela Jennings and Melissa Garman - 1974

Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman - Jul 3, 1971

The Peanut Special, hosted by Mike Toennessen - Apr 13, 1974

After Six Years - KRAB founder Lorenzo Milam says goodbye to KRAB with a seven hour spectacular - Mar 15, 1968

Aboard the Steamship Virginia V - Phil Andrus talks with three people who knew the Virginia V well - May 31, 1978

King Biscuit Time - Bob West interviews Big Joe Williams - KRAB Feb 5, 1970

Four more program guides added courtesy of Dennis Flannigan. Nbrs 207 (1970), 224, 226, and 227 (1972). Tiny Freeman fans will want to check out the cover of 226. This brings us to 299 guides in the archive, with seven that need to be upgraded and 77 completely missing. See a list of guides still missing from the archive.

33 Years ago on KRAB - Paul Dorpat's "Last of KRAB" - Nine days in April 1984 leading to the Last Signoff

March 2014

Vintage Jazz with Mike Duffy - Apr 15, 1984

The Investigator, a play for radio - KRAB Jul 26, 1966

A Ku Klux Klan enlistment recording with Wally Butterworth - KRAB Nov 18, 1964

Booker (Bukka) Washington White at KRAB - Aug 30, 1967

Donut Shop Operating Guide and Survival Manual, by Marc D Orgel, Jul 1972

Selected music: Blues, Russian Folk Choir, more Gagaku, Classical Indian, Oud, Pipa and Chin, Ekonda, Fado, etc

The abyss is yawning (again) - Article in the LA Weekly about Pacifica, and Lorenzo Milam writes about conspiracies

KRAB goes out on a limb - Reverend James Bevel rebroadcast Jan 24, 1968 - Where were you?

Program guide Number 223, Feb 1972 - Courtesy of former Program Director Michael Wiater

February 2014

Music of Egypt from the Consulate of the United Arab Republic - KRAB 1964

him - an excerpt from the play read by ee cummings, from nonlecture five - KRAB Sep 1965

Three by Henry Jacobs: Umdagumsubudu; Interview of Prof Irwin Corey; La Bomba

Captain Crunch interviewed by Lorenzo Milam - KTAO Sep 13, 1971, KRAB Apr 29, 1972

Albert D'ossché and Jake Bell with a Bicentennial performance - KRAB Live Jul 4, 1976

Old Time Music with John Burke - KRAB 1971 - 1973

The Folk Show with the Last Chance Boys - Live KRAB Sep 24, 1976

Letters and Things has been updated with emails received over the last twelve months. Note, if you are in hiding from the NSA, let me know quick, so your GPS coordinates can be deleted.

Six additional program guides from the Greg Palmer-Michael Wiater-Phil Munger era, 1970 to 1972 have been found and added to the archive: Numbers 191, 202, 208, 210, 211, and (un-numbered) Oct 1972. This leaves us with approximately 88 yet to find. We hope that many of these will eventually be found in the papers of KRAB's former attorney and good friend Michael Bader.

January 2014

Tapes, labels, and the Jack Straw Memorial Foundation

Feedback

KRABGrass - Dennis Flannigan's "Last Show" - KRAB June 2, 1979

Ethnic Music: Indian drums - Part 2 from a series with commentary by Robert Garfias - KRAB Jan 14, 1963

The KRAB Experience, 107.7 FM - June 5, 1968 - an article in the Highline Community College "Thunder Word"

Government Inspected: The Prison - 1975

Giovanni Costigan: Thoughts on the Death of Martin Luther King

Government Inspected: The Atom on a Field of Green, Nuclear Power in the Skagit Valley - KRAB Apr 20, 1976

Yokoku: Music of the Japanese Noh drama - KRAB Nov 13, 1965

New Music for Solo Trombone Performed by Stuart Dempster - KRAB Nov 18, 1966

Margaret Mead speaking about Today's Youth, recorded at Bellevue Community College - 1967

December 2013

Education of a Record Collector with Ed Mignon - 1966

KRABgrass Live - The "Arkansas Trawlers": Jeff and Ellen Thorne and Tom Moran - 1977?

A Rant About Ethnic Music 2013

Dr Frederick B Exner - A commentary about money - KRAB 1964

A Conversation With John Cage - KRAB Feb 25, 1966

Gagaku - Music of the Imperial Court of Japan - KRAB Nov 4, 1965

African Periodicals with Simon Ottenberg - 1965

Tiny Freeman - Concrete Buster - Feb 1969, a Photo Essay by Michael McKeag

KRABgrass Christmas 1979

Janet McCloud - A commentary about conditions of life for Native Americans - 1968

Finger-picked Guitar Folk and Blues, Roger Perkins and Nancy Keith live at KRAB - Apr 1963

Dr Jacob Bronowski interviewed by Jonathan Gallant - 1965

Home Movies with poet David Meltzer - KRAB 1971

Marlene Fontenay, the only French Cabaret singer in town, a live concert Oct 1976

Professor Robert Garfias talking about his trip to Rhodesia - Dec 8, 1971

KRAB - The Ultimate in Minority Listening - An article in Puget Soundings magazine Apr 1964

November 2013

Pictures at a Doughnut Shop (on 91st and Roosevelt)

Human Migration, a lecture

KRABgrass - Live from the Fiddle Shop Aug 16, 1975

Existentialism and Entropy - Commentary by Jon Gallant

The Morning Reading with Frank Krasnowsky

Strip City Trip - Gene Johnston reporting - Jul 16, 1970

Commentaries by Jean Andre, Ben Dawson, Jon Gallant, and Bill Hanson

The Transmitter - still no photo's, but we now have a 7 page brochure from Collins Radio describing the 737A

October 2013

From Goddard to Telluride - Alternative Media, Nebula, Community Radio

A small sampling of KRAB "publications", posters, flyers, and postcards.

Six new (Nbr's 43, 51, 56, 58, 104, and 167) program guides shared by the Jack Straw Foundation, and one other (Nbr 215) found in a box.

“Between the Lines”, a composition by Philip Munger, KRAB air date Nov 25, 1972

Marijuana Teach-in at the University of Washington, Jan 1969 - Salvaged from the flip side of a Sunday show - Feb 1969

A KRAB Hootenanny - Jeffrey 'Magic Fingers' Thomson and friends, including Greg Palmer, did several programs in 1969 and 1970. Here they are playing and singing folk music of the period. Greg is clearly enjoying himself.

June 2013

Summer Survival Marathon Program Guide - May 20, 1970

Tiny Freeman - Like a train whistle around the bend, you can still hear him long after he's gone - Jun 13, 2013
(The Penultimate KRABgrass, Apr 7, 1984)

Jean Shepherd reads from a KRAB program guide (Radio Hell), WOR, Nov 15, 1965

Greg Palmer's Sunday Show - Satire and Comedy

Carlos Hagen Presents: Reflections on Death, KRAB Feb 27, 1975

Noam Chomsky's Tie

May 2013

Entropy Service at the Inside Passage, 1974

What a Mess - Cheap Tape and Sticky Shed

April 2013

Bluegrass with Tiny Freeman - 1970 - 1973?

March 2013

A Pub in Connemara, "A Show of Force" (1964)

Dulcimer Deathwatch – Robert Force and Albert D'ossché live at KRAB, May 24, 1975

February 2013

Peace-keeping Under the Rule of Law - CSDI - Jul 14, 1965

Resistentialism - KRAB Dec 6, 1965; KPFA 1961

January 2013

The Role of Alternative Media in Seattle - Jun, 10, 1975

Robert Sund reading from Ring Lardner's "Round Up" - KRAB Jan 1968

Tibetan culture - Feb 1968

Mance Lipscomb talks and plays at KRAB - Feb 1972

Northwest Regional Folklife Festival - May 1975

Music of India with Shantha Benegal - Apr 1984

Carlos Castaneda at the UW - Recorded Jan 12, 1970; KRAB Feb 6, 1970

Saturday Morning with Lorenzo Milam – Nov 1968

An hour of KRAB on a Monday evening – Jan 1968

Milam Exposed – 1976 NFCB Conference - Jun 1976

KRAB's Last Night - Apr 15, 1984

An Ampex 601 was used for remote recordings

From African Periodicals: Shakespeare in the Bush

Notes From The Underground, with Tom Robbins - Jul 1967

Jeremy's Classic Tape: I told you I love you, now get your finger out of my ear - Nov 14, 1965

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