Don Yoder collection of tape and disc recordings (Library of Congress Finding Aid)

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Series 2: Sound Recordings (continued)

Sound recording, July 5, 1968 (continued)

Interviews conducted by Yoder at the 19th Annual Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. The tape includes parts of presentations at the festival.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR124

Sound recording, July 1951

Rack number: RXH 0765

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:14:54) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Recorded at the 2nd Annual Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival, Kutztown Fair Grounds, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Don Yoder introduces Rev. Rufus Bucher, the former head of the Church of Brethren in America (formerly called Dunkard). Rev. Bucher introduces the program on Dunkard hymn singing. Then Yoder introduces Prof. Alvin Brightbill (Biblical Seminary, Chicago), who spoke briefly in Pennsylvania German. Then Brightbill provides an introduction to the way the group would sing, and he functions as foresinger. The recording was broadcast on WEEU Radio.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR125

Sound recording, June 28, 1959

Rack number: RXH 0766

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:06:34) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

First Pennsylvania Dutch service, St. John's United Church of Christ, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Preachers: Richard Druckenhood (?) and Aaron Brumbach. The recording cuts off abruptly. See SR126, Side A for further content.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR126

Sound recording, June 28, 1959

Rack number: RXH 0767

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:33:04) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Side A
First Pennsylvania Dutch service, St. John's United Church of Christ, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. At times the volume is very low. For further details about the service, see the notes for SR125.
Side B failed to record from the source tape (so there is no content).

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR127

Sound recording, July 2, 1961

Rack number: RXH 0768

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (01:04:28) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Third Pennsylvania Dutch service, St. John's United Church of Christ, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Sermon by Rev. Merrill Q. Ressler, Spies Church.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR128

Sound recording, July 3, 1960

Rack number: RXH 0769

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:53:45) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.

Second Pennsylvania Dutch service, St. John's United Church of Christ, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Sermon by Rev. Merrill Q. Ressler, Spies Church.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR129

Sound recording, July 8, 1962

Rack number: RXH 0770

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:45:07) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Fourth Pennsylvania Dutch service held at St. John's United Church of Christ, Kutztown, Pennsylvania. Pastor: Bruce D. Hatt.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR130

Sound recording, November 9, 1958

Rack number: RXH 0771

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (01:19:05) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, quarter track, mono ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church services. Dutch choir at Weisenberg Church, New Tripoli, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. (no date). Church service at Grimsville, Pennsylvania (November 9, 1958); this is probably New Bethel Zion Church. Audio has a muffled quality throughout. See SR139 for another recording made at Weisenberg.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR131

Sound recording, November 9, 1958

Rack number: RXH 0772

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:32:41, Side B: 00:30:59) : analog ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church service at Grimsville, Pennsylvania; probably New Bethel Zion Church.
Archivist's note: the name George Erb appears on the tape box; he helped create the Old Oley Union Church and the Harvest Home display at the Kutztown Folk Festival.

Side A

Time	Summary
00:00:01	Prayer
00:02:40	More Love to Thee O Christ With Words (song)
00:06:54	"By their fruits - know them" (Scripture reading)
00:11:03	Prayer
00:15:56	In That Beautiful Land (male chorus)
00:20:05	Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruit (sermon; ends abruptly)

Side B
Partial log only.

Time	Summary

Start (00:00:02)	Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruit (sermon; continued from Side A); Tell Me the Old Old Story (words)
00:01:24	organ music; Tell Me the Old Old Story (song)
00:30:59	End

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR132

Sound recording, November 1, 1959

Rack number: RXH 0773

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:32:26, Side B: 00:32:33) : analog ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church service at Grimsville, Pennsylvania; probably New Bethel Zion Church. Reel 1 of 2.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR133

Sound recording, November 1, 1959

Rack number: RXH 0774

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:29:57, Side B: 00:32:18) : analog ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church service at Grimsville, Pennsylvania; probably New Bethel Zion Church. Reel 2 of 2.

The program on Side A cuts off at 00:12:04, and at 00:12:06 a recording of the TV program American Bandstand begins (probably recorded in 1958). The balance of the side is filled with secular music unrelated to the church service. Side B has only secular popular music.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR134

Sound recording, November 1, 1959

Rack number: RXH 0775

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 01:30:10, Side B: 01:17:18) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, quarter track, mono ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church services, Grimsville Church (November 1, 1959) and Forke Church (no date). The tape is a copy. Audio is muffled for most of Side A.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR135

Sound recording, August 30, 1961

Rack number: RXF 6777

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:32:10) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.

1st Pennsylvania Dutch Harvest Frolic. Don Yoder, moderator. He speaks with people working at the Frolic about powwowing and the occult (folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Dutch). Elmira Layton talks about belief in the himmelsbrief (letter from heaven), and tells a story about powwowing (both in English and in Pennsylvania German). Mabel Snyder tells a story about a Catholic powwow (told both in English and in Pennsylvania German). Sophia Eberley, a powwow (niece of Sophia Bailer) tells about powwowing and how she learned it, the sixth and seventh books of Moses, and other subjects.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR136

Sound recording, 1966 or before

Rack number: RXF 7460

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:33:20) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 5 in.

Probably recorded at a folk festival. Contents include folk hymns performed by Rev. Harry Tobias (in English and in Pennsylvania German), Don Yoder give a talk on powwowing, and he talks with Sophia Eberley about powwowing and she gives examples and demonstrations.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR137

Sound recording, September 6, 1958

Rack number: RXF 7461

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:33:13) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 5 in.

Frank Eckert, tape 2. Subjects include powwowing and witchcraft. Recorded at Don F. Garretson's farm in Aspers, Adams County, Pennsylvania.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR138

Sound recording, August 30, 1959

Rack number: RXH 0776

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:46:17) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Church service at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, five miles southwest of Nashville, Illinois. Information on the tape box identifies this as Hahlen Church. St. Peter's (Hahlen) Church closed in the 1970s, and its members joined Trinity Lutheran Congregation, Nashville, Illinois.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR139

Sound recording, undated

Rack number: RXH 0777

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:15:22) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church service, Weisenberg Church, New Tripoli, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. See SR130 for another recording made at Weisenberg.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR140

Sound recording, undated

Rack number: RXH 0778

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:32:17, Side B: 00:32:16) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church service, Forks Church. First reel.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR141

Sound recording, undated

Rack number: RXH 0779

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:24:25) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch church service, Forks Church. Second reel. Songs; no sermon. However, the congregation is addressed by at least two people during the first few minutes of the service.

The volume begins at a low level.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR142

Sound recording, October 18, 1960

Rack number: RXH 0780

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:32:05) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Pennsylvania Dutch prayer meeting, United Christian home, in Annville, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Tape #2 (second half of service).

The recording begins abruptly, with the service in progress.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR143

Sound recording, 1947

Rack number: RXF 6776

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:34:01) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

About 00:04:04: Don Yoder's aunts, Hegins, Pennsylvania, 1947, talking and singing, mostly in Pennsylvania German.

About 00:11:09: Prof. J. Raymond Hepler sings and speaks. He is from Durham, NH (also the location for the interview), and formerly of Pitman, Pennsylvania (a native of Mahantongo). This part of the recording is undated.

This tape was submitted by a student for an assignment in Don Yoder's Folklife 550 class.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR144

Sound recording, May 16, 1961

Rack number: RXF 6775

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:21:16, Side B: 00:21:27) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Side A
Interview with Rose B. Green, Mother Ursula; witness of St. Frances Cabrini. The recording was made for Don Yoder's History of Religion in America class. See SR148.
Side B
Content unrelated to the collection: the senior student concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Eugene Ormandy. The recording is undated.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR145

Sound recording, circa 1960s

Rack number: RXH 0784

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:23:37) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Includes part of the radio show "Gospel Time," with Louise Williams (host) and part of a broadcast on WHAT radio (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) with host Mary Mason. This recording was submitted with the Kagan paper for Don Yoder's course "Negro Gospel"

Kagan was probably one of Yoder's students. Rev. Louise Williams Bishop had a gospel radio show for over 49 years, on WDAS radio (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR146

Sound recording, undated

Rack number: RXH 0782

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:36:23) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

According to the introduction on the recording, this is a "discussion of Hebrew literature and philosophy written since the Bible," recorded by Fran Abrahamer and Barney Guttman, and submitted by a student for one of Don Yoder's classes. The recording was made during a Sunday school class at a synagogue or temple (named but not transcribed).

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR147

Sound recording, undated

Rack number: RXH 0783

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 01:27:59, Side B: 00:06:28) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Church service, including spoken word and song. Side B is a continuation of Side A.

According to documentation on the tape box, Luther speaks: 1) It's a Negro Way Up to Heaven 2) went on air at 9:00 3) sermon at 9:10. Recorded by Burton L. Belsky, a student in Don Yoder's Religious Thought 522 class.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR148

Sound recording, May 15, 1961

Rack number: RXH 0781

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:17:08, Side B: 00:07:37) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Side A
A recording unrelated to the collection is at the beginning of the recording. Relevant content begins at 00:00:43: an introduction to the subject of the evil eye, then a witness statement in Italian given by a woman who had experienced the effects of the evil eye. This may be the interview with Mrs. Rose B. Green (Mother Ursula); witness of St. Frances Cabrini. The recording was made for Don Yoder's History of Religion in America class. See SR144, Side A.
Side B
Symphonic music, unrelated to the collection. This is the end of the performance by the senior student concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Eugene Ormandy. See SR144, Side B.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR149

Sound recording, undated

Rack number: RXH 0785

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side A: 00:31:58, Side B: 00:32:15) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Side A
Interview with Rev. Mary Martin of the Chapel of Truth, The House of Healing. The recording was made by Barbara Agre and Gail Rineberg for one of Don Yoder's classes.
Side B
Dial-a-prayer: examples of faith healing available in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The recordings include Rev. Sarah Jones, pastor of the Philadelphia Evangelistic Center, and an interview on faith healing. The recording level throughout various from very low to higher than normal.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR150

Sound recording, 1969 or before

Rack number: RXH 0786

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (01:36:08) : analog, mono ; 7 in.

Discussion with Mr. Daniel D. Wirt [sic], a member of the Mennonite church, on the background of Amish and Mennonite life. The tape was made by Peter F. Edelman and Alan Solar for Yoder's Religious Theology 523 class. See SR012 for another recording made by them.

Archivist's note: Rev. Daniel D. Wert died in 1969.

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR151

Sound recording, February 21, 1960

Rack number: RXH 0787

Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:59:01) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono ; 7 in.

Holy Ghost rally. Recorded at the Met by Ronald Cohen and Kenneth Baer, possibly on behalf of Susan Rosbrow, for Don Yoder's Religious Thought 523 class.

Side A
Gospel songs and remarks by Luther Carroll. Pat Adams, and Louis Casebolt
Side B
Sermon by evangelist Louis Casebolt: "Twentieth Century Fanatics"

ITEM-ID AFC 2003/051: SR152

Sound recording, 1965 or before

Don Yoder collection of tape and disc recordings

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