Retired American music mogul Joe Smith has donated recorded interviews with a who's who of 20th century popular music to the U.S. Library of Congress, which is posting the digitized audio online.
The cultural institution posted the first batch of unedited audio interviews on its website Wednesday. Smith, a former radio DJ and record label president, is heard in revealing chats with music figures ranging from artists like Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Ray Charles and Linda Ronstadt to fellow label chief Ahmet Ertegun and broadcaster Dick Clark.
Because of Smith's industry insider status, he was able to draw out surprisingly candid revelations from subjects during unguarded moments. McCartney speaks frankly about drug use by the Beatles, Bo Diddley discusses his own death and Jagger enjoys tea while contemplating the outlaw image and reputation of The Rolling Stones.
Former radio DJ and retired record label executive Joe Smith has donated a treasure trove of music interviews with subjects from Paul McCartney to B.B. King to Ahmet Ertegun to the U.S. Library of Congress, which is digitizing the recordings for posting online. (Bob Merlis/Library of Congress) "One of the great things about the interviews is how relaxed many of them are," Matt Barton, the library's recorded sound curator, said in a statement.
"They're not on camera and they're talking to someone who's very much a colleague and a peer, if not a musical artist. The tone is very different and the camera isn't on them."
The interviews, representing nearly 240 hours of recordings, span more than 200 artists and industry representatives across multiple musical genres, including rock, folk, jazz, R&B, metal, pop and country. Smith include excerpts of some of the recordings in his 1988 book Off the Record.
Smith made the donation in June and library staffers are continuing the process of digitizing audio from the original tapes on which Smith recorded the interviews.
Further recordings from The Smith Collection will be added to the site over time.
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