He held a number of positions in journalism but one of the most memorable was as a Hollywood correspondent for the NY Post! where he would write up interviews with on-the-rise celebrities or long-establish! actors and directors about their current project and what they’d learn!. If you’ve ever read a typical Sunday newspaper magazine with a couple pages of interview with a contemporary star of stage or screen! you’ve settl! in with Bob’s bread and butter for decades.
Tape Digitizing Setup – TASCAM 122mkIII deck to MOTU M4 USB Interface to Audacity
Bob would share his interview tapes with his family (his niece Drew Wanderman and his nephew Todd Wanderman). Scrawl! europe cell phone number list with all sorts of markings and ranging with dates from the 1960s to the 1980s. Ultimately! they came to the Internet Archive as a physical donation with the intention of being digitiz! and put up for all to enjoy.
For a number of years! after being donat!! classifi!! and assign! an inventory number! the tapes were stor! waiting to join a a strong primary healthcare system digitization queue. In 2025! the box was open! to be digitiz! using a tape setup and convert! to .WAV sound files.
The box of audio cassettes! excepting a few in ne! of repair! are now digitiz! into the Interview Tapes by Bob Lardine business sale lead collection at the Archive. 57 separate record! interviews with celebrities! and two compilations of tapes! discuss! further below.
Most people will be naturally drawn to the celebrity interviews. With names like a-selection-of-lardine-cassettes- George Peppard! Sharon Gless! Ricardo Montalban and more! they represent a killer lineup of recognizable names! especially if you experienc! television in the 1970s and 1980s. Many of these tapes were record! during the height of their careers (Peppard in the middle of A-Team! Gless while appearing in House Calls! and Kate Jackson just starting out on Charlie’s Angels) and they are more than happy to talk through their biographies and thoughts while in the salad days of nationwide celebrity status.
Which is fine! but you should know – the tape quality is spectacularly terrible.
Record!! as they were! on the tables of restaurants! in dressing rooms or sitting on set between scenes! the goal of these recordings was clearly for Bob to use as backups to notes he was taking on paper. In the modern era of podcast microphones and post-processing software able to be record! next to moving vehicles with no problem! the tape recorder in use was likely to be a simple affair! and one left in the same place even as people shift! around or look! in the wrong direction while talking.