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Lost & Found Sound and Beyond: Hour One

From The Kitchen Sisters | Part of the Lost & Found Sound and Beyond series | 00:59:18
Producers: The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson) with Jay Allison

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Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" is the second anthology of greatest hits from the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound radio series, heard over the last five years on NPR's All Things Considered.

Please do not broadcast until after October 8, 2004

"Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" is the second anthology of greatest hits from the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound radio series, heard over the last five years on NPR's All Things Considered. A collection of eccentric, endangered and undiscovered sounds and oral traditions, this special two-hour program provides a glimpse of the recorded legacy of our country.

Hosted by film legend Francis Ford Coppola, "Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" feeds in early September, and again in mid-October for use during the 2004 holidays. Each hour of the program can be aired as a discrete broadcast. The hours are not newscast compatible, but will otherwise follow the standard :20/:40 broadcast clock.

This new gathering of unique stories is the product of a sprawling nationwide collaboration of independent radio producers, artists, musicians, archivists, writers, NPR, public radio stations and listeners. Lost and Found Sound was produced by two-time Peabody Award winning producers, The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Jay Allison.

A sound hound himself, Francis Ford Coppola weaves these twelve richly-layered radio documentaries together with his own stories, reminiscences and home recordings, including his 1977 "interview" with five-year-old daughter Sofia Coppola about what she wants to be when she grows up. The stories include a surprising tale of Liberace and The Trinidad Tripoli Steelband, the saga of Sun Studios producer Sam Phillips, and narratives from Mohawk Indian ironworkers at the Twin Towers and Vietnamese manicurists in America.

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Promo 2: 0:40
Promo 3: 1:01

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Please do not broadcast until after October 8, 2004 "Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" is the second anthology of greatest hits from the Peabody Award winning Lost & Found Sound radio series, heard over the last five years on NPR's All Things Considered. A collection of eccentric, endangered and undiscovered sounds and oral traditions, this special two-hour program provides a glimpse of the recorded legacy of our country. Hosted by film legend Francis Ford Coppola, "Lost & Found Sound and Beyond" feeds in early September, and again in mid-October for use during the 2004 holidays. Each hour of the program can be aired as a discrete...
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Review of Lost & Found Sound and Beyond: Hour One

This is sound poetry at its best. I could almost feel these people sitting next to me and tell me stories...just me. As the TV performer - when he'd asked why he couldn't feel the intimacy with his audience- was told that he shouldn't try reaching all the buckaroos; he simply needed to address one little buckaroo.

Francis Coppola is our guide to these lives, even stopping for a moment in his own nearly thirty years ago. We see a different side of Coppola, as a father- as one of five-year old Sofia. The recording of her talking to herself in the future is revealing, but not in realizing she had a reflection of who she has become today. It's how the Coppola's interacted with each other, age notwithstanding. At the time she wore an Oscar necklace her father had made for her-the Oscar for best screenplay: The Godfather- and we all know where that circle ended.

But first, Sam Phillips, the man responsible for capturing the sounds that would shape the future of music; forget just Rock n' Roll....music. Phillips has the first lenghty, but intimate, conversation about his love for music and sound. The man's love of sound infected his recordings while shining on unknown talent. 'Sun,' eh?

The pieces are woven into a comfortable piece of sound cloak, if I may, and I finally understood - and maybe I'm way off in the name's history- why the producers call themselves Kitchen Sisters. The conversations, all of them, felt like people sitting at your kitchen table and baring their souls. From the Mohawk iron workers group that has a long history in the buildings of New York City, to the steel drummers of Trinidad, all seem so close to us - to me, the little buckaroo in me- and open and trusting.

You give an hour of your time to this piece and I won't be able to stop you from listening to hour two. I promise you.

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Review of Lost & Found Sound and Beyond: Special - Hour One

What an intriguing mix: the combination of a truly visual artist and the some of the most listening-est tape assembled for radio. What's more, this extraordinary series, aired on Fridays on ATC during 2000, has been amplified and expanded upon with the likes of FF Coppola's family tapes.

An obvious drop-in for any PD needing to fill an hour -- in fact, stations should add an hour to the broadcast day to make room for work like this.

Would it be possible to make the individual stories available for drop ins with Mr. Coppola narrating? Let's bring back some surprise to the air! These are beautiful stories listeners should stumble against at unexpected times -- like break in with Glen Campbell during a time block typically devoted to classical. A shock, but a really good one...

Broadcast History

Feeds: Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 0000 - 0159, A67.3 S
Repeat: Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 1400 - 1559, A72.7 S
Repeat: Thursday, October 7, 2004, 1600 - 1759, A72.7 S