The record archive

The record archive is an ongoing project of collecting vinyl records that sound document historical events of the twentieth century

. The archive contains speeches and interviews by world leaders, wars in sound, peace agreements, human rights struggles and other radio broadcasts of the events that shaped history from the invention of the phonograph to the fall of the Berlin wall.

The phenomena of records that document political and historical events was popular from the 50's until the late 80's. Most of the records had direct connection to propaganda and national pride.

I am interested in researching how a society turns its historical events into commodities and how sound documentation functions in relation to collective memory.

Dani Gal

Dani Gal is an artist based in Frankfurt.

List of Records:

“Sounds of-Marine corps boot camp, San Diego, Parris Island

“I Can Hear It Now” 1919-1932 Narrated by Edward R. Monrrow

“The Voices Of The 20th Century” Narrated by Henry Fonda

“The Years To Remember” Narrated by Frank Knight society

“Dialogues on Democracy-Volume 1”

. “Hitler’s Inferno”-1932-1945 marching songs of Nazi Germany

“I can hear it now-Winston Churchill” Narrated by Edward R. Monrrow

“The Voice of Winston Churchill”

“Deutschland im zweten weltkrieg 1”

“Deutschland im zweten weltkrieg 2”

“Time Capsule”-World War 2 Hitler’s March on Czechoslovakia /the U.S. First Week at War

“Pearl Harbour-1941” Oree Weller’s personal recollections of the morning of December 7 1941.

“D-Day plus 20-1944-1964” The allied invasion of Normandy, June 6th, 1944

“Victory in Europe-1945” BBC archives.

“W.J Day-WW2 Ends!”-The complete original broadcast of the surrender ceremony from the u.s.s Missouri in Tokyo bay, September 2, 1945

“Dwight David Eisenhower-October 14, 1890 March 28, 1969”

“Politics U.S.A”-The voices of Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt, Stevenson, Dewey, Barkley, Willkie, Taft, Johnson and more.

“A Recorded Portrait-Eleanor Roosevelt In Conversation With Arnold Michaelis”

“United States Presidents’ Series-Actual Speeches Of Franklin D. Roosevelt /John F. Kennedy

“General Of The Army Douglas Macarthur-The Life And Legend Of ‘The Old Soldier

’ “Duty Honour Country”- Address of General of the Army Douglas Macarthur

“The Coronation Of Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth 2” At Westminster Abby 2nd June 1953.

“The Second Elisabeth” Narrated by David Niven.

“Salute in Sound”- On the 50th anniversary of the RAF

“Dwight David Eisenhower-October 14, 1890 March 28, 1969”

“Eisenhower in Turkey and Afghanistan/Khrushchev in the United States”

“Point of Order”-The Army McCarthy hearings.

“Conversations Regarding the Future of Architecture”-talks with Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Ernst Kump , Richard Neutra, Phillip Johnson and others

“I Can Hear it Now”-The Sixties. Narrated by Walter Cronkite.

“Adlai E. Stevenson-The Man, the Candidate, the Statesman “A Documentary-John F. Kennedy-The Presidential Years-1960-1963.

“John F. Kennedy-The Presidential Years, Original Speeches”

“John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, A Memorial Album”

“John F. Kennedy A Memorial Album, Highlights Of Speeches Made By Out Beloved President”

“Kennedy in Deuschland-Im Zeichnen der Freundschaft John F. Kennedy-“Four Days That Shocked The World”-The Complete Story-Nov.22-25, 1963

“Of Poetry And Power”- Poems Occasioned By The Presidency And The Death Of John F. Kennedy

“Out Standing Moments In The Lives Of: John F. Kennedy /Robert F Kennedy Robert F. Kennedy-A tribute

“Man and the Moon” Narrated by Tom Clark. -Presented by bank of Chicago.

“Man on the Moon” Narrated by Walter Cronkite-CBS news

“Portrait Of A Splendid American”-A documentary tribute to Dr.Tom Dooley

“The Historic Second Declaration Of Havana” February 4, 1962

“The Great March To Freedom”-Rev. Martin Luther King Speaks-Detroit, June 23 1963

“I Have A Dream”- The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.-The original address from the march on Washington, August 28 1963

“Malcolm X-Speaks Again”

“Malcolm X-Grass Roots Speech-Detroit, Michigan Nov. 1963

“Precious Gifts From Penniless Givers”-Sermon by Rev. C.T. Nelson, Cleveland, Ohio

“Mr. President”-The Complete Text Of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Address On’ The Great Society’ delivered on May 22, 1964 and other speeches.

National Geographic:” Sir Winston Churchill-London, January 30, 1965

“Sounds of Jerusalem” Nrattert by Yehuda Lev

“The Historic Speech Of Our Time”- Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel-Speaking before the U.N.-June 6, 1967

“The Six Day War”-Broadcasts by Kol Israel and Galei Zahal

“The Six Day War”-In English, with narration by Brigadier General Chaim Herzog The Six Day War-“The battle for Jerusalem, Recorded live

“Keep The Faith, Baby”-Adam Clayton Powell’s message to the world-January 1967

“Freedoms Finest Hour”-Narrated by Ronald Reagan

“Campaign Favourites”-George C. Wallace, Distributed by Wallace campaign headquarters, 1968 Rev. Jesse Jackson-“I Am Somebody” “Das Wort hat der Abgeordnete von Guttenberg…”-Die Bundestagrede vom 27. Mai 1970 “The World In Sound 1972”-Narrated By Morgan Beatty “The World In Sound 1973”-Narrated by Morgan Beatty “Israel-The Official 25th Anniversary Commemorative Album”-Narrated by Abba Eban “Golda Meir-The Yom Kipur war”- address delivered on Nov. 2, 1973 in Washington D.C. “The World In Sound 1974”-Narrated By Edward De Fontaine And Tom Martin “Spiro T. Agnew-Speaks Out “Black Family Day”-May 27, 1974—Minister Louis Farrakhan “Resignation of a President”-President Nixon resignation speech- August 8, 1974 “The World In Sound 1976”-Narrated by Tom Martin “The Entebbe answer”-Israel case against international terror-Chaim Hezog before the U.N, 9,13 July 1976 “Kein Aufschrei geht durch unser Vaterland”-Eine Rede von Axel Springedr am 18 Juni, 1976 “The World In Sound 1977”- Narrated By Tom Martin “Alex Haley Tells The Story Of His Search For Roots “The World In Sound 1977”- Narrated by Mark Huffman and Bob Moon -“Pope John Paul 2 in Ireland, September 29-October1 , 1979 “The Royal Wedding”-Charles and Diana’s wedding in St. Paul’s cathedral on 29th July 1981 “Our Time Has Come”-Minister Louis Farrakhan/ Rev. Jesse L. Jackson “Bundespräsident Richard von Weizsächer zum 8 Mai, 1985 “Was die geschichtliche Stunde jetzt möglich macht”- Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl in Bonn 28 Nov. 89, Dresden, 19 Dec. 89. and Berlin, 22 Dec 89