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Willis Conover interviews Quincy Jones on WCBS radio
Willis Conover interviews Quincy Jones for WCBS radio. The interview was later incorporated into Music USA #2729-B, broadcast on June 19, 1962.
Date:
May 19, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Voices of VISTA: Interview with Cy Coleman
Willis Conover interviews Cy Coleman for Voices of VISTA program #70. This recording is part of the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date:
1967~
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Voices of VISTA: Interview with Al Hirt
Willis Conover interviews trumpeter Al Hirt for Voices of VISTA program #109. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program, and includes other recorded segments for the Hirt program and another which featured Charlie Byrd.
Date:
November 27, 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #5262-B [part], Duke Ellington at the White House, Part I
The first part of a series of Music USA programs on Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House. This segment is the last 17 minutes of Music USA #5262-B, the rest of which featured the Miles Davis album "Odyssey!" (Prestige 7540). The program was originally broadcast on May 27, 1969.
Date:
April 29, 1969
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #5264-B, Duke Ellington at the White House, Part III
The third part of a series of Music USA programs on Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House. This program was originally broadcast on May 29, 1969.
Date:
April 29, 1969
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, February 17, 1962, Part II
The second segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for February 17, 1962, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
February 17, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, August 29, 1962, Part I
The first segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for August 29, 1960, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
August 27, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, December 23, 1961, Part II: Interview with Gerry Mulligan
The second segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for December 23, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York. This segment includes an interview with Gerry Mulligan.
Date:
December 23, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, December 16, 1961, Part II
The second segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for December 16, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
December 16, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, November 25, 1961, Part II
The second segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for November 25, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
November 25, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, November 11, 1961, Part I
The first segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for November 11, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
November 11, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, February 17, 1962, Part I
The first segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for February 17, 1962, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
February 17, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, November 4, 1961, Part I
The first segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for November 4, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
November 4, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, November 11, 1961, Part II
The second segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for November 11, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
November 11, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, December 23, 1961, Part I
The first segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for December 23, 1961, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
December 23, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa (with examples)
A longer-form discussion of jazz and its potential antecedents in the music and culture of western Africa between Conover and pianist Billy Taylor, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and bandleader and composer Quincy Jones. This version of the discussion includes examples. This material may have been used in Music USA #2352-B.
Date:
1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WNEW audition tape 1
An audition tape apparently made for WNEW, with a pilot episode of WIllis Conover's House of Sounds. This program shows continuity with his work a decade earlier in Washington, D.C., and a version of this program was eventually picked up by WCBS in late 1960.
Date:
September 28, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Fred Gale, WWDC, Part II
Fred Gale interviews Willis Conover for WWDC, where Conover worked in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
Date:
February 9, 1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis & Gale, Fred
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover with Ed Joyce on "Speak Up," WCBS, March 8, 1963
Willis Conover appears on Ed Joyce's WCBS radio program, "Speak Up," which includes a call-in segment.
Date:
March 8, 1963
Creator:
Conover, Willis & Joyce, Ed, 1932-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans with Chuck Israels on bass, and Larry Bunker on drums at the Village Vanguard. The reel-to-reel tape container indicates that titles performed include "Slow Dance" and "A Song for Now."
Date:
November 14, 1964
Creator:
Evans, Bill, 1929-1980
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Steve Allison, WWDC, Part I
Steve Allison interviews Willis Conover in the second half of 1960 -- the date is surmised from the mention of the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Allison conducted his interviews from the Black Saddle House of Beef restaurant in Washington, D.C. (709 18th St. NW).
Date:
1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2204-B, Interview with Miriam Makeba
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, including an interview with Miriam Makeba, and tune selections from the opera "King Kong," and from the Mal Waldron Trio. This program was broadcast on January 10, 1961, and rebroadcast on July 11 of that year as Music USA #2386-B.
Date:
October 21, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Steve Allison, WWDC, Part II
Steve Allison interviews Willis Conover in the second half of 1960 -- the date is surmised from the mention of the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Allison conducted his interviews from the Black Saddle House of Beef restaurant in Washington, D.C. (709 18th St. NW).
Date:
1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Ella Fitzgerald, for Voices of VISTA #127
Willis Conover interviews Ella Fitzgerald for "Voices of VISTA" program number 127. The short programs featured various celebrities and were used, like Treasury broadcasts in decades past, to promote the U.S. government's Volunteers in Service to America program.
Date:
May 10, 1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library