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Music USA #7893-A, Interview with Johnny Mercer
The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, and the last of seven programs in memory of Johnny Mercer, including excerpts from an interview with Mercer conducted on January 30, 1970.
Date:
August 9, 1976
Creator:
Conover, Willis
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Melody Lane, part 1 of 2, August 15, 1946
Recording of the first part of Melody Lane, hosted by Mark Austad.
Date:
August 15, 1946
Creator:
Evans, Mark, 1917-1988
System:
The UNT Digital Library
EnBee Jamboree, August 22, 1947
Willis Conover hosts a program advertising the holdings of EnBee Records, at 1016 7th St NW in Washington, D.C. The theme song is Stan Kenton's "Machito,"and other selections include Francis Craig, "Near You"; The Beale Street Boys, "Lights Out"; the signoff theme from Sunday spirituals show, “God Be With You”; and the King Cole Trio, "I Miss You So."
Date:
August 22, 1947
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Melody Lane, part 2 of 2, August 15, 1945
Recording of the second part of Melody Lane, hosted by Mark Austad.
Date:
August 15, 1945
Creator:
Evans, Mark, 1917-1988
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #621-B
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast September 10, 1956.
Date:
August 14, 1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Chicago Theater of the Air: Yma Sumac
A recording found in Willis Conover's collection of reel-to-reel tapes: Yma Sumac performs at the 22nd annual Chicagoland Music Festival, at Soldier Field.
Date:
August 25, 1951
Creator:
Sumac, Yma
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover: American Jazz #1
The second part of a broadcast which featured Willis Conover discussing the music of Duke Ellington, followed by a translation in Swedish by an unknown speaker. This program occurred more than five years before the beginning of Conover's long-running VOA program, Music USA.
Date:
August 23, 1949
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Harold Rogers, BBC
Harold Rogers interviews Willis Conover for the BBC. Subjects include the five-hour Louis Armstrong interview, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Date:
August 4, 1957
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library