Photograph of Kenton and some band members visiting a college. Front row (sitting) are band members Pete Rugolo (arr), trumpeters Buddy Childers, Ed Badgely and Conte Candoli.

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder was dedicated to information about folk and country songs and singers in the United States, with articles, photos, and a section of sheet music. These issues are from the collection of Floy Case, a pioneering music journalist who wrote many articles for this publication.

Recording of the September 28, 1941 episode of H.V. Kaltenborn edits the news. In Oklahoma City, this program was broadcast locally on WKY.

Track 1 contains Clifton Utley reading the news, sponsored by Skelly Oil, a day after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech on freedom of the seas. Utley is followed by local programing from Oklahoma City station WKY, with reference to a WKY listening post for German shortwave radio. Track 2 contains a weekly summary of news from CBS, followed by Elmer Davis and the News, which was broadcast locally in Oklahoma City on KOMA. This recording appears to have been copied from a tape, and artifacts of tape recording, such as speed irregularities, are present.

Side 1 contains a presidential campaign speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. Roosevelt is introduced by Daniel J. Tobin of the Teamsters Union. Side 2 contains a presidential campaign speech by Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey

Side 1 contains the continuation of a presidential campaign speech by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D.C. Side 2 contains a presidential campaign speech by Republican nominee Thomas E. Dewey.

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder was dedicated to information about folk and country songs and singers in the United States. These issues are from the collection of Floy Case, a pioneering music journalist who wrote many articles for this publication.

The Mountain Broadcast and Prairie Recorder was dedicated to information about folk and country songs and singers in the United States. These issues are from the collection of Floy Case, a pioneering music journalist who wrote many articles for this publication.