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Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington, WCBS radio
Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington for WCBS radio.
Date:
November 15, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Johnny Mercer
Part 3 of 4 segments of raw audio of Willis Conover's 1970 interview with Johnny Mercer, which was used in the series of seven memorial broadcasts between program numbers #7879-A and #7893-A.
Date:
January 30, 1970
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl
Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl.
Date:
March 13, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #1092-A, Around the World at Christmas, Part I
Part I of the first hour of Music USA for broadcast on Christmas Day in 1957.
Date:
October 23, 1957
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #695-B, Hungarian Jazz Guests
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, aired on November 23, 1956. This program features Hungarian jazz musicians who sent a recording to Conover shortly before the Hungarian Uprising of 1956; this hour was apparently was quickly assembled to replace the original program #695-B which had been recorded in October, but set aside for this replacement. The musicians remain unnamed, presumably for their safety, as Conover notes that it is unknown whether the musicians in the recording were still alive. Gerry Mulligan, Tony Scott, Quincy Jones, J.J. Johnson, and Billy Taylor comment on the musical selections.
Date:
November 21, 1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bill Berry's New York Band in rehearsal with Bill Watrous
A recording of a rehearsal of Bill Berry's New York Band with trombonist Bill Watrous
Date:
March 15, 1970
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Kondakow
Recording of various jazz tunes from a tape labeled "Kondakow / Pauls / 7 Dixie Lads, Leningrad / Weinstein." Accordingly this recording may be from Conover's 1967 visit to the Soviet Union, with selections from the 7 Dixie Lads and Iosif Vainshtein.
Date:
196X
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ben Grauer interviews Willis Conover
Recording of the raw audio of an interview with Willis Conover by Ben Grauer. Grauer mentions that Conover has hosted his program on the Voice of America for the past 20 years, placing the date around 1975. This interview is about Conover's book Lovecraft at Last. There are frequent interjections from someone off-microphone. This audio was used in an episode of the VOA program "New York, New York with Ben Grauer."
Date:
197X
Creator:
Conover, Willis & Grauer, Ben
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Lynda Johnson
Willis Conover interview Lynda Bird Johnson, the elder daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Date:
June 16, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interviews at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1967
Willis Conover interviews Flavio Ambrosetti, Franco Ambrosetti, Daniel Humair, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and George Gruntz at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WEAM - Interview with Woody Herman, Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong
An interview with Woody Herman, Bobby Hackett, and Louis Armstrong, conducted in late June of 1955, in connection with the performance of Louis Armstrong and His All Stars at the Carter Barron Amphitheater, Washington, D.C.
Date:
June 1955
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover Presents "The" Orchestra of Washington, D.C.
A live performance of "The" Orchestra.
Date:
195X
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Marshall Brown and George Wein
Willis Conover interviews Marshall Brown and George Wein about their 20-nation talent-searching tour for Newport International Youth Band. This recording is the raw audio, apparently incorporated into Music USA program #1147-B.
Date:
December 4, 1957
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with W.C. Handy, Part I
The first part of Willis Conover's extended interview with W.C. Handy. This recording is the raw audio, and includes a glitch in the tape in the opening seconds, and other preliminaries before the interview begins.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa
A recording of a discussion on jazz and Africa by Billy Taylor, Quincy Jones, and Dizzy Gillespie, apparently made for use in Music USA #2352-B.
Date:
March 7, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #7428-B, funeral of Duke Ellington, Part II
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast May 2, 1975. The program contains Part II of the funeral of Duke Ellington, on May 27, 1974, as broadcast on radio, possibly by station WRVR.
Date:
May 2, 1975
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Voices of VISTA: Interview with Marilyn Maye
Willis Conover interviews singer Marilyn Maye for Voices of VISTA program #117. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date:
December 9, 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover with live quartet on WCBS, featuring Chuck Wayne and Hank Jones
Willis Conover on a radio program on WCBS, apparently sitting in for Martha Wright, featuring a live quartet, and an interview with the bellman of the Algonquin Hotel.
Date:
1962~
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WCBS, December 24, 1960, Part I
The first segment of Willis Conover's House of Sounds program for December 24, 1960, on WCBS radio in New York.
Date:
December 24, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bob LaPlante interview with Don Byas; unidentified recording
In the first track, Bob LaPlante interviews Don Byas in 1965. The second track, from the other side of the tape reel, is an unidentified jazz ensemble for roughly the first half. The ensemble in the second half is identified at 27:05 as the Ole Dixon Trio.
Date:
November 2, 1965
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Ed Joyce on WCBS "Speak Up" program
Ed Joyce interviews Willis Conover on WCBS radio, with call-in questions from listeners.
Date:
March 8, 1963
Creator:
Joyce, Ed, 1932-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bob Dixon, WCBS, July 5, 1962
Bob Dixon's program on WBCS for July 5, 1962, with several guest speakers on poet Robert Frost. A segment by Ralph Story is interpolated near the beginning.
Date:
July 5, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Jorge Luis Borges
Willis Conover interviews Jorge Luis Borges.
Date:
April 30, 1976
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
EnBee Jamboree, June 14, 1947; labor dispute arbitration
On side 1, Willis Conover hosts a program advertising the holdings of EnBee Record Sales, at 1016 7th St NW in Washington, D.C. The theme song is Stan Kenton's "Machito,"and other selections include Roy Milton's "Camille's Boogie"; Duke Ellington, "Minnehaha Part 2"; Reverend Utah Smith, "God's Mighty Hand;" and Herb Jeffries, "When I Write My Song." Side 2 contains a labor arbitration hearing between the Bakery and Confectionary Union Local 350 AFL, an employer (Mr. C), and a former employee (Mr. A). Arbitrators include Dr. Jane Emmel Gorman of Hunter College, and John A. Zellers, former president of the New York Board of Trade.
Date:
June 14, 1947
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library