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Willis Conover: American Jazz #1 transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews George Shearing, November 2, 1949 transcript

Willis Conover interviews George Shearing, November 2, 1949

Willis Conover interviews George Shearing. This is the raw interview, and refers to song selections to be inserted later.
Date: November 2, 1949
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans' Cab advertisements; Meet Your Congress transcript

Veterans' Cab advertisements; Meet Your Congress

Side 1 of the recording contains five short advertisements for the Veterans' Cab company, dated February 24, 1949. Side 2 contains an excerpt of an episode of Meet Your Congress, in which United States senators discuss rent control.
Date: 1949
Creator: Cummings, Al & Moody, Blair
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Louis Armstrong, radio program transcript

Louis Armstrong, radio program

Louis Armstrong plays tunes and reads advertisements on Willis Conover's radio show. He mentions that he was performing at the Blue Mirror, situating this program between December 22, 1949, and January 4, 1950.
Date: [1949,1950]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Willis Conover at the microphone

Photograph of Willis Conover at a microphone at radio station WWDC, Washington, D.C., holding a cigarette in one hand, and the May 1949 issue of Metronome magazine in the other. Fran Warren is on the cover of the magazine.
Date: 1949
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library