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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 Mort Sahl
Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl.
Date:
March 13, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
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
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
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
Voices of VISTA: Vikki Carr
Willis Conover interviews singer Vikki Carr for Voices of VISTA program #155. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date:
1967~
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Voices of VISTA: Charlie Byrd
Willis Conover interviews guitarist Charlie Byrd for Voices of VISTA program #39. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date:
1967~
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Charles Martyn of the University of Michigan
Willis Conover interviews Charles Martyn, a University of Michigan student who was part of the UM Symphony Band tour of the Soviet Union
Date:
June 6, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Art Farmer
Willis Conover interviews Art Farmer.
Date:
March 2, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews John Wiggin
Willis Conover interviews John Wiggin, not for broadcast, but for an article he was writing. In 1954, Wiggin was deputy program manager at the Voice of America, and hired Conover for the Music USA series.
Date:
March 5, 1963
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Charles McWhorter
Willis Conover interviews Charles McWhorter for the "Conversations with Conover" series.
Date:
March 2, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews S.I. Hayakawa
Willis Conover interviews S.I. Hayakawa, then a professor, and a future U.S. Senator.
Date:
March 29, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival, "One at a Time Blues"
"One at a Time Blues," featuring multiple soloists at the 1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #3661-A, Music of Alec Wilder
The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, broadcast January 7, 1965, featuring the music of Alec Wilder.
Date:
November 21, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #3661-B, Interview with Alec Wilder
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast January 7, 1965, including tune selections and an interview with Alec Wilder.
Date:
October 28, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA, Ben Webster in Copenhagen, 1965
An unedited program for the second hour (jazz hour) of Music USA, featuring performances by Ben Webster in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September of 1965. A program number and date have not been located; the recording includes technical difficulties encountered on the first selection.
Date:
1965
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2799-B: Joe Williams at Newport, 1962
Part of the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast August 28, 1962, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #3620-B.
Date:
July 18, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2149-B, Interview with André Previn
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast November 16, 1960, including tune selections and an interview with André Previn.
Date:
September 7, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #4618-B, Gerry Mulligan in Moscow
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast August 22, 1967, featuring selections from a jam session at the Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café in which Gerry Mulligan played a borrowed alto saxophone.
Date:
July 25, 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
System:
The UNT Digital Library