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Music USA Recording Schedule, 1965-1977 (open access)

Music USA Recording Schedule, 1965-1977

Music USA Recording Schedule, June 13, 1965- December 9, 1977
Date: unknown
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music USA playlists, January-June 1973 (open access)

Music USA playlists, January-June 1973

A partial set of playlists for individual Music USA programs 6581 through 6714, broadcast in 1973. There are 91 pages in this document.
Date: 1973
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music USA Recording Schedule, 1962-1973 (open access)

Music USA Recording Schedule, 1962-1973

Music USA Recording Schedule, January 1, 1962-January 13, 1973.
Date: unknown
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington, WCBS radio transcript

Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington, WCBS radio

Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington for WCBS radio.
Date: November 15, 1961
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Johnny Mercer transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl transcript

Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl

Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl.
Date: March 13, 1964
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover and family captions transcript

Willis Conover and family

Home movie of Willis Conover and his third wife, Johara, with unidentified family members.
Date: 1958~
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #1092-A, Around the World at Christmas, Part I transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #695-B, Hungarian Jazz Guests transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ben Grauer interviews Willis Conover transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Lynda Johnson transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Individual Program List, 1981 (open access)

Individual Program List, 1981

Hour-by-hour breakdown of music played on Music USA, 1981. Includes: Duke Ellington Tribute Programs, April 1978. Handwritten program notes, 1978-1979 and unknown date.
Date: unknown
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music USA Storage Data Sheets (open access)

Music USA Storage Data Sheets

Handwritten contents listing for Music USA storage boxes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interviews at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1967 transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WEAM - Interview with Woody Herman, Bobby Hackett, Louis Armstrong transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover Presents "The" Orchestra of Washington, D.C. transcript

Willis Conover Presents "The" Orchestra of Washington, D.C.

A live performance of "The" Orchestra.
Date: 195X
Creator: Conover, Willis
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Marshall Brown and George Wein transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Interview with W.C. Handy, Part I transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #7428-B, funeral of Duke Ellington, Part II transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Voices of VISTA: Interview with Marilyn Maye transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover with live quartet on WCBS, featuring Chuck Wayne and Hank Jones transcript

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
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library