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Handwritten Program Lists, March-July 1982
Handwritten cue sheets for Music USA, March-July 1982.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hazel and Harold
Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date:
194X
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hazel and Harold, April 21, 1946
Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold and Nathalie Sherman as Hazel. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date:
April 21, 1946
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hazel and Harold, April 28, 1946
Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold and Nathalie Sherman as Hazel. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date:
April 28, 1946
Creator:
Conover, Willis & Sherman, Nathalie
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hazel and Harold, February 10, 1946
Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold and Nathalie Sherman as Hazel. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date:
February 10, 1946
Creator:
Conover, Willis & Sherman, Nathalie
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hazel and Harold, January 6, 1946
Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold and Nathalie Sherman as Hazel. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date:
January 6, 1946
Creator:
Conover, Willis & Sherman, Nathalie
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hazel and Harold, March 3, 1946
Recording of a radio comedy, Hazel and Harold, featuring Willis Conover as Harold and Nathalie Sherman as Hazel. The program is reminiscent of the early Ethel and Albert programs he did with Peg Lynch at WTBO in Cumberland, Maryland, before the Second World War.
Date:
March 3, 1946
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Individual Program List, July-October 1982
Hour-by-hour breakdown of music played on Music USA, July-October 1982.
Date:
1982
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Benny Goodman
Unedited audio of Willis Conover's interview with Benny Goodman, including short statements for various broadcast services within VOA, and a longer interview presumably for Music USA #394-B.
Date:
December 21, 1955
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Duke Ellington
The only physical identification on this disc was the note "sign-off effect improperly done." However, it contains a brief interview with Duke Ellington. The mention of the death of "Tricky Sam" Nanton places it after July 20, 1946. Despite mentions of further interview segments, there is only one such segment.
Date:
194X
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Ella Fitzgerald, for Voices of VISTA #127
Willis Conover interviews Ella Fitzgerald for "Voices of VISTA" program number 127. The short programs featured various celebrities and were used, like Treasury broadcasts in decades past, to promote the U.S. government's Volunteers in Service to America program.
Date:
May 10, 1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Gil Evans
An interview with Gil Evans, apparently included in Music USA #4884-B, broadcast May 16, 1968.
Date:
March 4, 1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Marshall Brown, John LaPorta, and Farmingdale High School students
The interview which accompanied Music USA #551-B, broadcast July 2, 1956, featuring Marshall Brown, John LaPorta, and four Farmingdale (New York) High School students.
Date:
June 7, 1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with W.C. Handy, Part II
The second part of Willis Conover's extended interview with W.C. Handy.
Date:
1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
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
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interviews with Billy Eckstine and Teddi King
Willis Conover interviews Billy Eckstine and Teddi King at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, on the RCA Victor Starliner train. Eckstine and King were performing to benefit the March of Dimes; the interviews were apparently used in Music USA programs #420-B (Eckstine) and #421-B (King).
Date:
January 21, 1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interviews with June Christy, Nat "King" Cole, Ted Heath, and Bob Flanigan
Willis Conover interviews June Christy, Nat "King" Cole, Ted Heath, and Bob Flanigan backstage at a performance at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C. The interview with Nat "King" Cole was likely used in Music USA program #520-B.
Date:
May 1, 1956
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Jack Holliday and Betty Madigan with Willis Conover
Side 1 of this recording features brief, unrelated orchestral music. Side 2 is an apparent promotional program for Madigan and Holliday, hosted by Willis Conover, and sponsored by Old Georgetown Beer. Selections include “In the Blue of Evening” (introduction); “My Melancholy Baby”; Conover reading an advertisement for Old Georgetown Beer; “It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House”; “You Go to My Head”; “Laura” (solo piano); “These Foolish Things”; and “In the Blue of Evening” (reprise).
Date:
194X
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, and Willis Conover
Photograph of Jack Teagarden, Earl Hines, and Willis Conover.
Date:
194X
Creator:
Norm Robbins
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Jazz in Eastern Europe: Joseph Sadlik interviews Jan Arnet on the Voice of America
Joseph Sadlik of the Voice of America interviews Czech bassist Jan Arnet.
Date:
March 4, 1966
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