Includes letters of congratulations, proclamations, photographs and biographical information of the country music star who had a program on KMOX from 1929 to early 1950s and later on other St. Louis stations.
Consists of some publicity material, legal papers, other correspondence and sound recordings. Collection is held by the son of the program's creators. Mr. VanDeventer appeared on the program as "Bobby McGuire."
WBML Radio recordings by Eddie Cannon and His Radio Playboys: featuring Ruby Lee Yopp Havis, 1947-1951 The collection consists of 50 radio transcription discs of recordings by Eddie Cannon and His Radio Playboys (featuring Ruby Lee Yopp Havis), originally aired on WBML Radio in Macon, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
50 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
The majority of the scripts are from the Writers War Board which produced radio plays and pageants on such subjects as general morale, salvage, rationing, etc. as well as other scripts by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Broadcast Music Inc., RCA Victor Records Thesaurus Program Continuity Service and an episode of Mr. Sycamore, a 30 minute radio comedy-drama produced during the 1940s. There are also program brochures prepared by the Educational Department of MBS about programs for young people and public interest programs. Also includes a pageant script written by Roger M. Busfield entitled, "Land of Plenty," regarding a program at Michigan State University.
WRAS Radio records, 1966-2009, contain materials documenting the Georgia State University student-run radio station. The collection consists of materials pertaining to day-to-day operations, tower construction and relocation, playlists, logs, news clippings, ephemera, station produced sound recordings (interviews, promos, drops) and sound recording submissions for the Georgia Music Show. Notable in the collection is the almost complete run of general manager files documenting the station’s activities under each manager.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:
8 linear feet, 900 Optical and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
The records contain correspondence, memos, scrapbooks, news clippings, publicity materials, program log books, scripts, radio engineering lesson plans, contracts, licenses, photographs, sound recordings, moving image recordings, transcripts, and artifacts relating to the early history of WSB Radio, to WSB performers, programs, awards, and sponsored events (such as news workshops and career conferences for students), and to WSB-FM and WSB-TV.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, Three-dimensional form, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:
24 linear feet, 250 Lacquer discs, 40,000 Pressed 78rpm, LP, and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:
Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Contains scripts for radio plays and dramatic readings, 1936-1938, and news broadcasts, 1949-1955, by noted journalists and writers, including Stephen Vincent Benet, Norman Lewis Corwin, Cedric Foster, Fulton Lewis, Edward R. Murrow, and William N. Robson.