The collection consists of materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
Julian Price was a businessman, journalist, and civic leader. A native of Greensboro, NC, Price was the grandson of Jefferson Standard Insurance executive Julian Price (1867-1946). Price lived in Asheville, NC, from 1990 until his death in 2001, using his extensive wealth and philanthropic spirit to fuel a revitalization of Asheville’s downtown. Price was very interested in radio and print journalism, and recorded a number of interviews for broadcast on public radio stations. This collection contains over 50 cassette recordings of Price’s radio programs.
Content types:
Spoken word and Performed music
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Text document, Photographic negative, Photographic print, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Digital images, with searchable database, for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955. Radio programs can be searched separately at http:// scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Contains personal and professional papers of Carroll who was associated with the J. Walter Thompson Co. (JWT) and the development, writing and production of many radio programs, including Kraft Music Hall. Also contains material relating to his work as a ghost writer for Bob Hope and with the Office of War Information.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
A formerVice President of JWT, the majority of the collection focuses on JWT through short company histories and the establishment and growth of departments such as Broadcast and Radio. Also of interest is the Oral Interview Series.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes material that documents three advertising agencies : D' Arey Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B), Benton & Bowles (B&B), and D'Arcy-MacManus & Masius (D-MM). Most of the radio related material is in the "Clients Series, 1931-1985, n.d., bulk 1970-1980s, n.d." Includes material about the Maxwell House Radio Showboat, May, 1933, and six scripts about great composers broadcast on Prudential's The Family Hour, 1943.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
As an executive with JWT, Seymour's papers deal primarily with television but he was involved with the company's reorganization of its radio and television operations into a single Radio-Television Department as television emerged as the leading media in the United States in the 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes papers and audio recordings of radio commercials for several companies. Hatcher was a copywriter and creative director for several major advertising agencies, including G.M. Basford Co., Benton & Bowles, Ogilvy, Benson, & Mather, Kenyon & Eckhardt, Batten, Barton, Durstine, & Osborn's San Francisco office, Mccann-Erickson and J. Walter Thompson .
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
The Archives are organized into more than 45 separate collections, each with its own online finding aid that describes in very general terms the types of documents in the collection and which may or may not include radio related material. For example, the "Quaker Oats Account Files, 1945-1965, 1977" collection contains 3l Aunt Jemima reports, 1945-1965, 1977 but does not indicate whether radio is discussed in any of the reports . A complete list of the JWT finding aids is available at: http://scriptori um .lib.duke.edu/ dynaweb/findaids/
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
An artificially created collection of information about client accounts held by JWT that provides information about the agency's management of client advertising campaigns. The collection includes account histories, research reports, memoranda, correspondence, printed material, clippings, brochures and pamphlets, product labels and packaging designs. Additionally, the files document deliberations about such topics as media selection, markets and target audience for individual advertising campaigns. The largest account files are those relating to Chesebrough-Pond's, Inc., the General Cigar Company, the Andrew Jergens Company, Oneida Limited, Pan American World Airways, Standard Brands, Inc. and the United States Playing Card Company. The online finding aid lists other clients. The only radio program specifically mentioned in the finding aid is the Chase and Sanborn Hour, 1929-1943, although radio material could be included in other client history materials.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Papers document Jones's primary career as an executive for several major advertising agencies, including the Leo Burnett Company, Campbell-Ewald Company, D.P. Brother and Company, Wilding Advertising and William R. Biggs/Gilmore Associates. Materials consist primarily of correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, scripts and audio visual materials that document the development of print, radio and television advertising campaigns for a wide variety of clients. The bulk of the materials appear to deal with television.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Fifteen reels of audio tape containing radio commercials, programs for Won's Frozen Chinese Foods and Schlitz beer, the radio show Ford Startime and some unidentified radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
The Center maintains a file listing all the scripts in the collection. (The scripts are not searchable online.) The listing is organized by show title or star. What follows is a partial list of scripts. For more information contact the Center directly. All scripts are on microfilm and print copies can be ordered. Scripts: A Saga of Aviation, 1938-1939; Abbot and Costello Show, 1941-1942; Alec Templeton Time, 1946-1947; All Colored Show, Apr-Jun, 1937; Angelo Patri, 1931-1935; Around the World with Libby, 1929-1930; Aunt Hannah's Kiddy Show, Jan-Apr, 1949; Aunt Jemima, 1929-1932; Aunt Jenny Hitchhikes, Jan-Apr, 1949; A Battle of Music with Raymond Paige, Dec 2-30, 1945; Bob Crosby Show, Jan-Jul, 1946; Broadway Matinee, Jan-Aug, 1944; Buck Rogers, 1936; Burns and Allen, n.d.; California Carry On, Sep-Dec. 1943; Camel Comedy Caravan, Jun, 1943; Canadian Marconi Program, Sep-Dec, 1930; Ceco Manufacturing Co. Dealer Program, May-Oct, 1930; The Circle, 1935-1939; Davey Tree Hour, 1930-1932; Devils, Drugs and Doctors, 1931-1932; Dione Lucas Cooking School, Feb-Dec, 1949; Do You Want To Be An Actor? 1936-1937; Don Ameche, 1942-1943; Dr. Howard W Haggard, 1932-1933; Dr. West Celebrity Night, Apr-May, 1936; Dr. William L. Stidger, 1937-1939; Earl Wilson, Jan-Jul, 1945; Eddie Cantor Show, 1931-1934; Eddie Dooley-Football & Sports Review, 1932-1935; Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1937; Elgin National Watch Company, Recording of 75'" anniversary celebration at World's Fair, Aug 18, 1939; Fair Meadows USA, Nov-Dec, 1951; The Family Man, 1939-1940; Five Dollar Fact Show, 1940-1941; Fleischmann's Baking Industry Program, Oct, 1931; Fleischmann's Food Talks, Jan-Apr, 1929; Floyd Gibbons,1933-1935; The Ford Show, 1946-1947; Four Corners USA, Feb-Aug, 1941; Frances Greer, Apr-Jun, 1945; Frank Fay, Apr-Aug, 1936; Frank Sinatra Program, Jan-Dec, 1944; Fred Allen,1945-1949; Fred Waring, Sep-Dec, 1944; Fresh Up Show, 1945-1946; The Garden Hour, 1931-1932; Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, 1941-1943; General Cigar World's Fair Exhibit Bldg. Recording, May 2, 1940; General Electric Radio Program, 1941; George Jessel, Feb-Mar, 1932; Georgie Price, Jun-Dec, 1932; Gliding Swing Program, 1938-1940; Good Will Court, Sep-Dec, 1936; Goodrich Silver Fleet/Defiance Tire Radio Program, 1930; Gracie Fields, Jun-Aug, 1944; Granlund & His Girls, 1935-1936; Great Moments in History, 1932-1933; Gruen Guild Radio Program, 1930-1931; Hammond Organ Hour, Sep-Dec, 1937; Happy Ramblers, 1932-1934; Harry Richman, May-Sep, 1932; Herbert Marshall, Nov-Dec, 1941; His Honor the Barber, Jan-Apr, 1946; Homefront Matinee, Nov-Dec, 1943; Horlick's Picture House, 1937-1938; Husbands & Wines, Jul-Sep, 1936; Husbands & Wives, 1936-1937; I love A Mystery, 1939-1941; Ida Bailey Allen, 1930-1931; Jnfonnation Please, Oct-Dec, 1946; Iowa Barn Dance Frolic, Aug-Nov, 1943; James Melton, Jan-Oct, 1937; The Jergens Program with Ray Perkins, 1931-1932; The Jergens Program with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Jun-Aug, 1935; The Jergens Program with Walter Winchell, 1933-1936; Jimmy Durante, 1933-1934; Joe Cook, Jan-Jun, 1937; Joe Penner, 1933-1935; Jolly Bill & Jane, 1929-1933; Kaltenborn Edits the News, n.d.; Kodak Mid-Week Hour/Kodak Week-End Hour, 1930-1932; Kraft Music Hall, 1933-1955; La Geradine Program, 1931-1933; The Libby Grocer, Sep-Dec, 1930; Life and love of Dr. Susan, Aug-Dec, 1939; Life for the Wounded, Mar 24, 1943; Lux Radio Theatre, 1934-1955; Lux Toilet Soap Movie Club, 1938; Magic Baking Powder (Canada) (Commercials), 1934-1938; Major Bowes, 1935-1936; Marionette Show, 1937-1948; Martha Deane, 1936-1937; Mary Martin, 1943-1945; Mary Pickford, 1935; Maurice Chevalier, Feb-Jun, 1931; Mentholatum Mountaineers, 1944-1946; Marjorie Mills Participation Program, 1941-1943; The Music America Loves Best, 1944-1948; Musical Pictures, Nov 13-28, 1942; My True Story, 1945; National Spelling Bee, 1936-1937; Nelson Eddy, 1942-1943; Nemo-Flex Broadcast, Mar-May, 1931; Nero Wolfe, Apr-Sep, 1943; The Nestle's Chocolateers, 1931-1937; The Odorona Cutex Program, Apr-Oct, 1931; Old Witch Radio Program, 1929-1930; One Man's Family, n.d. Opera Series, 1934-1935; Paul Whiteman, Jun-Aug, 1943; "Pearls"-Homemaker's Hour, Jan 9-22 ,1930; Peggy Winthrop, 1930-1931; Pertussin Play Boys, 1930-1931; Peter's Milk Cocoa, Jan-Jun, 1929; Placidan, 1934; Ray Perkins, 1930-1931; Raymond Clapper, Sep-Dec, 1942; Raymond Gram Swing, 1939-1942; Republican Campaign, Sep-Nov, 1940; Richman Brothers Program, Mar-Jun, 1932; Rinso Radio Revue, 1937; Robert Ripley, 1935-1937; Roses & Drums, 1932-1935; Royal Baking Powder Talks, 1928-1938; Royal Gelatin Audition, Sep-Dec, 1931; Sammy Kaye, 1943-1944; Rex Saunders, May-Jun, 1951; Sealtest Village Store Program, Jul 8, Aug 5, Nov 25, 1943; The Robert Shaw Chorale, Jun-Sep, 1948; Rudy Vallee, 1930-1936; Shell Chateau, 1935-1936; Shell Comes to the Party, Aug 7-21, 1941; The Shell Road Reporter, 1932-1933; Shell Show, 1934-1935; Sims & Baily, Apr-Sep, 1933; Springtime and Harvest, 1939-1940; Stars of the Future, Jan-Dec, 1945; Stebbins Boys, 1931-1932; Swift Hour, 1934-1935; Tennessee Jed, 1945-1947; This is Helen Hayes, Feb-Jul, 1945; Textron Theatre, 1945-1946; Those We Love, 1938-1940; Three Bakers, 1931-1932; Three Ring Time/Three Ring Round Up, 1941-1943; Tommy Dorsey, 1945-1946; Tommy Riggs, Apr-Oct, 1941; Town Crier, 1933-1935; True and False Program with Dr. Harry Hagen, 1938-1943; Uncle Abe and David, 1930-1931; United Nations Information Bureau-Eight Legal Governments of Invaded Europe, What they are doing to defeat Hitler and Establish Peace, 1943 (Norway, Yugoslavia); United States Marine Corps., Mar 12, 1943; US Industrial Alcohol, 1931, 1933-Audition Script; V.E. Meadows Beauty School, Aug-Sep, 1931; Vermont Lumberjack, 1931-1932; Vogue Fashion Program, Apr-Oct, 1931; Vox Pop, Jul-Sep, 1935; Wartime Conference, 1943; Washington Merry-Go-Round, Jul-Sep, 1940; Werner-Jannsen, Jul-Sep, 1937; What's New, Sep-Dec, 1943; Who's for Who in America, Nov 18, 1947; Womanpower, Mar 25-26, 1943; Women's National Republican Club, 1947-1948; Writer's War Board, 1943; You and Your Dog (Defense Dog), Jun, 1943,; Zenith Foundation, 1938
Repository/Collector:
John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History
Includes scripts of Alliance broadcasts, 1925-1939 and 1945. The programs were broadcast from Richmond, New York, and Washington, DC and gave information on specific occupations and discussed vocational guidance issues. Additional records for the Alliance from 1947 to 1963 can be found in the Amber Arthur Warburton papers also located in the Manuscript Department.
Contains papers relating to Congressman Whitener's private and unofficial affairs, including press releases concerning the topics of his weekly radio programs, schedules of when programs were to be aired and some information about pay TV.
The Audio Tape Series includes recordings of radio programs, interviews and readings related to Ortiz's activism. (In the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History & Culture.)
Contains diaries, correspondence, financial papers, photographs, printed materials and newsclippings related to MacKinnon's radio broadcasting and business career as well as his personal life. Some materials pertain to his work in New York where he founded WQXR, Armed Forces Master Records, Inc., the Armed Forces Radio Service and Radio Free Europe.
Includes correspondence and printed material presenting the station's attempts to get favorable ratings and more power from the Federal Radio Commission for WPTF, the station owned by Durham Life.
Consists primarily of advertisements for various Liggett & Myers tobacco products such as Chesterfield, Fatima and Piedmont cigarettes, ca. 1910-1950s, as well as advertisements for competitors during the 1970s. Also includes scripts for radio and television commercials, 1949-1961.
Contains scripts written by Gaeta for television and radio commercials during the 1950s, especially for Mentholatum, but also for other products advertised by JWT.
By far the bulk of the papers are Federal Trade Commission files. As an attorney-examiner with the FTC between 1941 and 1962, Gardner worked with cases involving alleged deceptive advertising practices in the print media and radio. Collection includes worksheets for 1948-1951 from the Division of Radio and Periodical Advertising.
Consists of office files of individuals, correspondence, minutes, reports, photographs, scripts of radio programs and spots, sermons preached on the air, articles, addresses and staff papers about religious broadcasting. Includes papers relating to The Protestant Hour.
Contains reel-to reel recordings of Faier's disc jockey programs aired on KPFA, Berkeley, CA and WBAI, New York, including The Midnight Special on WBAI and an acetate recording of Dillybean Radio Spots.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Documentation, sound recordings and a videotape relating chiefly to Morton's work with African American harmonica player Deford Bailey who performed on WSM's Grand Ole Opry.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Extensive oral history of Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, an African American performer. The oral history focuses on his career, his early work in medicine shows and carnivals and his later work on Broadway and on radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Papers of country singer and guitarist turned band leader Glenn Thompson and his Dixie Playboys. The group appeared on a variety of radio stations, including WGH in Newport News, VA, WDLP, Panama City, FL and on the WDVA Barn Dance, WDVA, Danville, VA. Also includes papers and photographs relating to other performers who performed with Thompson on WDVA Barn Dance and at other venues. Audio recordings do not appear to be from radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Consists of materials gathered by Meade in his study of traditional country music and Kentucky fiddlers. Contains about 50 radio items, including guides to radio programming, both weekly publications and local newspaper columns. The "Old Time Radio Programs" folder contains Meade's research notes and indicates the dates and times that programs aired on various stations. Finding aid lists specific radio stations.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Contains sound recordings of radio programs on issues related to the work of the Highlander Folk School, including labor issues with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Papers dealing with Bernhardt's writings relating to country, old-time, bluegrass and gospel music, including Uncle Joe Johnson, a radio personality at WPAQ, Mount Airy, NC. The Uncle Joe Johnson materials include a magazine article written by Bernhardt for "Bluegrass Unlimited" about WPAQ and a number of photographs of Uncle Joe Johnson and others.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Includes an interview with Arthur Jackson, commonly known as Peg Leg Sam, an African American blues harmonica player and medicine show performer, about his experiences in show business, medicine shows, radio broadcasting and riding freight trains.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Includes transcript of a 1971 interview with Art Satherly, talent scout and recording executive for hillbilly and race record labels in the 1920s and 1930s, and interviews with Wilber Ball and Cliff Carlisle, early country musicians from Kentucky, about the early days of radio in Louisville, KY.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Includes radio scripts and sound and video recordings documenting the careers of the Johnson Family Singers and Betty Johnson. Includes 158 scripts from WBT shows, Charlotte, NC, 1943-1965, in which the Johnson Family Singers performed and Larry Walker appeared on the Margaret Ann Show.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Correspondence dealing with the Ledgerwood's Tennessee Fiddlers, a.k.a. the Ledgerwood-Harmison Old Time String Band, and the group's weekly broadcast on WKBN, Youngstown, OH, 1927-1930. Collection includes some sound recordings that do not appear to be from radio programs.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Includes scripts written by Bregman for David Dickon's program, Parade of American Songs, broadcast weekly over WEVD, New York in the early 1930s. Collection includes other materials relating to folk music and Bregman's personal life.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes correspondence, notes, scripts, films and other items relating to Fisher's career in radio and in television news broadcasting. Online finding aid lists names and dates of scripts but not for what radio program.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Included in the large collection of Smith's papers and writings is the radio script for "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and material regarding the musical version of the story.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains about 100 items dealing with radio plays, including correspondence, copyright notices, playscripts and other materials, chiefly from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the radio plays were written by Holman while others were edited by him. Many of the plays were used in the Forum of the Air series which aired in the late 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contains papers relating to Crutchfield's career, including his work at WBT, Charlotte, NC as a radio announcer, program director and general manager, as president of the Jefferson Pilot Broadcasting Company, 1965-1977, and also his career at CBS.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The bulk of the items in the collection pertain to Kuralt's career between the 1970s and the 1990s and include scripts, publicity materials and a small amount of fan mail.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A portion of the papers relate to Oettinger's career with the Tobacco Radio Network and WNAO, Raleigh, NC and contain articles, advertisements and scripts for radio programs, including The Citizen's Forum of the Air.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Includes sound recordings and related materials chiefly containing radio programs, 1958-1961 and n.d., hosted by Brooks and sponsored by the Hayward, CA chapter of the NAACP. The programs are mostly concerned with the status of African Americans in the mid-20th century.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill