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