Genre: Popular music and Jazz - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: Printed music and some manuscripts from Dallas-Fort Worth area radio stations WFAA and WBAP, accumulated through the decades in which they employed live radio orchestras.
Content types:: Notated music
Extent:: 300 boxes
Repository/Collector:: University of North Texas Music Library
Online finding aid:: View on findingaids.library.unt.edu

Description:: The Don Kennedy papers contain writings, audio recordings, photographs, printed materials, and awards related to Kennedy's television and radio broadcasting career. The bulk of the materials relate to the production of the Big Band Jump radio shows between 1989 and 2013. These include scripts, cue sheets, newsletters, and broadcast masters of the weekly programs. The papers include some full-length interviews with musicians and other big band-era figures that were subsequently edited for broadcast. The collection also includes promotional and photographic materials from his work with television station WATL-TV, 1976-1978; radio stations WKLS FM, 1960-1970, and the Georgia Network, 1972-1982; as well as his time as children's television host "Officer Don," 1956-1969.
Content types:: Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), MiniDisc, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:: 22 linear feet, 640 Optical discs, 300 Pressed LP discs
Repository/Collector:: Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Online finding aid:: View on digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu

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