A series of 46 audio recordings of interviews with performers and others who were associated with the Renfro Valley Barn Dance and other programs produced by Lair during the 1940s and 1950s.
Contains correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, songbooks and sheet music from Kincaid's career as the radio ballad singer, the "Kentucky Mountain Boy," who broadcast on WLS. Kincaid also appeared on stations in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Boston and on WHAM, Rochester, NY and from 1942-1947 with WSM's Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Includes 50 announcer's scripts from the Radio Division, Bureau of Public Relations, National Recovery Administration. Although the scripts are undated, they are probably from 1933-1936. It is likely that Southgate Haynie, a journalist and writer who did work for radio, wrote some or all of the scripts.
This collection is comprised of audio recordings of programs broadcast by Louisville radio station WHAS. The collection is especially strong in documenting a wide range of state, national, and world political figures and news events during the late 1930s, throughout the 1940s, and into the middle 1950s. Entertainment programs include soap operas, musical variety shows, country music, and sporting events such as the Kentucky Derby.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Consists of originals and adaptations of songs and small combo arrangements from the 1920s-1950s performed by musicians during the broadcasts. Index cards in a large filing cabinet acquired from WHAS serve as the finding aid. The collection is indexed by title, composer and subject.
Repository/Collector:
Dwight Anderson Music Library, University of Louisville