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
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
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
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 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
Emerson was the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer. The papers contain strategies for marketing the product, including sponsoring the Effervescent Hour that aired on numerous radio stations in the 1930s.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill