A tape from WMOT, Memphis, TN that includes 25 minute public radio modules of Count Basie memorabilia. See online finding aid for a list of the songs and performers.
A series of Saturday afternoon talks by Harry Randolph Daniel of the U.S. Department of Commerce broadcast by CBS. Library has first and second series of the broadcasts.
The audio tape consists of air-checks used to send samples of Phillips's program, Red Hot and Blue, to other radio stations from WHBQ, Memphis, TN, April 18, 1952.
An extensive audio collection of old time radio programs that provides a representative sampling of most shows and series. An online catalog is available and copies of individual programs can be purchased on cassette.
Repository/Collector:
Periodicals/Non Print Collections, University of Memphis
Copies of off-air discs made by Tut Taylor, ca. 1949, from radio broadcasts by Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys and by other traditional string band performers who appeared on the same programs, including Flatt and Scruggs, the Smokey Mountaineers, Jack [Thompson?], Lonnie Glasson, Little Ray Wiggins, Curly Fox, Lonzo and Oscar, Hank Williams and Howdy Forrester.
Contains over 14,000 transcription discs focusing on country music, including syndicated radio shows. Also includes a large collection of AFRS transcription discs. Programs represented in the collection include: Grand Ole Opry, Prince Albert Show, Eddie Arnold Show, Checkerboard Jamboree, Ralph Emory Show, American Country Countdown, Radio Ozark and other syndicated shows.
A recording, probably from WLBJ, Bowling Green, KY, January 6, 1948, documenting a radio show featuring some of Haney's songs and comedy routines. Also includes photographs.
Interview with P.J. Broome and Clay Tucker on WGNS, Murfreesboro TN, January 19, 1991, which describes the big band jazz scene in the Nashville area, 1920-1960.
Consists of scrapbooks, personal papers and recordings documenting the history of The Three Little Maids featured on the National Barn Dance, Round-Up, Dinnerbell, Musical Journey with Miss Evelyn, Dreamers Bay and Hilltoppers. Also includes scripts, advertisements, fan letters, photographs of WLS performers and binders of songbooks. Sound recordings include home recordings, radio air-checks, instantaneous discs and 78rpms.
Scrapbooks document the engagements of the orchestra with clippings providing a chronology of the orchestra's performances. Also includes photographs, programs and other materials. The orchestra was heard on various radio stations, including KPO and KFWB and other stations affiliated with NBC and CBS.
Copies of audio tapes of black music and related photographs gathered by Work from 1935 to 1942 that were used for a radio program Roots of American Popular Music which aired over National Public Radio in February 1989.
An enlargement on a series of two broadcasts over the Smith-Douglass radio network, February 8 and 9, 1950, in answer to comments on the South by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in her column, "My Day."
Copies of commercial discs, test and unissued discs and radio transcription discs, ca. 1920s-l950s, accumulated from various sources by Nashville gospel music researcher Doug Seroff. Tapes consist of harmony selections, primarily religious songs, by a wide variety of Negro quartets.
Copies of a 13 part radio series developed by Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY and broadcast over public radio, 1989-1990. The series, Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country Music and Old-Time Music, was developed to document women's role in the development of country music. The broadcasts focus on the life stories of the Powers Family, Phyllis Marks, Jean Ritchie, Ola Belle Reed, Patsy Montana, Girls of the Golden West (Dolly and Millie Good), Martha Carson, Etta Baker, Ramona Jones, Wilma Lee Cooper, Matokie Slaughter, the Carter Family and Hazel Dickens.