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.
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.
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.
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.
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.