Louis Armstrong playing "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean," and singing "This is the Voice of America"

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Louis Armstrong playing and singing "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (the melody used in the VOA interval signal) and singing "This is the Voice of America, Washington, D.C."

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Conover, Willis Creation Date: Unknown.

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This audio recording is part of the collection entitled: Music Library Conover Collection and was provided by the UNT Music Library to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 455 times. More information about this recording can be viewed below.

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Louis Armstrong playing and singing "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (the melody used in the VOA interval signal) and singing "This is the Voice of America, Washington, D.C."

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Made possible by a grant from the Grammy Foundation.

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Music Library Conover Collection

This small selection of program lists, recording schedules, and promos comes from the collection of Willis Conover (1920-1996), a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years. A much larger collection of Conover materials--including some 22,000 recordings--is available in tangible form at the UNT Music Library.

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  • April 21, 1966

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  • April 4, 2016, 9:54 p.m.

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  • Dec. 20, 2017, 2:41 p.m.

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Conover, Willis. Louis Armstrong playing "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean," and singing "This is the Voice of America", audio recording, Date Unknown; Washington, D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc824822/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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