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Interview with W.C. Handy, Part I

Description: The first part of Willis Conover's extended interview with W.C. Handy. This recording is the raw audio, and includes a glitch in the tape in the opening seconds, and other preliminaries before the interview begins.
Date: 1956
Duration: 46 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews with Billy Eckstine and Teddi King

Description: Willis Conover interviews Billy Eckstine and Teddi King at Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, on the RCA Victor Starliner train. Eckstine and King were performing to benefit the March of Dimes; the interviews were apparently used in Music USA programs #420-B (Eckstine) and #421-B (King).
Date: January 21, 1956
Duration: 32 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Jack Holliday and Betty Madigan with Willis Conover

Description: Side 1 of this recording features brief, unrelated orchestral music. Side 2 is an apparent promotional program for Madigan and Holliday, hosted by Willis Conover, and sponsored by Old Georgetown Beer. Selections include “In the Blue of Evening” (introduction); “My Melancholy Baby”; Conover reading an advertisement for Old Georgetown Beer; “It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House”; “You Go to My Head”; “Laura” (solo piano); “These Foolish Things”; and “In the Blue of Evening” (reprise).
Date: 194X
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Kondakow

Description: Recording of various jazz tunes from a tape labeled "Kondakow / Pauls / 7 Dixie Lads, Leningrad / Weinstein." Accordingly this recording may be from Conover's 1967 visit to the Soviet Union, with selections from the 7 Dixie Lads and Iosif Vainshtein.
Date: 196X
Duration: 39 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Louis Armstrong interview, first hour

Description: The first of five hours of Louis Armstrong talking at length about his life and career. In this hour, Armstrong discusses his early life and career, interspersed with musical selections.
Date: July 13, 1956
Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Louis Armstrong interview, fourth hour

Description: The fourth of five hours of Louis Armstrong talking at length about his life and career. In this hour, Armstrong discusses playing the trumpet, his health, and race relations, with musical selections interspersed.
Date: July 13, 1956
Duration: 58 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Louis Armstrong interview, second hour

Description: The second of five hours of Louis Armstrong talking at length about his life and career. In this hour, Armstrong discusses the Hot Five and scat singing, interspersed with musical selections.
Date: July 13, 1956
Duration: 58 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Louis Armstrong interview, third hour

Description: The third of five hours of Louis Armstrong talking at length about his life and career. In this hour, Armstrong discusses his favorite musicians, with musical selections interspersed.
Date: July 13, 1956
Duration: 57 minutes 35 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music from Trinidad, Part 1

Description: One of two reels of music from Trinidad found in Willis Conover's collection. The artists and recording date have not been determined.
Date: April 17, 1956
Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Sound
Partner: UNT Music Library
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