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Short promotional film for Music USA

Description: A short promotional film, perhaps designed as a "day in the life" of Willis Conover. The film follows him from the Voice of America studios to a tour of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts under construction, to the New York City club Jim and Andy's, at the piano with his wife at the time, Shirley Conover, and back to the studio.
Date: 1971~
Duration: 3 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Voice of America
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Willis Conover documentary on Polish television

Description: Documentary broadcast on Poland's TVP2, from Conover's final visit to Poland in 1995. The program includes comments from Andrzej Jaroszewski, Paweł Brodowski, Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, Andrzej Trzaskowski, and photos from Marek Karewicz. The program is followed by a musical interlude, and the news program Panorama, and additional programming.
Date: 1995
Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: TVP2

Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover

Description: Bulgarian-language documentary on Willis Conover in conjunction with the program Dobro Utro (Good Morning). The program features interviews with passersby on the street, as well as Jordan Rupchev, along with extensive footage of Conover inside VOA studios, performance footage from Milcho Leviev, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington. Other topics continue at the 17:50 mark, concluding with the video of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" by Annie Lennox and Al Green for the movie S… more
Date: 1990~
Duration: 26 minutes 18 seconds
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CBS Nightwatch - Duke Ellington, April 28, 1989 / American Masters - John Hammond, August 20, 1990

Description: Videotaped recordings of the April 28, 1989 episode of CBS Nightwatch, and the PBS American Masters documentary John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen. Willis Conover is interviewed along with Mercer Ellington in the CBS Nightwatch segment beginning at 10:19. Due to copyright restrictions, streaming access is embargoed.
This item is restricted from view until January 1, 2111.
Date: 1989/1990
Duration: 1 hour 35 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
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A Duke Named Ellington

Description: A PBS documentary on Duke Ellington, from the network's American Masters series, with interview and performance footage of Duke Ellington, Herb Jeffries, Adelaide Hall, Ben Webster, Teddy Wilson, Charles Mingus, Alice Babs, Herbie Hancock, Clark Terry, Cootie Williams, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Leonard Feather, Louie Bellson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, and Alvin Ailey, among others. Streaming access to this item is embargoed due to copyright restrictions.
This item is restricted from view until January 1, 2109.
Date: 1988
Duration: 1 hour 46 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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Voices of VISTA: Vikki Carr

Description: Willis Conover interviews singer Vikki Carr for Voices of VISTA program #155. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date: 1967~
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Willis Conover: American Jazz #1

Description: The second part of a broadcast which featured Willis Conover discussing the music of Duke Ellington, followed by a translation in Swedish by an unknown speaker. This program occurred more than five years before the beginning of Conover's long-running VOA program, Music USA.
Date: August 23, 1949
Duration: 14 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Music USA #5262-B [part], Duke Ellington at the White House, Part I

Description: The first part of a series of Music USA programs on Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House. This segment is the last 17 minutes of Music USA #5262-B, the rest of which featured the Miles Davis album "Odyssey!" (Prestige 7540). The program was originally broadcast on May 27, 1969.
Date: April 29, 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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