Interviews with Billy Eckstine and Teddi King

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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).

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Conover, Willis January 21, 1956.

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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).

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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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  • January 21, 1956

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  • Dec. 10, 2015, 1:29 p.m.

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  • Dec. 25, 2015, 2:59 p.m.

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Conover, Willis. Interviews with Billy Eckstine and Teddi King, audio recording, January 21, 1956; Washington, D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc790424/: accessed June 10, 2023), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Music Library.

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