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Music USA #1665-B, Warsaw, Poland

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast July 21, 1959. This episode was the second of a series following Conover's highly successful trip to Poland earlier that year, and featured the first part of the first concert at the Warsaw Philharmonic Hall during Conover's visit.
Date: June 7, 1959
Duration: 45 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #2205-B, South African jazz opera "King Kong"

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, featuring a brief interview with Miriam Makeba, and the South African jazz opera "King Kong." This program was broadcast on January 11, 1961, and rebroadcast as Music USA #2387-B on July 12, 1961.
Date: October 13, 1960
Duration: 45 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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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
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews Danny Kaye

Description: Willis Conover interviews entertainer Danny Kaye, who was serving as an ambassador-at-large for the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).
Date: June 28, 1956
Duration: 22 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis & Kaye, Danny
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #770-B, Duke Ellington Hour

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, featuring the music of Duke Ellington, with selections from the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, including the entirety of "Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue." This program was broadcast on February 6, 1957.
Date: January 9, 1957
Duration: 1 hour 29 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #621-B

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast September 10, 1956.
Date: August 14, 1956
Duration: 1 hour 28 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #1673-B, Porgy and Bess

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, featuring songs from Porgy and Bess, sung by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. This program was broadcast on July 29, 1959, and rebroadcast as #1819-B on December 22, 1959.
Date: May 6, 1959
Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Chicago Theater of the Air: Yma Sumac

Description: A recording found in Willis Conover's collection of reel-to-reel tapes: Yma Sumac performs at the 22nd annual Chicagoland Music Festival, at Soldier Field.
Date: August 25, 1951
Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Sumac, Yma
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #750-A

Description: The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, broadcast on January 17, 1957, and rebroadcast as #826-A on April 3, 1957.
Date: December 19, 1956
Duration: 1 hour 34 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #1638-B, Jazz from Tunis

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA. This program replaced the original #1638-B only for the broadcast to North Africa on June 24, 1959. The original #1638-B was broadcast as #1737-B on October 1, 1959. This program, the Tunisian jazz feature, was later broadcast worldwide as #1917-B on March 29, 1960.
Date: May 19, 1959
Duration: 45 minutes 50 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #569-A

Description: The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, broadcast on July 10, 1956, and rebroadcast as #831-A on April 8, 1957. On internal documents, Conover had rated the program "AA," indicating that it was one he was particularly pleased with.
Date: June 21, 1956
Duration: 59 minutes 58 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviewed by Steve Allison, WWDC, Part I

Description: Steve Allison interviews Willis Conover in the second half of 1960 -- the date is surmised from the mention of the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Allison conducted his interviews from the Black Saddle House of Beef restaurant in Washington, D.C. (709 18th St. NW).
Date: 1960
Duration: 31 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #2204-B, Interview with Miriam Makeba

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, including an interview with Miriam Makeba, and tune selections from the opera "King Kong," and from the Mal Waldron Trio. This program was broadcast on January 10, 1961, and rebroadcast on July 11 of that year as Music USA #2386-B.
Date: October 21, 1960
Duration: 46 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with W.C. Handy, Part II

Description: The second part of Willis Conover's extended interview with W.C. Handy.
Date: 1956
Duration: 29 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviewed by Steve Allison, WWDC, Part II

Description: Steve Allison interviews Willis Conover in the second half of 1960 -- the date is surmised from the mention of the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Allison conducted his interviews from the Black Saddle House of Beef restaurant in Washington, D.C. (709 18th St. NW).
Date: 1960
Duration: 41 minutes 09 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #1639-B, Benny Carter feature

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast June 25, 1959. This episode featured the music of saxophonist Benny Carter, and may have been rebroadcast as #1719-B on September 13, 1959.
Date: April 11, 1959
Duration: 46 minutes
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviewed by Harold Rogers, BBC

Description: Harold Rogers interviews Willis Conover for the BBC. Subjects include the five-hour Louis Armstrong interview, and Ella Fitzgerald.
Date: August 4, 1957
Duration: 29 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #695-B, Hungarian Jazz Guests

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, aired on November 23, 1956. This program features Hungarian jazz musicians who sent a recording to Conover shortly before the Hungarian Uprising of 1956; this hour was apparently was quickly assembled to replace the original program #695-B which had been recorded in October, but set aside for this replacement. The musicians remain unnamed, presumably for their safety, as Conover notes that it is unknown whether the musicians in th… more
Date: November 21, 1956
Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interview with Marshall Brown and George Wein

Description: Willis Conover interviews Marshall Brown and George Wein about their 20-nation talent-searching tour for Newport International Youth Band. This recording is the raw audio, apparently incorporated into Music USA program #1147-B.
Date: unknown
Duration: 24 minutes 27 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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