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Willis Conover interviews Johnny Mercer

Description: Part 3 of 4 segments of raw audio of Willis Conover's 1970 interview with Johnny Mercer, which was used in the series of seven memorial broadcasts between program numbers #7879-A and #7893-A.
Date: January 30, 1970
Duration: 33 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl

Description: Willis Conover interviews Mort Sahl.
Date: March 13, 1964
Duration: 13 minutes 10 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

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
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Ben Grauer interviews Willis Conover

Description: Recording of the raw audio of an interview with Willis Conover by Ben Grauer. Grauer mentions that Conover has hosted his program on the Voice of America for the past 20 years, placing the date around 1975. This interview is about Conover's book Lovecraft at Last. There are frequent interjections from someone off-microphone. This audio was used in an episode of the VOA program "New York, New York with Ben Grauer."
Date: 197X
Duration: 57 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis & Grauer, Ben
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews Lynda Johnson

Description: Willis Conover interview Lynda Bird Johnson, the elder daughter of President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Date: June 16, 1964
Duration: 25 minutes 21 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Interviews at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1967

Description: Willis Conover interviews Flavio Ambrosetti, Franco Ambrosetti, Daniel Humair, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, and George Gruntz at the 1967 Monterey Jazz Festival.
Date: unknown
Duration: 29 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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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
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Voices of VISTA: Charlie Byrd

Description: Willis Conover interviews guitarist Charlie Byrd for Voices of VISTA program #39. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date: 1967~
Duration: 15 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews Art Farmer

Description: Willis Conover interviews Art Farmer.
Date: March 2, 1964
Duration: 32 minutes 49 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews John Wiggin

Description: Willis Conover interviews John Wiggin, not for broadcast, but for an article he was writing. In 1954, Wiggin was deputy program manager at the Voice of America, and hired Conover for the Music USA series.
Date: March 5, 1963
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews Charles McWhorter

Description: Willis Conover interviews Charles McWhorter for the "Conversations with Conover" series.
Date: March 2, 1964
Duration: 25 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews S.I. Hayakawa

Description: Willis Conover interviews S.I. Hayakawa, then a professor, and a future U.S. Senator.
Date: March 29, 1960
Duration: 30 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Melody Lane, Part 2

Description: Recording of the second part of Melody Lane, hosted by Mark Austad.
Date: 194X
Duration: 12 minutes 48 seconds
Creator: Evans, Mark, 1917-1988
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Parade of Hits, part 2 of 2

Description: Willis Conover hosts the second part of this episode of Parade of Hits, which focuses on the music of Duke Ellington.
Date: 194X
Duration: 10 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Parade of Hits, part 1 of 2

Description: Willis Conover hosts this episode of Parade of Hits, which focuses on the music of Duke Ellington, played by "Frank [Duval], Peggy [Lee], Skitch [Henderson], and the King Sisters." There are many skips and glitches in this recording.
Date: 194X
Duration: 11 minutes 18 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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
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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