A Guide to the Production Materials for Smithsonian Productions' Black
Radio Program at the Indiana University Archives of African American Music and
Culture
Black Radio : Telling It Like It
Was, circa
1920s-1997, bulk
1991-1995
This collection is open for research. Audiovisual materials require the creation of
listening and/or viewing copies. Advance notice of your visit is highly recommended
to ensure that requested materials will be ready for use upon your arrival. Contact
the AAAMC staff for more details.
"Smithsonian Productions was a division of the Smithsonian Institution that created
and managed electronic media. It was dedicated to sharing the vast world of the
Smithsonian with millions in the United States and abroad through quality television
documentaries, radio programming, home video, and educational media products.
Smithsonian Productions collaborated with major national and international
organizations, private corporations, and broadcast networks. These partnerships
brought additional resources to each production and, together with successful
marketing strategies, enable Smithsonian programming to be viewed on television,
heard on radio, purchased in museum and other retail shops, and seen on the World
Wide Web"--from the Smithsonian Institution website.
The program was distributed by Public Radio International to radio stations around
the United States. Airing on over 200 public radio stations, the program ranked
among the world's leading radio productions, receiving a George Foster Peabody Award
from the University of Georgia and an Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton from Columbia
University.
The collection contains over 400 hours of interviews and historical aircheck tapes in
addition to articles, research files, and transcripts. The audio interviews feature
conversations with over 150 well-known disc jockeys, radio professionals, record
company executives, journalists, and scholars such as Ewart Abner, Peggy Mitchell
Beckwith, Dorothy Brunson, James Brown, Ed Castleberry, Lucky Cordell, Frankie
Crocker, Lavada "Hepcat" Durst, Nelson George, Jack Gibson, "Jocko" Henderson, Vy
Higginsen, Maurice "Hot Rod" Hulbert, "Doctor" Mable John, E. Rodney Jones, Tom
Joyner, Herb Kent, Hattie Leeper, Sid McCoy, Sidney Miller, Eddie O'Jay, Reverend
Del Shields, Donnie Simpson, Novella "Dizzy Lizzy" Smith, Richard Stamz, Shelley
Stewart, Percy Sutton, Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg, Rufus Thomas, Ike Turner,
and Roy Wood.
The historical airchecks include station identifications and jingles, radio
interviews with prominent Black figures, coverage of historical events, and programs
highlighting or influenced by the contributions of Black performers, disk jockeys,
and other important persons in radio.
Additional production materials are held by the Smithsonian
Institution Archives.
Several of the interviews in this collection were used by William Barlow as part of
his research for
Voice Over : The Making of Black America
. Duplicate cassettes of these items form part of the William Barlow
Collection (SC 6).
Series:
1. Production Materials1931-1997
Subseries:
Box 1
1.1. Production Files, circa 1991-1996
Collection Concordances and Inventory Lists, undated
List of Interview Transcripts, undated
Museum of Television and Radio. List of Radio Programming
Archives and Research Centers, 1994
June 21
Aircheck Want List, undated
Black Radio Developmental Proposal/Grant, circa
1991-1992
Note
Closed to public without explicit written permission from rights
holder(s). Contact AAAMC staff for details.
Black Radio Scripts/Drafts, undated
Black Radio Publicity Materials, undated
Black Radio Sources, undated
Correspondence between Jacquie Gales Webb and David L.
Lassiter, undated
"Smithsonian Seeking Airchecks,"
Atlanta Daily World [advertisement], 1995 August 20
Cathy Hughes Production Notes, 1986
Roles of Black Radio, undated
Written Research [bibliography of previous publications on
black radio], undated
Off the Air : Aircheck Collection, undated
Problems, circa
1992 February 14
Contents
Transcript of interview between Portia K. Maultsby and unknown party
regarding themes and issues that could be explored as part of
Smithsonian's Black Radio program; unclear if Maultsby is the
interviewer or interviewee.
North American Radio Archives : Old Time Radio Sources,
1995
Program Source. Vol. 13 (no.
10). Public Radio International's monthly publication for affiliate
stations and friends, 1995 October
Program Source. Vol. 14 (no.
1). Public Radio International's monthly publication for affiliate
stations and friends, 1996 January
Program Source. Vol. 14 (no.
2). Public Radio International's monthly publication for affiliate
stations and friends, 1996 February
Program Source. Vol. 14 (no.
3). Public Radio International's monthly publication for affiliate
stations and friends, 1996 March
Program Source. Vol. 14 (no.
5). Public Radio International's monthly publication for affiliate
stations and friends, 1996 May
Broadcast Rights Quarterly.
Public Radio International, 1995 Fall
Broadcast Rights Quarterly.
Public Radio International, 1996 Winter
Broadcast Rights Quarterly.
Public Radio International, 1996 Spring
Directions in Sound. WFIU
103.7 FM, Public Radio from Indiana University, 1996 February
Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in
Broadcast Journalism. "Black Radio" Clip, circa
1996
Physical Description
1
videocassette ; sound,
color
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation
of listening copy.
Subseries:
Box 2--3
1.2. Subject Files, circa 1940s-1990s
Airwave to the Soul : Religious Broadcasting, 1983
Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, undated
American Urban Radio Networks, Promotional Materials,
circa
1990s
Apollo Theater--DJ's, undated
Bagby, Doc, undated
Bailey, Lee, undated
Benson, Al [obituary], undated
Black DJ as Cultural Hero--Excerpts, undated
The Black Resource Guide, 1983 February
BMI 50th Anniversary--1940-1990, undated
Burks, Spider, undated
Brown, James, undated
Campbell, Roy S. (Soul Papa), undated
Castleberry, Ed, undated
CD 101.9, undated
Chicago--First Black DJ's, undated
CKEY Radio (Toronto), undated
CKOC Radio (Ontario), undated
The Clovers, undated
Cooper, Jack, undated
Cooper, Jack--Chicago Historical Society Collection,
undated
Cordell, Lucky, undated
Crocker, Frankie, undated
Ellis, Patrick (WHUR DJ), undated
Famous First Facts of Negros (Radio), undated
First Church of Deliverance (Chicago), undated
Garrett, Leroy, undated
Gibson, Jack, undated
Hamilton, Roy, undated
Harris, Thurston, undated
Hawkins, Tramaine, undated
Higginsen, Vy, undated
Hill, George, undated
Hooper Radio Audience Survey (Baltimore), 1961
Jackson, Harold, undated
Joyner, Tom, undated
Box 3
KBBG Radio, undated
KFI Radio : LA, undated
King, Martin Luther, undated
KMAC : San Antonio, undated
Listen Chicago, 1949 March
Little Joe, undated
The Lovers, undated
Lorenz, George, undated
Luke and Timber, undated
The Mello-Kings, undated
Marshall, Pluria, undated
Michaux, Solomon, undated
Minority Owned Public Radio Stations, undated
Mush and Clorinda : Episode
62, undated
National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB),
undated
National Black Media Coalition, undated
Negro Disk Jockeys, undated
OKEH Records, undated
Phillips, John and Vermya, undated
Radio Hall of Fame Inductees, 1995
Radio Hooperatings, undated
Reverend Ike, undated
Russell, Clayton, undated
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, undated
Simpson, Donnie, undated
Stamz, Richard, undated
The Staple Singers, undated
Still, William Grant, undated
Thompson, Olive / Wings Over Jordan, undated
Tune Weavers, undated
Turner, Rufus P., undated
WAAF : Listen Chicago, undated
WDIA Radio (Memphis, TN), undated
WFSR Radio (Bath, NY), undated
WHK Radio (Cleveland, OH), undated
WICU Radio (Erie, PA), undated
Williams, Billy, undated
Williams, Nat, undated
WINE 49, undated
Wings Over Jordan Choir, undated
WLAC Radio (Nashville, TN), undated
WMOD, undated
WNJR (Newark, NJ), undated
WOL, undated
WSBC Radio (Chicago?), undated
WSM Radio (Nashville, TN), undated
WWRL (New York City, NY), undated
WXYZ, undated
Subseries:
Box 4--5
1.3. Clippings, 1931-1996
Note: Arranged chronologically
"Joe Bostic : Radio's Triple Threat," 1931
"Chicago's All-Colored Radio Hour," 1933-1934
"Air Preachers : All Faiths Have Hours for Broadcasting,"
1934 March
"Radio."
Journal of Negro
Life
, 1934
October
"He Crashed the Color Line," 1938 November
[No title].
Variety, 1940 January
"Second Front in Harlem."
Time, 1942
December
"Radio at Bennett College," 1943 January
"Radio and Race : Cantor and Kaye Break Radio Rules,"
1946 January
"Biggest Baptism."
Ebony,
1948 February
"How I Got My Start," 1948 Summer
"Churches and Television," 1949 April
"Black California," 1949 Summer
"Top Radio Ministers."
Ebony,
1949 July
"WDIA Sells Beale Street."
Broadcasting, 1949 November
"The Show Case : Negroes in Detroit Radio," 1950 June
"Disk Jockey's Grove 'Ace' Wilson."
The Baton, 1950 September
"Black's First, Black's Last," 1952
"From Poverty to 90 Suits."
Chicago
Sun Tribune
, 1954 January
"Deejay King of Rock and Roll."
Our
World
, 1955
November
Hound Dog Howl, Vol. 1 (no.
2), 1956 April
Pulse Report, 1956 September
"New Radio Stations."
Ebony,
1957 April
"Roving Radio Newsman."
Ebony,
1957 July
"Biggest Negro Station."
Time,
1957 November
"Leroy Rocks to Fame on Radio Excursion," circa
1960
"Cooper Is Highest Paid Negro in Radio," circa
1960
"Negro Disk Jockeys and Payola," 1960 April
"First U.S. Negro Radio Announcer."
Sepia, 1961
July
"74 and Blind, Jack L. Cooper..."
Chicago Defender, 1963 May
"Behind the Scenes," 1964 September
"Washington's Soul Radio."
Washington
Post
, 1967
May
The Oratory of Negro Leaders :
1900-1968
, 1969
"Associated Negro Press : Its Founding, Ascendency and
Demise," 1969
Spring
"Elder Called Most Unbelievable Black Business," 1969 April
"In the Beginning, It Was the National Association of Rhythm
and Blues…," 1972 August
"Music, Music, Music and Pride," circa 1974
"Beale Street," 1974 July
"Still Elevating the Blues."
Washington Post, 1975 May
"WOL Disk Jockey's Facing Probe."
Washington Post, 1976 December
"Radio's Great Black Sound."
Chicago
Sun-Times
, 1977 January
"Record Logs Lost, FCC Hearing Told."
Washington Post, 1977 March
"WOL a Sad Ship after FCC Hearing."
Washington Post, 1977 March
"WMOD Changes Its Tune," 1977 June
"Edward E. Cooper : Black Journalist," 1978
Summer
"Black DJ Benson, 70, Dies."
Chicago
Sun-Times
, 1978 September
"Black Radio Pioneer Al Benson Dies at 70."
Jet, 1978 September
"A Great Musician Sleeps and this Generation Never…"
Chicago Defender, 1978 December
"From
Amos n' Andy to
Coonskin."
Portraits in Black, circa 1980
"Praise the Ratings."
The
Messenger
, circa 1980
"Leroy Garrett, 66, Dies; A Black Radio Pioneer."
New York Times, 1980 July
"Stevie Sets KJLH Tone--'We Are You'."
Los Angeles Sentinel, 1980 July
"Religious Broadcaster."
Sepia, 1980
November
"Knowledge Has No Color."
Los Angeles
Times
, 1981
April
"Jack the Rapper : Black Music's Militant Crusader,"
1981 June
"Reverend Clayton Russell."
Los
Angeles Sentinel
, 1981 July
"Percy Sutton Has the Last Laugh," 1981 August
"KJLH Broadcaster Masters Controls," 1981 November
"Hoss Allen's Return to WLAC in 1979 No Industry Trend,"
1981 December
"Ironically, Influx of Rock and Roll Destroyed WLAC's Blues
Radio," 1981 December
"Top Black Music Came from 'John R'," 1981 December
"One Root of Rock and Roll Begins at Nashville's WLAC,"
1981 December
"WLAC Set Pace in Black Programming," 1981 December
"Hot-Rod Hulbert on WITH," 1982 February
"Jack the Rapper Shines Again," 1982 August
"A Different Kind of 'Family Affair'."
Los Angeles Sentinel, 1982 September
"More about the 'Family Affair'."
Los
Angeles Sentinel
, 1982 September
[Photo of Eddie Murphy and Billye Love].
Jet, 1982 September
"Thousands Attend Jack the Rapper's Annual Homecomin',"
1982 September
Box 5
"Percy Sutton : Tuned into Success."
Dollars and Sense, 1983
"Gospel Music Is Very Important."
Washington Post, 1983 January
"Deregulation's Impact on Black Radio." [FCC update],
1983 February
"A Salute to Black Radio," 1983 February
"Black Radio's Trends and Changes : A Historical
Perspective."
Media Line, 1983 February
"Black Radio Battles Warners with a Boycott."
Los Angeles Times, 1985 April
"Crusader Rapper."
Players
Magazine
, 1985 August
"Watts : The Legacy; 'Burn, Baby, Burn'."
Los Angeles Times, 1985 August
"Jack L. Cooper : Did the First Black Disk Jockey Play the
Blues?" 1985
"Blacks Tune Out All-White News."
Variety, 1986 January
"Black Power vs. Power of the Press."
Insight, 1986 October
"Radio's Blackout."
Los Angeles
Times
, 1986
November
"Black Music Fans Say They Can’t Always Get What They Want."
Los Angeles Times, 1986 November
"Black's First, Black's Last," 1987
"Jack 'the Rapper' Talks His Way into Black Radio History."
Rhythm and Business, 1988 May
"Rapper Gets Down to Business."
Billboard, 1988 September
"Mining Gold on the Airwaves."
Rhythm
and Business
, 1989 February
"KGFJ-AM Launches Mission 'Operation Godfather'."
Los Angeles Herald, 1989 February
"Black Radio Debates the Inclusion of White Artists."
Los Angeles Times, 1989 March
"Black Announcer Pioneered in Many Fields."
Ashbury Park Press, 1989 April
"Celebrities Praise Gospel Shows."
Washington Times, 1989 September
"Hal Jackson and Fifty Years of Black Radio History."
Daily News Magazine, 1990 February
"Old Pals, New Partners," 1990 May
"Tuned in to Jockey Jack."
Washington
Post
, 1990
June
"Historical Black Viewpoint of Cleveland."
Renaissance Magazine, 1991 February
"Tuning into the Sounds of Joyful Noise."
Washington Post, 1992 August
"Legends of Black Radio."
Urban
Contemporary
, 1993
"When Memphis Made Radio History."
American Visions, 1993 August
"Profile : Pat Prescott."
Cool
Notes
, 1994
"Return Flight."
Dallas Morning
News
, 1994
January
"On the Air."
Dallas Observer,
1994 January
"Joyner Goes Nationwide with His Radio Program."
Chicago Tribune, 1994 January
"Pop Staples."
Point Blank,
1994 September
"Learn, Baby, Learn."
Los Angeles
Times
, 1994
September
"Soul Survivor."
Los Angeles
Times
, 1994
October
"KBBG Ready to Start New Chapter."
Waterloo Courier, 1994 October
"KBBG Announces Fund Drive for New Facility," 1994 October
"KBBG Enters New Era with Power."
Communicator, 1994 October
"The Power to Move."
Communicator [cover of magazine], 1994 October
"Area Firm to Purchase WKYS-FM."
Washington Post, 1994 November
"KBBG Radio to Build a New Studio."
Northern Edition, 1994 November
"Case of Blues Sways Jury."
Chicago
Tribune
, 1994 December
"New Building Signals Brighter Future for KBBG Radio,"
circa
1995
"Black Radio History… Just the Tip of the Legacy."
Radio Ink, 1995
"House Rejects Tax Break," 1995 February
"DJ Tom Joyner Syndicates Success."
USA Today, 1995 April
"Harris Oversees Growing ABC Urban Roster," 1995 April
"International Business Profile Series : The Thrill of
Winning."
Black Enterprise, 1995 May
"WKYS-FM Changes Hands, Sound."
Washington Post, 1995 May
"Four the Hard Way at WGCI."
N'DIGO, 1995 June
"Big Wheelie Rolls Along in Rock Radio."
Buffalo News, 1995 June
"Black Radio's Vibrant History."
New
York Daily News
, 1995 July
"A Tale of Two Stations : Best of Times for Duopoly."
Broadcasting and Cable, 1995 September
"Jack 'the Rapper' Gibson Celebrates Fifty Years in Radio."
Jet, 1995 October
"Tribute to a Tower of Radio Days."
New York Daily News, 1996
"Jive Talkin'."
Metropolitan
Dallas
, 1996
January
"The Man Behind the Music."
Boston
Globe
, 1996
August
"Maurice 'Hotrod' Hulbert, Jr."
Washington Post [obituary], 1996 August
"Longtime WLAC DJ Bill Allen Dies : Was Early Supporter of
R&B, Blues," 1996
April
Subseries:
Box 6
1.4. Series Publicity and Transcripts, 1995-1997
Note
There are multiple copies of the first five items listed below
enclosed in official program folders.
Black Radio : Fact Sheet, circa 1995
Black Radio : Program Descriptions, circa
1995
Program Source, Vol. 15 (no.
7), 1997 July
Contents
Includes entry on
Black Radio : Telling It
Like It Was
on page 54.
Black Radio : All About…, circa 1995
Black Radio : Fax Us Your Reply…, circa
1995
[Black Radio Publicity Photos], undated
Shelf no(s).
PA 1374
Physical Description
3 photographs on one
contact sheet : black &
white ; 8 x 10
in.
Content
Includes a photograph of host Lou Rawls, Black DJ Jack L. Cooper, and
a little girl listening to disc jockeys on the radio.
Smithsonian Presents
Black Radio :
Telling It Like It Was
[cassette j-card / postcard],
circa
1995
"Black Radio : In the Beginning," program #1, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (25
pages)
"Black Radio : Pride and Enlightenment," program #2,
1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (23
pages)
"Black Radio : Jack Cooper and Al Benson," program #3,
1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (21
pages)
"Black Radio : WDIA," program #4, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (21
pages)
"Black Radio : Rappers & Rhymers," program #5, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (22
pages)
"Black Radio : Sounding Black," program #6, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (22
pages)
"Black Radio : A Woman's Touch," program #7, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (22
pages)
"Black Radio : In Control," program #8, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (22
pages)
"Black Radio : Civil Rights," program #9, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (19
pages)
"Black Radio : Let's Have Church," program #10, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (20
pages)
"Black Radio : Breakin' the Hits," program #11, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (19
pages)
"Black Radio : More Music, Less Talk," program #12, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (22
pages)
"Black Radio : Other Voices," program #13, 1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (23
pages)
Series:
2 and 3. Interviews, 1988-1996 , bulk
1995
Physical Description
149 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + 20 audiocassettes (analog),
release forms, and transcripts
Abdul-Muhaimin, Rashad, 1995 April
21
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0089
Shelf No(s).
DAT 61
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(14 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Abdul-Muhaimin is the program director at 88.9 WSHA Shaw University in
Raleigh, North Carolina.
Interview topics include: Beginning work at the station in 1984; working
as a student from 1977-1981; WSHA began in 1968, at the time it was the
only Black station in Raleigh; purpose--to produce qualified Blacks for
the communications industry; programming associated with the Black Power
and Black Protest movements; current programming includes R&B,
reggae, jazz, blues, gospel; relationship with parent institution (Shaw
University belongs to the HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and
Universities]); affiliation with Corporation of Public Broadcasting;
focus on community.
Note
DAT also contains interview with Obataiye B. Akinwole.
Abner, Ewart, 1995 June
14
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0088
Shelf No(s).
DAT 60
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 74
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (22 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Abner does Strategic Alliances for Jobete Music Publishing (Motown
Records).
Interview topics include: Radio personalities and shows;
Amos 'n' Andy; bookkeeping for record
companies; payola; getting records played on the radio; importance of
Black DJs.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 705--CDREF 706
- Cassette(s): cass 1401
Akinwole, Obataiye B., 1995 April
21
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0089
Shelf No(s).
DAT 61
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(10 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Akinwole is one of the founders of WAFR Radio (FM) in Durham, North
Carolina, which was the first Black public radio station in the US
(1971-1975).
Interview topics include: WAFR (call letters signify African heritage);
purpose of station to disseminate information important to African
Americans in the Durham area; programming--jazz, gospel, African
American speakers.
Note
DAT also contains interview with Rashad Abdul-Muhaimin.
Allen, Bill "Hossman," 1991 April
22
Collector's No(s).
BR910M0231
Shelf No(s).
DAT 196
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (90
minutes) : analog
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Allen was a radio DJ.
Interview topics include: His start in radio--WHIN (Tennessee); being
White but growing up near Blacks in Tennessee; starting a Black radio
show on WHIN called the "Harlem Hop" (blues and jazz); moving to WLAC
(Nashville); WLAC getting into Black music; buying Black/race records;
record labels and recording artists; talking "Black"; White DJs playing
Black songs; Black stations listening to WLAC to hear new Black
records.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 723--CDREF 724
- Cassette(s): cass 1544
Andrews, Barbara, undated
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Baker, Donald, 1995 April
20
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0090
Shelf No(s).
DAT 62
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(19 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Baker is the station manager and lab director for WNCU-FM at North
Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina (since 1990).
Interview topics include: Difficulties in attaining licenses; WAFR;
community involvement; programming--jazz, R&B, African; activism and
assumed names;
Ebony magazine article on
station; Frankie Crocker, Cannonball Adderley; Stevie Wonder's failed
attempt to raise money for the station; WAFR means "Wave Africa";
dealing with decreases in federal support.
Barlow, Bill (William), 1995 July 31-August 1
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0091--BR95OM0092
Shelf No(s).
DAT 63--DAT 64
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (147
minutes) : digtal + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Barlow is Professor of Communications in the Department of Radio,
Television, and Film at Howard University in Washington, DC (since
1980).
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. History of Black radio; late
1920s--"Blackface radio" emerges (
Sam 'n'
Henry
,
Amos 'n' Andy); urban
listening vs. rural listening; background of
Amos
'n' Andy
actors Gosden and Correll; minstrels; The Great
Depression;
Amos 'n' Andy imitators;
Rochester (black personality) on the
Jack Benny
Show
; stereotypes--mammies, Zip Coon; Black programming; Jim
Crow policy in radio; Paul Robeson's "Ballad for America" as a radio
event; DJs, rhyming and rapping.
Cassette 2. Rhyming style of Black DJs;
R&B music audience of Blacks and young Whites; Al Benson and
brokerage radio; payola (development and key figures); impact of TV.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 648--CDREF 650
- Cassette(s): cass 1405--cass 1406
Barnes, Vivian G., 1995 March
30
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0093
Shelf No(s).
DAT 65
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 48
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Barnes is a Chicago native born April 5, 1935 and offers her
recollections of Black radio in Chicago, Illinois.
Interview topics include: Al Benson and WGES; Jack L. Cooper's "Lost and
Found" segment; Daddy-O Daylie and his jazz programming; Herb Kent and
R&B programming on WVON-AM; women in radio; parents (as part of the
Great Migration); relationship with Lorraine Hansberry and Family
(
Raisin in the Sun); Lou Rawls, Mavis
Staples, and other singers who lived nearby;
Amos
'n' Andy
and
Beulah;
comparison of contemporary and past DJs; dislike of rap music.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 651
- Cassette(s): cass 1407
Barrow, Willie T., circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0094
Shelf No(s).
DAT 66
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 59
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (13 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Reverend Barrow was born in Texas and moved to Chicago, Illinois. She
worked with operation Breadbasket and People United to Serve Humanity
(PUSH).
Interview topics include: Martin Luther King, Jr.; Jesse Jackson--Civil
Rights Movement; being a fieldworker during the Voter Registration
Campaign; Black businesses in Black communities; economic development;
Black churches; radio programs associated with Operation Breadbasket
(weekly broadcasts for the past 21 years); People United to Serve
Humanity (PUSH); radio program formatting similar to Black church
services; Chicago Housing Authority's federal takeover; boycotting the
Chicago Fest (1981); WVON (Chicago); WDAS (Philadelphia); importance of
Black radio.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 652
- Cassette(s): cass 1408
Bass, Ralph, 1995 June
6
Collector's No(s).
BROM0095
Shelf No(s).
DAT 67
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 50
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Bass was born in the South Bronx, New York, around 1911 and worked in the
record industry.
Interview topics include: Harlem and nightclubs (Savoy); blues and Black
music; disc jockeys; Al Benson; record industry; recording his song
"Open the Door, Richard"; payola; releasing James Brown's "Please"; Etta
James; Chess Records; interracial relationships (as a White man
interested in Black music).
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 653
- Cassette(s): cass 1409
Beckwith, Peggy Mitchell, 1995
April 24
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0176
Shelf No(s).
DAT 138
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(15 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Beckwith is the executive director for the Association for Sickle Cell
Disease and worked as an announcer at WEDR, WBCO (Birmingham, Alabama),
and WMOZ (Mobile, Alabama).
Interview topics include: Living in North Carolina, New York, and
Alabama; listening to radio; "The Shadow"; "Helen Hayes Theater";
dislike of uneducated DJs; becoming a DJ to provide a positive Black
image on the radio; announcing community events and issues; creating her
own radio program with remote broadcasts in the 1950s; interviewing
recording artists; sexism--women prohibited from advertising or
promoting alcohol; racism in Mobile; impact of her radio show; Ed
Castleberry; Civil Rights Movement--being targeted by snipers as a
member of NAACP; being a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.; stereotypes
of Blacks, minstrelsy, and
Amos 'n' Andy;
future of Black radio.
Bell, Al, circa
1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0096
Shelf No(s).
DAT 68
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 32
minutes) : digital
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Bell grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas and was a DJ.
Interview topics include: Country music radio programming on WLAC-AM
(Nashville, Tennessee); Black DJ later on
Al's
Jive til Five
; playing music at high school socials and
dances; jazz and blues; Deejaying at KOKY (Little Rock); Daisy Bates;
Civil Rights Movement--SCLC leadership programs; economic development;
role of Black preachers and DJs during the CRM; Sid McCoy (DJ in
Chicago, Illinois); Jocko Henderson (DJ in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania);
Suffice Records (record label); promoting records; Rodney Jones, WVON
(Chicago) DJ--power over playlists.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 654
- Cassette(s): cass 1410
Bell, Mary, circa 1988 April 2
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0097
Shelf No(s).
cass 1411
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 39
minutes) : digital
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Bell is the widow of a Black radio station owner.
Interview topics include: Fisk University and Meharry Medical College
(one of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities [HBCU]); United
Negro College Fund (UNCF) (she is one of the founders of the Women's
Division); Larry Faulkner, a DJ at WVOL in Nashville, Tennessee;
1955--Bell's husband started a radio station in Romulus, Michigan (near
Detroit); Joe Howard, George White came to work at the station in the
1950s; station programming--gospel, public affairs, R&B;
participating in station management after her husband's death; founding
an FM station in Detroit in 1966; station ownership; women in radio.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): Burned upon request
Bennett, Bobby, 1995 March 14-15
Collector's No(s).
BROM0098--BROM0099
Shelf No(s).
DAT 69--DAT 70
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(24 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Bennett was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Growing up listening to
R&B on WAMO in Pittsburgh; community involvement of Black radio
stations;
Pittsburgh Courier (Black
newspaper); DJs; assumed names; integrated playlists; racism; WOL-AM
(Washington, DC); Jerry Boulding, Jim Kelsey; Vietnam War draft; radio
consultants; popularity of FM and the demise of real DJs and
personalities; payola; Nighthawk Terry.
Cassette 2. Sunny Jim Kelsey and WOL-AM;
training DJs.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1412--cass 1413
Benson, Al [Historical Interview], undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0242
Shelf No(s).
DAT 197
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 6
minutes) : digital
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Benson was a popular Chicago DJ; one of the first Black
personalities.
Interview topics include: Moving to Chicago, Illinois; getting into
radio; Jack Cooper; selling advertising time; playing Black music;
racism; WGES (Chicago); WOPA (Chicago changing to WVON); station
ownership (White and Black); DJs he helped get started; community
involvement.
Note
Occasionally difficult to hear due to interference; interview cuts off on
side A.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 698
- Cassette(s): cass 1554
Bond, Julian, circa
1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0100
Shelf No(s).
DAT 71
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 24
minutes) : digital and 1 transcript (9
leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Bond is a professor and a Civil Rights leader/activist (Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC], etc).
Interview topics include: The role of Black DJs during the Civil Rights
Movement; WERD (Atlanta, Georgia) as the first Black-owned radio station
in the US; radio programming; freedom songs; collaborating with Black
radio during the Civil Rights Movement.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 655
- Cassette(s): 1414
Boone, Rané, 1995 October
12
Collector's No(s).
BROM0210
Shelf No(s).
DAT 170
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 12
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (14 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Boone is a recording engineer for the gospel music industry.
Interview topics include:
Gospel music DJs; DJs/personalities; contemporary vs. traditional gospel
music; getting Black gospel records played on White stations.
Note
Follows interview with Candi Staton on original DAT and cassette
copy.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 688 (tr. 7-8)
- Cassette(s): cass 1524
Boulding, Jerry, circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0101
Shelf No(s).
DAT 72
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + 1 transcript (49
leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Boulding grew up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania and worked at radio
stations.
Interview topics include: Working at White radio station and sounding
"White"; turbulence of the 1960s; consultants and Black program
directors; prejudice and racism; assumed names; contrasting White
stations with Black; Alma John at WWRL; Enoch Gregory; show preparation
for personalities; advertisements; Frankie Crocker; programming;
improvements in technology; transition from AM to FM; crossover and
integration; importance of gay listeners; "Quiet Storm" programs; Tom
Joyner and satellite/syndicated shows; community involvement.
Brown, James, 1995 May
12
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0102
Shelf No(s).
cass 1416
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (31
minutes) : analog + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Brown is a singer and owner of several radio station.
Interview topics include: Ownership of three radio stations; slow
progress of Black people/racism; listening to the radio while growing
up; WLAC; trying to get his records played on radio stations; minority
status and the FCC; "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"; Jack Gibson,
Jocko Henderson, Georgie Woods, Eddie O'Jay; Frankie Crocker and FM
radio; why he bought radio stations; relationship between soul music and
Civil Rights Movement.
Note
Distortion on master tape.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 707
Brown, Oscar Jr., 1995 June
15
Collector's No(s).
BROM0103
Shelf No(s).
DAT 73
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(35 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Brown was born October 10, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois and acted in radio
shows.
Interview topics include: Acting in radio shows; Studs Terkel;
Destination Freedom radio show;
Negro News Front; communism and leftist
influence; Associated Negro Press and Black newspapers; racism; eclectic
programming; sponsorship; radio as an educational tool for teaching
Black history;
Wings Over Jordan gospel
radio show; Chicago, Illinois and mob violence; acting and radio; Quincy
Jones.
Brunson, Dorothy E., 1995 September
15
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0104
Shelf No(s).
DAT 74
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(28 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Brunson is president and general manager of WGTW-TV48 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
Interview topics include: Start in radio in 1962 in
administrative/managerial positions; listening to radio while growing up
in New York; racism; sounding "Black"; Black radio during the Civil
Rights Movement; programming--Enoch Gregory and Frankie Crocker at WWRL;
Alma John at WWRL; women in radio; having authority over White staff;
income; Black Panthers; owning radio stations; crossovers and WRLS;
Frankie Crocker's influence over WBLS format.
Byrd, Imhotep Gary, 1995 May
9
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0105
Shelf No(s).
DAT 75
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(33 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Byrd is the host and executive producer of the
Global Black Experience (the longest running Black radio
program in New York history: twenty-six years). This interview took
place at WLIB-AM in New York.
Interview topics include: Georgie Woods and Harold Jackson; Eddie O' Jay;
"switching" and Black oral traditions; Civil Rights Movement; Jocko
Henderson's
Hit Kit; Black radio
magazine; formatting and programming; DJs and personalities.
Caesar-Williams, Shirley A., 1995
May 26
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0106
Shelf No(s).
DAT 76
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(24 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Caesar-Williams is a gospel singer and pastor who lives in Durham, North
Carolina. This interview took place in Durham.
Interview topics include: Role of radio in her life (she sang on radio
programs);
Wings Over Jordan; Reverend
James Cleveland; gospel radio programs.
Calloway, Earl, 1995 March
31
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0107
Shelf No(s).
DAT 77
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(23 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Calloway is the Fine Arts Editor of the
Chicago
Defender
. This interview took place in Chicago,
Illinois.
Interview topics include: Singing on a radio program as a young child;
Wings Over Jordan; Jack Cooper; Al
Benson;
The Jack Benny Show; stereotypes;
gospel music programming.
Note
Master DAT dated March 31, 1995. Cassette dated May 31, 1995.
Carr, Doris, circa
1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Castleberry, Ed, 1996 January
5
Collector's No(s).
BROM0108
Shelf No(s).
DAT 78
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(18 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Castleberry had a variety of jobs in radio broadcasting.
Interview topics include: Black radio stations;
Amos 'n' Andy; The Johnson Family; advertising; Mutual
Black Network (MBN); National Black Network (NBN); syndicated programs;
decreasing influence of DJs in their communities; women in radio (Martha
Jean "The Queen" Steinberg; Al Benson; Frankie Crocker; vaudeville.
Champion, Jesse, Sr., 1995
September 12
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0109
Shelf No(s).
DAT 79
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 40
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Champion began working in radio in 1953 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Interview topics include: Civil Rights Movement; news reporting on the
radio; Gatemouth Moore; Nat "King" Cole; Journalism.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 656
- Cassette(s): cass 1423
Clement, Donna T., circa 1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Collins, Albert "Jazzbo," 1995
January 23
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0110
Shelf No(s).
DAT 80
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(16 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Collins was born in New York City in 1919 and had a jazz radio
program.
Interview topics include: Jazz programming; DJ styles;
The Purple Grotto; radio audiences.
Cooper, Gertrude and Bob Roberts [Historical interview],
undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0243; BROS0245
(duplicate?)
Shelf No(s).
DAT 198; DAT 200
(duplicate?)
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(64 leaves)
Interviewer
Newman, Mark, 1948-
Content
Cooper is the widow of Jack Cooper. Roberts is the brother-in-law of Jack
Cooper.
Interview topics include:
Cooper. Jack Cooper and WCAP (Chicago,
Illinois); working for the
Defender
newspaper; WSBC/WEDC (Chicago in 1930; "Missing Persons" program in the
1940s); time brokered radio; sponsors; WHFC; WAAF; WJJD; women in radio;
Al Benson; WGES; comparison between Benson and Cooper; community
involvement; boxing.
Roberts. Meeting Jack Cooper; Jack Cooper
and radio; Roberts working in radio (hired by Jack Cooper); radio
programs; Jack Cooper's influence; community involvement; politics.
Note
Cassette copy number cass 1557 is a duplicate of cass 1555. It's unclear
whether DAT 200 is also a duplicate of DAT 198.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1555; cass 1557 (duplicate)
Cooper, Gertrude and Richard Pegee [Historical interview],
undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0244
Shelf No(s).
DAT 199
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(54 leaves)
Interviewer
Newman, Mark, 1948-
Content
Cooper is the widow of Jack Cooper.
Interview topics include:
Cooper. Jack L. Cooper's career; working
in Washington, DC; going to WSBC in 1928; playing music; live talent;
meeting Jack Cooper; marrying in 1938; music/records; minstrelsy;
Cooper's
Rug Cutter's Special program; Al
Benson.
Pegee. Growing up in Chicago, Illinois;
starting at WVON (Chicago); Leonard Chess; Al Benson; DJs/personalities;
state of Black radio; WVON, WGEN, WIND (Chicago); crossover music.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
- Cassette(s): cass 1556
Cordell, Lucky, 1995 June
14
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0111
Shelf No(s).
DAT 81
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(62 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Cordell was born in 1928 and lives in Chicago, Illinois. He was a DJ.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Assumed names; Al Benson;
WGES (Chicago); Cordell's life as a DJ; WVON-AM; Radio Institute of
Chicago; role of Black radio in the Black community; women in radio; Roy
Wood.
Cassette 2. Chicago gangs[?]; Wesley
South; DJ organizations; record promotions; payola; blues artists; and
The Great Migration.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1425--cass 1426
Corwin, Norman, 1995 September
27
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0112
Shelf No(s).
DAT 82
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 44
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Corwin produced a variety of programs for radio stations in New York.
Interview topics include: Radio programming during the 1930s and 1940s;
Paul Robeson and "Ballad for Americans"; absence of Blacks in radio
during the early years; integration; Black radio programs;
blacklists[?].
Note
Unable to hear interviewer's questions.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 657
- Cassette(s): cass 1427
Crew, Spencer, 1995 April
6
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0113
Shelf No(s).
DAT 83
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 42
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Crew is the director of the National Museum of American History of the
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.
Interview topics include: Listening to Motown artists on the radio while
growing up; The Great Migration (around WWI); amalgamation of culture;
effect of migration on language; images of African Americans in the
media.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 658
- Cassette(s): cass 1428
Crocker, Frankie, 1995 June
14
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0114
Shelf No(s).
DAT 84
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(21 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Crocker is a radio personality/DJ.
Interview topics include: Jimmy Lyons; Eddie O'Jay; deejaying as a
teenager; jazz and blues; diversity in music; demise of
DJs/personalities; strengths of Black radio; differences in compensation
for Black vs. White DJs; WRLS and WLIB (New York); WWRL (Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania); programming; payola.
Dance, Stanley, 1995 April
10
Collector's No(s).
BROM0115
Shelf No(s).
DAT 85
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 40
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Dance came to the United States from England in 1937.
Interview topics include: Payola; Duke Ellington and the Cotton Club;
segregation and racism in music/clubs; radio's effect on the appeal of
jazz.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 659
- Cassette(s): cass 1430
Davenport, Ron, 1995 September
22
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0116
Shelf No(s).
DAT 86
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 34
minutes) : digital
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Davenport is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has degrees in law; he
owns several stations.
Interview topics include: Mississippi Summer Project and Civil Rights
Movement; Georgie Woods and WDAS (Philadelphia); founder of the Sheraton
Broadcasting Network in 1972 (bought several stations in the Northeast);
advertising; the dominance of "urban" radio/music; American Bandstand;
the future of radio.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 660
- Cassette(s): cass 1431
Durham, Clarice D., 1995 March
27
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0119--BR95OM0120
Shelf No(s).
DAT 89--DAT 90
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(20 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Durham is the widow of Richard Durham, a prominent radio writer and
journalist.
Interview topics include: WPA project where Richard Durham learned to
write radio scripts; working at the
Chicago
Defender
; writing for
Democracy
USA
on WBBM; writing for a soap opera,
Here Comes Tomorrow; listening to
Amos 'n' Andy, the Mills Brothers, etc.;
racism in radio; writing
Destination
Freedom
, a Black history community; Jack L. Cooper;
McCarthyism; Al Benson.
Durst, Lavada (Dr. Hepcat), 1995
March 1
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0117--BR95OM0118
Shelf No(s).
DAT 87--DAT 88
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + 1 transcript (12
leaves)
Interviewer
Barlow, William, 1943-
Content
Durst was a DJ and chose the name "Dr. Hepcat" to align himself with
Blacks.
Interview topics include: Announcing games for the Negro Baseball League;
deejaying at KBET (Austin, Texas) and playing R&B for 15 years;
recording songs and songwriting; racism; writing a book,
The Jive of Dr. Hepcat; growing up with
radio during the early years;
Amos 'n'
Andy
.
Ellington, Ruth, circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0121
Shelf No(s).
cass 1434
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (14
minutes) + release forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Ellington worked at WLIB in New York City and is the niece of Duke
Ellington.
Interview topics include: NAACP and Thurgood Marshall, Civil Rights
Movement; working at WLIB; Joe Louis; rap music; Duke Ellington.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 661
Ellis, Patrick. #1, 1995 March
21
Collector's No(s).
BROM0122
Shelf No(s).
DAT 91
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 60
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Ellis was born and raised in Washington, DC, and worked at WHIB for 24
years.
Interview topics include: Listening to radio programs as a young child;
illegal numbers and DJs announcing race results on the radio; John Bandy
on WUST; Civil Rights Movement; role of radio during the riots of 1968;
WOL AM at Howard University and Historical Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCU) begins (1965); formatting; radio production.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 662
- Cassette(s): cass 1435
Ellis, Patrick. #2 & 3, 1995
March 26
Collector's No(s).
BROM0123--BROM0124
Shelf No(s).
DAT 92--DAT 93
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (DAT, 64
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Ellis was born and raised in Washington, DC, and worked at WHIB for 24
years.
Station's relationship with parent institution (Howard University);
Melvin Lindsey and the creation of the "Quiet Storm" in 1976; radio
production; gospel programming; community involvement; gospel DJs;
gospel programming; WDAS-AM (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and
computerized gospel programming.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 663
- Cassette(s): cass 1436
Evans, Mutter, 1995 March
24
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0125--BR95OM0126
Shelf No(s).
DAT 94--DAT 95
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + 1 transcript (52
leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Evans is the owner, president, and general manager of WAAA-AM,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Interview topics include: Studying Mass Communications at Wake Forest
University; radio experience; working at WAAA; buying WAAA;
discrimination; financial difficulties; responsible programming; station
ownership.
Faush, Erskine R., Sr., 1995
September 13
Collector's No(s).
BROM0127
Shelf No(s).
DAT 96
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 51
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (13 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Faush was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1930s and has a PhD in
Divinity.
Interview topics include: Replacing his brother at WBCO (Birmingham)
doing a gospel show; Public Affairs at the radio station; Civil Rights
Movement and the role of Black radio in Birmingham; African American
religious music; the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963;
reporting bombings on the radio; early gospel recordings; activism;
racism.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 664
- Cassette(s): cass 1438
Ferguson, E. R. "Bert," 1995 May
19
Collector's No(s).
BROM0128
Shelf No(s).
cass 1439
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (58
minutes) : analog + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Ferguson founded WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee), which served the Black
community.
Interview topics include: Working at WHBQ (Tennessee) and other small
stations in small Southern towns; starting WDIA in Memphis; adopting a
Black format as a "service" to Blacks; community involvement: 1) WDIA
Black Baseball League, 2) transportation for Black disabled students;
segregation; doubling the rate charged to advertisers for his Black
audience; Nat D. Williams and WDIA; Martha Jean Steinberg; B.B. King
performing local radio ads; discrimination in salaries for Black
DJs.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 665
George, Nelson, 1995 July
21
Collector's No(s).
BROM0129
Shelf No(s).
DAT 97
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 68
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (19 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
George is a journalist who grew up in New York City.
Interview topics include: Eddie O'Jay; WBLS-FM; switching from AM to FM;
Frankie Crocker; Vy Higginsen; Al Benson; Black oral traditions;
representations of Blacks; assumed names; hip hop culture as youth
culture; WDIA and Nat D. Williams (first Black DJ in the mid-South);
advertising; Donnie Simpson; unequal salaries for Black DJs; Civil
Rights Movement; Berry Gordy and Motown; influence of White companies;
crossovers; Sam Cooke as an artist and a businessman; formatting of
radio stations; White ownership and formatting of contemporary Black
radio; women in radio; Tom Joyner and syndicated programs.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 666
- Cassette(s): cass 1440
Gibson, Jack, 1993 September
14
Collector's No(s).
BR93OM0130
Shelf No(s).
DAT 98
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(18 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Gibson has worked as a DJ in several markets including WERD (Chicago,
Illinois).
Interview topics include: Role of Black radio in American history; Civil
Rights Movement; Martin Luther King; Al Benson; radio's effect on the
Black community; Jack Cooper as a Black radio pioneer; advertising and
Black businesses; women in radio; impact of Black radio on the music
industry.
Gibson, Jack, circa
1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0131
Shelf No(s).
DAT 99
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Gibson has worked as a DJ in several markets including WERD (Chicago,
Illinois).
Interview topics include: Role of Black radio in American history; Civil
Rights Movement; Martin Luther King; Al Benson; radio's effect on the
Black community; Jack Cooper as a Black radio pioneer; advertising and
Black businesses; women in radio; impact of Black radio on the music
industry.
Note
DAT also contains an interview with
Irene Ware.
Gibson, Jack [Historical interview], 1991 April 9
Collector's No(s).
BROS0247
Shelf No(s).
cass 1559
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (65
minutes) : analog
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Gibson is a radio personality.
Interview topics include:
Side A. Getting into radio in Chicago,
Illinois (WJJD); doing soap operas; radio programs--
The Jack Gibson Show; Oscar Brown Jr.;
Richard Durham; WERD (Atlanta, Georgia)--first Black-owned station;
developing his radio style; "Jockey" Jack; being called the "Grandfather
of Rap"; segregation/racism; being arrested.
Side B (tr. 15-19). 17 minutes of radio
aircheck for either the
Blues Corner or
Sean C. Clancy show [incorrectly
identified as
King Biscuit Time in
documentation.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 699
Goldman, Hal, 1995 April
11
Collector's No(s).
BROM0100
Shelf No(s).
DAT 104
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(17 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Goldman was a writer for radio programs including
The Jack Benny show.
Interview topics include: Writing material for Jack Benny's personal
appearances; writing for
The Jack Benny
Show
; the impact of the "Rochester" character;
Amos 'n' Andy.
Goodpasteur, Ralph H., 1995 March
28
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0133
Shelf No(s).
DAT 101
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 60
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (19 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Goodpasteur is the Minister of Music at the First Church of Deliverance
(Chicago, Illinois).
Interview topics include: Listening to the radio as a child in Los
Angeles, California; playing the piano for churches; history of the
Spiritual Church, which began in 1925; Thomas Dorsey, Roberta Martin and
gospel music; broadcasting church services on WSBC with Jack Cooper's
help; WIND and WCFL broadcasting First Church's programs; creating what
has become the standard format for religious broadcasts.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 667
- Cassette(s): cass 1444
Grayson, Jo Evelyn, 1995 March
22
Collector's No(s).
BROM0134
Shelf No(s).
cass 1445
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (64
minutes) : analog + release forms and 1
transcript (18 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Grayson is a Memphis, Tennessee native and offers her recollections of
Black radio.
Interview topics include: WDIA (Memphis) and Nat D. Williams' morning
show; role of radio in the Black Memphis community; Mark Stansbury and
his radio show on WDIA; Teen Towners; B.B. King; Willa Monroe; Aunt
Carrie; Carletta S. Watson; Civil Rights Movement; Bobby O'Jay; Martha
Jean Steinberg; Nat D. Williams.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 668
Gregory, Enoch, 1995 May
24
Collector's No(s).
BROM0135
Shelf No(s).
DAT 102
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 53
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (13 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Gregory grew up in North Carolina and began his radio career in the
Army.
Interview topics include: Listening to the radio while growing up in
North Carolina; Jocko Henderson; attending US Army Radio School in Fort
Slocum, New York; WSM and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee;
racism; Armed Forces Radio and new reporting on radio station; talking
"Black"; working at general market radio stations; WWRL (New York), WNJR
(Newark, New Jersey), WBEE (Harvey, Illinois); Civil Rights Movement;
Martha Jean Steinberg; WBEE (Detroit, Michigan) and switching from news
to being a DJ; community involvement.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 669
- Cassette(s): cass 1446
Hamann, Clarence, 1995 March
14
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0136
Shelf No(s).
DAT 103
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(9 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Hamann was one of the "Poppa Stoppa" personalities in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Interview topics include: At least six people were "Poppa Stoppas" on the
air; WWL in New Orleans; Vernon Winslow; formats and Black music;
definition of "Poppa Stoppa."
Hancock, Hunter, 1995 January
20
Collector's No(s).
BROM0137
Shelf No(s).
DAT 104
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(9 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Hancock was a radio announcer in Los Angeles, California for 20
years.
Interview topics include: Becoming a radio announcer during WWII; playing
race records for their commercial value; claims to be the first DJ in
Los Angeles to be played on pop stations; acceptance by Blacks; playing
gospel music.
Harris, Stephen L., 1995 May
8
Collector's No(s).
BROM0138
Shelf No(s).
DAT 105
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Content unknown.
Note
Unable to hear interview on tape due to recording problems.
Hawkins, Tramaine A., 1995 February
8
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0139
Shelf No(s).
DAT 106
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 34
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (9 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Hawkins was born and raised in California and is a gospel music
singer.
Interview topics include: Listening to R&B, gospel, pop, and blues
music while growing up; Sly Stone's radio program; Civil Rights
Movement; differences between radio and TV; Dr. John Cleveland's
(her uncle) religious broadcasts on KDIA; performing in California and
recording songs as a child;
Wings Over
Jordan
;
O Happy Day becoming
a hit record; Martha Jean Steinberg; religious broadcasts; Cal
Hackett.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 670
- Cassette(s): cass 1450
Henderson, Douglass W. "Jocko," 1995 August 1
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0140
Shelf No(s).
DAT 107
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 66
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (22 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Henderson was a radio personality popular for his rhyming style of
announcing.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Growing up in Baltimore,
Maryland and getting into the radio business; working at WHAT-AM in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; moving to WDAS-AM in 1952 and commuting
between WLIB in New York and WDAS in Philadelphia; promoting shows at
The Apollo and Madison Square Garden; syndicating his show; Dick Clark
and
American Bandstand in Philadelphia;
rapping and rhyming; assumed names; "Get Ready" educational rapping
program; gratuities for DJs; breaking records on the radio; radio
audiences in Philadelphia and New York; Tom Joyner; Hal Jackson; Civil
Rights Movement.
Cassette 2. Telegram sent to the USSR;
John Bandy; cover artists; corruption in the record industry; developing
his publishing company and his TV show.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Cassette(s): cass 1451
Herron, Natolyn Williams, circa 1995 March 22
Collector's No(s).
BROM0232--BROM0233
Shelf No(s).
cass 1545--cass 1546
Physical Description
2
audiocassettes : analog + release form and 1
transcript (18 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Herron is the daughter of Nat D. Williams, DJ for WDIA (Memphis,
Tennessee).
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Nat D. Williams and WDIA;
B.B. King; WDIA and the Black community;
Brown
America Speaks
; family life; Willa Monroe and the
Tan Town Coffee Club; DJs at WDIA as a big
extended family; racism and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK); Natolyn working at
WDIA doing the
College Beat with Robert
"Honeyboy" Thomas.
Cassette 2. Civil Rights Movement;
racism; WDIA; Nat D. Williams; WDIA becoming a Black-format station;
advertising.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Higginsen, Vy, 1995 April
11
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0141
Shelf No(s).
DAT 108
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(25 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Higginsen is a DJ and the first woman to have a primetime slot in New
York Black radio.
Interview topics include: Being influenced by Black culture family, food,
church, music; writer and producer of
Mama, I
Want to Sing
(1983); Alma John on WLIB-AM; interest in
fashion; getting into radio; format and WBLS; personality radio; WWRL;
Frankie Crocker; male dominance in radio; WBLS becoming a Black-owned
radio station.
Note
There is a delay in continuing the interview on side B of the
cassette.
Hughes, Catherine L., 1995 February
24 ; 1995 May
8
Collector's No(s).
BROM0142--BROM0143
Shelf No(s).
DAT 109--DAT 110
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Hughes is owner and CEO of Radio One, Inc.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Listening to radio in Omaha,
Nebraska; bringing a Black-owned station to Omaha around 1965; Black
radio in Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, PA; women in radio and Alfie
Williams as the first woman on WHUR; WHUR--Howard University in
Washington, DC; working with Nighthawk Terry in DC; summer broadcasting
course at Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts); psychographic
programming (i.e., programming for a particular demographic);
development of the "Quiet Storm"; providing opportunities in
broadcasting for students; Melvin Lindsey and "Quiet Storm"; owning
seven station, such as WOL in DC; FCC laws (duopoly) and the impact on
Black station ownership; syndicated shows; Tom Joyner.
Cassette 2. Conclusion of interview.
Note
Described in accompanying documentation as one continuous interview, but
two distinct dates are indicated for the cassettes. Unclear if content
is included in transcript for BROM0144--BROM0145 (cass 1455--cass
1456).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1453--cass 1454
Hughes, Catherine L., 1995
September 11 ; 1995
September 28
Collector's No(s).
BROM0144--BROM0145
Shelf No(s).
DAT 111--DAT 112
Physical Description
2 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + and 1 transcript (40 leaves)
and release forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Hughes is owner and CEO of Radio One, Inc.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Listening to radio while
growing up in Omaha, Nebraska; Wolfman Jack; talking "Black," sounding
Black; Tony Brown and the Communications Department at Howard
University; faculty members; Quincy Jones, Ed Bradley, Stan Latham,
M[ario] Van Peebles; WHUR as a student training project;
360 Degrees of Blackness; "Quiet Storm";
Melvin Lindsey; station administration; training courses at Harvard
University and the University of Chicago;
The
Drum
news program; lack of recognition as the creator of the
"Quiet Storm"; sexism in radio; WOL "We Offer Love"--one of her
station.
Cassette 2. History of WOL in Washington,
DC (was a white-owned R&B station); payola; FCC regulations and
laws; buying WOL; first station to do Black talk radio full-time (WOL);
influence of Georgie Woods; WLIB studying the WOL format;
The Cathy Hughes Morning Show; owning
stations; using talk radio to promote community involvement,
activities.
Note
Described in accompanying documentation as one continuous interview, but
two distinct dates are indicated for the cassettes. Unclear if
transcript also covers part or all of BROM0142--BROM0143 (cass
1453--cass 1454).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1455--cass 1456
Hulbert, Maurice "Hot Rod," 1996
January 24
Collector's No(s).
BROM0146
Shelf No(s).
DAT 113
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 80
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (21 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Hulbert was a choreographer and performer and eventually became a DJ.
Interview topics include: Becoming a radio announcer at WDIA in Memphis,
Tennessee; Nat D. Williams and WDIA; Reverend Herbert Brewster and
gospel music; racism; Civil Rights Movement and Black radio; impact of
formatting on the demise of Black radio personalities; Hal Jackson; Jack
Gibson; being hired by WITH in Baltimore, Maryland; Being hired by WHAT
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; WWRL in New York; Mary Mason in
Philadelphia; asserting that Doug "Jocko" Henderson based his style on
Hulbert; payola and Alan Freed.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Cassette(s): cass 1457
Jackson, Harold B. (Hal), 1995
April 11
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0148
Shelf No(s).
DAT 114
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(42 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Jackson is a radio personality and group chairman of Inner City
Broadcasting.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Growing up in Charleston,
South Carolina, and Washington, DC; developing his own show on WYNX in
1937 (played race music); going to WLIB in New York in 1949 or 1950;
worked at three stations; women in radio; working to get women hired as
personalities; development of FM stations; Frankie Crocker; WBLS and
programming; Civil Rights Movement; assumed names and White owners of
R&B stations; survival of Black radio; Jack L. Cooper in Chicago,
Illinois; Al Benson; community involvement; Cathy Hughes; AM and Black
talk radio programs.
Cassette 2. Role of syndication in Black
Radio;
Amos 'n' Andy; Black radio
programs; Nat "King" Cole and his radio show; programming WBLS (New
York) and WDAS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); WDAS; Jocko Henderson,
Georgie Woods, Louise Williams; National Council of Negro Women (NCNW)
and Mary McLeod Bethune; Adam Clayton Powell; Charlie Parker; Bud
Powell; salaries of Black DJs; racism.
John, Doctor [Historical interview] ; Larry M. McCormick, pt. 2
[Historical interview], undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0246
Shelf No(s).
DAT 201
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release form and 1 transcript
(15 pages)
Interviewer
Labowitz, Eric
(Doctor John
interview only?)
Content
Interview topics include: Influences of radio and TV shows by Dr.
Daddy-O, including gospel shows; Poppa Stoppa persona; playing locally
produced versus nationally produced records; New Orleans' sound.
Note
Side B of cassette copy may be a continuation or possibly a partial
duplication of McCormick interview from BROM0170 (cass 1481). Unclear if
same is true of DAT 201.
John, Mable "Doctor," 1995 April
11
Collector's No(s).
BROM0149
Shelf No(s).
DAT 115
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release
form
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
John is a singer and a recording artist.
Interview topics include: Connection between gospel and blues; WJLB and
Martha Jean "The Queen" Steinberg; Sonny Carter as first Black station
manger of a White station (WGPR in Detroit); difference between DJs and
today's announcers; racism vs. crossover; breaking records; Jack Gibson;
Berry Gordy; Al Bell; WVOL in Tennessee; E. Rodney Jones and Lucky
Cordell; Don Cornelius of
Soul Train
working at WVON in Chicago, Illinois.
Johnson, Martha Lee, circa 1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Jones, E. Rodney, 1995 March
14
Collector's No(s).
BROM0151--BROM152
Shelf No(s).
DAT 117--DAT 118
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (DAT, 91
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Jones is a radio personality and a musician self-described as a
"Blues-ologist."
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Beginning his radio career in
Texarkana, Arkansas (KTFS); Kansas City and KUDL; being #1 in his time
slot; in St. Louis working with Spider Burke; WVON (Chicago, Illinois)
and Al Benson, Lucky Cordell, Herb Kent; Nat Cole; how he developed his
style; breaking "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard in St. Louis; Sam
Cooke's "You Send Me"; working at community-oriented WVON as program
director; Jesse Jackson and Operation Breadbasket, People United to
Serve Humanity (PUSH); brokerage radio; selling radio time in blocks;
Jack L. Cooper; Civil Rights Movement; his "fake" kidnapping as a
publicity stunt.
Cassette 2. Martin Luther King's
assassination; being president of the National Association of Radio and
Television Announcers (NATRA); WXOK in Baton Rouge, LA.
Note
The original interview was recorded on two DAT tapes which were copied
onto one cassette tape.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 671--CDREF 672
- Cassette(s): cass 1462
Joyner, Tom, 1995 May
11
Collector's No(s).
BROM0153
Shelf No(s).
DAT 119
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(21 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Joyner is the host of his own syndicated program.
The Tom Joyner Morning Show.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Growing up in Tuskegee,
Alabama; listening to WRMA in Montgomery; Father Rock; first radio job
was doing news at WRMA in 1968 or 1969; WLAC in Nashville, Tennessee;
White DJs who sounded "Black"; Civil Rights Movement; Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s assassination; women in radio, including Zella Mays in
Atlanta, Georgia; protesting to get radio stations to play R&B in
1969; part-time job at the Tuskegee University Station, "the soul
matinee"; doing "tabloid" news stories on the radio before it became
popular; changing from AM to FM; going to work at WVON in Chicago,
Illinois; WBMX-FM in Chicago; John H. Johnson (publisher of
Ebony, CEO of WJPC-AM) offering a job as
program director (Chicago); developing the
Ebony/Jet Showcase for TV.
Cassette 2. Returning to Texas and
becoming the "Fly Jock"; commuting between Dallas, Texas and Chicago;
ABC-SMN (American Broadcasting Network-Satellite Music Network);
syndicating a morning urban show; demise of urban radio; demise of radio
personalities; duopolies and their effect on Black radio;
demographics/target audience; Black women ages 18-54; radio soap operas;
influence over audience.
KDIA Management (Oakland, CA), 1995 June
8
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0154--BR95OM0155
Shelf No(s).
DAT 120--DAT 121
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
KDIA Management (Oakland, California): Priscilla Watts, general manager;
Bill Morrison, sales; Bob Jones, program director.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1.
Watts. Listening to radio while growing up
in Camden, Arkansas (KAMD);
Amos 'n'
Andy
; working at KGO-TV and having difficulties moving up in
sales department; only woman in sales at KFRC-FM; going to KDIA-AM in
1976; history of KDIA; same owner as WDIA in Memphis, Tennessee;
importance of community; news format vs. music format; improving AM
technology to compete with FM; duopolies and their effect on Black
radio; new adult contemporary formats based on the "Quiet Storm";
challenges of Black AM radio--lack of support or networking
opportunities.
Morrison. Coming to KDIA in 1962; history of
KDIA; Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., and KDIA as a news station in 1985;
Black Panther Party.
Jones. Listening to radio while growing up
in Baltimore, Maryland;
Amos 'n' Andy,
Beulah; radio programs; race music;
the progression of Black music; relationship between rhyming style of
Black DJs and rap music; Maurice "Hot Rod" Hulbert; Jocko Henderson;
Herb Kent; E. Rodney Jones; attending the Academy of Broadcasting from
1963-1965; Civil Rights Movement; WERD, WAOK, and WOGP competing in
Atlanta, Georgia.
Cassette 2.
Jones. R&B artists and making hits on
Black radio; Sly Stone as a DJ at KDIA; Stone leaving the station when
"Dance to the Music" became a hit (1968); station ownership (White);
community access to Black radio stations; history of KDIA; FCC
regulations (early 1960s) and effect on unlicensed DJs; Black music
forms; competition with FM stations; satellite programming; syndicated
shows; Black talk radio; digital radio.
Note
See files for Priscilla Watts, Bob Jones, and Bill Morrison for release
forms.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1464--cass 1465
Kelsey, James L. "Sunny Jim," 1995
September 25
Collector's No(s).
BROM0156
Shelf No(s).
DAT 122
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and transcript
excerpts (4 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Kelsey is a radio personality.
Interview topics include:
Listening to radio in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (WLIB); White jocks who
sounded Black; Rod Roddy of the
Price Is
Right
; starting out as "Farmer Jim" playing country music on
WLIB; became "Sunny Jim" when the station began playing Black music;
WUFO in Buffalo, New York; WWRL in New York City; Enoch Gregory and
Eddie O'Jay; the role of WOL in Washington, DC; the "Soul
Brothers"--Bobby Bennett, Soul Poppa, Jerry Boulding, Nighthawk Terry,
Terry Bledsoe, Frankie Crocker; Civil Rights Movement; news staff;
editorial staff; Sunny Jim Kelsey Fan Club; women in radio; personality
radio; the effect of FM on the success of WOL-AM; payola; racism;
National Association of Radio Announcers (NARA); imitators--finding
"Nighthawks" and "Soul Poppas" elsewhere; WHUR (Howard University);
firing Nighthawk Terry; women in radio; maternal image of female
personalities; Martha Jean Steinberg; Alma John;
Wings Over Jordan; religious broadcasts; John "Sir Walter"
Christian (DJ in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); public's expectation of DJs;
publicity stunts and promotions--giving away the Brooklyn Brides; the
murders of Soul Poppa and Nighthawk Terry.
Kent, Herbert Rogers, 1995 March
29
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0167
Shelf No(s).
DAT 130
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(24 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Kent "the Cool Gent" is an air personality in Chicago, Illinois.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Chicago listening to radio
programs;
Amos 'n' Andy; Jack L. Cooper;
Al Benson; first radio job in Gary, Indiana at WGRY; race music; Civil
Rights Movement; Pervis Spann; publicity stunts; Wesley South; WVON
(Chicago); recording artists and creating hit records; the "Wahoo Man"
character; strengths of Black radio; FM vs. AM; future of Black radio;
his syndicated show.
Note
DAT dated as 1995 March 29; cassette dated as 1995 September 25.
King, B.B., 1995 January
18
Collector's No(s).
BROM0158
Shelf No(s).
cass 1468
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (37
minutes) : analog + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
King is a singer-musician and worked at WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee).
Interview topics include: Listening to
King
Biscuit Time
and Sonny Boy Williamson; getting started in
radio (WDIA); performing and deejaying from 1949-1955; writing the
Pepticon Tonic jingle; Nat D. Williams; role of WDIA in the Memphis
community; Martha Jean Steinberg; playing a variety of artists on his
radio show; getting his nickname at WDIA--the "Blues Boy"; first
recording session was at WDIA, studio A; on-air style; difficulty in
getting the blues played on Black radio today; Bert Ferguson; station
ownership (White); favorite recording artists.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 708
King Biscuit Time Listeners, circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0159
Shelf No(s).
cass 1469
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (94
minutes) : analog
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Listener #1 grew up in Mississippi. Listener #2 (Martha Johnson?) is from
Lula, Mississippi and grew up in Arkansas and Mississippi.
Interview topics include:
Listener #1. Working in cotton fields in
Dundy, Mississippi;
King Biscuit Time and
Sonny Boy Williamson beginning around 1941; Sonny Boy playing the harp
(harmonica); his popularity; listening to the radio in her mother's
Packard car; weekends in downtown Helena, Mississippi; Ike Turner; blues
artists on the radio; Robert Nighthawk (her father-in-law) as a local
DJ; listening to WDIA in Mississippi and St. Louis, Missouri; Nat D.
Williams; religious life and secular life; B.B. King.
Listener #2. Her life in Mississippi and
Arkansas; listening to
King Biscuit Time
(KAFS and KFFA); show named after King Biscuit Flour and Sonny Boy Meal;
blues; Sonny Boy playing the harmonica; integration.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): Burned upon request
Kirby, George [Historical interview], 1983 March 31
Collector's No(s).
BR83OS0248; BROS0442
(duplicate?)
Shelf No(s).
DAT 202; cass 1707
(duplicate?)
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 46
minutes) : digital
Interviewer
unknown
Content
Kirby worked in various nightclubs in Chicago, Illinois.
Interview topics include: The DuSable Hotel in Chicago; performers and
entertainers; clubs in Chicago; performing in shows; doing stand-up; the
Ed Sullivan show; Al Benson.
Note
Content duplicated on BROS0442 (cass 1707).
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 698 (cass 1560)
- Cassette(s): cass 1560
Lee, Valeria L., 1995 April
24
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0160
Shelf No(s).
DAT 124
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(20 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Lee was a radio program director, general manager, and founder of WVSP, a
public radio station.
Interview topics include: Growing up in North Carolina; listening to WLAC
(Nashville); blues and gospel; WVSP in rural North Carolina reaching
areas throughout Virginia and North Carolina; live gospel choir
performing on the radio; media consciousness; Black radio consciousness;
Afrocentricity; Civil Rights Movement; WAFR (Durham, NC); WHUR (Howard
University); talk radio programs; community serving radio--information
and identity; station ownership (Black); public radio vs. commercial
radio; radio interviews at WVSP with Angela Davis, the Charlotte Three;
programming--jazz, news and public affairs, children and teen issues;
funding with grants and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting;
volunteers; 60% staff of women; difficulties in being taken seriously by
men; sexism; fundraising; station operated in Warrington, NC
(1946-1984); Rocky Mount (1984-1987); went off the air in 1987;
strengths of African American community-based public radio.
Leeper, Hattie ("Chattie Hattie"), 1995 April 22
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0178
Shelf No(s).
DAT 139
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(38 + 36 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Leeper is instructor and Chair of the Communications Department at Gaston
College in Dallas, North Carolina and worked in radio for over 20 years.
Interview took place in Charlotte, NC.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Holding the position of
secretary of NATRA; life in Charlotte, NC; not listening to radio much
while growing up; filing records for WGIV-AM (Charlotte) as a teen in
the 1950s; WGIV as an integrated station in the 1950s; White DJs
sounding Black; doing a radio talk show for WGIV in the late 1950s;
becoming Chattie Hattie and deejaying around 1961-1962; sexism--being
the only woman DJ at WGIV; program director at WRPL and sales at WAYS
(both in Charlotte); personality radio vs. rigidly formatted radio;
payola; Civil Rights Movement; Charlotte being integrated without
violence; community involvement; FM, AM, and TV; writing songs such as
"Lonely Soldier," performed by Mike Williams; her own record
label--Aware Records; role of radio in making records; payola; women in
radio; station ownership (White); National Association of Radio and
Television Announcers (NATRA) and the National Association of Radio
Announcers (NARA).
Cassette 2. Martha Jean Steinberg; Eddie
O'Jay and the recording group the O'Jay.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1490--cass 1491
Lornell, Kip, 1995 October
19
Collector's No(s).
BROM0161
Shelf No(s).
cass 1471
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (33
minutes) : analog + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Lornell is a scholar of American vernacular music and has written a
book.
Interview topics include: Radio broadcasts of Black quartets began in
1920s (WRAC and WDIA--Memphis, Tennessee); Illinois Central Glee Club
Quartet--1st quartet on radio (WRAC), 1928; Spirit of Memphis was the
most recognized quartet of the era; trend of having regularly scheduled
broadcasts of quartets began; differences between the Golden Gate
Quartet and the Spirit of Memphis; The Deep Water Boys (performed gospel
and R&B); live programs mixed with recorded music programs;
influence of television; gospel music programming; legacy of gospel
quartets; Fisk Jubilee Singers; Hampton Institute Singers; James
Cleveland; Duke Ellington.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): Burned upon request
MacDonald, J. Fred, 1995 March
27
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0162
Shelf No(s).
DAT 125
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(25 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
MacDonald is Professor of History at Northeastern Illinois University and
has written six books on the history of broadcasting.
Interview topics include: Civil Rights Movement and the academy;
1920s--radio shows such as
Amos 'n' Andy,
Sam 'n' Henry; WGN (Chicago,
Illinois); early 1930s--Ethel Waters, Paul Robeson appear on radio
shows; mid-1930s--Soap operas develop; Black middle class campaigns
against radio minstrel shows; 1939--"Beulah" character created;
1945--
Beulah radio show created;
1944-1958--WMCA (New York), one-hour shows with Black perspectives;
1939--
Freedom's People, 13-part
program on Blacks; American propaganda; 1950s--television becomes more
popular than radio; 1951-1952--White teens begin listening to R&B;
White performers and DJs impersonating African Americans; Jack Cooper;
Al Benson; formats of Black radio; decline of personality radio; future
of radio; technology and AM radio; responsibility of Black entrepreneurs
to support Black radio; radio programs; entertainment vs. education;
Hugh Downs on
Destination Freedom;
Richard Durham writing
Destination
Freedom
; racism; Oscar Brown.
Marshall, Pluria W., 1995 August
10
Collector's No(s).
BROM0163
Shelf No(s).
DAT 126
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 72
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Marshall became involved with radio in Houston, Texas, at KYOK and
KCOH.
Interview topics include: Leading a walk-out for Black radio employees in
Houston in 1965; being official photographer for the National
Association of Radio Announcers (NARA); creation of NARA, which later
became the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers
(NATRA); National Black Media Coalition (NBMC); women in radio; Civil
Rights Movement; FCC regulations, Small Business Association, and
distress sales; demise of Black media ownership; support from Black
entrepreneurs; community involvement of White-owned, Black-formatted
radio stations; WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee); Cathy Hughes' format of talk
radio; WHAT-AM (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); racism and reverse
discrimination.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 673
- Cassette(s): cass 1473
Matassa, Cosimo V., 1995 March
11
Collector's No(s).
BROM0164
Shelf No(s).
DAT 127
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(16 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Matassa was a recording engineer in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interview topics include: Listening to Black radio in New Orleans; Vernon
Winslow and the Poppa Stoppa character; sounding Black; how records
became hits--radio and jukeboxes; local vs. national effects of radio
stations; payola; role of Black DJs in New Orleans; Dr. Daddy-O and
Vernon Winslow; racism; cover artists.
Maultsby, Portia K., 1996 January
25 ; 1995 September
28
Collector's No(s).
BROM0165; BR95OM0166
(duplicate?)
Shelf No(s).
DAT 128; DAT 129
(duplicate?)
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 38
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Maultsby is a Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director of the Archives
of African American Music and Culture at Indiana
University-Bloomington.
Interview topics include: Importance of radio in African American
culture; Civil Rights Movement; Jack Gibson; Jack Cooper; James Brown's
commitment to the African American community; Al Benson's role in Black
radio; Al Benson possibly coining the term "rock 'n' roll"; Alan Freed;
white DJs influenced by Black culture and Black DJs; racism; WDIA
(Memphis, Tennessee)--first station to program Black music
full-time.
Note
Cassette number cass 1476 is a duplicate of cass 1475. It is unclear
whether DAT 129 is similarly a safety copy of DAT 128, particularly
since it is dated as 1995 September 28
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): Burned upon request
- Cassette(s): cass 1475; cass 1476 (duplicate)
Mayo, Barry, 1995
March 29
Physical Description
Release
forms + 1 transcript (13
leaves)
Interviewer
Kent, Herb
Content
Radio interview with Barry Mayo by Herb Kent on WVAZ-FM (Oak Park, IL).
Specific content unknown.
Mayoral, George A., circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0168
Shelf No(s).
DAT 131
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 4
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Mayoral was one of the Poppa Stoppa radio personalities.
Content unknown.
Note
Cassettes appear to be mostly blank and there is no meaningful content or
transcript. Unclear whether same is true of the DAT content.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): Burned upon request
- Cassette(s): cass 1478--cass 1479
McCauley, Ruth Annette, 1995 June
14
Collector's No(s).
BROM0169
Shelf No(s).
cass 1480
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog + release forms and 1
transcript (22 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
McCauley was the sister-in-law of Al Benson.
Interview topics include: Importance of Al Benson in the Black Community;
Benson losing his legs in 1967; being raised by Benson; Benson's
daughter becoming a DJ; Emmett Till's lynching; racism; Benson's
activism; dropping pamphlets about Till's death in Mississippi; buying
his own radio time; E. Rodney Jones; payola; recording artists who
visited them at home.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
McCormick, Larry, circa 1962 January 20
Collector's No(s).
BROM0170
Shelf No(s).
DAT 132
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(37 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
McCormick has worked in both radio and television in Los Angeles,
California.
Interview topics include: First radio job at KPRS (Kansas City); only
Black radio station in 1957; going to KGFJ (Los Angeles) in 1958;
Playing R&B at KGFJ; role of KGFJ in the Black community; Civil
Rights Movement; integrating KFWB as a rock jock; anchoring the news on
TV channel 13 in Los Angeles; on-air style; being the host of
Teen Talk radio program; Los Angeles DJs
were not considered leaders during the Civil Rights Movement; playing
hit records; importance of church background for R&B artists;
crossover hits; Hunter Hancock capitalizing on Black music.
Note
Content may be continued or duplicated on side B of BROS0246 (cass
1558/DAT 201).
McCoy, Charles L., 1995 March
25
Collector's No(s).
BROM0171
Shelf No(s).
DAT 133
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(15 leaves)
Interviewer
Kosiorek, Alexander
Content
McCoy's mother was a soprano member of the Wings Over Jordan choir.
Interview topics include: The choir performing throughout the country;
being a member of the home church of the choir; becoming reacquainted
with Negro spirituals; role of Wings Over Jordan in the Black community;
in 1938 Wings Over Jordan becomes first Black choir on a national radio
network (Columbia Network); spirituals and African American history;
listening to radio while growing up in Cleveland, Ohio; popularity of
the choir; segregation and racism on tour; Wings Over Jordan, Inc.
headquarters in Los Angeles, California (not a choir); touring Europe
and Korea; imitators of the choir; founder/director Reverend Settle's
choral arrangements.
McCoy, Quincy and Mark Riley, 1995
January 30
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0190
Shelf No(s).
DAT 150
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 95
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
McCoy is program director at WBLS (New York) and has been in radio for 25
years. Riley is program director and a morning show host on WLIB (New
York).
Interview topics include: Working in the record industry; getting into
radio in Utica, NY while in college (news department); WABC (New Haven,
Connecticut); doing Top 40; WHYI in Miami, Florida; getting into program
directing in Atlanta, Georgia and California; working at KDIA in San
Francisco; defining "Urban" radio; "Plantation Stations" and station
ownership (White) that use Black formats to make money; duopolies and
impact on Black-owned stations; Black-owned stations and the need to
super-serve the community; refusal to play misogynistic, violent, or
homophobic records; history of WBLS (began as WLIB-AM); survival of
Black radio; format at WLIB (talk and music); history of WLIB; role of
the community; using Black talk radio as a political instrument; WVON
(Chicago, Illinois) and the election of Harold Washington; programming
talk radio--Afrocentric and cultural emphasis; other Black talk radio
stations--WOL (Washington, DC), WVON (Chicago), WHAT (Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania); syndicating talk programs; demographics of Black talk
radio.
Note
DAT dated as 1995 January 30; cassette dated as 1995 January 31.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 733--CDREF 734
- Cassette(s): cass 1503
McCoy, Sid, 1995 June
19
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0172
Shelf No(s).
DAT 134
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(20 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
McCoy began his career in radio in Chicago, Illinois in 1949.
Interview topics include: DJ Yvonne Daniels (decreased); winning Al
Benson's DJ contest;
Destination Freedom
and Richard Durham; working as a narrator; WENR and WGES in Chicago;
developing a syndicated radio show for the Pet Milk Co. (religious);
director of A&R for Vee-Jay Records; recording artists; working on a
TV jazz show on WTTW (Chicago); "Sid McCoy & Friends"; Al Benson;
Jack Cooper; payola; Dr. Daddy-O; National Association of radio and
Television Announcers (NATRA); working in TV; station ownership (Black);
future of Black radio.
McKinley, Larry, 1995 March
14
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0173
Shelf No(s).
DAT 135
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(41 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
McKinley was a DJ in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interview topics include: Taking classes at the Columbia College of
Broadcasting in Chicago, Illinois; working as a DJ and program director
in New Orleans (WMRY); creating his character "Frank F. Frank"; Civil
Rights Movement--being too violent to march; WMRY being changed to WYLD;
station ownership (White); doing a radio talk show; demise of radio
personalities; not enjoying Al Benson on the radio; starting Minit
Records; Dr. Daddy-O and impact on gospel radio programs.
Note
DAT dated as 1995 March 14; cassette dated as 1995 March 13.
Miller, Sidney, 1996 February
2
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0174;
BROM0175
Shelf No(s).
DAT 136; DAT 137
Physical Description
2 audiocassette (DAT, 85
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Miller has held a variety of positions within the recording industry and
is the founder of
Black Radio Exclusive
Magazine
.
Interview topics include: Listening to WBOP (Pensacola, Florida) while
growing up; getting into the record industry--Capitol Records in
Atlanta, Georgia; promoting recording artists and doing A&R;
crossover artists; getting records played on the radio; beginning
Black Radio Exclusive Magazine in 1976
(trade publication); National Association of Radio and Television
Announcers (NATRA); station owners (White) and the demise of personality
radio; Larry McKinley and his impact on New Orleans, Louisiana; Jack
Gibson; Frankie Crocker; Stevie Wonder's radio station--KGLH (Los
Angeles, California); duopolies and Black station owners; Cathy Hughes;
religious broadcasts; radio management; "Quiet Storm"; Irene Ware;
Martha Jean Steinberg; syndicated talk shows; changing formats of Black
radio; Tom Joyner.
Note
BR95OM0175 and BR95OM0174 were recorded simultaneously with the former
miking the interviewee's answers and the latter miking the interviewer's
questions. Unclear if same audio problems exist on DAT tapes.
Note
DAT dated as 1995 August 9; cassette dated as 1996 February 2.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 674--CDREF 675
- Cassette(s): cass 1485; cass 1486
Moore, Gatemouth (Reverend Arnold Dwight Moore), 1995 May 16
Collector's No(s).
BROM0177-1--BROM0177-2
Shelf No(s).
cass 1488--cass 1489
Physical Description
2
audiocassettes : analog + release forms and 1
transcript (19 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Moore has been a recording artist, radio personality and evangelist.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Began singing on the radio at
age 9 on WIBW (Topeka, Kansas); became the first "Buckwheat" on
Our Gang/
Little
Rascals
; touring in Vaudeville shows as a child; meeting the
Amos 'n' Andy actors; his singing
career; his first record for Damon Recording Co. in Kansas; being an
evangelist for 46 years; working at WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee); Reverend
Herbert Brewster; Nat D. Williams; becoming a gospel DJ; Bert Ferguson;
WEDR (Birmingham, Alabama); being kicked out of Birmingham by Bull
Connor: CRM--doing news reports and interviews; publicity stunts; owning
the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro baseball team); race relations in the
South.
Cassette 2. The castration of one of his
church members; publicity stunts; Civil Rights Movement; writing blues
songs; Jack Cooper and brokerage radio; Al Benson; having a gospel TV
show in Chicago, Illinois (Channel 26); remote broadcasts.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Morris, Johnny and Shearer, William E., 1995 June 15
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0157
Shelf No(s).
DAT 123
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(22 leaves - see Shearer file)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Morris is chief engineer, announcer, and production staff person at KGFJ.
Shearer is general manager at KGFJ-AM in Los Angeles, California.
Interview topics include: Format at KGFJ-AM--"Sweet Inspirations"
(modified gospel programming); station ownership (White) and influence
over gospel radio stations; differences between R&B stations, gospel
stations, and KGFJ; demographics; community support; gospel concert
audiences; history of KGFJ-AM; financing radio stations; station
ownership (Black); broadcasters vs. businessmen; Cathy Hughes; satellite
programs; impact of technology innovations on small, local stations;
future of Black programming and broadcasting.
Muniz, Edmund J., circa 1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Nelson, Ford, 1995 May
16
Collector's No(s).
BROM0179
Shelf No(s).
cass 1492
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (56
minutes) : analog + release forms and 1
transcript (17 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Nelson worked in radio in Memphis, Tennessee and is a gospel radio
personality.
Interview topics include: Auditioning for B.B. King as a pianist; working
with B.B. King at WDIA (Memphis); began hosting the
Let's Have Some Fun radio program on WDIA;
changing to gospel music and deejaying
The Glory
Train
; Gatemouth Moore's radio show at WDIA; Maurice "Hot
Rod" Hulbert's gospel show; live shows and recorded music shows; gospel
quartets and groups; the Spirit of Memphis Quartet; Bert Ferguson's
decision to make WDIA a Black-formatted station; Nat D. Williams;
Brother Theo Wade; station ownership (White) and the Black
community.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 676
Neville, Art, 1995 March
16
Collector's No(s).
BROM0180
Shelf No(s).
DAT 140
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(10 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Neville is a recording artist born and raised in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Interview topics include: Listening to Vernon Winslow (Dr. Daddy-O),
Poppa Stoppa on WMRY; was a one-time weekend teen DJ on WMRY (New
Orleans); segregation at WWEZ; Winslow using the back door to the
station; Winslow at WYLD and his on-air style; singing on the radio as a
member of the Gay Notes in the 1950s; recording "Mardi Gras Mambo" at
WWEZ; listening to WLAC (Nashville, Tennessee); his brother Aaron
Neville; Civil Rights Movement and "Sister Rosa" song.
Newman, Mark, 1995 June
7
Collector's No(s).
BROM0181
Shelf No(s).
DAT 141
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(24 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Newman is the Visiting Associate Professor of History at the University
of Illinois.
Interview topics include:
King Biscuit
Time
's role in Black radio (ran for about 40 years); Sonny
Boy Williamson; KAFA (Helena, Mississippi); African American
sharecroppers, farmers, and economic development; station ownership
(White and Black); roles of African Americans in radio; stereotypes; Al
Benson and Jack Cooper; relationship between African American community
and Black radio; WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee); impact on Black radio; Nat
D. Williams; Bert Ferguson.
Nobles, Ben (and Bernice?), 1995
March 29
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0182
Shelf No(s).
DAT 142
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 44
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Content unknown.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): Burned upon request
- Cassette(s): cass 1495
O'Jay, Eddie, 1995 April
8
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0184
Shelf No(s).
DAT 144
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(31 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
O'Jay is a radio personality presently working at WJSE-FM (Southern New
Jersey).
Interview topics include: Growing up in Tennessee, Wisconsin, and
Illinois; the role of radio;
Amos 'n'
Andy
;
Wings Over Jordan; race
records; Al Benson; first job in radio working at WCAN (Milwaukee,
Wisconsin); doing his show
Bill K. and Eddie
O'Jay
, 1950; listening to WAIT (Chicago) and Daddy-O Daylie;
Black-owned Vee-Jay Records; relationship between DJs and record
companies; working at radio stations in Cleveland, Ohio (WABQ); station
ownership (White); B.B. King's popularity in Ohio; breaking King's
records; doing promotions; payola; going to WUFO (Buffalo, New York),
1959; discovering the Mascots in Ohio (changed the name to the O'Jays);
working at KCAC (Phoenix, Arizona); working at WWRL (New York) and WLIB
(New York); personality DJs; WBLS (New York); National Association of
Radio and Television Announcers (NATRA)--Jack Gibson and E. Rodney
Jones; presence of women in radio--Martha Jean Steinberg, Chattie
Hattie, Dizzy Lizzy.
O'Neal, Alfred, 1995 January
23
Collector's No(s).
BROM0183
Shelf No(s).
DAT 143
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(15 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
O'Neal performed with a number of quartets and singing groups.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Living in Mississippi and
Arkansas and singing in choirs; touring with the Cotton Blossom Singers
of Piney Woods School (Mississippi); moving to California and performing
on radio shows throughout the country; performing a commercial on KSTP
(St. Paul, Minnesota) in 1929; sacred quartets on the radio; the Fisk
Jubilee Singers; minstrel shows; community involvement; performing with
the Crosscuts singing group on NBC radio.
Cassette 2. The Crosscuts singing
group.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1496--cass 1497
Parker, A. J. (Arleta J.), 1995
March 31
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0185
Shelf No(s).
DAT 145
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(13 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Parker is a radio personality at WEJM (Chicago, Illinois). Her father was
Al Benson. Interview took place in Chicago.
Interview topics include: Listening to WJPC (Chicago) growing up in the
70s; Herb Kent; father's radio studio in the basement of their house; Al
Benson and his impact on Black radio; family life with Al Benson; few
women in radio when she was a child; working at WLNR (all-female DJs) in
Chicago; WEJM as a hip hop station; getting into radio; influences; Tom
Joyner and Yvonne Daniels; future of Black radio--syndicated programs;
Al Benson and the Civil Rights Movement; fighting discrimination.
Phillips, John and Vermya H. Phillips, 1995 June 12
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0186
Shelf No(s).
DAT 146
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (63
minutes) : analog + release forms and 1
transcript (20 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
John and Vermya Phillips are a husband and wife gospel music announcer
team on KTYM-AM in Los Angeles, California.
Interview topics include: Their gospel radio program (they buy their own
time); religious life and church involvement; both born in Texas; early
experiences with radio (listening to Joe Louis's fights); John's
training in radio during the late 1940s; doing gospel music programs for
38 years (started in 1957); listening to soap operas,
Wings Over Jordan; religious broadcasts;
gospel choirs and music; began buying time on KTYM and playing gospel
music format of show; influence of other religious broadcasts and
programs; strengths of religious broadcasting.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 677
- Cassette(s): cass 1500
Prescott, Pat, 1995 April
10
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0187
Shelf No(s).
DAT 147
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(21 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Prescott hosts a morning show on WQCD (New York) and has been in radio
for 20 years.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Virginia and New York; teaching
in New Orleans, Louisiana; National Association of Radio and Television
Announcers (NATRA) convention in New Orleans as her introduction to
radio; getting a part-time job at WYLD in New Orleans; emulating Frankie
Crocker's format (
360 Degrees of
Blackness
) on WYLD; Frankie Crocker's role in Black radio;
"Quiet Storm"; Vy Higginsen; women in radio; sexism; demise of
personality radio; competition in Black radio; working at WBLS and the
National Black Network; payola.
R&B Pioneers [R&B Foundation press conference]. [Side 1].
Illinois Jacquet ; Mabel John ; [Inez & Charlie Foxx] ; Lloyd Price
-- [Side 2]. [Lloyd Price, Darlene Love] ; Steve Cropper ; [Cissy
Houston, Martha Reeves] ; Fats Domino ; Junior Walker ; and other
unidentified persons, circa 1995 March 2
Collector's No(s).
BROS0249
Shelf No(s).
DAT 203
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Content
Interview topics include: Minstrel shows; racism in Texas, LA; jazz music
in Los Angeles; DJs; Al Benson; Dr. Daddy-O in Chicago, Illinois; Martha
Jean Steinberg; listening to radio; importance of music; radio in
Baltimore, Maryland; Eddie O'Jay; Frankie Crocker; Poppa Stoppa.
Raglin, Albert M., 1995 April
3
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0188
Shelf No(s).
DAT 148
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(11 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Raglin was involved with Black radio in Chicago, Illinois.
Interview topics include: Al Benson and Jack Cooper; Eddie Honesty (DJ in
Gary, Indiana); importance of the Black church; radio soap operas;
Amos 'n' Andy;
Jack Benny Show; getting into radio--doing a morning show
in Chicago, IL; Jack Cooper on WSBC (Chicago); brokerage radio; women in
early Black radio; WVON (Chicago); Civil Rights Movement and Black
radio; station ownership (White and Black);
Wings
Over Jordan
program; Daddy-O Daylie; Richard Durham and
Destination Freedom.
Rawls, Lou, circa
1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1995 April
11
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0150
Shelf No(s).
DAT 116
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(18 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Reagon developed the
Wade in the Water
program for NPR and is a singer/scholar.
Interview topics include: Radio and its role in African American culture;
listening to radio while growing up near Albany, Georgia;
Amos 'n' Andy;
Beulah;
Wings Over Jordan;
gospel programming; radio. Television; WHUR (Howard University in
Washington, DC) and
360 Degrees of
Blackness
; AM v. FM;
Wade in the
Water
radio program; Women in radio; Ivy Young at WHUR.
Renee, Lamarr, circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0189
Shelf No(s).
DAT 149
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(18 leaves)
Interviewer
unknown
Content
Renee was a disc jockey for WBLS.
Interview topics unknown.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Rudolph, Joe, 1995 June
16
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0191
Shelf No(s).
DAT 151
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(8 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Rudolph is the general manager at KPOO-FM in San Francisco,
California.
Interview topics include: Listening to radio only occasionally while
growing up in Alabama; moving to Los Angeles and San Francisco during
the 1960s; the history of KPOO (Poor People's Radio); working with the
Black community; National Association of Broadcasters (NAB); programming
KPOO (music and talk); Juneteenth.
Note
DAT dated 9/15/1995 and 9/16/1995; cassette dated 9/15/1995.
Sanders, Vince, 1995 January
27
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0192
Shelf No(s).
DAT 152
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 84
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (20 leaves)
Interviewer
unknown
Content
Sanders is the vice president and general manger of WWRL in New York
City.
Interview topics include: Format at WWRL (talk/gospel); religious
broadcasts on WWRL; WWRL as the most-listened to gospel station in the
country; station ownership (Black); contributions of Black radio
stations; WVON (Chicago, Illinois); getting into radio by doing public
announcements on WMPP (Chicago); station ownership (White): Daddy-O
Daylie; Sid McCoy; Herb Kent; how FM impacted AM stations; doing
programming for the National Black Network (NBN); programming WWRL as a
gospel station; improvements in technology for AM stations.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 678--CDREF 679
- Cassette(s): cass 1505
Savage, Barbara D., 1995 September
15
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0193
Shelf No(s).
DAT 153
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 56
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Savage is assistant professor of history at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Interview topics include: Dissertation on radio programs of the 1940s
which deal with race relations; pre-war migration of African Americans;
role of government in determining image of African Americans; Office of
Education helped produce
Freedom's
People
, 1941-1942;
Freedom's
People
addressed contributions of Blacks in America; impact
of
Freedom's People on African Americans;
Office of War Information sponsored radio shows which highlighted Blacks
in the military (despite segregation); race riots of 1943;
New World a' Comin' produced for local New
York station WMCA; role of the Urban League in producing Black radio
programs; the significance of WWII in determining how Black are
portrayed in radio shows.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 680
- Cassette(s): cass 1506
Scruggs, Charles A. (Chuck) and Dee "Captain Pete" Henderson,
1995 May 24
Collector's No(s).
BROM0194
Shelf No(s).
DAT 154
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(18 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Henderson was born in Mississippi and has a blues radio show on WEVL in
Tennessee. Scruggs was born in Tennessee and has worked in radio across
the country.
Interview topics include:
Henderson. Listening to
King Biscuit Time and Sonny Boy Williamson
on KAFA (Helena, Mississippi); songs that Sonny Boy would perform; Ike
Turner singing gospel; KWEM (West Memphis) and Howling Wolf; WDIA
(Memphis); Bert Ferguson; B.B. King; WEVL (Memphis) sponsoring a
Blues-a-thon as his intro into radio; Early Wright's blues radio
show.
Scruggs. Listening to
Wings Over Jordan; Fisk Jubilee Singers;
discrimination and racism in radio; empowerment of Blacks; first job at
WDXB (Chattanooga, Tennessee) playing country-westerns in 1949; WMFS
(Chattanooga) all-Black format begins in 1951; Larry McKinley as program
director of WMFS; hiring Scruggs as chief DJ; working at WSOK (TSU)
while attending Tennessee State University; transferring to the
University of Cincinnati, Ohio; working at WCIN; KSIN (San Francisco,
California) as program director (Black-owned); discrimination against
Black DJs; working at KDIA (Oakland, CA) between 1964-1972 in a variety
of positions; station ownership (White and Black); role of Black radio
during the Civil Rights Movement; radio news departments; Roy Wood; talk
shows; Emmett Till; racism; working at WDIA; role of Black radio in the
Black community; murder of Civil Rights workers; Civil Rights Movement;
raising funds for the National Civil Museum.
Concludes with recordings of a bus driver requesting that Black riders
move to the back of the bus, ostensibly recorded at the National Civil
Rights Museum.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1507--cass 1508
Sehorn, Marshall E., 1995 March
13
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0195
Shelf No(s).
DAT 155
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 38
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Sehorn worked for Black-owned Fire and Fury Records and lives in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
Interview topics include: Getting into the record industry after being a
DJ in North Carolina; listening to WLAC (Nashville, Tennessee); radio
programs; Black radio becoming important during the 1960s; WYLD and WBOK
(New Orleans); the
Poppa Stoppa show;
Black DJs playing records from his company; payola; traveling to radio
stations to get records played; Shelley "The Playboy" Stewart's
popularity with Whites; Ku Klux Klan (KKK) showing up at an event he
attended with Stewart; Whites disliking the fact that Sehorn (White)
worked with Blacks; cover artists; beginning Sehorn Records in the
mid-1960s.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 681
- Cassette(s): cass 1509
Shannon, Candy (Candace S. Lewis), 1995 September 27
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0196
Shelf No(s).
DAT 156
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 61
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Shannon is program director and afternoon show host at WDCU Jazz90
(Washington, DC).
Interview topics include: Growing up in Detroit, Michigan; getting into
TV production in Detroit; listening to Martha Jean Steinberg; Rosetta
Hines on WCHD (Detroit); Black-owned stations; getting into radio as a
news anchor for WCAR-AM (Detroit)--all news; increasing presence of
women in radio due to Affirmative Action; became a DJ when WCAR's
ownership changed; went to Black-owned WJZZ (Detroit) in 1978 as an AM
show host; Donnie Simpson hiring her for WKYS (Washington, DC); doing an
evening show (7PM-12PM) as "Miss Kiss"; going up against the "Quiet
Storm" with Melvin Lindsey; getting Lindsey from WHUR; WKYS becoming the
#1 station; becoming an AM show host at WHUR (Howard University) with
Jerry Bledsoe; doing a talk show on WDCU; similarities between
commercial and public radio; public radio; jazz-based formats; Black
support of public radio; Black station ownership of public radio.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 682
- Cassette(s): cass 1510
Sherrill, Charles R., II, 1995
March 28
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0197
Shelf No(s).
DAT 157
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 61
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Sherrill is the owner of WBEE Jazz Radio in Harvey, Illinois.
Interview topics include: Format--jazz, blues, gospel; began working at
WBEE in 1966 and went to WVON (Chicago) after 6 months; returned to WBEE
as general manager in 1974; bought station in 1986; listening to WWCA
(Gary, Indiana); Vivian Carter (of Vee-Jay Records) working at WWCA;
getting into sales for WBEE; station ownership (White and Black);
crossover audiences; community involvement; history of WBEE (first Black
station in Chicago, 1955); jazz programming.
Note
Recording ends abruptly during Sherrill's discussion about traditional
jazz.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 683
- Cassette(s): cass 1511
Shields, Rev. Del, 1995 May
9
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0198
Shelf No(s).
DAT 158
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(53 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Reverend Shields is co-host of
Drivetime
Dialogue
at WWRL (Woodside, New York), the number one gospel
experience station in the country.
Interview topics include: Listening to radio while growing up in Harlem;
religious broadcasts; racism in radio programs; Sunday morning as gospel
quartet time; working for Harold Jackson at WLIB (NY);
Wings Over Jordan; Paul Robeson;
Amos 'n' Andy;
The
Birdland Show
(jazz) hosted by H. Jackson, produced by T.
Savalas; working at WEBB (Baltimore, Maryland) as program director;
racism at WEBB; National Association of Radio Announcers (NARA) and the
National Association of Radio and Television Announcers (NATRA); payola;
The New Breed as an offshoot of NATRA; Civil Rights Movement; Jack
Gibson; importance of Black radio personalities; NATRA conflict; the
Black mafia; the record industry; buying his radio station KAGB in
California; becoming active in the church; doing a gospel talk show;
future of inspirational radio and gospel radio; Sam Cooke.
Simpson, Donnie, circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0199--BR95OM0200
Shelf No(s).
DAT 159--DAT 160
Physical Description
2 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(37 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Simpson has held a number of positions in radio and television.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Detroit, Michigan; listening to
Ernie D. on WJOB (Detroit); starting in radio at age 15 on WJOB;
listening to Martha Jean Steinberg; programming on WKYS (Washington,
DC); hiring Candi Shannon; Melvin Lindsey; discrepancy in pay rates for
Black DJs compared to White DJs; syndicating shows; interest in
developing a late-night TV talk show; future of Black radio; Tom Joyner;
demise of personality radio; the power of music, for example, James
Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"; programming.
Note
Recording quality/clarity is poor due to static and fluctuations in
volume levels. Levels drop dramatically during the discussion of Melvin
Lindsey.
Slade, Karen E., 1995 June
13
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0201
Shelf No(s).
DAT 161
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 49
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Slade is vice president and general manager of KJLH (Los Angeles,
California) which is owned by Stevie Wonder.
Interview topics include: Working in TV and at Xerox before getting into
radio; being offered the general manager position by Wonder; history of
KJLH; community involvement with the "We Are You" campaign; importance
of Blacks owning radio stations; economic impact of radio ownership;
demographics as 30 and older; urban contemporary; programming--talk,
gospel, R&B, jazz; station winning a Peabody Award for coverage of
the Rodney King verdict; Cathy Hughes buying radio stations.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 684
- Cassette(s): cass 1514
Smalls, Deloris (Mrs. Tommy), circa 1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Smith, Huey P. and Irma Thomas, 1995 March 13
Collector's No(s).
BROM0202
Shelf No(s).
DAT 162
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(28 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Smith and Thomas were both recording artists in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Interview topics include:
Smith. Listening to various Poppa Stoppas
in New Orleans; Dr. Daddy-O; knowing that Poppa Stoppa was White; being
a recording artist; Larry McKinley; local New Orleans DJs.
Thomas. Listening to Mama Lou (gospel
program); Poppa Stoppa; Larry McKinley, Okey Dokey, and Dr. Daddy-O in
New Orleans; DJs playing her records; not knowing that Poppa Stoppa was
White; entering WYLD's talent show; Okey Dokey playing her song "You Can
Have My Husband;" listening to Mahalia Jackson; the power of New Orleans
DJs (Black); decline in radio stations playing local New Orleans
artists; the effects of changing ownership on Black radio.
Smith, Maxine A. and Vasco Smith, 1995 May 16
Collector's No(s).
BROM0203
Shelf No(s).
DAT 163
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(23 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
The Smiths are married. Maxine was a college professor and Vasco was a
dentist.
Interview topics include:
Maxine. WDIA as a Black-format station;
station ownership (White); Nat Williams; being Executive secretary for
the NAACP; being denied admission to Memphis State University despite
having a MA in French from Middlebury (VT); NAACP's relationship with
the Black media; WDIA misleading the Black community in terms of its
ownership;
Amos 'n' Andy; Teen Town.
Vasco. Listening to WDIA; race relations
in Memphis;
Brown America Speaks radio
program; Nat Williams; Teen Town Singers; racism; WDIA's contributions;
Bert Ferguson; B.B. King.
Smith, Novella ("Dizzy Lizzy"), 1996 January 4
Collector's No(s).
BROM0204
Shelf No(s).
DAT 164
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 49
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Smith was a radio personality in Houston, Texas and was in three German
films.
Interview topics include: Listening to Dr. Jive on WLIB (New York);
getting into radio--Armed Forces Radio while at Munich American High
School; being the "Our Gal Sunday" at KCOH in Houston; becoming the
replacement "Dizzy Lizzy" at KYOK (Houston); station owning the names of
the DJs--"Hotsy Totsy," "Zing Zang," "Dizzy Lizzy"; starting a movement
to use their given names on the air; personalities advertising for their
sponsors; importance of Black radio in the 1950s and 1960s; publicity
stunt for April Fools' Day; being mistaken for a Puerto Rican or Mexican
woman; Civil Rights Movement; breaking records; making songs "hits";
Black radio in Houston in the 1950s; importance of news programs on
Black radio.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 685
- Cassette(s): cass 1517
South, Wesley W., 1995 January
6
Collector's No(s).
BROM0205--BROM0206
Shelf No(s).
DAT 165--DAT 166
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(104 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
South is a journalist who hosted
Hot Line
on WVON in Chicago, Illinois.
Interview topics include: Serving in World War II; working for the
Chicago Defender (1950); journalism; Civil
Rights Movement; working for
Ebony
magazine; Gatemouth Moore as a radio news reporter; getting into
radio--doing a news program for WVON (Chicago),
Hot Line; racism and segregation; Herb Kent; Roy Wood
calling in reports during the bus boycott; doing shows for WBEE and WGES
in Chicago; response to his talk show; Dick Gregory; Medgar Evers'
assassination; interviewing Black leaders; Malcolm X; Martin Luther
King, Jr.; Civil Rights Movement; Roy Wood.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1518--cass 1519
Spann, Melody, 1995 March
30
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0207
Shelf No(s).
DAT 167
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(16 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Melody Spann is president and general manager of WVON (Chicago, Illinois)
and is the daughter of Pervis Spann.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Chicago; listening to WVON;
Pervis Spann and WVON; Black radio in Chicago; community involvement;
Wesley South; talk radio vs. FM radio; getting into radio at age 15;
deejaying, management; future of the station; sexism; station ownership
(Black); Cathy Hughes; women in radio.
Note
Follows interview with Pervis Spann on the master DAT tape.
Spann, Pervis, 1995 March
30
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0207
Shelf No(s).
DAT 167
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(27 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Pervis Spann is the CEO of WVON and has been in radio since 1959.
Interview topics include: Acquiring WVON (Chicago, Illinois) in 1979;
Black station ownership; the history of WVON; being a DJ at WVON; Wesley
South's talk program; Civil Rights Movement; payola; E. Rodney Jones;
Lucky Cordell; listening to radio in Mississippi; WLAC (Nashville,
Tennessee); racism in radio; future of Black radio; format of
WVON--talk, gospel, blues (mainly talk); deejaying on WVON; getting into
radio--WOPA (Chicago); going to WVON (Chicago); WVON--"The Voice of the
Negro"; Jack L. Cooper; Richard Stamz.
Note
At beginning of the same DAT as interview with Melody Spann.
Stamz, Richard E., 1995 March
29
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0208
Shelf No(s).
DAT 168
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(22 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Stamz was born in 1906 in Memphis, Tennessee and was one of the early
Black DJs in Chicago.
Interview topics include: The importance of blues for African Americans;
moving to Chicago, Illinois at age 14; performing in minstrel shows;
segregated audiences; getting into radio--announcing Negro Baseball
League games in Chicago; Jack Cooper; working at WGES (Chicago); Al
Benson on WGES (started in 1947); working with the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Urban League;
being known as the "Crown Prince of DJs"; Sid McCoy; Vivian Carter of
Vee-Jay Records; brokerage radio; Eddie Honesty; listening to
Amos 'n' Andy.
Stansbury, Mark, 1995 May
17
Collector's No(s).
BROM0209
Shelf No(s).
DAT 169
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(5 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Stansbury is President of Shelby State Community College in Memphis,
Tennessee.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Memphis; listening to WDIA; Nat
D. Williams; role of WDIA in the Black community; Civil Rights Movement;
doing a news show; running the board for Brother Wade; doing journalism;
racism; being a Teen Town Singer; starting the WDIA Teen Town
bulletin.
Staton, Candi, 1995 October
12
Collector's No(s).
BROM0210
Shelf No(s).
DAT 170
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 14
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (14 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Staton is a gospel and secular recording artist.
Interview topics include:
Performing with the Jewel Gospel Singers; singing on the radio in
Nashville, Tennessee (WLAC, etc); Signing with Nashville Records (and
hit records); hearing her songs on the radio; The Fairfield Four
broadcast; gospel music on the radio; Gatemouth Moore; becoming a
secular singer; "Young Hearts Run Free"; DJs and Payola; Martha Jean
Steinberg; Civil Rights Movement; listening to WEDR (Birmingham).
Note
At beginning of same DAT and cassette as interview with
Boone, Rané.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 686 (tr. 1-6)
- Cassette(s): cass 1524
Steinberg, Martha Jean "The Queen" [Historical interview]
1995 June 13
Collector's No(s).
BROS0250
Shelf No(s).
DAT 204
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 22
minutes) : digital + release
form
Interviewer
Unknown
Content
Steinberg is vice president and general manager of WQBH (Detroit,
Michigan).
Interview topics include: Starting at WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee) in the
late 1950s; women in radio; WDIA; role of WDIA in Black community; Nat
D. Williams; new director at WDIA; radio programs; assumed names; Civil
Rights Movement; politicians.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 731
- Cassette(s): cass 1562
Steinberg, Martha Jean "The Queen," 1995 June 13
Collector's No(s).
BROM0211
Shelf No(s).
cass 1525
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (82
minutes) : analog + release forms and 1
transcript (pages 31-54)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Steinberg was one of the first female DJs/personalities.
Interview topics include: Living in Memphis, Tennessee; WDIA; community
fashion shows; improving the status of black women; replacing Willa
Monroe on WEIA (had a homemaker radio program); working with Nat D.
Williams; B.B. King; Memphis blues; Ewart Abner and Motown Records;
moving to Detroit, Michigan; assumed names; nicknames; challenges of
being a female in radio; Black DJs as politicians; White DJs imitating
Blacks; the economic appeal of Black consumers; Civil Rights Movement
and the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers (NATRA);
talking in code; Irene Ware; moving to Michigan and WCHB (Detroit); her
"Blue Collar Salute"; NATRA starting the Black Caucus; Maurice Hulbert;
demise of personality DJs; development of Top 40 stations; station
ownership (Black); syndicated programs; Kirk Franklin; WJLB (Detroit)
and NATRA's strike.
Note
Although labeled as pages 31-54, accompanying transcript seems to be
complete for content of cass 1525.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 729--CDREF 730
Stephens, Tex [Historical interview], undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0251
Shelf No(s).
DAT 205
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 121
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Content
Stephens was a DJ in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Blues artists in New Orleans;
being a former board member of WWOZ (New Orleans); WWOZ playing local
artists; WYLD; WMRY; Dr. Daddy-O; Importance of WWOZ in Black community;
Black music.
Cassette 2. Living in New Orleans;
working for a newspaper; segregation; racism; selling his own time to DJ
at WJBW; moving to WJBW; moving to WMRY; Vernon Winslow; Dr. Daddy-O;
New Orleans DJs and personalities; jazz and blues/Black audiences; Poppa
Stoppa; nightclubs.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 700--CDREF 702
- Cassette(s): cass 1563--cass 1564
Stephens, Tex, 1995 March
11
Collector's No(s).
BROM0212--BROM0213
Shelf No(s).
DAT 171--DAT 172
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (DAT, 113
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Stephens was a DJ in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1.Getting into radio in 1948 at
WJBW in New Orleans; blues, jazz, rock; Poppa Stoppa; moving to WMRY
(New Orleans); working for
Ebony
magazine; being a member of the first integrated sports news team on New
Orleans TV; race relations and racism in New Orleans; WYLD (New
Orleans); NATRA; getting the nickname "Tex."
Cassette 2. Vernon Winslow ("Dr.
Daddy-O"); Billie Holiday; racism; emceeing shows; Civil Rights
Movement; Poppa Stoppa; WDIA; B.B. King; Nat D. Williams.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 687--CDREF 688
- Cassette(s): cass 1526--cass 1527
Stewart, Shelley "The Playboy", 1995 September 13
Collector's No(s).
BROM0214
Shelf No(s).
DAT 173
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 50
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Stewart was a Birmingham, Alabama radio personality and co-owns WATV.
Interview topics include: Getting into radio--Doing a high school news
show for WEDR (Birmingham); assumed names--"The Playboy"; becoming a DJ;
Black radio in Birmingham; having White listeners; Bull Connor; racism;
Civil Rights Movement; classism among African Americans; station
ownership (White) of WEDR; talking in code; three confrontations with
the Ku Klux Klan (KKK); his engineer being a member of the KKK; cross
burning at one of his appearances in 1960; going to WENN (Birmingham)
after 10 years at WEDR; owning Shelley's Record Mart; co-owning
WATV.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 689
- Cassette(s): cass 1528
Summers, Florence J., 1995 June
13
Collector's No(s).
BROM0215
Shelf No(s).
DAT 174
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 59
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Summers worked at WHFC (Chicago/Chicago, Illinois) with Jack L.
Cooper.
Interview topics include: Beginning as a typist and moving up to general
manager at WHFC; Jack L. Cooper; Mahalia Jackson; community involvement;
racism; Cooper's impact on Black radio in Chicago; Wesley South; station
ownership (White).
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 690
- Cassette(s): cass 1529
Sutton, Percy E., 1995 April
10
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0216
Shelf No(s).
DAT 175
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(55 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Sutton is a lawyer and owns several radio stations.
Interview topics include: Wanting to be a DJ while growing up in
segregated San Antonio, Texas; Civil Rights Movement; being Malcolm X's
lawyer; WLIB (New York) trying to stay on the air during a riot; buying
WLIB and WBLS (New York); racism in bank lending; making WBLS a
crossover station; other stations emulating WBLS' format and programs;
satellite broadcasting; Hal Jackson; Black station owners; Black radio
and politicians; growing up in San Antonio; family life.
Note
DAT dated 1995 April 10; cassette dated 1995 November 14.
Taylor, LeBaron, 1995 July
20
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0217
Shelf No(s).
DAT 176
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 94
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Taylor is Senior Vice President of Sony Music Entertainment and Vice
President of Sony Software Corporation.
Interview topics include: Listening to radio in Detroit, Michigan; WCHB
(Detroit) being the first station built by Blacks; working at WCHB as an
engineer and DJ; Vernon Winslow; doing a jazz program on Sundays; middle
management in radio; going to WABQ in Cleveland, Ohio; formatting WJOB
(Detroit); station manager of WDAS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); vice
president of CBS, which was acquired by Sony; recording artists;
distribution; Congressional Black Caucus; crossover artists; station
ownership (White); Martha Jean Steinberg; Civil Rights Movement; Georgie
Woods; Donnie Simpson; National Association of Radio Announcers (NARA)
and the National Association of Radio and Television Announcers (NATRA);
syndicated shows; Tom Joyner.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 691--CDREF 692
- Cassette(s): cass 1531
Terkel, Studs, 1995 June
8
Collector's No(s).
BROM0218
Shelf No(s).
DAT 177
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(8 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Terkel has written a number of oral history books and worked in
radio.
Interview topics include: Working with Richard Durham; doing radio as a
part of WPA; WMAQ (Chicago, Illinois) and the
Destination Freedom program; Oscar Brown, Jr.; Norman
Corwin; acting in radio soap operas; J. Fred MacDonald; Civil Rights
Movement; Jack Cooper; Black DJs and jazz;
Beulah;
Amos 'n' Andy;
Peabody Award for
Destination Freedom
(Durham not recognized).
Thiele, Martha M., circa 1995
Physical Description
Release
forms
Interviewer
unknown
Thomas, Robert D. ("Honeyboy"), 1995 May 15
Collector's No(s).
BROM0219
Shelf No(s).
DAT 178
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(32 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Thomas is a teacher of radio broadcasting at a high school in Memphis,
Tennessee.
Interview topics include: Getting into radio--auditioning in the DJ Derby
at WDIA (Memphis); WDIA as a Black-format station; Ford Nelson; B.B.
King; Brother Wade; doing gospel and R&B programs on WDIA; community
involvement; Nat D. Williams; race relations in Memphis; racism and
segregation; effects of TV on radio; Civil Rights Movement; Fats
Waller.
Thomas, Rufus and Ruby Harding, 1995 May
15-18
Collector's No(s).
BROM0220
Shelf No(s).
DAT 179
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(15 leaves)
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Thomas has worked off and on for WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee) for over forty
years. Harding moved to Memphis in 1950 and offers her memories of
WDIA.
Interview topics include:
Thomas. Getting involved with WDIA; Nat
D. Williams; Bert Ferguson; his work at WDIA doing a blues show; not
liking White people; racism; performing--singing and dancing; B.B. King;
selling products on the radio; vulgarity on the radio;
Brown America Speaks; segregation;
relationship between WDIA and the community; Elvis Presley; Pat Boone;
station ownership (White).
Harding. WDIA (Memphis) as the "Goodwill
Station"; moving to Memphis in 1950; listening to KWEM (Memphis);
knowing Alex Haley; radio programs; Nat D. Williams; gospel shows;
community involvement and contributions to the Black community by WDIA;
B.B. King; the women on WDIA; Martha Jean Steinberg.
Note
Ruby Harding interview begins on BROM0220-1 (cass 1534) and is continued
on BROM0220-2 (cass 1535). SEE ALSO:
Withers, Ernest C. and Ruby
Harding
.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1534--cass 1535
Thompson, Cleon A., Jr., 1995 April
24
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0221
Shelf No(s).
DAT 180
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(13 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Thomas is Chancellor of Winston-Salem State University (North Carolina)
and helped.
Interview topics include: Listening to radio in South Carolina and New
York; Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speeches; Joe Louis fights; Winston
Churchill's speeches;
Amos 'n' Andy;
radio programs--Paul Robeson; Cab Calloway; development of WSHA at Shaw
University (Historical Black Colleges and Universities [HBCU]); getting
a Ford Foundation grant to start WSHA; jazz radio program from 3 pm to 6
pm; White listeners; religious broadcasts; formatting WSHA; strengths of
Black college radio.
Thompson, George G., 1995 March
11
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0222--BR95OM0223
Shelf No(s).
DAT 181--DAT 182
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (DAT, 69
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Thompson is the son of Olive Thompson, a soloist for the Wings Over
Jordan Choir.
Interview topics include: Forty members in Wings Over Jordan; traditional
Black church music in Cleveland, Ohio; Ku Klux Klan (KKK); racism in the
South;
The Negro Business Time on CBS
radio; the acceptance of the Wings Over Jordan Choir in Cleveland; The
European tour; Black businessmen raising the money for radio time for
the choir; only three people (including Olive Thompson) were paid;
format of the radio program; not being allowed to listen to the radio or
secular music; his mentor, Barbara Collier.
Note
Difficult to hear the interviewer's questions. There is a recording of a
choir (presumably Thompson's choir) singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"
and "I'm Praying for You" at the conclusion of the interview.
Side B is a duplicate of the interview on side A with audible question
from the interviewer but without the recorded choir performance.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 693
- Cassette(s): cass 1537
Turner, Ike, 1995 January
19
Collector's No(s).
BROM0224
Shelf No(s).
DAT 183
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 51
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Turner is a recording artist and was a DJ.
Interview topics include: Listening to the radio while growing up;
King Biscuit Time; Sonny Boy Williamson;
listening to WROH (Clarksdale, Mississippi); helping at WROH; getting
his own radio program; working at WDIA (Memphis, Tennessee) briefly;
competing radio stations; record industry; racism.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 709
- Cassette(s): cass 1538
Vails, Donald (Reverend), circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0225--BROM0226
Shelf No(s).
DAT 184--DAT 185
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital + 1 transcript (12 + 8
leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Reverend Vails offers his thoughts on Black gospel programs.
Interview topics include: Listening to WERD and WAOK in Atlanta, Georgia;
gospel radio in Atlanta--quartets and choirs; gospel DJs; gospel
recording artists and performers; religious broadcasts;
Wings Over Jordan; George Thompson; gospel
radio in Detroit, Michigan; Martha Jean Steinberg; Civil Rights
Movement.
Note
Unclear whether full interview or only the portion on BROM0225 is copied
on cassette number cass 1539.
Walton, Charles E., 1995 April
1
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0227
Shelf No(s).
DAT 186
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 61
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Walton is a retired Chicago, Illinois music teacher who researched Black
radio in Chicago.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Chicago; going to concerts and
stage shows; segregation in Chicago; racism; listening to radio--white
stations; Jack L. Cooper selling time to churches for religious
broadcasts; Al Benson; development of Black Radio in Chicago; comparing
Benson and Cooper; payola; brokerage radio; Lucky Cordell; getting
records played; record industry; WGES and WVON in Chicago; station
ownership (Black);
Amos 'n' Andy; changes
in radio.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 727
- Cassette(s): cass 1540
Ware, Irene, circa
1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0131
Shelf No(s).
DAT 99
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + 1 transcript (11
leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Ware began at WJOK in Mobile, Alabama, in 1961 as "Miss Mandy."
Interview topics include: Black radio in Mobile; women in radio; Martha
Jean Steinberg; gospel music programming; assumed names; station
ownership (White); religious broadcasts (church services, inspirational
messages, etc.); Dizzy Lizzy, Marry Mason; Martin Luther King, Jr.;
Jesse Jackson; community involvement.
Note
DAT and cassette copy also contain an interview with
Jack Gibson.
Watkins, Mel, 1995 April
10
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0228
Shelf No(s).
DAT 187
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(17 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Watkins is the author of
On the Real Side,
a history of Black humor.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Ohio; listening to radio shows;
Amos 'n' Andy; Gosden and Correll;
imitating Blacks;
Sam 'n' Henry;
Minstrelsy; stereotypes of Blacks; characters in
Amos 'n' Andy; female characters;
Beulah;
The Jack Benny Show;
Black radio shows and Black humor; Black musicians on radio shows
(jazz).
Webb, Kenneth J., 1995 May
9
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0229
Shelf No(s).
DAT 188
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(20 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Webb has worked in radio and television. Interview took place at WRKS-FM
(New York).
Interview topics include: Deejaying a WBLS morning show; teaching at
Brooklyn College; listening to radio growing up in New York; helping at
a radio station while growing up; being a DJ at WTAL (Tallahassee,
Florida); WBAB (New York); Eddie O'Jay; Frankie Crocker hiring him to
work at WBLS; station ownership (White and Black); Hal Jackson; family
life; community involvement; personality radio; talking to his audience;
future of Black radio.
Williams, Doug (aka Mark Carr), 1995 September 20
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0230
Shelf No(s).
DAT 189
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 42
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Williams is operations and program director of the TBT Radio Network.
Interview topics include: TBT Radio Network; doing programming from an
urban perspective; satellite delivery of programs; programs on TBT; Lee
Bailey and
Radioscope; Tom Joyner;
syndicated programs; benefits of network radio; competing with White
networks to service urban stations; future of African American
syndication.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 694
- Cassette(s): cass 1543
Williams, Nat D. [Historical interview], undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0252--BROS0253
Shelf No(s).
DAT 206--DAT 207
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (DAT, 45
minutes) : digital + (no release forms or
transcripts)
Interviewer
unknown
Content
Williams was one of the first Black DJs in Memphis, Tennessee.
Interview topics include: Growing up in Memphis; sneaking down to Beale
Street; education; becoming a teacher; getting into radio; WDIA in
Memphis; Bert Ferguson; on-air style; impact on the Black community;
influence on other Black DJs; Black performers/blues artists; racism;
Black history in public schools.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 728
- Cassette(s): cass 1565
Williams-Bishop, Louise, 1995
September 15
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0234
Shelf No(s).
DAT 190
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 47
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
William-Bishop is a gospel DJ at WDAS (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and
has been in radio for 36 years.
Interview topics include: training in communications; starting at WHAT
(Philadelphia) in 1958; moving to WDAS in 1961; radio ministry; doing
gospel programs on WDAS-AM; doing a morning show for WDAS-FM (one of the
first women with a AM show); women in radio; Martha Jean Steinberg,
Portia Perry; sexism; having a number one Sunday show; gospel music
shows; Jocko Henderson; Civil Rights Movement; assumed names--"Tiger
Rose" for an evening show.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 695
- Cassette(s): cass 1547
Winslow, Vernon (aka Dr. Daddy-O), circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0235--BROM0236;
BROS0254 (duplicate?)
Shelf No(s).
DAT 191--DAT 192; DAT 208
(duplicate?)
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes (DAT, 127
minutes) : digital
Interviewer
Barlow, William, 1943-
Content
Winslow was Dr. Daddy-O and wrote scripts for "Poppa Stoppa" at WJMR (New
Orleans, Louisiana).
Interview topics include:
Cassette 1. Working in Sales at the
Jackson Brewing Co.; WJMR--writing the
Poppa
Stoppa Show
; hip talk; writing scripts so White DJs could
appeal to Blacks; clubs--Dew Drop, Caledonia; musicians; recording
artists; gospel music; gospel music shows; Caribbean culture; New
Orleans musicians.
Cassette 2. Working at WYLD and WJMR in
New Orleans; Dr. Daddy-O; writing scripts for Poppa Stoppa; Black music
and race records; racism; training White announcers (four or five);
becoming popular in the community; nightclubs, social life; record
companies; record industry.
Note
Cassette copy number cass 1566 is a duplicate of cass 1548. Unclear if
original DAT 208 is also a duplicate of DAT 191 since DAT 208 should be
a historical interview according to Smithsonian database.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 725--CDREF 726
- cass 1548--cass 1549; cass 1566 (duplicate)
Winston, James L., 1995 May
1
Collector's No(s).
BR95OM0237
Shelf No(s).
DAT 193
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital + release forms and 1 transcript
(12 leaves)
Interviewer
Williams, Sonja D.
Content
Winston is the executive director and general counsel of the National
Association of Black-Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) in Washington, DC.
Interview topics include: NABOB-trade association for Black owners of TV,
radio, and cable; history of NABOB; Affirmative Action rollbacks;
station ownership (Black); legislation affecting Black owners; FCC;
growth in Black-owned stations; duopolies.
Withers, Ernest C. and Ruby Harding, circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROM0238
Shelf No(s).
cass 1551
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Withers owns a photography store and is a photographer in Memphis,
Tennessee.
Interview topics include:
Withers. Being a police officer in
Memphis; Nat D. Williams and WDIA; Bert Ferguson; WDIA and the Black
community; race relations and racism;
Wings Over
Jordan
.
Harding. Living in Tennessee and
listening to WDIA; Nat D. Williams; Willa Moore; community involvement;
B.B. King; Bert Ferguson; women in radio; Martha Jean Steinberg.
Note
SEE ALSO:
Thomas, Rufus
and Ruby Harding. See Harding file for additional
releases
.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Wolfman Jack, 1995 January
7
Collector's No(s).
BROM0147
Shelf No(s).
cass 1458
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (29
minutes) : analog + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Wolfman Jack is a radio personality.
Interview topics include: Influences of soul and jazz DJs while growing
up in New York; Jocko Henderson; Alan Freed; style of Black DJs; first
radio job in Newport News, Virginia, playing R&B; talking Black
equals sounding hip; Lord Buckley (White English DJ) as an example of
talking hip; working in Texas, Mexico, and Shreveport, Louisiana;
believes Black DJ style is based on Lord Buckley and not "Southern Black
folk who could barely talk."
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 732
Wood, Roy N., 1995 September
11
Collector's No(s).
BROM0239
Shelf No(s).
DAT 194
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 92
minutes) : digital + release
forms
Interviewer
Gillespie, Lex
Content
Wood is the news director emeritus of WENN (Birmingham, Alabama).
Interview topics include: Living in Atlanta, Georgia and Chicago,
Illinois; listening to the radio, racism in songs; Jack Cooper buying
radio time and playing music;
Amos 'n'
Andy
; working with Cooper; getting into radio doing news at
WEDC (Chicago); studying journalism at Columbia; Oscar Brown and
editorials; working at KHEZ (St. Louis); working at foreign language
stations in Chicago; Sid McCoy; different pay rates for Blacks compared
to Whites; Civil Rights Movement--covering stories in the South for WVON
(Chicago); WERD (Atlanta) and Jack Gibson; Al Benson.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 696--CDREF 697
- Cassette(s): cass 1552
Woods, Georgie, 1995 September
15
Collector's No(s).
BROM0240
Shelf No(s).
DAT 195
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 77
minutes) : digital + release forms and 1
transcript (24 leaves)
Interviewer
Gales-Webb, Jacquie
Content
Woods is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania radio personality.
Interview topics include: Al Benson, Jack Cooper, Dr. Jive, Jack Holmes,
Hal Jackson on the radio; Hal Jackson's syndicated show; minstrels on
the radio--
Amos 'n' Andy; development of
Black DJs and Black music; racism; listening to Joe Louis fights on the
radio; getting into radio--not being hired by White stations or Al
Benson; first job at WWRL (New York); working at WHAT and WDAS in
Philadelphia; Jocko Henderson; Civil Rights Movement; Dell Shields; Ed
Bradley; switching from AM to FM; politics in Philadelphia; power and
future of Black radio.
Note
DAT lists interviewer as Sonja D. Williams.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Cassette(s): cass 1553
Series:
5. Historical Airchecks, circa 1920s-1990s
Physical Description
131 audiocassettes :
analog + 65 audiocassettes (DAT : digital)
Processing Note
All items in the Historical Aircheck Series are copies and the provenance and
rights issues are unclear; dates and date ranges for the content of most
items have been deduced based on the known air dates of radio programs, the
dates of mentioned events, or the dates that hosting radio personalities
worked at the broadcasting radio station.
Note
Additional information on the content of individual cassettes in this series
is available. Contact AAAMC for further details.
WRIT Station Identification by Host Bob "Boomer" Branson ;
undated
Station Identifications for WOPA by Big Bill Hill, WYNE, and KAAY,
undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0286
Shelf No(s).
DAT 231
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WRIT (Radio station : Milwaukee, Wis.)
WOPA (Radio station : Oak Park, Ill.)
WYNE (Radio station : Appleton, Wis.)
KAAY (Radio station : Little Rock, Ark.)
Airchecks from Various Black Radio Stations, 1960s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0287
Shelf No(s).
cass 1568
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Provenance unknown.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
WWRL 1600 NYC Airchecks, circa 1962
Collector's No(s).
BROS0288
Shelf No(s).
DAT 232
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WWRL (Radio station : New York City, N.Y.)
Note
Provenance unknown; cassette labeled "ASCAP transfers."
Alice Balance Interview, undated ; Ann Braden Interview,
circa 1982 or
1983
Collector's No(s).
BROS0289
Shelf No(s).
DAT 233
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
Ballance is a former community organizer and North Carolina Farmer.
Branden is a former cochair of the Southern Organizing Committee for
Economic and Social Justice. Interview with Branden is incomplete.
Milton Battiste Interview, undated ; Ernie K-Doe Interview,
undated ;
Phillip and Keith Frazier (of the Rebirth Brass Band) Interview,
undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0290
Shelf No(s).
DAT 234
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 67
minutes) : digital
Content
Interviews with and about New Orleans musicians, including brass band
musicians and music.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 703
- Cassette(s): cass 1571
[
The Music Man Show?] with Al
Bell, 1965 January
1
Collector's No(s).
BROS0291
Shelf No(s).
DAT 235
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 24
minutes) : digital
Station(s)
WUST (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Compact disc(s): CDREF 704
- Cassette(s): cass 1572
Bobby Bennett and others airchecks, circa 1970s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0292
Shelf No(s).
DAT 236
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WOL (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Bobby Bennett and Bill Haywood, DJs for WOL, 1970s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0293
Shelf No(s).
DAT 237
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WOL (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Bennett, Bobby [aircheck?], 1970s?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0294
Shelf No(s).
DAT 238
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
The Johnny Jive Show with
Cleveland R. Ramooney Sitting In, circa 1963
Collector's No(s).
BROS0295
Shelf No(s).
DAT 239
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WJLD (Radio station : Birmingham, Ala.)
Black Radio Materials, #1 of 2, circa 1959-1967 ; undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0296
Collector's No(s).
RnS000S0139
Shelf No(s).
DAT 240
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 95
minutes) : digital
Station(s)
WHAT (Radio station : Philadelphia, Pa.)
WOV (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Content
Martin Luther King, Jr. Addressing NARA Convention with "Transforming a
Neighborhood into a Brotherhood," 1967 August 11 -- "Breakfast in Space"
with Commander Hot Rod (aka, Maurice Hulbert) on WHAT -- The Rocket Ship
Show [with Douglas "Jocko" Henderson?] on WOV -- L+M Show -- Googa
Mooga.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Cassette(s): cass 1575--cass 1576
Black Radio Materials, #2 of 2, circa 1959-1963
Collector's No(s).
BROS0296
Shelf No(s).
DAT 241
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 95
minutes) : digital
Station(s)
WHAT (Radio station : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Content
Hot Rod Bartel Shows. L+M Show, Great Googa Mooga -- Cupid's Corner --
Bartel Show -- Bartel Show, "Good Googa Mooga" -- Sunday Bandstand
Supper in Space with Hot Rod on WHAT.
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Cassette(s): cass 1576--cass 1577
Black Radio Commercials. "Things Go Better with Coke" Campaign
with Various Black Artists, circa 1963
Collector's No(s).
BROS0298
Shelf No(s).
DAT 242
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Content
"Things Go Better with Coke" radio commercials featuring Ray Charles,
Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Fontella Bass, etc.
Jack and Trudy Cooper, "Tips and Tunes," circa 1955 to
1961
Collector's No(s).
BROS0299
Shelf No(s).
DAT 243
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
Jack & Trudy show airchecks from unidentified station.
Lucky Cordell, DJ for WGES (Chicago), circa 1962 ; 1960s
Radio Station Jingles for WGRY, WRIT, KFWB, WVON, WYNR, 1960s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0300
Shelf No(s).
DAT 244
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WGES (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WGRY (Radio station : Grayling, Mich.)
WRIT (Radio station : Milwaukee, Wis.)
KFWB (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
WBON (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WYNR (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WPOP (Radio station : Hartford, Conn.)
Dr. Daddy-O (aka, Vernon Winslow) Interview, undated ;
Wavelength with Dr. Daddy-O, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0301
Shelf No(s).
DAT 245
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Daylie, Daddy-O, 1985 August 18
Collector's No(s).
BROS0302
Shelf No(s).
DAT 246
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WJPC (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Live from the Cotton Club Show,
Featuring Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker, circa
1930s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0303
Shelf No(s).
cass 1583
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Ellis, Patrick, DJ at WHUR, End of Show circa
1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0304
Shelf No(s).
DAT 247
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
First Church of Deliverance (Chicago), Live Broadcast of Church
Services, 1995
March 19 and 26
Collector's No(s).
BROS0305
Shelf No(s).
DAT 248
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WYCA (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WSTL (Radio station : St. Louis, Mo.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1585--cass 1586
FM Tuning Radio Station, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0306
Collector's No(s).
RnS00RE0162
Shelf No(s).
DAT 249
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
The Split Image, Interview with
Jack Gibson (aka Jack the Rapper), circa 1993
Collector's No(s).
BROS0307
Shelf No(s).
DAT 250
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHMM
Henderson, Douglas W. "Jocko" Interview, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0308
Shelf No(s).
DAT 251
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHMM?
The Jocko Show with Douglas W.
"Jocko" Henderson, 1964 Spring ;
The Music Man
Show
with Al Bell, 1964 Spring
Collector's No(s).
BROS0309
Shelf No(s).
cass 1589
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WUSG (Radio station : Bethesda, Md.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Stereo in Black [Perspective Too?]
with Vy Higginsen, Interview with Sonny Blackwell and Bob Lore of
IMPACT, 1972
Collector's No(s).
BROS0310--BROS0311
Shelf No(s).
DAT 252--DAT 253
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WBLS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Note
Cassette copy of music program continued on cass 1591.
Happy Valentine's Day Introduction [Music Program] with Vy
Higginsen, 1974 February
14
Collector's No(s).
BROS0312
Shelf No(s).
DAT 254
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WBLS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Note
Cassette copy of music program continued from cass 1590.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1590?--cass 1591
Unidentified WBLS Programs with Vy Higginsen, circa 1973 February 5
Collector's No(s).
BROS0313
Shelf No(s).
DAT 255
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WBLS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Content
Contains news, long station identification, and short station
identification by Higginsen.
Vy Higginsen aircheck on WWRL, 1980s?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0314
Shelf No(s).
DAT 256
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WWRL (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Sunday Classics Show with Hal
Jackson (aka Harold B. Jackson), 1995
April 9
Collector's No(s).
BROS0315--BROS0316
Shelf No(s).
DAT 257--DAT 258
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WBLS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1593--cass 1594
Hal Jackson Show with Hal Jackson
(aka, Harold B. Jackson), circa 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROS0317
Shelf No(s).
DAT 259
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
The E. Rodney Jones Show,
1966 September 8 ; WBEE
(Chicago), Airchecks, 1966 September
8
Collector's No(s).
BROS0318
Shelf No(s).
cass 1596
Physical Description
1
audiocassette
Station(s)
WVON (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WBEE (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
The Tom Joyner [morning?] Show, at
the Million Man March, 1995 October
16
Collector's No(s).
BROS0319
Shelf No(s).
DAT 260
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
The Tom Joyner Morning Show, Day
after Million Man March, 1995 October
17
Collector's No(s).
BROS0320
Shelf No(s).
DAT 261
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
The Jim Kelsey Show, 1970 October and 1968
December
Collector's No(s).
BROS0321
Shelf No(s).
DAT 262
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WOL (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmelling Boxing Match at Yankee Stadium,
1936 June 19 ; Joe Louis
vs. James J. Braddock, 1938 ; Joe
Louis vs. Max Schmelling Rematch at Yankee Stadium, 1938 June
22
Collector's No(s).
BROS0322
Shelf No(s).
DAT 263
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
Unclear if this is actual coverage of the matches or a retrospective
about sportscaster Clem McCarthy. DAT also labeled as "Kennedy Center
Honors, 11/15/94 *SFX"
KJLH Listeners Call in to Discuss the Los Angeles Riots,
circa 1992 April
29
Collector's No(s).
BROS0323
Shelf No(s).
cass 1601
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Light Up and Listen, circa 1940s ;
The Magic Key Show, circa
1940s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0324
Shelf No(s).
DAT 264
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1602--cass 1603
Insight, Interview with Melvin
Lindsey about "Quiet Storm", 1984 March
15
Collector's No(s).
BROS0325
Shelf No(s).
DAT 265
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Note
Cassette copy 1604 is a duplicate of cass 1605. Unclear how this
corresponds with the content of the original DATs.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1604; cass 1605 (duplicate)
Kojo/Melvin [Lindsey] last shows, undated ; Melvin's Celebration,
1992 March 31
Collector's No(s).
BROS0326
Shelf No(s).
DAT 266
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT)
: digital
Note
Cassette copy 1604 is a duplicate of cass 1605. Unclear how this
corresponds with the content of the original DATs.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1605; cass 1605 (duplicate)
Elder Michaux Program with Elder
Lightfoot Solomon Michaux and His Famous Happy Am I Choir, Recorded at
the Golden Gate Auditorium, 1942 November
29
Collector's No(s).
BROS0327
Shelf No(s).
DAT 267
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
Label on DAT reads "LWO 5833 Group XXIV R6," which may be the catalog
number for the source recording.
Interviews by Wesley South of WVON. Interview with Huey Newton,
1971 February 19 ;
Interview with Mayor Smitherman of Selma, Alabama, circa 1971 ;
Interview with Elijah Muhammad, circa
1971
Collector's No(s).
BROS0328
Shelf No(s).
cass 1607
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Poppa Stoppa Show, Featuring Music
by and Interviews with Paul Revere & the Raiders[?], 1960s December
25
Collector's No(s).
BROS0329
Shelf No(s).
DAT 268
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (DAT, 46
minutes) : digital
Station(s)
WNNR (Radio station : New Orleans : La.)
Reference Copies
- Access file(s): 16 bit/44.1 kHz Broadcast Wave File
(BWF)
- Cassette(s): cass 1608
Poppa Stoppa Show, fr. Gene Mark,
1985
Collector's No(s).
BROS0330
Shelf No(s).
DAT 269
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WYAT (Radio station : New Orleans, La.)
"Quiet Storm" with Manzy Pollen, Tribute Show to Honor the Memory
of Melvin Lindsey, circa
1992 March 26
Collector's No(s).
BROS0331; BROS0332
(duplicate)
Shelf No(s).
DAT 270; DAT 270, c. 2
(duplicate)
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Pursuit of Happiness (CBS Show),
Featuring Guests Paul Robeson, Robert Benchley, Gertrude Neeson, Karl
van Doren, Carl Karmer, and MC Burgess Meredith, 1937 November 5
Collector's No(s).
BROS0333
Shelf No(s).
DAT 271
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
CBS
Note
Label reads "LWO 33342," which may be the catalog number for the source
recording.
"Hour of Blessings" with Reverend Ike (aka, Frederick J.
Eikerenkoetter II), circa
1970s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0334
Shelf No(s).
DAT 272
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Speech, 1944 November 22
Collector's No(s).
BROS0335
Shelf No(s).
DAT 273
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Content
Most likely contains Roosevelt's State of the Union Address in which he
puts forward a "Second Bill of Rights."
Sam 'n' Henry at the Dentist,
1926 April
20
Collector's No(s).
BROS0336
Shelf No(s).
DAT 274
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
A copy of Victor 20032 (Matrix number 35329-2).
Note
Sam 'n' Henry was a precursor to
Amos 'n' Andy.
"Salute to Al Benson," 1970s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0337
Shelf No(s).
DAT 275
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
DAT and cassette are mislabeled as "Salute to Al Roberts."
"Tribute to Al Benson," 1974
Collector's No(s).
BROS0338
Shelf No(s).
DAT 276
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Note
Continued on BROS0339 (cass 1617).
Note
Additional information on label: "Seraton #1, #2, #3 - transfer from
1/4".
Benson Tribute Continued, 1974
;
Swing and Sway with Al Benson,
1950s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0339
Shelf No(s).
cass 1617
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WGES (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Note
"Tribute to Al Benson" continued from BROS0338 (cass 1616).
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Donnie Simpson Show Airckeck with Guest Isaac Hayes on WPGC 95.5,
1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0340
Shelf No(s).
DAT 277
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WPGC (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Hot Line Call-in Show with Host
Wesley South and Guest Dick Gregory, 1964
; [Music Program] with Host Mickey G, 1968
Collector's No(s).
BROS0341
Shelf No(s).
cass 1619
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WVON (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WGEE (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Hot Line Call-in Show with Host
Wesley South and Guest Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966 ;
Hot Line Call-in Show with Host Wesley South
and Guest Medgar Evers, 1963
June
Collector's No(s).
BROS0342
Shelf No(s).
DAT 278
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WVON (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Songs of the South Featuring the
Golden Gate Quartet, 1945
February
Collector's No(s).
BROS0343
Shelf No(s).
cass 1621
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Roy Wood/KKK Story #2 of 2, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0343-2
Shelf No(s).
cass 2673
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Ed Sullivan Show Featuring Dr.
Jive (Tommy Smalls) Who Introduces Bo Didley, 1955 November 20
Collector's No(s).
BROS0344
Shelf No(s).
DAT 279
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Themes of the Teen Town Singers, 1950s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0345
Shelf No(s).
DAT 280
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
Interview with Rufus Thomas about WDIA (Memphis, TN), circa 1993 ;
Interview with Pinetop Perkins, circa 1989 ; Interview about[?]
Gatemouth Brown, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0346
Shelf No(s).
cass 1624
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
From Black with John Hutchins,
circa
1974
Collector's No(s).
BROS0347
Shelf No(s).
DAT 281
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WAFR (Radio station : Durham, N.C.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1625--cass 1626
Children's Radio Workshop,
1975
Collector's No(s).
BROS0348-2
Shelf No(s).
cass 1627
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WAFR (Radio station : Durham, N.C.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
WDIA Aircheck with Mostly Music and Unidentified Couple
Discussing WDIA History, circa 1940s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0349--BROS0350-2
Shelf No(s).
cass 1628
Physical Description
2
audiocassettes : analog
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Interview with Daughter of WDIA deejay; interview wqith Martha
Jean?; Elvis PResley and WDIA, 1960s?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0350
Shelf No(s).
DAT 282
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
Note
Tape just says "More WDIA" and is lumped in with BROS0349 on
cassette.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1628?--cass 1629
Good Love with Billy Ray, Programs
1 and 11, 1980s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0351--BROS0352
(dup.?)
Shelf No(s).
DAT 283--DAT 284
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Note
Cassette copy of BROS0352 (cass 1631) is at least a partial duplicate of
cassette copy BROS0351 (cass 1630). Unclear if same is true of DATs.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1630; cass 1631 (duplicate?)
"Quiet Storm" with Melvin Lindsey, the Music of Marvin Gaye to
Commemorate His Passing, circa 1984
Collector's No(s).
BROS0353--BROS0354
Shelf No(s).
DAT 285--DAT 286
Physical Description
2 audiocassettes
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1632--cass 1633
WHUR Promos, 360° Black Experience, 1972
Collector's No(s).
BROS0355
Shelf No(s).
DAT 287
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
WHUR Video Interviews with Dr. Nichols, Melvin Lindsey, Jerry
Phillips[?] from "The Morning Sound" Show, and Others, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0356
Shelf No(s).
DAT 288
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WHUR (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Note
Label reads "WHUR transfers from Betacam."
WDIA Interviews with Nat D. Williams, undated ; King
Biscuit Speaks about WDIA, undated ; KFFA Interviews with Sammy Henderson about
Sonny Boy and Robert Junior Lockwood, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0357
Shelf No(s).
cass 1636
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
KFFA (Radio : Helena, Ark.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Hal Jackson on Saturday Afternoon, Jingles, Etc., 1973
Collector's No(s).
BROS0358
Shelf No(s).
cass 1637
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
One Man's Opinion with Roy Wood,
Presented by the National Black Network, 1975 November 5 ;
Morning
Report
with Roy Wood, Presented by the Sunbelt's Black
Broadcasting System, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0359
Shelf No(s).
DAT 289
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Roy Wood Profile, 1970s?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0360
Shelf No(s).
DAT 290
Physical Description
1 audio cassette (DAT)
: digital
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Advertisements by Richard Stamz[?] ("The World's Greatest
Salesman"), 1950s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0361
Shelf No(s).
DAT 291
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WGES (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WVON Airchecks and Jingles by Butterball, Herb Kemp, Lucky
Cordell, 1973 ; Airchecks and jingles
from various stations, 1960s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0362
Shelf No(s).
DAT 292
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WSJM (Radio station : Benton Harbor, Mich.)
JHJ[?]
WGRT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WJJD (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WTFM (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WLTH (Radio station : Gary, Ind.)
KAAY (Radio station : Little Rock, Ark.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1640--cass 1641
John Graham School Storytellers Contest on WVSP Storeytellers
(Children's Program), undated ; United Nations, Tape #1, 1979 August 10 ; United Nations, Tape
#3, Dannie Richmond, 1979 May
9
Collector's No(s).
BROS0363
Shelf No(s).
DAT 293
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WVSP (Radio station : Warrenton, N.C.)
Content
Stories are told, and some written by, children. Includes children's
interviews, guitar solo.
WVSP-FM, NC Arts Council #10 Interview with James "Guitar Slim"
Stevens, undated ; John Coletrane Promo, WVSP, undated ; Interview
with Harold Vick, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0364
Shelf No(s).
DAT 294
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WVSP (Radio station : Warrenton, N.C.)
Guitar Slim Plays and Sings, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0365
Shelf No(s).
DAT 295
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
(DAT) : digital
Station(s)
WVSP (Radio station : Warrenton, N.C.)
The Amos 'n' Andy Story : Recordings and
Complete Amos 'n' Andy Shows from 1929 to 1954
/ written by
Joe Connolly and Bob Mozier, with Ed Murrow, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby,
p1974
Collector's No(s).
BROS0366--BROS0367
Publisher's No(s).
2CMR-2526
Shelf No(s).
cass 1645--cass 1646
Physical Description
2
audiocassettes : analog
Publisher
Radiola Records
Content
Side A (cass 1646). Exactly as heard on the CBS radio network 2/14/53.
The 25th Anniversary program of the Amos 'n' Andy Show, sponsored by
Rexall Drugstores, with Edward R. Murrow, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny,
William Paley and David Sarnoff; Bill Hay announcing.
Side B (cass 1646). I'se Regusted (recorded 4/4/30) ; Opening theme and
commercials of "Amos 'n' Andy" as heard throughout most of the
depression (aired 3/24/32) / Bill Hay announcing ; Amos 'n' Andy program
#360 (5/29/29) ; Amos 'n' Andy program #377 (6/8/29) ; Amos 'n' Andy
program #378 (6/9/29).
Side C (cass 1647). The Amos 'n' Andy Show on CBS, sponsored by Rinso and
Lifebouy Soap, first show of the season (aired 10/10/48).
Side D (cass 1647). Amos 'n' Andy "Presidential Election" (recorded
7/27/28) ; "The Amos 'n' Andy Music Hall" on CBS, includes a special
surprise mystery guest (9/23/54).
Note
Includes tribute to Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1645, c. 2--cass 1646, c. 2
Amos 'n' Andy, 1949 May 8 and 1950 January 1
Collector's No(s).
BROS0368
Publisher's No(s).
#13457; #42680
Shelf No(s).
cass 1647
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Content
Episode(s) in which Kingfish has an upset stomach and Andy tries to hide
from his wife while his wife and the police search for him.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1647, c. 2
Amos 'n' Andy, 1950 January 8 and 1944 November 10
Collector's No(s).
BROS0369
Publisher's No(s).
#42682; #47768
Shelf No(s).
cass 1648
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Content
Episode in which Andy and his wife Abigail go to court.
Beulah Show / starring Hattie
MacDaniels, 1950 June 20 ;
Beulah Show / starring Marlin Hurt,
1945 July 16
Collector's No(s).
BROS0370
Publisher's No(s).
#5738; #1555
Shelf No(s).
cass 1649
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Content
Episode(s) in which the mother of Beulah's boyfriend Bill comes to town
and Beulah finds a lost wedding ring.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1649, c. 2
Beulah, starring Bob Corley,
1946 August 28 ;
The Jell-O Program, starring Jack Benny,
1937
June
Collector's No(s).
BROS0371
Publisher's No(s).
#50678; #47658
Shelf No(s).
cass 1650
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Content
Beulah episode in which Beulah has a crush
on Luscious and makes her boyfriend Bill jealous;
Jello Show episode in which Jack loses a wristwatch.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1650, c. 2
Jack Benny Show, 1950 February 12 ;
Jubilee, 1942
November 4
Collector's No(s).
BROS0372
Publisher's No(s).
#51260; #2858
Shelf No(s).
cass 1652
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Note
Cassette copy was mislabeled with information for cass 1651.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1951, c. 2
Destination Freedom, "Harriet's
Children," 1949 June 26 ;
Destination Freedom, "Little David,"
featuring J. Lewis, 1948 October
10
Collector's No(s).
BROS0373
Publisher's No(s).
#48766; #48757
Shelf No(s).
cass 1651
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Note
Cassette copy was mislabeled with information for cass 1952.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1652, c. 2
Destination Freedom, "The Heart of
George Cotton," 1948 August 8 ;
Destination Freedom, "Two Men on a
Raft," 1944
Collector's No(s).
BROS0374
Publisher's No(s).
#45536; #56321
Shelf No(s).
cass 1653
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Note
Starring Raymond Massy and Canada Lee, presented by WMCA and USO.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1653, c. 2
Freedom's People, "Contribution to
Music," with guests Paul Robeson and W.C. Handy, Etc. , 19442 ;
Destination
Freedom
, "Segregation, Inc.," 1949 August 28
Collector's No(s).
BROS0375
Publisher's No(s).
#56376; #48762
Shelf No(s).
cass 1654
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1654, c. 2
Freedom's People, "Contribution to
Theater," 1942
Collector's No(s).
BROS0376
Publisher's No(s).
#56107
Shelf No(s).
cass 1655
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1655, c. 2
The Free Company, "A Start in
Life" / by Paul Green, starring Canada Lee, 1941 April 13 ;
Dorie Got a Medal / by Norman Corwin,
starring Josh White and Canada Lee, 1944
April 25
Collector's No(s).
BROS0377
Publisher's No(s).
#10659; #4885
Shelf No(s).
cass 1656
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1656, c. 2
Tribute to Canada Lee, Guests Include Paul Robeson, Richard
Wright, Hattie MacDaniel, Duke Ellington, Etc., 1941 June 9 ; CBS, Open Letter on
Racial Hatred, 1943 July
24
Collector's No(s).
BROS0378
Publisher's No(s).
#1474; #5030
Shelf No(s).
cass 1657
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Yesteryear
(Organization)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1657, c. 2
Amos 'n' Andy. "At the Dairy,"
1929 November 22 ; "Real
Estate Broker (aka House without a Lot)," 1948 October 17
Collector's No(s).
BROS0379
Shelf No(s).
cass 1658
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
New World A-Comin' Radio Program /
with Canada Lee, 1940s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0380
Shelf No(s).
cass 1659
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Content
Program 1. Premier program (3/5/54) (partial) -- Program 2. Negro Fascism
and Democracy (3/12/54) -- Program 3. The Negro in Early America
(3/19/54) (partial) -- Program 4. The Negro in Entertainment
(3/26/54).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1659, c. 2
New World A-Comin' Radio Program,
1944 ; KJLH Aircheck, 1995 October
11
Collector's No(s).
BROS0381
Shelf No(s).
cass 1660
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
New World A-Comin'. Program 8. "Story Behind the Headlines" (4/23/1944)
(partial copy) / featuring Canada Lee and Langston Hughes ; Program 7.
"The Story of Negro Humor" (4/16/1944) / featuring Canada Lee and Josh
White -- KJLH-FM, 7-7:40 pm (10/11/1995).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1660, c. 2
New World A-Comin' Radio Series.
Program 25. "The American Negro Theater" / featuring Ruby Dee, Frederick
O'Neal, HIlda Simms, Alvin Childress, 1944
December 10 ;
All American News,
1961
Collector's No(s).
BROS0382
Shelf No(s).
cass 1661
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1661, c. 2
New World A-Comin' Radio Series.
Program 16. "The Mammy Legend" / featuring Canada Lee, Georgette Harvey,
Erick Roberts, 1940s
;
I Remember When / hosted by Etta Motton
with Guests Harry Belafonte and Kitty White, 1956 May 22 and 1956 June 21
Collector's No(s).
BROS0383
Shelf No(s).
cass 1662
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMAQ (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1662, c. 2
New World A-Comin' Radio Series.
Program 17. "The Story of Negro Music," 1944 June 25 ;
Sounds of the
City
Radio Soap Opera, 1974
July 12 and 1974 July
30 ; Interviews with Jazz Artists Kenny Barron, Louie
Belson, Michael Weiss, and Jimmy Heath [by Wynton Marsalis?], undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0384
Shelf No(s).
cass 1663
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1663, c. 2
Destination Freedom, "Truth Goes
to Washington [Story of Sojourner Truth]," 1948 August 15 ; "2nd Ballad for America" (open mic) /
Paul Robeson, Presented by
The Pursuit of
Happiness
?, 1940s ;
The Pursuit of
Happiness
, 1940 January
31 ;
Shell Chateau,
Wallace Beery introduces Paul Robeson, 1935 ;
Amos 'n' Andy,
1945 February 2
Collector's No(s).
BROS0385
Shelf No(s).
cass 1664
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1664, c. 2
Freedom's People. Program 5. "The
Story of the Negro Worker" / featuring A. Philip Randolp and the
Southernaires, circa
1942 ; The Souternairs, NBC (It's Church Time) Sweet Hour
of Prayer, 1938 December
7
Collector's No(s).
BROS0386
Shelf No(s).
cass 1665
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1665, c. 2
The Global Black Experience Radio Magazine
(GBE)
/ with Imhotep Gary Byrd, 1995 December 5
Collector's No(s).
BROS0387
Shelf No(s).
cass 1666
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1666, c. 2
Off the Air - Buffalo, N.Y. Vol. 1, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0388
Shelf No(s).
cass 1667
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
Various station IDs and jingles, including KDKA Pittsburgh ; Hound Dog
Edit ; Jeff Kay Arrives at KB ; Tom Shannon Explains Wild Weekend ; 4
Seasons Sing Joey Reynolds' Theme ; Bit - WBNY-AM, Last Broadcast ; Guy
King, 1955, Atop a Billboard & More
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1667, c. 2
Off the Air - Buffalo, N.Y. Vol. 2, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0389
Shelf No(s).
cass 1668
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
Dick Barlety ; Dr. Demento ; Call Letter Changes ; Hound Dog Theme Song ;
Rufus Coyotee ; Les Nesman and The News ; Chris Whittingham &
more.
Note
Cassette copy is blank.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Off the Air - Buffalo, N.Y. Vol. 3, undated
Collector's No(s).
[unnumbered]
Shelf No(s).
cass 2674
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Hello's & Goodbye's from Jeff Kaye, John Otto, Larry
Anderson, Tom Shannon, Mark Edwards, Jay Nelson & more ;
WNIA Theme, Midnight Mood ; TV2 Interview with Bob Wells ; 1961
Traffic Copter Report, WEBR ; WKBW Jocks, circa 1963 &
more.
Off the Air - Buffalo, N.Y. Vol. 4, undated
Collector's No(s).
[unnumbered]
Shelf No(s).
cass 2675
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
WPHD to WGKT ; Sandy Beach & Audition Tapes ; WGR-AM Promos from 1961
; Neaverth & Reynolds, Change Over, 1964 ; WYSL from Rocker Days ;
The Ballad of Buffalo ; North East Power Failure ; Jim Taylor of WKBW
& More.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
WUFO Station Jingles and Commercials Featuring Eddie O'Jay,
1962
Collector's No(s).
BROS0390
Shelf No(s).
cass 1669
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WUFO (Radio station : Buffalo, N.Y.)
Content
Station jingles and commercials featuring Eddie O'Jay on WUFO-AM
(Buffalo, NY).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1669, c. 2
The Moondog Show with Host Alan
Freed, 1955
Collector's No(s).
BROS0391
Shelf No(s).
cass 1670
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WJW (Radio station : Cleveland, Ohio)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Legends of R&B. Radio Demo ;
Sales Demo, 1994
Collector's No(s).
BROS0392
Shelf No(s).
cass 1671
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Bailey Broadcasting Services
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1671, c. 2
Radioscope: The Entertainment Magazine of
the Air
. Sample Program ; Extended Demo and Sample Program,
1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0393
Shelf No(s).
cass 2676
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Bailey Broadcasting Services
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Hip Hop Countdown and Report.
Sample Program ; Extended Demo and Sample Program, 1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0394
Shelf No(s).
cass 2677
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Bailey Broadcasting Services
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Hip Hop Countdown. Demo, 1990s ;
Entertainment 360. Demo, 1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0395
Shelf No(s).
cass 2678
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Bailey Broadcasting Services
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Frankie Crocker, WLIB, 1971 May and November ; Frankie Crocker,
WBLS, 1973 May
Collector's No(s).
BROS0396
Shelf No(s).
cass 1672
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WBLS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher
Radio Today
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1672, c. 2
KUTE Aircheck with Frankie Crocker, 1979 July ; KJLH Aircheck with Ted Terry, 1979 August ; KJLH aircheck with Tony
Valdez, 1979 September
Collector's No(s).
BROS0397
Shelf No(s).
cass 1673
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KUTE (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Publisher
Radio Today
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1673, c. 2
Al Gee (aka Scorpio Man) Aircheck on WLIB, 1974 May ; Frankie Crocker Aircheck on
WMCA, 1969 September
and 1970 February ; Al Gee Aircheck on WPIX, circa
1970-1974
Collector's No(s).
BROS0398
Shelf No(s).
cass 1674
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WMCA (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WPIX (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher
Radio Today
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1674, c. 2
WXLO Aircheck with Jeff Troy, Chuck Leonard [and Bob Slade?],
1981 July 6
Collector's No(s).
BROS0399
Shelf No(s).
cass 1675
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WXLO (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher
Radio Today
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1675, c. 2
Sly Stone Aircheck on KSOL, 1967
March ;
Soul Patrol Raw
Trax of Eddie O'Jay, Rufus Thomas, KSOL, circa 1967
Collector's No(s).
BROS0400
Shelf No(s).
cass 1676
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KSOL (Radio station : San Francisco,
Calif.)
Publisher
Radio Today
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1676, c. 2
Soul Patrol "Watts That" benefit
show with Host Tony Pig and Guest Rufus Thomas, 1960s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0401
Shelf No(s).
cass 1677
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Radio Today
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1677, c. 2
Call-in Show Regarding the Rodney King Verdict, 1992 April 29
Collector's No(s).
BROS0402
Shelf No(s).
cass 1678
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1678, c. 2
Willie Craven Interview Regarding O.J. Simpson Trial News,
1995 August 17
Collector's No(s).
BROS0403
Shelf No(s).
cass 2679
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1678, c. 2
Muhammed Naserdeen Interview, 1995
August 21
Collector's No(s).
BROS0404
Shelf No(s).
cass 2680
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Jack Gibson Aircheck for WCIN, 1954 ; Jack Gibson Aircheck for WCIN, 1954 April 30
Collector's No(s).
BROS0405
Shelf No(s).
cass 1679
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WCIN (Radio station : Cincinnati, Ohio)
WMBM (Radio station : Miami, Fla.)
Note
An earlier copy of this concent is available through the Indiana
University Archives of Traditional Music (Collection 86-014-B, item
EC10" 933).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1679, c. 2
Jack Gibson Aircheck for WCIN, 1960
July 11 ; Jack Gibson Aircheck for WGRT, 1971 March 25
Collector's No(s).
BROS0406
Shelf No(s).
cass 1680
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WCIN (Radio station : Cincinnati, Ohio)
WGRT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Note
Also contains content featuring Roy Campanella interview with Wally Moon
of the Dodgers on
Campy's Corner and
commercials read by Al Benson.
Note
An earlier copy of this concent is available through the Indiana
University Archives of Traditional Music (Collection 86-014-B, item
EC10" 944).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1680, c. 2
Mr. Magic's Old School, Part 1,
1980s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0407
Shelf No(s).
cass 1681
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WHBI (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1681, c. 2
Mr. Magic's Old School, Part 2,
1980s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0408
Shelf No(s).
cass 2681
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WHBI (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Urban Gold Demo, 1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0409
Shelf No(s).
cass 1682
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
ABC SMN
Publisher
ABC Radio Networks
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1682, c. 2
The Touch Demo/Aircheck for WHBX
and KSMJ, 1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0410
Shelf No(s).
cass 1683
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
ABC SMN
WHBX (Radio station : Tallahassee, Fla.)
KSMJ (Radio station : Sacramento, Calif.)
Publisher
ABC Radio Networks
WDIA Airchecks. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination, Funeral
and Memorial Service, 1968
Collector's No(s).
BROS0411
Shelf No(s).
cass 1684
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
Note
On DAT label: "MS 178/tape 218
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1684, c. 2
WDIA Airchecks. Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination, Funeral
and Memorial Service, 1968
Collector's No(s).
BROS0412
Shelf No(s).
cass 2682
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
Note
On DAT label: "MS 178/tape 214+215
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
The Melting Pot with Host Mark
Riley, Verdict on the O.J. Simpson Case, 1995 September 26
Collector's No(s).
BROS0414
Shelf No(s).
cass 1685
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1685, c. 2
"Dialog with Dinkins" with Host Mark Riley (subbing), Interview
with Mayor Dinkins, 1995 Summer ;
Tony Brown Show
[?]
, circa
1990s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0415
Shelf No(s).
cass 1686
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLIB (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Note
No mention of Tony Brown Show on earlier cassette copy.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1686, c. 2
5:00 PM Aircheck, 1996 January
29
Collector's No(s).
BROS0416
Shelf No(s).
cass 2683
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
: analog
Station(s)
WKYS (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Magic 102.3 with DJ Sonny Taylor, 1990s January 16
Collector's No(s).
BROS0417
Shelf No(s).
cass 1687
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMMJ (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Note
Cassette lists recoding month and day, but not the year.
WKYS, 1990s?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0418
Shelf No(s).
cass 2684
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
: analog
Station(s)
WKYS (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
WOL 1450, 1996
January
Collector's No(s).
BROS0419
Shelf No(s).
cass 2685
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
: analog
Station(s)
WOL (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
TENE News and Music, 1988 January 2
Collector's No(s).
BROS0420
Shelf No(s).
cass 1688
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1688, c. 2
Magic 102.3, 1996
January
Collector's No(s).
BROS0421
Shelf No(s).
cass 1689
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMMJ (Radio station : Washington,
D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1689, c. 2
DJ Ernie Durham "Your Ace from Innerspace," 1957-1958
Collector's No(s).
BROS0422
Shelf No(s).
cass 1690
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WBBC (Radio station : Flint,
Mich.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
"Harlem," Featuring Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra, Presented
by Fleishman's Yeast, 1937
Collector's No(s).
BROS0423
Shelf No(s).
cass 1691
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Bill Young Productions, Inc.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1691, c. 2
Poppa Stoppa's Be Bop Blues / Joseph August, undated ; Back
Trackin' (aka Dr. Daddy-O) / Paul Gayten, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0424
Shelf No(s).
cass 1692
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
All music. Possibly theme songs used for the shows or merely referencing
the shows.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1692, c. 2
Melvinik Simmons Demo Tape, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0425
Shelf No(s).
cass 2686
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
: analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Destination Freedom, "Segregation,
Inc.," undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0426
Shelf No(s).
cass 1693
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMAQ (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Note
Appears to be a partial duplicate of BROS0375 (cass 1654).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1693, c. 2
Early Wright, DJ, Shelby, Mississippi, 1980s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0427
Shelf No(s).
cass 1694
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1694, c. 2
Jack Benny Show and other content,
1940s-1950s?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0428
Shelf No(s).
cass 1695
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
Jack Benny Show. 1st show on Lucky Strikes
Program, CBS, with Rochester, Amos 'n' Andy, many other characters that
appeared on CBS Radio (1/29/1949) ;
Romance of
Helen Trent
soap opera -- Jack Benny Theme -- "Waitin' for
Jane" / Eddie Rochester Anderson --
Jack Benny
Show
, Armed Forces rehearsal (11/5/1953).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1695, c. 2
Sam 'n' Henry and
Amos 'n' Andy Shows / Starring Freeman F.
Dosden and Charles A. Correll, 1926
Collector's No(s).
BROS0429
Shelf No(s).
cass 1696
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
Sam 'n' Henry. Sam makes a call to Liza ;
Sam 'n' Henry at the dentist ; Sam's speech at the Colored lodge ; Sam
'n' Henry at the fortune teller ; Sam 'n' Henry rolling the bones ; Sam
'n' Henry buying insurance ; Sam's big night ; The morning after ; Let's
talk about my sweetie (Song and skit) --
Amos 'n'
Andy
. The presidential election ; Is everyone in your family
as dumb as you is ; At the dairy ; At the bullfight ; I'se regusted
(Take off that shoe) ; Check and double check (Don't hold your breath,
unlax).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1696, c. 2
Frankie Crocker Airchecks, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0430
Shelf No(s).
cass 1697
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMCA (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): casss 1697, c. 2
Frankie Crocker's Last Night at WMCA, 1970 September ; Chuck Leonard, New Year's Eve, WABC,
1968
December 31-1969 January 1 ;
The
Rocket Ship Show
with DJ Jocko Henderson on WCBS, 1991 June
Collector's No(s).
BROS0431
Shelf No(s).
cass 1698
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMCA (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WABC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WCBS (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1698, c. 2
"Pick Hits of the Week" with Tommy "Dr. Jive" Smalls, Presented
by Jeris Antiseptic Hair Tonic, circa 1960s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0432
Shelf No(s).
cass 1699
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1699, c. 2
LA Riot Doc., KJLH (Peabody Collection), 1992
Collector's No(s).
BROS0433
Shelf No(s).
cass 2687
Physical Description
1 audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Westwood One,
Special Edition with
Host Sid McCoy, "Isaac Hayes : From Memphis to Moses," undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0434
Shelf No(s).
cass 1700
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1700, c. 2
James Brown Public Service Announcements ; Berry Gordy, Jr.
Interview with Jackie Wilson, undated ;
Coast
to Coast Top 20
Interviews with Ashford and Simpson,
Midnight Star, Five Star, undated ;
Hollywood Live
Hosted by Frankie Crocker with Guests Jermaine Jackson and Cheryl Lynn,
undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0435
Shelf No(s).
cass 1701
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Miscellaneous R&B Airchecks with Various DJs, circa
1980s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0436
Shelf No(s).
cass 1702
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WWRL (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WCHB (Radio station : Detroit, Ohio)
CKLW (Radio station : Detroit, Ohio)
WVKO (Radio station : Columbus, Ohio)
WVON (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
WQHT (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
WSKQ (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
Note
Business card from Sean Ross, editor at Airplay Monitor, taped to
cassette case.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1702, c. 2
WLAC Aircheck with DJ Gene Nobles,
The
Hoss Alan Show
and
Randy's Records
Highlight Show
, 1960
Collector's No(s).
BROS0437
Shelf No(s).
cass 1703
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WLAC (Radio station : Nashville, Tenn.)
Note
Address label from Dennis Burns, Radio Survey Coll., affixed to
J-card.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1703, c. 2
Blues Cruise with DJ Eddie O'Jay,
1995 April 23
Collector's No(s).
BROS0438
Shelf No(s).
cass 1704
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WJSE (Radio station : Atlantic City, N.J.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1704, c. 2
Gospel Program with John and Vermya Phillips, 1988 August 20
Collector's No(s).
BROS0439
Shelf No(s).
cass 1705
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KTYM (Radio station : Inglewood,
Calif.)
Note
Photograph/Business card for John and Vermya Philips inserted in
case.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1705, c. 2
Bob White, KDIA Lucky 13, 1966 May
2 ; Johnny Lloyd, Boss Radio 134 WOOK, 1966 May
Collector's No(s).
BROS0440
Shelf No(s).
cass 1706
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
WOOK (Radio station : Washington, D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1706, c. 2
Prostate Cancer Public Service Announcements, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0441
Shelf No(s).
cass 2688
Physical Description
1 audiocassette
: analog
publisher
AARP
(Organization)
Content
15 seconds -- 30 seconds.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
George Kirby Interviewed about Club DeLisa and the DuSable Hotel
in Chicago, 1983 March
31
Collector's No(s).
BROS0442
Shelf No(s).
cass 1707
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1707, c. 2
Celebration of 45 Years of WERD, Hosted by Hal Lamar, undated ; Biography
of Ralph David Abernathy, Hosted by Hal Lamar, WAOK, undated ; Talk Back,
1994 June 28 ; Biography of
Malcolm X, Hosted by Hal Lamar, WAOK, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0443
Shelf No(s).
cass 1708
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WAOK (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1708, c. 2
The Blues Man Show with Pervis
Spann, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0444
Shelf No(s).
cass 1709
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WVON (Radio station : Chicago,
Ill.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1709, c. 2
Yvonne Daniels, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0445
Shelf No(s).
cass 1710
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KOOL [?]
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1710, c. 2
Leeds Black Radio Archives : James Brown, Alan Leeds, Elijah
Muhammad, 1968
Collector's No(s).
BROS0446
Shelf No(s).
cass 1711
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Interview of Lou Porter, President and Development Director of
Afro-American Community KBBG-FM (Waterloo, Iowa), 1995 August 14
Collector's No(s).
BROS0447
Shelf No(s).
cass 1712
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
Topics include her start in radio, the history of KBBG, and women in
radio.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1712, c. 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Funeral Procession, 1968 April 9
Collector's No(s).
BROS0448
Shelf No(s).
cass 1713
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1713, c. 2
Martin Luther King, Jr. March, 1968
April 9
Collector's No(s).
BROS0449
Shelf No(s).
cass 2689
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1713, c. 2?
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Church Funeral, 1968 April 9
Collector's No(s).
BROS0450
Shelf No(s).
cass 1714
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1714, c. 2
WDIA Radio Spots and Public Services Announcements, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0451
Shelf No(s).
cass 1715
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WDIA (Radio station : Memphis, Tenn.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Wolfman Jack Aircheck, XERB, 1976 April ; Gene Nobles Aircheck, WLAC,
Part 1, 1960?
Collector's No(s).
BROS0452
Shelf No(s).
cass 1716
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Address label from Dennis Burns, Radio Survey Coll. affixed to
J-card.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1716, c. 2
The Moment of Truth with Host
Shirley Caesar, 1993 February 9
; Shirley's Sermon, 1992
December
Collector's No(s).
BROS0453
Shelf No(s).
cass 1717
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1717, c. 2
News Excerpts and Advertisements Featuring Martin Luther King,
Jr., James Brown, Stokely Carmichael, Etc., 1960s
Collector's No(s).
BROS0454
Shelf No(s).
cass 1718
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Label reads "Property of Leeds Archives."
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1718, c. 2
Cliff Watson KJLH 6-10 AM Airchecks, 1995 June 14
Collector's No(s).
BROS0455
Shelf No(s).
cass 1719
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1719, c. 2
Lon McQ KJLH 10 AM-3 PM Airchecks, 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROS0456
Shelf No(s).
cass 1720
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KJLH (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1720, c. 2
KBBG Aircheck, 1995
July
Collector's No(s).
BROS0457
Shelf No(s).
cass 1721
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KBBG (Radio station : Waterloo, Iowa)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1721, c. 2
DJ A.J. Parker, Jamin' Dave Melle Mel 1995
Collector's No(s).
BROS0458
Shelf No(s).
cass 1722
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
106 Jamz (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1722, c. 2
"The Black Pope," WNNR, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0459
Shelf No(s).
cass 1723
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WNNR (Radio station : New Orleans, La.)
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1723, c. 2
Wolfman Jack Aircheck, XERB, 1970 ; R.C. Show, [Widemen?], undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0460
Shelf No(s).
cass 1724
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
XERB (Radio station : Los Angeles,
Calif.)
Note
Cassette has WREF label.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1724, c. 2
Louise Williams, Interview with Reverend T.D. Jakes, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0461
Shelf No(s).
cass 1725
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WDAS (Radio station :
Philadelphia, Pa.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Bree Taylor Aircheck, 102.3, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0462
Shelf No(s).
cass 1726
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WMMJ (Radio station : Washington,
D.C.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Marian Anderson Concert at Lincoln Memorial, [1939 April 29] ; Jack Benny -
Racist, Rochester, 1938 April 3
; Jack Benny - Non-Rascist, Rochester, 1950 April 9 ; Jack Benny, 1938 June 18
Collector's No(s).
BROS0463
Shelf No(s).
cass 1727
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1727, c. 2
Al B Dee[?], Washington, DC, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0464
Shelf No(s).
cass 1728
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1728, c. 2
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Inaugural Ball, 1941 January 19 ;
Amos and Andy, "Breaking up Andy &
Madame Queen" (aka "Breaking Up Andy's Wedding"), 1951 December 16
Collector's No(s).
BROS0465
Shelf No(s).
cass 1729
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Content
FDR Inaugral Ball begins with John Daley introducing the Golden Gate
Quartet.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1729, c.
John & Vermya Phillips, Saturday 1-2 AM, No Commercials,
1995 February
25
Collector's No(s).
BROS0466
Shelf No(s).
cass 1730
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
KTYM (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Note
Photograph/business card for John and Vermya Philips inserted in
case.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1730, c. 2
Airchekcs, various stations, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0467
Shelf No(s).
cass 2690
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Church Service with Gospel Music, First Church of Deliverance
(Chicago), Gospel Music, 1995 March
19
Collector's No(s).
BROS0468
Shelf No(s).
cass 1731
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
First Church of Deliverance
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1731, c. 2
Church Service with Gospel Music, First Church of Deliverance
(Chicago), Gospel Music, 1995 March
26
Collector's No(s).
BROS0469
Shelf No(s).
cass 1732
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
First Church of Deliverance
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1732, c. 2
Jimmy Porter Show, O.J. Simpson
Verdict, Etc., undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0470
Shelf No(s).
cass 1733
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Jimmy Porter was the founder of KBBG and a Waterloo civil rights
leader.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1733, c. 2
Blues in the Night, 1993 November
11
Collector's No(s).
BROS0471
Shelf No(s).
cass 1734
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Louise Williams, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0472
Shelf No(s).
cass 1735
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Station(s)
WDAS (Radio station : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Pat Prescott, 1994 January
20
Collector's No(s).
BROS0473
Shelf No(s).
cass 1736
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1736, c. 2
Piano Blues of Dr. Hepcat / Lavada
Durst, p1994
Collector's No(s).
BROS0480
Shelf No(s).
cass 2691
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Publisher
Documentary Arts, Inc.
Reference Copies
- Currently unavailable - Contact staff to request creation of
listening copy.
Story of Rudy Valentine, episodes
171 and 172, featuring Juanita Hall and sponsors Pet Milk Co. and Philip
Morris undated
;
Cavalcade of America, 16 Sticks in a
Bundle, featuring Ethel Waters, 1952
January 1
Collector's No(s).
BROS0543
Shelf No(s).
cass 1737
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Address label for David S. Siegel on cassette.
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1737, c. 2
Pat and Roy, 1995 March
23
Collector's No(s).
BROS0544
Shelf No(s).
cass 1738
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1738, c. 2
Little Richard, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0545
Shelf No(s).
cass 1739
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1739, c. 2.
Sid McCoy and Yvonne Daniels, Jazz Pilot Show, 1965
Collector's No(s).
BROS0546
Shelf No(s).
cass 1740
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1740, c. 2
Interview with Reverend Donald Vails, part 1, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0547
Shelf No(s).
cass 1741
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Possibly a duplicate of BROS0225 (cass 1539).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1741, c. 2
Cooper/Roberts Airchecks, Tape 2, undated
Collector's No(s).
BROS0548
Shelf No(s).
cass 1742
Physical Description
1
audiocassette : analog
Note
Cassette copy is mislabeled and is actually a short piece of one of the
two Gertrude Cooper interviews by Mark Allen Newman (SEE "Cooper,
Gertrude and Bob Robert" and "Cooper, Gertrude and Richard Pegee" in the
Interviews series).
Reference Copies
- Cassette(s): cass 1742, c. 2