Speaking of Willis Conover
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| Man, those things are called coffin nails for a reason ! |
One other thing missing from the last coupla blogs was this online archive of Willis Conover tapes:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/MLCC/browse/?fq=dc_type%3Asound
A search on "VOA" didn't yield much though. Needed to search on "Music USA" (the formal name of the VOA show) to find quite a few hours that were on the VOA. For example several songs and a brief interview with "the divine one", Sarah Vaughan:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc770492/m1/#track/10
I've never heard Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald perform selections from Porgy and Bess, amazing !:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc800482/m1/#track/4
(BTW someday I'll have to post my story about listening to the song: Summertime at GTE)
Conover also wrote and acted in an Old Time Radio show: Hazel and Harold. There are six episodes from 1946 here:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections/MLCC/browse/?q=hazel&t=fulltext&sort=&fq=dc_type%3Asound
I've never listened to the Peg Lynch show mentioned in the notes, Ethel and Albert but this Hazel and Harold show reminds me a little of Vic and Sade. Conover's voice reminds me a little of the OTR actor Elliot Lewis.
An internet search on "Hazel and Harold" didn't yield much. The audio has apparently been up for at least 10 years. In a lot of ways the internet is worthless for history.
I got a chuckle listening to this 1962 Bisquick commercial:
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc983761/m1/
It's fun to feed the novelty beast with a treasure chest of recordings that I've never heard before !
Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm
