Speaking of Willis Conover

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