UNT Finding Aids

Scope and Contents The collection consists of approximately 100 boxes of music manuscripts out of a larger collection of over 700 boxes of sheet music used by the orchestra at radio station WOR. The manuscripts contain the work of numerous arrangers, including Sy Oliver, Joe Glover, Charles Maehl, Bill Challis, Ralph Barnhart, Agustin Borguno, and Lew Davies, along with the work of numerous copyists identifiable by their union stamps. The union stamps also correlate to approximate dates. Specific dates are...

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Papers of the Radio, TV, Film faculty member, Bill Mercer.

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The collection consists of four boxes, which contain a total of fifty-seven 16-inch broadcast transcription discs from the Mineral Wells area. Most of the programs were sponsored by the Crazy Water Company, and there are multiple copies of most programs in the collection.

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The collection consists of approximately 15 boxes of papers, recordings of radio interviews, and other sound recordings, mostly in connection with Tater's career as host of jazz radio shows, principally at KJZY (Sonoma County, CA), and KETR (Commerce, TX).

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El Resumen Documentos del miembro de la facultad de Radio, TV y Cine, Bill Mercer.

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The collection of the Gary Husa Radio Programming consists of reel to reel tapes, episode indexes, program logs, program listings, advance episode schedules, correspondences, publications, newspaper clippings, bulletins, and magazines. The materials in the collection consist of indexes of radio programs by the year, radio programs recorded on reel to reel tapes, and correspondences, publications, and newspaper clippings about radio history.

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The collection consists of 514 16-inch radio transcription discs published by Standard Radio Transcription Services. Individual program discs contain a diverse array of content from jazz artists (Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey) to popular acts (Lawrence Welk, Frank Yankovic, Ozzie Nelson, Bob Crosby) to utility audio for radios, such as interludes or short musical segments to introduce weather forecasts or advertisements.

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The collection includes over 200 hours of interviews with major jazz artists, historians and others recorded for National Public Radio’s jazz programs including Jazz Profiles and Owens’ own interviews: over 250 hours of performance masters recorded primarily for NPR’s Jazz Alive! series, and other live jazz performances.  Also included are his radio show, photographs, videos, scripts and interview transcripts.

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The collection consists of thousands of published ensemble arrangements and sheet music for popular songs from roughly 1890 through the 1950s. Many items are also stamped for WBAP sister station KGKO.