Joe Smith collection 1986-1988

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Joe Smith collection 1986-1988

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Oral history interviews conductedby recording industry executive Joe Smith with more than two hundred recordingartists and executives from 1986 through 1988. Printed transcripts accompanymost of the recorded interviews.

263 sound cassettes; 3.6 linear feet (9 boxes, approximately 3,150 items)

eng,

Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356034

Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division

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Biographical Note Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and educated at Yale University, Joe Smith worked as a sportscaster and disc jockey in Virginia and Pennsylvania before becoming a top-rated and pioneering rock ‘n’ roll disc jockey at WMEX and WBZ in Boston. In 1961 he moved to California and was hired as a national promotion manager for Warner Bros. Records. Over the next three decades, until his retirement in 1993, he rose to legendary stat...