Randy Riddle collection of race records and radio programs, 1920s-1965.

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Randy Riddle collection of race records and radio programs, 1920s-1965.

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The Race Records series consists of thirty-four 12 inch (78 rpm) gramophone records and one 45 rpm record. Each includes two songs, one per side, by an artist. Most of the records are in good or excellent condition. Artists represented in this collection are: Emitt Slay Trio, Bert Williams, Moran and Mack, The Orioles, Billy Wright, Johnney Rebel, The Couplings, Bob Howard and his Boys, The Midnighters, Jimmy Bowen with the Rhythm Orchids, The Clovers, Chuck Miller, Miles Davis and his Orchestra, The Original Casuals featuring Gary Mears, Eunice Davis with Orchestra, Ivory Joe Hunter, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, Howlin Wolf, Varetta Dillard, Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra, Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, Carson Robinson, Young Jessie, Chuck Webb and his Orchestra, Socko Underwood, Brownie McGhee, and Bull Moose Jackson and his Buffalo Bearcats. The Radio Programs series includes both 12 inch (78 rpm) records and 16 inch transcription discs, including vinyl, lacquer, and acetate records. Programs include recordings of both original on-air broadcasts as well as rebroadcasts by organizations such as the Armed Forces Radio Service. Frequently, the discs include only excerpts or pieces of a program, and program runs are not complete (many include only one or two episodes). Titles in the collection are: This is My Best (Globe Theater); Lest We Forget; Pick and Pat; Southland Echoes; Harlem Hospitality Club; lacquer records from WREN in Lawrence, Kansas; the Bea Kalmus Show; Choose a Song Partner; Americans at Work; Any Bonds Tonight; American Family Robinson; a Townsend Plan filmstrip soundtrack; Twenty Questions; Monticello Party Line; Coke Club; Plantation Echoes; Behind the Scenes in Hollywood; Your Home Front Reporter; Billie Burke; Aladdin Lamp; America's Famous Fathers; Mad Hatterfields; Supper Club; Uncle Remus; Dwight Eisenhower campaign special; Christmas Seal; and special episodes from the March of Dimes and American Cancer Society fundraising drives.

200 items (5.0 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7790817

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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