Music

This collection consists of discs regularly sent to subscribing radio stations as supplemental programming. Though predominantly comprised by a wide variety of music, there is also a smattering of actual programs and some generic advertising jingles used for "in house" commercial production by stations.

Edward M. Kirby Collection:

Col. Kirby was with the Armed Forces Radio Service during WWII, and later wrote of his experiences in his book Star Spangled Radio. This donation consists of glass transcription discs recorded by the BBC. Nine of the ten discs feature either Glenn Miller and his Orchestra or Dinah Shore.

Papers of Irene Beasley:

Ms. Beasley was a well-known singer and radio personality of the 1930s and 40s. This gift includes an interview with Beasley done on WEAF in 1940, cuts of songs performed by Beasley on other radio programs in the 1930s and 40s, as well as recordings of her own music-oriented CBS game show, Grand Slam from the mid- 40s.

Papers of Henry L. Miller and Anne Lorentz Miller:

The bulk of this gift consists of 56 "V" Discs, produced for the Armed Forces Radio Service during WWII. Artists represented include Bing and Bob Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Helen Forrest, Mary Martin, Ginny Simms, Ella Fitzgerald, The Pied Pipers, Fats Waller, Buddy Rich, Jack Teagarden, Igor Stravinsky w/the New York Philharmonic and many others. Twenty other discs are from the U.S. Information Service and the Voice of America.

BMI Program Clinic Collection:

A series of seminars, meetings and clinics conducted by BMI,the music copyrighting company, around the country in the mid-1950s.

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