| a_s1576_10_c83-085 | Florida Home radio series: Humorists and Health Evangelists (Pre-master copy) | Sound | Performers
Entertainers
Singers
Ventriloquists
Music performance
Ventriloquism
Humor
Jokes
Medicine shows
Comedians
Performing arts
Radio programs
Documentaries Radio | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Florida Home radio series: Humorists and Health Evangelists (Pre-master copy)
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- One audio cassette. A documentary program for a radio program entitled "Humorists and Health Evangelists" for the radio series "Florida Home." Includes interviews with and performances by ventriloquists, pitchmen, and performers for medicine shows and other travelling shows, including Bob and Mae Noell, Bunny Bartok, Mary McClain, Ward Hall, and Wayne Murray. Also features commentary and historical background and analysis by a narrator.
- Collection
| a_s1576_10_c83-086 | Florida Home radio series: Showtown USA (Pre-master copy) | Sound | Performers
Entertainers
Singers
Music performance
Traveling shows
Humor
Jokes
Medicine shows
Traveling theater
Performing arts
Radio programs
Documentaries Radio | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Florida Home radio series: Showtown USA (Pre-master copy)
- Date
- 1981
- Description
- Four audio cassettes. AA "pre-master copy" recorded for the radio show documentary series. Includes excerpts of interviews with travelling show performers including Joe McKennon, Ward Hall, Bill Rogers, Mary McClain, and Eric Addams.
- Collection
| a_s1576_17_c85-035 | Copies of the 1985 radio program: Working Lives | Sound | Documentaries Radio
Radio
Radio programs
Occupational groups
Occupational folklore
Labor
Workers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Copies of the 1985 radio program: Working Lives
- Date
- 1985
- Description
- Seven audio cassettes. NOTE: Because this is a copyrighted recording, no copies can be made of the tapes. Copies of a 1985 radio documentary on Alabama worker cultures that was created by the University of Alabama's Archives of American Minority Cultures. Created in 1979.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_02 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Florida Folkways | Sound | Musicians
Radio
Documentaries Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Performing arts
Singing
Folk singers
Festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Music performance
Radio announcing
Advertising, Public service
Folk festivals
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Florida Folkways
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (12:45 minutes). Radio program featuring performances from the 1961 Florida Folk Festival. These radio programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_03 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Story of Stephen Foster | Sound | Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Documentaries Radio
Life histories
Folklore and history
Composers
Commercial songs
Popular songs
Music performance
Oral education | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Story of Stephen Foster
- Date
- 1961-03-25
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (17:55 minutes). Radio program on the life of songwriter Stephen Foster. A very similar program can be found on 61-2-17. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_04 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (15-minute version) | Sound | Singers
Radio
Documentaries Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Beauty contests
Competitions
Talent shows
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Singing
Life histories
Folklore and history
Oral education | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (15-minute version)
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (13:43). Radio program about the story behind Foster's "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair" and the similarly named talent competition held each February at the Stephen Foster Memorial and sponsored by the Florida Federation of Music Clubs. Features clips from the first competition in 1952, which was sponsored by the Florida Federation of Music Clubs. Heard on the program are McKeithan, master of ceremonies in 1952, Miller, president of the National Federation of Music Clubs, McNutt, president of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs, and former "Jeanie" (1959) and Broadway performer Veronica McCormick. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_08 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Florida Folk Festival (4 five-minute Features) | Sound | Musicians
Documentaries Radio
Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Advertising, Public service
Festivals
Folk festivals
Folklore revival festivals
Special events
Performing arts
Music performance
Singing
Cowboys
Country music
Singers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Florida Folk Festival (4 five-minute Features)
- Date
- 1962
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (16 minutes) Four short radio programs that deal with the Florida Folk Festival. It is very similar to the program found on 61-2-15. 1. Joe Tomazin (3:25) 2. Julia Dawson (4:40) 3. Anne Llewellyn (4:08) 4. White Springs Glee Club (4:37) These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_09 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Story of Stephen Foster | Sound | Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Radio
Radio programs, Public service
Documentaries Radio
Life histories
Folklore and history
Composers
Commercial songs
Popular songs
Music performance
Oral education | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Story of Stephen Foster
- Date
- Description
- One reel to reel recording (13:35 minutes). Radio program on the life of songwriter Stephen Foster. A very similar program can be found on 61-2-10. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_14 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four 5-Minute Features | Sound | Composer
Singers
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Radio
Radio programs
Radio programs, Public service
Documentaries Radio
Composers
Folklore and history
Life histories
Singing
Music performance
Performing arts
Animal tales
Storytelling
Native Americans
Seminole Indians
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four 5-Minute Features
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (20 minutes). Four short radio stories: 1. A Story and a Song of Yesterday (4:28) -- story on Foster's first composition, Tioga Waltz. 2. A Song of the South (4:30) -- Story about Foster's song, "I am Gonna Ride the Chariot", with the Amigo Male Singers performing it. 3. A Story of a Song and a Wagon (4:40) -- story behind Foster's "Oh! Suzanna". 4. Seminole Indian Josie Billie, Story and Song (4:45) -- Animal tale by Seminole storyteller Josie Billie. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
| a_s2042_sfm_15 | Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features | Sound | Composer
Curators
Archivists
Musicians
Radio
Radio programs
Radio announcing
Documentaries Radio
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864
Popular songs
Commercial songs
Composers
Folklore and history
Life histories
Accordion music
Arts, Czechoslovakia
Oral narratives
Storytelling
Tall tales
Humor
Jokes
Personal experience narratives
Oral education
Advertising, Public service
Accordionists
Storytellers | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Stephen Foster Memorial Radio Program: Four Short Features
- Date
- 1961
- Description
- One reel to reel recording. (15 minutes). Four short radio stories: 1. Open Thy Lattice, Love (3:30) -- story behind Stephen Foster's first published song. 2. Fletcher Hodges, Jr. (3:46)-- story about the curator of Foster Hall at the University of Pittsburgh, and author of a Foster biography. Hodges was a native of Indiana, where he was asked in 1932 to curate the Eli Lilly and Co.'s collection of Foster materials (20,000 items). He moved with the collection to the University of Pittsburgh in 1937. 3. Masaryktown (3:45) -- story of the Czechoslovakian community, with Jerry Psenka's music. 4. Lem Griffis (4:00) -- sampler of Griffis' humorous stories; who was from the Okeefenokee swamp in South Georgia (the headwaters of the Suwannee River). He was a regular performer at the Festival. These programs were created in the early 1960s by the Stephen Foster Memorial to promote the park and its activities, as well as to educate the public about Stephen Foster and Florida folk music.
- Collection
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