WESTERN HISTORY AUDIO RECORDINGS COLLECTION
Scope and Contents
Collection contains historical recordings on audio transcriptions of radio programs broadcast by KOA (NBC affiliate station) between 1942-1950. Additional commercial music recordings were produced by Colorado based companies, Malco (Ft. Collins) and Summit Records (Denver). An album of audio transcriptions of poetry and writings by noted Colorado based authors (1939) completes the collection.
Music recordings in this series are by Colorado composers, Walter B. Cooper and Butch La Rita (P.A. Larita, Jr.). Coopers western-themed compositions were recorded regionally by Malco Music Publishing Company based in Ft. Collins. The La Rita recording documents the 1965 flood of the Platte River.
Produced by the NBC Broadcasting company, the audio transcriptions in this series document programs and interviews broadcast on Denver's KOA radio (NBC's affiliate radio station). Interviews include noted Coloradoans attending a Pro Musica-sponsored musical performance by South American singer, Elsie Houston, in the lobby of the Broadway Theater conducted on October 31, 1942. Additionally, a portion of Ben Bezoff's Christmas wartime radio broadcast (1944) for the BBC from London, England; events that occurred during the Mount Wilcox naming celebration on July 31, 1948; an interview with Senator S. R. (Stephen Robert) McNichols discussing the Colorado Highway Program (1950); and an interview (April 1950) with the oldest living alumnus of East High School, the noted botanist, Alice Eastwood (1859-1953) are included.
Series contains a 78 rpm record album with 13 discs produced by Poetry Production in 1939. Donated as a collection to the library in 1940 by poet Clyde Robertson, the records are audio transcriptions of works by noted Colorado based authors: Nellie Burget Miller, Dorothy Stott Shaw, Clyde Robertson, Lillian White Spencer, Edward Davidson, Edna Davis Romig, Thomas Hornsby Ferril, and Jamie Sexton Holme.
Dates
- 1940-1965
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Copyright
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from material in the collection should be discussed with the appropriate librarian or archivist. Permission for publication may be given on behalf of the Denver Public Library as the owner of the physical item. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained by the customer. The Library does not assume any responsibility for infringement of copyright or publication rights of the manuscript held by the writer, heirs, donors, or executors. Reproduction restrictions are decided on a case-by-case basis.
Biographical / Historical
Items in collection were originally part of the Western History Department record collection assembled between 1940 to 1969.
Extent
2 AVBoxes
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Audio sound recordings collected by the Department of Western History, Denver Public Library between 1940-1969. Other than Clyde Robertson (1940), subsequent donor names are unknown.
General
Catalog record based on preliminary inventory.
PROCESSED BY:
Martin Leuthauser
September 2014
PROJECT MANAGER:
Abby Hoverstock
- 45 rpm records. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- 78 rpm records. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- American poetry ǂz Colorado ǂx Women authors ǂy 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- American poetry ǂz Colorado ǂy 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Bancroft, Caroline ǂv Interviews.
- Bezoff, Ben, ǂd 1914-1979 ǂv Interviews.
- Bob Swerer and his Sons of the Rockies -- Specimens.
- Colorado -- Poetry -- 20th century. Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Colorado -- Songs and music -- 20th century. Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Composers -- United States -- Specimens -- 20th century. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Cooper, Walter B. ǂv Songs and music.
- Davison, Edward L. ǂq (Edward Lewis), ǂd 1898-1970 ǂv Specimens.
- East High School (Denver, Colo.) -- Interviews.
- Eastwood, Alice, ǂd 1859-1953 ǂv Interviews.
- Ferril, Thomas Hornsby, ǂd 1896-1988 ǂv Specimens.
- Holme, Jamie Sexton, ǂd 1893-1950 ǂv Specimens.
- Houston, Elsie, ǂd 1902-1943 ǂv Interviews.
- Interviews. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Johnny Neil Orchestra -- Speciments.
- KOA (Radio station : Denver, Colo.) -- Interviews.
- La Rita, Butch ǂv Songs and music.
- Long-playing records. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Malco Music Pub. Co. (Ft. Collins, Colo.) -- Specimens.
- McNichols, Stephen L. R. ǂq (Stephen Lucid Robert), ǂd 1914-1997 ǂv Interviews.
- Miller, Nellie Burget Person, ǂd 1875-1952 ǂv Specimens.
- Poetry Productions (Denver, Colo.) -- Specimens.
- Poetry. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Popular music -- United States -- 1941-1950 -- Specimens. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Popular music -- United States -- 1961-1970 -- Specimens. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Radio programs, Musical -- Colorado -- Denver -- Interviews. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Robertson, Clyde, ǂd 1870-1954 ǂv Specimens.
- Romig, Edna Davis, ǂd 1889- ǂv Specimens.
- Shaw, Dorothy Stott, ǂd 1891-1985 ǂv Specimens.
- Songs (genres for music). Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Sound recordings. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.) -- Songs and music -- 20th century. Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Spencer, Lillian White, ǂd 1876-1953 ǂv Specimens.
- Summit Records (Denver, Colo.) -- Specimens.
- Wilcox, Mount (Colo.) -- History. Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Date
- October 2014
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Denver Public Library, Western History and Genealogy Repository
