Radio Tapes

Bolen - Lovejoy Library is acquiring on a continuing basis copies of the tape collectionof Jim Bolen, St. Louis radio personality. Mr. Bolen has assembled over 1000 tapes of early radio shows going back to 1927, and also a series of documentary tapes covering such events as D-Day. The letter runs some eighteen hours and contains the voices of most of the important Allied leaders. In all, several hundred tape reels are to be copied.

Jazz - a 13-week radio series, "A Jazz Conversation," presented through the SIU radio network in the fall of 1970, featuring Al Rose, Dan Havens and Herb Smith. Thirteen half-hour tapes.

The Library soon hopes to add another series of radio jazz tapes, many of studio recording sessions which were never broadcast.

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If you have questions or comments, about this collection, please contact Therese Dickman, Fine Arts Librarian, Lovejoy Library, at tdickma@siue.edu or call 618-650-2695.