{"id":16126,"date":"2015-12-13T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2015-12-13T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T14:37:13","slug":"unt-archives-publish-willis-conover-interview-with-louis-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/unt-archives-publish-willis-conover-interview-with-louis-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"UNT Archives publish Willis Conover interview with Louis Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16147\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Willis-Conover-Louis-Armstrong.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16147\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16147\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16147\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Willis-Conover-Louis-Armstrong.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo source: Inside VOA)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Willis-Conover-Louis-Armstrong.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Willis-Conover-Louis-Armstrong-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo source: Inside VOA)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to the endeavors of\u00a0Maristella Feustle at the UNT Music Library,\u00a0<em>five hours<\/em>\u00a0of recently-restored Louis Armstrong interviews with Willis Conover are <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/explore\/collections\/MLCC\/browse\/?sort=added_d&amp;fq=str_month%3A07_jul\" target=\"_blank\">now online and free to download\/listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos\u00a0to the UNT archives for making these amazing recordings so accessible! What a treasure trove.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.unt.edu\/explore\/collections\/MLCC\/browse\/?sort=added_d&amp;fq=str_month%3A07_jul\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view links to all five hours of recordings at the UNT Archives&#8217; website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the endeavors of\u00a0Maristella Feustle at the UNT Music Library,\u00a0five hours\u00a0of recently-restored Louis Armstrong interviews with Willis Conover are now online and free to download\/listen. Kudos\u00a0to the UNT archives for making these amazing recordings so accessible! What a treasure trove. Click here to view links to all five hours of recordings at the UNT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,442,3,288,43],"tags":[4513,4176,4177,4178,940,942],"class_list":["post-16126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-music","category-news","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-louis-armstrong","tag-maristella-feustle","tag-unt","tag-unt-willis-conover","tag-willis-conover","tag-willis-conover-voa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4c6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14591,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-unt-willis-conover-archive-is-now-online\/","url_meta":{"origin":16126,"position":0},"title":"The UNT Willis Conover Archive is now online","author":"Thomas","date":"September 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Regular\u00a0SWLing Post readers know that I\u2019m a huge fan of the late\u00a0Willis Conover. 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Firth is uncovering and digitizing these off air recordings as time allows and, thanks to his generosity, we will be posting these recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Willis Conover, The Voice of America (Source: Wikimedia Commons)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13104,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/support-a-willis-conover-us-postage-stamp\/","url_meta":{"origin":16126,"position":3},"title":"Support a Willis Conover US postage stamp","author":"Thomas","date":"May 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're a fan of the iconic Willis Conover, you might consider signing this petition supporting a postage stamp in his honor. 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