{"id":8795,"date":"2014-02-15T15:34:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T19:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2014-02-15T16:03:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T20:03:11","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-america-circa-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-america-circa-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Voice of America, circa 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8796\" alt=\"Willis Conover, The Voice of America (Source: Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969.jpg 614w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/614px-Willis_Conover_1969-79x100.jpg 79w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to David Firth, who is kindly sharing shortwave radio recordings he made on reel-to-reel recording equipment in the late 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a recording of the <em>Voice of America<\/em>, which Firth recorded in 1968.<\/p>\n<p>This seven minute recording will surely bring back memories with clips from <strong><em>VOA Jazz Hour<\/em><\/strong> (Willis Conover), the <strong><em>VOA Breakfast Show<\/em><\/strong>, and <strong><em>VOA Special English<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>[Confession: the first time I heard this recording, the Willis Conover clip gave me chill bumps.]<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to download\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/01SWRadioVOA32kbs\/01_SW%20radio%2C%20VOA_32kbs.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/01SWRadioVOA32kbs\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavearchive.org\" target=\"_blank\">Check out more recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive<\/a>, also check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dfirth224?feature=watch\" target=\"_blank\">David Firth&#8217;s channel on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want to know more about Willis Conover? Check out <a title=\"Willis Conover\u2019s Jazz: A secret weapon in the Cold War\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/willis-conovers-jazz-a-secret-weapon-in-the-cold-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Goren&#8217;s podcast for Jazz At Lincoln Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to David Firth, who is kindly sharing shortwave radio recordings he made on reel-to-reel recording equipment in the late 1960s. 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 Archive. The following is a [&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":[56,960,442,3,305,288,746,43,1409],"tags":[2586,2587,4106,10,2585,1811,182,940,942],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-music","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-specials","tag-2586","tag-early-shortwave-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-voa","tag-voa-breakfast-show","tag-voa-special-english","tag-voice-of-america","tag-willis-conover","tag-willis-conover-voa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2hR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16126,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/unt-archives-publish-willis-conover-interview-with-louis-armstrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":8795,"position":0},"title":"UNT Archives publish Willis Conover interview with Louis Armstrong","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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I just learned, via the Arts Journal blog, about an amazing collection of Conover\u00a0audio archives that are now being shared online: \"The music program at the University of North Texas has graduated hundreds of jazz artists who\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"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":2895,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/willis-conovers-jazz-a-secret-weapon-in-the-cold-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":8795,"position":2},"title":"Willis Conover&#8217;s Jazz: A secret weapon in the Cold War","author":"Thomas","date":"March 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"David Goren, Shortwaveology\u00a0author and producer for\u00a0Jazz at Lincoln Center, released a JazzStories Podcast today featuring VOA broadcaster, Willis Conover. 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