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Arnold Dwight "Gatemouth" Moore, Oral History
Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore - (b. Nov 8, 1913, d. May 19, 2004). Starting his career on the air at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas, his home town, in the 1930's, Moore was a major blues singer in the 1930’s and 40's and a prolific recording artist and…
Clippings, WAYE Advertisements
Box 8 Folder 47: "We’re at folder 47. It’s clippings clipped out of some kind of a newsprint journal like the Birmingham Times, Birmingham News, probably the Birmingham Times, advertising WAYE 1220 and also lists the jocks. Theo Bailey, interestingly…
Walter Anglin
Box 8 Folder 6: "We’re up to folder 6 which is a color 4x6 of Walter Anglin. We were told this was around 1980. It was given to us by he and his wife when they visited the station back in the ‘90s and he was at WJLD around 1980."
WJLD Double Dozen
Box 5 Folder 35: "Folder 35 is a WJLD contest folder… I’m sorry, correction. It’s called a WJLD Double Dozen and also WJLD… WJLN-FM. And this is like a top 24 songs that were out for the week beginning August 8, 1969, and it lists not only the pop…
Contact Sheet, Chris McNair Studios
Box 5 Folder 30: "Folder 30 from 1969. These are contact sheets from Chris McNair Studios, who gave us a bunch of negatives and we printed these positives. It’s a sample sheet that includes pictures of Jimmy Lawson, Andrew Fields, Willie McKinstrey,…
WJLD Staff, 1968
Box 5 Folder 24: "We’re up… we’re up to folder 24 which are a couple pictures of the WJLD staff of 1968 showing (l-r) Ronald Jackson, Willie McKinstry, Jimmy Lawson, Andrew Fields, and Walter Anglin. Now, the description on the back of the smaller…
Walter Anglin
Box 5 Folder 6: "Folder 6 is a picture of Walter "Midnight Moover Groover" Anglin when he was at WJLD, from 1967, again from the Chris McNair Studios."
Walter Anglin, WJLD
Box 4 Folder 46: "Ok we’re up to folder 46 from 1966, is a picture of Walter Anglin. You can see his bad eye in the picture and I believe this picture was from, I’m not sure which photographer took this picture. I estimate this from the mid 1960's at…
Proof Sheets, Chris McNair Studio
Box 4 Folder 45: "Folder 45 is a… what do you call these…. Folder 45 has two proof sheets, a lot depicting Sam Moore at the radio station in various poses; where the actual negatives are I can only presume. They’d probably be at the McNair Studios.…
WJLD Singers, 1965
Box 4 Folder 30: "This is folder 30 which is a picture of the WJLD Singers from 1965. They recorded a 45 called the “WJLD Theme” on the WJLD label and it features Larry Hargrove from upper right clockwise: Larry Hargrove, Johnny Jackson, Walter…