https://thebbrm.org/files/original/4a4b1a55fb985c6db8e29126d5cd42f2.jpg 9d8ec3cc2e4cbfb68c4c430dbcfe4cae https://thebbrm.org/files/original/0c1da9164f8a5a13cc769fb2935c8ede.jpg ffc01fe2758597230bb62d28ad68c40d https://thebbrm.org/files/original/f9728034161ab570de51c853819a836f.jpg 16566bd0bc47cb6b1c447c37507649d4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ephemera Collection Description An account of the resource In 2009, BBRM staff and volunteers began the archiving of this collection, with the arranging of objects chronologically (1935 – 1995) and the purchasing of proper archival storage materials. In 2011, an oral finding aid with provenance was constructed by conversations between University of Alabama School of Library and Information Studies (UA SLIS) volunteer Lindsey Reynolds (now at University of Georgia, Athens Library) and BBRM Director Bob Friedman. In 2013 and 2014, those interviews were transcribed by UA SLIS volunteer Michael Mitchell (known affectionately as the MMT). For each object, the original finding aid conversation has been added and can be found in quotes in the description section. As of the most recent online uploading in August, 2019, the Ephemera Collection consisted of eight boxes containing 413 folders with approximately 850 files, spanning the period 1935-1989. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Promo Cards, WENN Description An account of the resource Box 3 Folder 45: "Now here we are for folder 45. And these are promotion pictures from WENN radio. And what’s interesting about these, they’re all at the WENN mike. There’s Johnny McClure. So Johnny, as we know, is at BCO and BCO is making the transition from 1450 to 1320. There was this frequency swap. These are early on. They could be early, like late ‘50s, 1958, as we were predicting, when the transition took place, before they became the big 1320 station. But they had all these personalities, some of whom clearly moved from… like they have TV Whitfield and Marty Marvin. I never heard of but Bruce Payne shared in his BBRM oral history that Marvin was an early Black DJ in Mississippi. Of course, Bruce Payne and Johnny McClure were both at WBCO and moved right smoothly into the new WENN Radio. Ok, the Marty Marvin picture is… No, but there is a date on it, and that’s the exciting part. It is from 1958 to be precise. December 22, 1958. Anybody questioning how old WENN is we know we go back at least that far. LWR: They wrote on all this stuff. Dr. Blue was TD Whitfield. Dr. Blue. BF: Dr. Blue. Somebody identified TV Whitfield as Dr. Blue. I don’t know who did. What's touching is that Marty Marvin's card was a Christmas greeting to Mr. and Mrs. Sonrose Rutledge. LWR: Dr. Blue has a nice mustache. BF: He does. And we conclude with a question and a picture. Is Marty Marvin from WENN Birmingham Poppa Rock from KOKJ Jackson? And is Poppa Rock Joe "Poppa Rock" Louis from KOKJ or Wade "Poppa Rock" Graves from KOKJ or did they just hand the name down? Sources: "Give My Poor Heart Ease" - Univ of North Carolina Press; "Blues Deejays" - The Mississippi Blues Trail" 1950s Bruce Payne Ed "Johnny Jive" McClure Marty Marvin Poppa Rock T. V. Whitfield WENN WOKJ