WEUP radio broadcast by DJ Daddy Cool

Date recorded: September 12, 1959
Contributor(s): Performer: Daddy Cool; Recordist: Lomax, Alan

Subject(s):

Genre: spoken

Culture: African American, Southern U.S.

Instruments: voice

Setting: Alan Lomax's car, driving between Scottsboro and Huntsville

Location: Alabama, United States

Physical form: Reel to Reel

Tape number: T866

Track Number: 8

Archive ID: T866R08

Note: DJ Daddy Cool of Huntsville's WEUP reads the 4:00 "Worldwide News" (about the Russian-American space race), dedicates an Ivory Joe Hunter song, requests letters from listeners, and announces that the town that sends the most letters will be the first to receive a Daddy Cool Record Hop. An incredible piece of nostalgia.

Belongs to: Alabama in transit 9/59

About the session: These recordings were made by Lomax on a "Midgetape" an early dictaphone machine about 6" x 10" in size that used a small tape cartridge holding two reels of tape stacked on top of each other. T866A is one of two extant cartridges of Alan's (the other being T866, interviews with Ada Combs, Whitesburg, KY), and it appears that he reused this tape many times in capturing various ambient and incidental recordings. These recordings were made in the car between Scottsboro and Huntsville, identified as such by Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins in the brief segments of narration.

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