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Buck Clayton with the WOV DJ, Fred Robbins

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Buck Clayton seated with a WOV disc jockey, Fred Robbins with the WOV microphone between them.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Dave Dexter and Capitol Records staff recording an album

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Dave Dexter and unidentified Capitol Records staff (all white men) recording a Christmas album. Dexter is seated at the bottom right, playing...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis seated in a recording studio

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Dave Dexter, Nat King Cole, and Al Jarvis, unidentified white man, seated in a recording studio with two other unidentified white men and an...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Group around an ABC microphone

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Five unidentified white people (four men and one woman) sing around an ABC microphone. One orchestra member can be seen at the lower left behind the...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Jim Moran, Turhan Bey, Matt Dennis, and Dave Dexter on broadcast of "Can You Tie That"

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Jim Moran, Turhan Bey, Matt Dennis, and Dave Dexter seated at tables with microphones for a broadcast of "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio program hosted...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Jim Moran, Turhan Bey, Matt Dennis, and Dave Dexter on broadcast of "Can You Tie That"

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Jim Moran, Turhan Bey, Matt Dennis, and Dave Dexter seated at tables with microphones for a broadcast of "Can You Tie That" KLAC radio program hosted...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Perry Como singing into a microphone

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Perry Como singing into an NBC microphone with papers in hand during a recording session for Chesterfield Supper Club. An unidentified person is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Perry Como singing into a microphone

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Perry Como singing into an NBC microphone with both hands raised during a recording session for Chesterfield Supper Club.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Perry Como singing into a microphone

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Perry Como singing into an NBC microphone during a recording session for Chesterfield Supper Club. Como is wearing a while shirt with sleeves rolled...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Perry Como standing in front of a microphone

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Perry Como smiling and standing in front of an Armed Forces Radio Services microphone. Como is wearing a dark suit and light tie.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Singer at the microphone

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An unidentified white woman in an evening dress singing into an ABC microphone. A clock is seen at the right. She's facing the right of the photo.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Ted Malone leans into his work

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Ted Malone leans to his left and tips the ABC microphone with his left hand as he stands and wears a dark suit, a white shirt, and a short, wide...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Ted Malone takes a peek inside a teapot on a mantle

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Ted Malone, from his right side, lifts the lid on a teapot that sits on a plate rail and takes a peek inside, perhaps in the Noah Webster home. He...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Ted Malone talks into a portable microphone on a ship

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Ted Malone, wearing a plaid tam, looks at and holds a portable microphone in his right hand with wires attached to a case that hangs from a strap...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Molly Bee, Dave Dexter, and Lee Gillette

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Tennessee Ernie Ford, Molly Bee, Dave Dexter, and Lee Gillette looking over music in the studio. Ford and Bee are singing and looking forward at the...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Molly Bee, Dave Dexter, and Lee Gillette

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Tennessee Ernie Ford, Molly Bee, Dave Dexter, and Lee Gillette looking over music in the studio. Dexter is looking at Bee while talking and Bee is...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
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  • 1950
  • Microphone

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (10)
  • Ted Malone Collection (3)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (16)
  • Gelatin silver prints (16)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Group portraits (9)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (15)

Subjects

  • Men, White (15)
  • Jazz singers (7)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (6)
  • Jazz musicians (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Radio personalities (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • African American jazz musicians (2)
  • African American men (2)
  • Male singers (2)
  • Radio programs (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Women singers (2)
  • Caps (Headgear) (1)
  • Cellists (1)
  • Disc jockeys (1)
  • Hinges (1)
  • Jazz radio programs (1)
  • Neckties (1)
  • Plates (Tableware) (1)
  • Ship captains (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Sound studios (1)
  • Teapots (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • (-) Microphone (16)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (2)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Dexter, Dave (6)
  • Como, Perry, 1912-2001 (4)
  • Malone, Ted, 1908-1989 (3)
  • Bee, Molly (2)
  • Bey, Turhan, 1922-2012 (2)
  • Dennis, Matt, 1914-2002 (2)
  • Ford, Tennessee Ernie, 1919-1991 (2)
  • Gillette, Leland James (2)
  • Moran, Jim (2)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Cole, Nat King, 1919-1965 (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Robbins, Fred, 1919-1992 (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (10)
  • 1941 (6)
  • (-) 1950 (16)

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