Archives Collection
WOLFMAN JACK
BEATLES RADIO SHOW
90-024
AUDIO TAPE
Physical
description:
1
10' reel to reel analog audio tape (TTA‑0127)
Date:
[1976?]
Provenance:
This
audio tape was retrieved from discard by Middle Tennessee State University
Television Services by the Center audio archivist. The date, source, etc. are unknown.
Biographical
sketch:
Wolfman
Jack, born Bob Smith in Brooklyn NY ca. 1939, was an early fan of rhythm and
blues and rock music and spent over thirty years as a disc jockey in Nashville
and southern California. He also hosted
the television show Midnight Special
for nine years and appeared in the film American Graffiti. (from
clippings in Nashville Tennessean
6 April and 2 July 1988 in the biographical vertical file.)
Scope
and content:
This
radio show, written and produced by Jim Nettleton and Long John Wade (Wayne?)
was a four‑hour documentary of the history of the Beatles and includes
narration and interviews as well as
performances by the Beatles.
Location:
Audio
visual materials are filed by tape number in the audio visual archives.