University of Wyoming
NBC radio show -- Phonograph records -- 78 rpm.
Raymond Bloch band -- Phonograph records -- 45 rpm.
Raymond Bloch was a musician, a band leader, and a music director for radio and television shows. He was with Hal Kemp's Band during the 1930s. He worked on NBC radio shows from 1939-1941. His band played the themes and background music for NBC's radio shows. His band was in the USO during World War II. He and his band made phonograph records and played supper clubs in the 1950s. He also directed music for Broadway shows and television music specials, 1950s-1973. He directed the music for the Republican National Convention in 1972.
The Raymond Bloch papers contain newspaper clippings about his career (1935-1969), correspondence to his wife from Berlin, Germany, where he was taping the music for a television music special (1961), annotated manuscript and sheet music (1930s-1973), twenty-five 78 rpm reference phonograph records of the music for NBC radio show (1939-1941), three 45 rpm phonograph records of Raymond Bloch and his band (1950s), and eight 78 rpm phonograph records of other bands (1940s). There are also many photographs of Raymond Bloch and his family. The photographs include three of Raymond Bloch on "This Is Your Life", ca. 1970s.
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