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Size | 4 items |
Abstract | Interviews conducted by author and historian, Pamela Grundy, for her research project on the Crazy Water Crystals Company, who from 1933 to 1937 sponsored radio programs featuring many North Carolina and South Carolina musicians. The sponsored radio programs primarily featured hillbilly and country music and were broadcast on stations throughout the region, including WBT-Charlotte, WWNC-Asheville, and WSB-Atlanta. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Zeke Morris, a musician who played for the J.E. Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers and later Wade Mainer's Sons of the Mountaineers, and his brother Wiley Morris, who performed with Zeke on the radio for many years. Also included is an interview with Homer "Pappy" Sherril, who was born in Hickory, N.C. and is best known for his long collaboration with banjoist Snuffy Jenkins on WIS in Columbia, S.C. The collection also contains corresponding transcripts for the 3 interviews. |
Creator | Grundy, Pamela. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2016
Archival processing of the Pamela Grundy Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Pamela Grundy, Ph.D., is an independent historian and author of the award-winning book, Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina. She is coordinator of the Southern Oral History Program's "Listening for a Change" project documenting race and desegregation at West Charlotte High School. She is also a lecturer in history at Davidson College. She holds a doctorate in history from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Back to Top3 interviews conducted by author and historian, Pamela Grundy, for her research project on the Crazy Water Crystals Company, who from 1933 to 1937 sponsored radio programs featuring many North Carolina and South Carolina musicians. Recordings are on 4 audiocassettes. Interviewees featured on the audio recordings include Zeke Morris, a musician who played for the J.E. Mainer's Crazy Mountaineers and later Wade Mainer's Sons of the Mountaineers, and his brother, Wiley Morris, who performed with Zeke on the radio for many years. Also included is an interview with Homer "Pappy" Sherril, who was born in Hickory, N.C. and is best known for his long collaboration with banjoist Snuffy Jenkins on WIS in Columbia, S.C. The collection also contains corresponding transcripts for the 3 interviews.
Back to TopArrangement: In order as received.
Processing information: Titles compiled from SFC database. Transcripts were previously located in the Pamela Grundy control file.
Folder 1 |
Transcripts: FS-1185-1188 |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20094/1185 |
Interview with Zeke Morris at his auto body shop in Black Mountain, N.C., 19 April 1990Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20094/1186 |
Interview with Wiley Morris at his home in Black Mountain, N.C., 19 April 1990Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20094/1187 |
Interview with Homer Sherrill at his home in Chapin, S.C., 11 June 1990: tape 1 of 2Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20094/1188 |
Interview with Homer Sherrill at his home in Chapin, S.C., 11 June 1990: tape 2 of 2Audiocassette |