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	Willis Conover, 75, Voice of America Disc Jockey
		Willis Conover, the Voice of America disc jockey who fought the Cold War with cool music, capturing the hearts and liberating the spirits of millions of listeners trapped behind the Iron Curtain, died on Friday at a hospital in Alexandria, Va. He was 75 and lived in Washington.
		Conover was a college freshman in Salisbury, Md., when a guest appearance on a local radio station led to an eight-week job.
		When Conover rummaged through the stack of records and came up with some Dorseys and Arte Shaw, one of the hostesses was so impressed with the clientele's reaction to the music that she introduced Conover to her husband, a radio-station manager.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/conover-obit.html (676 words)

	UNT Libraries, Music Library, Willis Conover Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Willis Conover (1920-1996) was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years.
		Conover is credited with keeping interest in jazz alive in the countries of eastern Europe through his nightly broadcasts during the cold war when jazz was banned by most of the communist governments.
		Conover was not well known in the United States, even among jazz aficionados, but his visits to eastern Europe and Russia brought huge crowds and star treatment for him.
	www.library.unt.edu /music/Conover/default.htm (184 words)

	Willis Conover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		\'\'\'Willis Conover\'\'\' (1920-May 17, 1996) was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years.
		Conover is credited with keeping interest in jazz alive in the countries of eastern Europe through his nightly broadcasts during the cold war when jazz was banned by most of the communist governments.
		Conover was not well known in the United States, even among jazz aficionados, but his visits to eastern Europe and Russia brought huge crowds and star treatment for him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willis_Conover (180 words)

	Willis Conover: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Conover is credited with keeping interest in jazz alive in the countries of eastern Europe Europe quick summary:
		Conover was not well known in the United States[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
		Conover was a legend amongst Jazz lovers primarily due to the hour-long program on the Voice of America called Voice of America Jazz Hour.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/willis_conover.htm (490 words)

	Willis Conover, 75, Voice of America Disc Jockey
		Willis Conover, the Voice of America disc jockey who fought the Cold War with cool music, capturing the hearts and liberating the spirits of millions of listeners trapped behind the Iron Curtain, died on Friday at a hospital in Alexandria, Va. He was 75 and lived in Washington.
		Conover was a college freshman in Salisbury, Md., when a guest appearance on a local radio station led to an eight-week job.
		When Conover rummaged through the stack of records and came up with some Dorseys and Arte Shaw, one of the hostesses was so impressed with the clientele's reaction to the music that she introduced Conover to her husband, a radio-station manager.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/conover-obit.html (676 words)

	Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich Interview
		Conover: He has put you in the "natural" drum class.
		Conover: Well, let's listen to one...one of a number of drum battles, or let's say happy challenges, between Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich at the drums.
		And I may say, Willis, that we've been out on Jazz At the Phil for two weeks now, and this is the first show we've made, and of course we'll be over across the ocean in the little bit too, and hope to see all you guys then.
	www.drummerman.net /buddy.html (1342 words)

	VOA Special English - PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Willis Conover Brought Jazz, the Music of Freedom to the World - ...
		Willis Conover heard a lot of jazz music during the nineteen forties in Washington, D.C. This city was the center of a very important jazz movement.
		Willis Conover wanted to be able to play more of the jazz music that he loved on his radio show.
		Willis Conover once said that Louis Armstrong was the heart of jazz, Duke Ellington was the soul and Count Basie was its happy dancing feet.
	www.unsv.com /voanews/specialenglish/scripts/2005/09/25/0045 (1020 words)

	The Music Magazine -- India's first and finest music e-zine
		It was sent to me by the office of Willis Conover at the VOA in Washington DC around the year 1983, when I first bought a radio.
		Conover was the presenter of choice for special jazz occasions, from festivals to private concerts at the White House.
		As Conover said, "Jazz is the only form of music that one can appreciate with the feet, the heart and the head," and any jazz that blended these three aspects with whatever individual degrees of emphasis was true.
	www.themusicmagazine.com /conoverfeat.html (1281 words)

	Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 665
		Willie Conover was the son of William Edward Conover and Sarah Elizabeth Farquer.
		Willie Conover was the son of William White Conover and Emily Caroline Yard.
		Willis Conover was the son of Andrew Conover and Judah (Unknown).
	www.conovergenealogy.com /conover-p/p665.htm (10637 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Ruth Brown
		She then spent a month with Lucky Millinder's orchestra, but was fired after she brought drinks to the band for free, and was left stranded in Washington, D.C. Blanche Calloway, Cab Calloway's sister, arranged a gig for Brown at a Washington nightclub called Crystal Caverns and soon became her manager.
		Willis Conover, a local DJ, caught her act and recommended her to Atlantic Records bosses, Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.
		Brown belted a series of her hits on the groundbreaking TV program Showtime at the Apollo in 1955, exhibiting delicious comic timing while trading sly one-liners with MC Willie Bryant (ironically, ex-husband Jimmy Brown was a member of the show's house band).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ruth-Brown (1639 words)

	Central Europe Review - Profile of Voice of America Broadcaster Willis Conover
		Conover applied for the newly established job as host of a jazz and popular music program in 1954, not in a patriotic fervor but simply as an escape from a job as an announcer in which he was unhappy.
		Conover likened his preparation for taping a program to the writing of a sonnet: "You do the last two lines first and then try to find twelve good ones to lead up to that." Or to musical composition: "It's the same process a composer follows in developing a symphony.
		Conover was not an analytic thinker and his programs were not burdened with judgements and critiques; the design was in the selection of materials.
	www.ce-review.org /99/5/music5_lester.html (3959 words)

	Definition of bill willis
		3: Willis was elected Chairman of the Labour League of Yout...
		13:...bers of the U.S. House of RepresentativesAlston, Willis]]
		The IHR was founded by Willis Carto in 1979, with the intent of promoting the p...
	www.wordiq.com /search/bill+willis.html (568 words)

	News articles for Conover, Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Louis Conover Jr., 43, escaped just after 9 am by prying the steel mesh sheeting off a window on the west side of the jail recreation room, which is on the...
		Assistant Superintendent Bruce Conover said at the meeting that the most difficult part of moving inmates to other jails is finding a facility to house females...
		CONOVER, NC -- Neighbors in one Catawba County community are up in arms after receiving a letter from the United States Postal Service.
	www.linkmorgue.org /united_states/full/Wisconsin/Conover.html (2654 words)

	Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 640
		Orie Harrison Conover was shown in the census on January 7, 1920 as a farmer.
		Orville Willis Conover was the son of Terrance Clark Conover and Nellie Bussard.
		Orville Willis Conover was shown in the census on April 3, 1930 as a farm laborer.
	rhodes.globat.com /~conovergenealogy.com/conover-p/p640.htm (3567 words)

	Willis Conover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Markey Willis and Mary Gayheart decided last winter that Culpeper was ready for a high-end consignment store.
		Tempers frayed as Carroll County supervisors struggled in a six-hour special meeting Thursday to cut county spending and approve a school budget.
		Good ol' Kent Willis and the Virginia ACLU ["ACLU probes public funding of jail ministries," April 29].
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Willis_Conover.html (1069 words)

	Standard Newspapers - Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Willis Conover was born on October 18, 1920 in Buffalo, New York.
		Conover served in the military during World War II but was exempted from fighting as he was more useful, on account of his voice, for interviewing new recruits.
		Willis Conover’s voice was the most familiar and recognizable in Europe during the Cold War years.
	www.standardnewspaperslk.com /WES2006-04-08/story2191.html (1229 words)

	InstantSeats, online ticketing for the performing arts
		Reserve seats for the 1st Annual "Willis Conover Memorial Concert"
		There are special security and parking instructions for attending the 1st Annual Willis Conover Memorial Concert, featuring the "Jazz Knights" and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra in the Voice of America Auditorium, from 7-9pm on Saturday, April 28th:
		Please plan on arriving at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the 7pm performance.
	www.instantseats.com /signup/BigBandJam.cfm (180 words)

	Willis Conover Information
		Willis Conover (October 18, 1920-May 17, 1996) was a jazz producer and broadcaster on the Voice of America for over forty years.
		Conover was a legend amongst jazz lovers primarily due to the hour-long program on the Voice of America called Voice of America Jazz Hour.
		Known for his sonorous and baritone voice, many would argue that he was the most important presenter on Voice of America.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Willis_Conover (189 words)

	VOANews.com - Croatian Jazzman Inspired by VOA
		Bosko Petrovic and his friends created what became known as the Balkan jazz style, and attracted the attention of Willis Conover.
		We liked each other and later on, many times, I had the privilege not only to talk to him in front of the VOA microphones, but he came to Zagreb twice to co-lead with me the Zagreb Television jazz festivals in Zagreb that I was organizing," Bosko Petrovic said.
		Willis Conover also joined Bosko Petrovic in celebrating the 25th anniversary of his band -- the Zagreb Quartet in October of 1984.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Feb2002/Feb25/PRT25-693Article.html (292 words)

	09344 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For some four decades, Willis Conover was V-O-A’s best-known broadcaster.
		On Willis Conover’s "Music U-S-A," V-O-A listeners had the chance to hear performances by such giants of jazz as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald -- from a man who knew most of them personally.
		Willis Conover was especially popular in countries with little freedom, including the former Soviet Union, the former Czechoslovakia, and Poland.
	www.ibb.gov /editorials/09344.htm (344 words)

	Johnny Mercer, interviewed by Willis Conover, 1/30/70 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Willis Conover, who was born in Buffalo in 1920, began his career as a radio announcer in Maryland in the early 1940s.
		Conover continued broadcasting until a few months before his death in 1996.
		Conover, who intended to use the recording in subsequent broadcasts for the Voice of America.
	www.library.gsu.edu /spcoll/collections/Music/m82-8.htm (184 words)

	Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa interview
		Willis Conover/interviewer broardcast over Voice of America Radio.
		Gene, I suppose this was a tremendous occasion to look forward to when the Goodman band finally made the hallowed halls of Carnegie Hall.
		And we hope everybody listening enjoyed it half as much as we've enjoyed being able to sit down here and talk with you, and talk with Gene, and really get to feel free to express exactly what we feel about each other.
	keepitlive.tripod.com /buddyrich/krupa/interview.html (1988 words)

	WILLIS CONOVER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Willis Conover was one such man. Best known as the jazz radio voice of Voice of America, Conover was a selfless champion of the genre, helping organize huge festivals, emceeing concerts featuring everybody from Duke Ellington to Dizzy Gillespie and traveling throughout Europe and the former Soviet Republic in order to raise jazz awareness.
		Conover never enjoyed the visibility of such jazz impresarios as Norman Granz (founder of Verve Records) and Alfred Lion (co-founder of Blue Note Records), but the musicians and the true fans knew all about him.
		Readers may or may not agree with Ripmaster’s anointment of Conover, but all will agree that the tale was as well told as possible.
	www.kirkusreviews.com /kirkusreviews/discoveries/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003584434 (374 words)

	Lovecraft
		Lovecraft at Last by H. Lovecraft, Willis Conover (Cooper Square Press) Fantasy‑horror writer HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) was a true American original.
		In 1936, fifteen‑year‑old Willis Conover began corresponding with Lovecraft‑about art, culture, ethics, architecture, religion‑and their friendship continued until the end of the author's life.
		Conover collected and edited the letters, producing this rare book (only 3,000 copies of the original edition were ever printed) that illuminates the writer in a new light.
	wordtrade.com /literature/lovecraftR.htm (212 words)

	HPLA - Lovecraft at Last
		In 1936, fifteen-year-old Willis Conover began corresponding with Lovecraft—about art, culture, ethics, architecture, religion—and their friendship continued until the end of the author’s life.
		WILLIS CONOVER (1921–1996), best known as the jazz commentator for Voice of America, published Science Fantasy Correspondent when he was fifteen.
		By H.P. Lovecraft and Willis Conover; New Introduction by S.T. Joshi.
	www.hplovecraft.com /study/bios/atlastcsp.asp (279 words)

	goodthings.com: Guide to good gravy--it makes life taste good.
		For many music lovers in Soviet era Russia and eastern Europe, Willis Conover was truly the voice of America.
		Indeed, Conover's soothing baritone was heard by Russians on Voice of America radio six nights a week for 42 years.
		Conover's show provided the only opportunity for many to hear and record jazz music, since Soviet leaders were suspicious of the music as a symbol of freedom and possibility.
	www.goodthings.com /02_05_0712radio.asp (764 words)

	VOANews.com - *HOLD* VOA Snapshot - Willis and Tony
		But by the 1980s, many of the comments had changed to, "How's Willis doin'?" Word spread fast in the jazz community that Willis had contracted cancer.
		Now, six years after his death at the age of 75, the name Willis Conover still brings back fond memories.
		Tony Bennett is one of the many jazz musicians who counted the late Willis Conover as their friend.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/Feb2002/Feb17/PRT17-624Article.html (225 words)

	The Stars Our Destination - science fiction, fantasy and horror bookstore - browse and order
		Originally published in 1975 and limited to 3,000 copies, this collection of correspondance between Lovecraft and Willis Conover, finally reprinted, has been said to have been the best glimpse into Lovecraft's life.
		At age 15, Conover began corresponding with Lovecraft, and their friendship lasted until Lovecraft's death.
		Letters, reviews, articles, manuscripts, and commentary are woven into a smooth-flowing narrative that presents the illusion of a conversation between Conover and his mentor.
	www.sfbooks.com /html_files/weinberg/bo_weinberg0902_horror.html (937 words)

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