KMOX Music Collection
This collection consists of the music library, original and stock
arrangements assembled by St. Louis radio station KMOX (CBS) during the
period (1930s-1940s) when the station maintained a studio orchestra.
In addition to the orchestra of 35 musicians, the station employed three
professional arrangers, several copyists and a librarian. The collection
as received contains some 48,195 titles, including orchestral, concert,
and special arrangements, and a large group of twentieth-century sheet
music. The KMOX collection was a gift to Lovejoy Library from the
station, and is accompanied by the original card index.
Dave Bittner and His KMOX Radio Orchestra,
circa 1930.
Standing, Left To Right : Dave
Bittner - Director, violin; T. Ted Schiffer - drums; Porter Brown - banjo;
Unknown - sousaphone
Seated, Left To Right : ? Halbman -
tenor saxophone; ? Halbman - clarinet; ? Halbman - alto saxophone; Joe Carrione
- trumpet; Ollie Burger - trumpet; Ted Hunt - trombone; Unknown - organ
KMOX Pop Sheet Music Titles (in alphabetical order)
KMOX, The Voice of St. Louis
St. Louis
Public Library Media Archives: Radio
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Updated by Kristin Walker
April 2005
