Three Tons of Joy with Johnny Otis. Johnny Otis Photographs. Artists interviewed include Little Esther Phillips, Al Frazier, Mary Wells, Zola Taylor, the Coasters, Horace Silver, the Robins, Etta James, Big Jay McNeely, Bobby Day, Bumps Blackwell, Pee Wee Crayton, Jimmy McCracklin, and Joe Liggins. The radio programs are jointly held with the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. Over 200 radio programs on Black popular music from the 1970s and 1980s produced by Karen Shearer Productions for Westwood One.
Transcriptions are available for some interviews and programs.
This collection is jointly held with the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University. Video Interviews George Clinton, Branford Marsalis, Cab Calloway, L.L. Kool J, Patrice Rushen, Urban Bush Women, and the Boys Choir of Harlem.