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Truman, Margaret (Mary Margaret), 1924-2008

Sunday Evening Hour, Featuring Margaret Truman

Margaret Truman's first concert radio broadcast on the Sunday Evening Hour, as recorded by the Navy Fleet Sonar School, Key West, Florida. The performance was during a concert at the Stone Church in Independence, Missouri. She is accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Karl Krueger.

Part 1: Margaret Truman singing the Spanish folk song "Cielito Lindo."

Part 2: ;Margaret Truman singing "Charmont L'oiseau."

Part 3: Margaret Truman singing "Last Rose of Summer."

Activities Aboard the Dewey and Truman Campaign Trains

CBS recording of activities aboard the Harry S. Truman and Thomas Dewey campaign trains, edited together and aired on the radio October 1, 1948. From the Dewey Victory Special, Allen Dulles explains his role as a Dewey advisor on foreign affairs. Other Dewey campaign advisors and assistants also introduce themselves and their roles, including Dewey's secretary. Journalists representing the New Yorker magazine, the Baltimore Afro-American, and CBS also introduce themselves.

Carillon Presented to the People of the United States by the People of the Netherlands

Her Royal Highness Queen Juliana of the Netherlands presents a carillon in gratitude to the people of the United States from the people of the Netherlands. President Harry S. Truman's remarks upon accepting the carillon. The President spoke at 3:45 p.m. in Meridian Hill Park in Washington. His opening words referred to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, her husband Prince Bernhard, and Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman. He also referred early in his remarks to his daughter Margaret who was on a concert tour in the western States.

Margaret Truman Singing "Cielito Lindo"

Margaret Truman singing the Spanish folk song "Cielito Lindo," performed during a recital at the Stone Church in Independence, Missouri. She is accompanied by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Karl Krueger. The radio announcer is unidentified. It was recorded by Edmund D. Allen on a device that etched the sound on a blank vinyl disc. From: David. S. Allen.

President Truman's Music Reviewed by Patrick Hayes

President Truman's Music Reviewed by Patrick Hayes of WQQW, the Good Music Station in Washington, June 23, 1950. Radio program includes a review of President Harry S. Truman's musical knowledge and musical preferences by weekly commentator Patrick Hayes of the Hayes Concert Bureau. Hayes also interviews Anthony Leviero of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, who had interviewed Truman and others and had written an extensive column on this topic published in the Times on June 18, 1950.

Margaret Truman Album "American Songs"

Boxed set of four 45 rpm disc recordings, red-colored, entitled "Margaret Truman - American Songs" with the Robert Shaw Chorale. Recorded on RCA Victor Red Seal Records, SDM 1445. 1. My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free, and The Bird; 2: Song Over A Child; 3: O'er The Hills Far Away; 4: I Am The Rose Of Sharon; 5: Beneath A Weeping Willow's Shade; 6: Go, Congregation, Go; 7: My Love Is Gone To Sea; 8: The Death of General Washington, and Bunker Hill (or The American Hero).

Margaret Truman and the Robert Shaw Chorale Christmas Concert

Carnegie Hall Christmas program, broadcast by ABC Radio, featuring soprano Margaret Truman, the Robert Shaw Male Chorus, and the orchestra under the baton of Dr. Frank Black, in New York.

Part 1: The orchestra plays "The Sleeping Beauty Waltz" by Tchaikovsky; Margaret Truman sings a Puccini's aria, "O Mio Babbino Caro;" the orchestra plays Humperdinck's Overture from "Hansel and Gretel;" the Robert Shaw Male Chorus sings "The Echo Carol" and "Carol of the Bells;"