Finding aid of the Marty Roberts collection 2248
Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
2022 February
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0185
ctlibarc@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library
Title: Marty Roberts collection
Creator:
Roberts, Marty, 1918-2009
Identifier/Call Number: 2248
Physical Description:
7.625 Linear Feet
6 boxes
Date (bulk): 1940s-1960s
Abstract: This collection from radio disk jockey Marty Roberts (1918-2009) contains promotional materials for various films, television
series, and entertainment related events. These promotional materials include posters, stills, synopsis, and other information.
Language of Material:
English.
Container: 1
Container: 2
Container: 3
Container: 4
Container: 5A
Container: 5B
This collection from radio disk jockey Marty Roberts (1918-2009) contains promotional materials for various films, television
series, and entertainment related events. These promotional materials include posters, stills, synopsis, and other information.
Roberts was a disk jockey prominently from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Marty Roberts (1918-2009) was an American radio disc jockey (DJ), songwriter, TV personality, and actor. Roberts was on a
number of radio stations, such as WBT, Charlotte, N. C, 1938–41, with the Tennessee Ramblers; WJJD, Chicago, 1941–2; WDZ,
Tuscola, 1947–51; WCKY, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1951–8, where he co-hosted with Nelson King; and WDZ, Decatur, 1958. He appeared
in several singing cowboy films as part of the Tennessee Ramblers, including "Ride Ranger, Ride" (1936), "Yodelin' Kid from
Pine Ridge" (1937), and "Ridin' the Cherokee Trail" (1941). Roberts was in the Billboard magazine's top 5 country and western
disc jockeys of the year from 1951 through 1955.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library
at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Marty Roberts, May 16, 1994.
[Box/folder no. or item name], Marty Roberts collection, Collection no. 2248, Cinematic Arts Library, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California.
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Press kits
Promotional materials
Television -- Archival resources
Radio programs -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Radio -- Archival resources
Motion pictures -- Archival resources
Roberts, Marty, 1918-2009 -- Archives