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However, the ‘Crazy’ radio empire was much larger, spreading over much of the United States from its beginnings in Mineral Wells, Texas. Radio trade magazines and programming schedules attest to the proliferation of Crazy-branded programs nationwide. Recorded evidence has thus far been scant, with small collections of programs available on Archive.org and various old-time radio sites with minimal description. The Boyce Ditto Public Library Collection of radio broadcast transcription discs at the University of North Texas Library fills this gap with respect to both recordings and metadata, offering examples of at least three ‘Crazy’ program titles in 32 episodes on 16 discs. Those programs include the Mineral Wells broadcasts which were carried on the Texas Quality Network of radio stations. This presentation will describe the origins and broader national history of the Crazy Crystals program with numerous recorded examples, which restore a missing piece of early country music radio history.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["Association for Recorded Sound Collections"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright Association for Recorded Sound Collections\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Video Editor"]},"value":{"en":["Nathan Georgitis"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eThe story of the Crazy Crystals radio shows as operated by subsidiaries in the southeast-ern United States in the 1930s has been well documented in articles, and in a past ARSC presentation (Wyatt, 2014). However, the \u0026lsquo;Crazy\u0026rsquo; radio empire was much larger, spreading over much of the United States from its beginnings in Mineral Wells, Texas. Radio trade magazines and programming schedules attest to the proliferation of Crazy-branded programs nationwide. Recorded evidence has thus far been scant, with small collections of programs available on Archive.org and various old-time radio sites with minimal description. The Boyce Ditto Public Library Collection of radio broadcast transcription discs at the University of North Texas Library fills this gap with respect to both recordings and metadata, offering examples of at least three \u0026lsquo;Crazy\u0026rsquo; program titles in 32 episodes on 16 discs. Those programs include the Mineral Wells broadcasts which were carried on the Texas Quality Network of radio stations. 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