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Oral history interview with Red Dunning
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- 1982-03-01 (Creation)
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0.1 cubic feet; 1 audiocassette (52 min., 22 sec.) + transcript (28 pages)
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Biographical history
Owen Chase "Red" Dunning was born in Hoquiam, Washington, in 1904. He was an accomplished musician and played in numerous orchestras in the Portland, Oregon, area, including Herman Kenin's Multnomah Hotel Dance Orchestra and the Portland Symphony Orchestra. In 1927, he and Alice Eudora Mower were married; they later had two children. In 1929, he became assistant orchestra director to Misch Pelz for the radio station KOIN, and later orchestra director in 1944. He also had several television shows in the 1950s. After he retired in 1969, Dunning focused on nature photography. He died in 1982.
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This oral history interview with Red Dunning was conducted by Kathleen D. Walsh in Portland, Oregon, on March 1, 1982, as part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library's oral history program. Alice E. Dunning was also present and occasionally contributed to the interview. In this interview, Dunning discusses his career as music director at the KOIN radio station in Portland. He talks about the change from live radio shows to pre-recorded programming, about the people he worked with at KOIN, and about shows he had on KOIN-TV. He also discusses his interest in nature photography. He closes the interview by looking at photographs and ephemera and talking about them.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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A film by Red Dunning, about Camp Wilkerson near Rainier, Oregon, is held at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library as MI 02012.
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Preferred citation: Oral history interview with Red Dunning, by Kathleen D. Walsh, SR 9345, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
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Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition.
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Archivist's note
Sarah Stroman
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Name access points
- Walsh, Kathleen D. (Contributor)
- KOIN (Radio station : Portland, Or.) (Subject)