This is an artificial collection that is comprised of all donations of CDs and DVDs. Sound recordings include: original cast recordings of Broadway musicals and Hollywood movie musicals, including foreign language albums; albums recorded by Songbook-era performers; and albums including Songbook-era pieces sung by later performers. Video recordings include: recorded Broadway musical performances; Hollywood movie musicals; documentaries; and movies with Songbook-era music in the soundtrack.
The collection contains 21 pieces of memorabilia given to Tony: certificates of appreciation, correspondence from Governor Nixon and President Eisenhower and other items.
The collection contains 2 DVD's on the life of Jimmy Van Heusen who composed the Academy Award-winning song "Swinging on a Star" for the 1944 Paramount film Going My Way.
The collection contains approximately 1,200 78-rpm recordings focusing on the work of Bing Crosby and a sampling of other artists from the same period.
The collection consists of approximately 85 commercial and original arrangements used by the Hotel Van Ness Orchestra, led by Albert “Al Getchie” Glenn, as well as some miscellaneous sheet music and a photograph of the orchestra.
The collection contains 4 scrapbook pages with photos of the Wolverine Orchestra, including member Bix Beiderbecke; 1 bound scrapbook containing news clippings and other items concerning the travels of Dick Voynow's Wolverine Orchestra; miscellaneous unlabeled photos; miscellaneous news clippings
The collection contains 7", 10", and 12" lacquer discs, various reel-to-reel tapes, miscellaneous 78s and LPs, and some sheet music belonging to lyricist Johnny Burke. Many of the lacquers are test pressings of music for which he wrote the lyrics.
The personal and business papers of Meredith Willson, author and composer of "The Music Man" and "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," along with photographs, sheet music and arrangements, sound recordings, and audiovisual recordings from his personal collection.
Scripts, sheet music, souvenir books, programs, newsclippings, arrangements, photographs, playbills, and showbills from Libi Staiger's professional career and that of her husband, Jerome Eskow.
The collection consists of six arrangements written by composer Peter Brunelli and one wooden box containing rubber stamps for arrangements and compositions, custom-made for Peter Brunelli.