Approximately 200 original arrangements created by various arrangers for the singing duo Sandler & Young, who performed internationally from 1963-1982. Most arrangements include a master score, vocal parts, and various instrument parts. The collection also includes a few news clippings.
Approximately 140 musical arrangements for the weekly NBC radio show The Phil Harris – Alice Faye Show. The arrangements were created by Walter Scharf.
Papers and sound recordings spanning the career of lyricist Hy Zaret (Hyman Harry Zaritsky). Includes research, notes, handwritten musical notes and lyrics on staff paper, mock-ups and drafts of sheet music, printed sheet music, orchestrations, arrangements, and folios. It includes copyright registrations, requests for use, letters of praise, scrapbooks, and correspondence. Collection also contains plaques and certificates presented to Zaret for milestones related to “Unchained Melody” and in appreciation for his work with Lou Singer on children’s educational music, and audio recordings featuring unpublished and commercial reel-to-reel tapes, 78s, LPs, and lacquers of Zaret’s songs, his Little Songs, and research-related materials.
The collection consists of 18 boxes of music material owned by the composer and arranger, Ian Fraser. The bulk of the collection is composed and/or arranged by Fraser. It includes music composed for the Christmas in Washington specials, and arrangements made for Julie Andrews, Ann-Margret, Steve & Eydie and others.
The collection consists of approximately 1500 unpublished musical arrangements used by Richard Himber with his bands and orchestras. In most cases the arranger is not known.
The collection consists of 9 boxes of printed music and documents and 231 sound recordings (132 7” reels, 6 5” reels, 17 10” reels, and 76 cassettes.) The notated music consists of original music and arrangements by Gordon Jenkins and a small amount of music by Gordon Jenkins, Jr., including a handful of published choral octavos of arrangements of popular songs. Highlights of the collection include the complete music to the 1959 concept album by Judy Garland The Letter, the complete music to the Future section of the 1980 concept album Trilogy by Frank Sinatra and an arrangement of “Everything Happens to Me” made for Frank Sinatra.
From notations on the reels, they appear to contain recordings of Jenkins’s compositions, including potentially bootlegged copies of commercial recordings he worked on. The cassettes contain recordings of the compositions and arrangements of the composer Mort Stevens.
The collection was received in two show trunks consisting of numerous instrument books. One folder is marked 5/19/86, indicating that the collection was used on or around that date, although a brief google search indicates no easily-accessible record of a show on that date, this does not positively disprove that there was a show on that date.
Collection consists of sheet music, arrangements, and newspaper clippings and programs related to Margaret Whiting. Includes some published copies of Richard Whiting’s compositions. Includes Richard Whiting’s Steinway piano.
The collection consists of 37 arrangements by Ralph Carmichael for big band or vocals with big band. It also contains arrangements by other people, primarily published or copied from published materials. It contains a portion of the music mail-order series, The Ralph Carmichael School of Music Correspondence. It contains a small amount of published sacred choral octavos by Carmichael. Non-musical material includes programs and documents relating to the Young Messiah concert tour and photographs.
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 363 music arrangements for Kay Starr's performing career, as well as vocal scores, lyric sheets, two 16-mm rolls of film, one Los Angeles Weekly TV Magazine with a photo of Kay Starr on the cover and a couple of photographs.