- US US.INSON Mss 063
- Folder
- 1929 - 1991
Personal papers of Jay Gorney, including correspondence and scripts, sheet music, arrangements, orchestrations, and recordings of Gorney's works.
Gorney, Jay
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Personal papers of Jay Gorney, including correspondence and scripts, sheet music, arrangements, orchestrations, and recordings of Gorney's works.
Gorney, Jay
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.
Fraser, Ian, 1933-2014
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.
Jenkins, Gordon
55 linear feet (72 boxes) of musical arrangements ranging across Mitzi Gaynor's career. It is approximately 400 arrangements.
Gaynor, Mitzi, 1931 -
3 boxes of musical arrangements created for Diahann Carroll and a small amount of ephemera.
Carroll, Diahann
The collection consists of approximately 1500 unpublished musical arrangements used by Richard Himber with his bands and orchestras.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.
Himber, Richard
43 arrangements for voice and various instruments, written for and used by Dinah Washington
Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963
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.
Starr, Kay
Collection consists of drafts of Will Friedwald’s book A biographical dictionary of jazz and popular singers. Includes draft notes. A large collection of music recordings were donated along with the papers; they have since been catalogued and removed from the collection. A complete listing of recordings is available in the finding aid.
Friedwald, Will
Sheet music, photos, booklets and autographs collected by Jeanne and her husband, Roy, from concerts they attended.
Parker, Jeanne
The collection contains theatrical ephemera for a 1928 London-based run of "Funny Face," including a framed lobby card, accounting sheet, and playbill, as well as other miscellaneous programs and sheet music.
Wilcox, William
Collection consists of song recordings on CD. Dan Levinson transferred the recordings from their original format, generally 78rpm, to compact disc.
Levinson, Dan
The collection consists of arrangements created by Terry Woodson and others for numerous performers.
Woodson, Terry
Collection consists of original arrangements and compositions, recordings of Mason’s work on reels and records, as well as some published material. Additionally, it contains some biographical documents, including adoption and marriage records, and Mason’s resumé.
Mason, Jack
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.
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 1925-1990
The collection consists of arrangements created by Terry Woodson and others for numerous performers.
Woodson, Terry
Collection consists of recordings, music, and newsletter articles for the Buck Creek Jazz Band, of which Jerry Addicott is a member.
Buck Creek Jazz Band
Myrna Greene Collection of Eddie Fisher Research
Collection consists of news clippings, research notes, magazines, and sheet music related to Myrna Greene’s unauthorized biography of Eddie Fisher, "The Eddie Fisher Story."
Greene, Myrna
Collection consists of sheet music and handwritten music collected by Patricia Wilson. It also includes some recordings on CD of Wilson’s performances.
Wilson, Patricia
Boswell Sisters Research Collection
Collection consists of newspaper/magazine articles about the Boswell Sisters, sheet music featuring them, and video and audio recordings. Most clippings are photocopies.
McLean, Kenneth