Guide to the ARS Miscellany
ARS.0099
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst
Archive of Recorded Sound
Braun Music Center
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Stanford University
Stanford, California, 94305-3076
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Descriptive Summary
Title: ARS Miscellany
Dates: 1899-2005
Collection number: ARS.0099
Collection size:
4 boxes
Repository:
Archive of Recorded Sound
Abstract: Transfers and copies on optical media, radio programs, research materials, transcripts, scrapbooks, and other miscellany from
the shelves of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Language of Material: English
Access
Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for
assistance.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Preferred Citation
ARS Miscellany, ARS-0099. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Sponsor
This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Scope and Contents
The title for this artificial collection is self-explanatory. While there are some audio recordings here (mostly radio programs),
this collection is largely paper-based. The related collection
ARS Audiotape Collection (ARS0070) is entirely tape-based, and the few recordings found here are of a more recent vintage and almost all on optical disc media.
Included is research material, photographs, transcripts, a scrapbook, one DVD-R, and a box of realia (largely equipment and
promotional items). Items in folders 1-5 in Box 1 have been cataloged individually, and much more information can be found
about them in Stanford's
on-line catalog . Items will be continually added to this collection, and this finding aid will be revised as needed.
Box 1, Folder 1
Matías Bombal - Swingin' At The Cotton Club, Classic Jazz and Swing, radio program from KXJZ
2005
Physical Description:
2 CD-Rs
Scope and Contents
Contains two CD-Rs and some paper documentation from a public radio program from 2005. On one compact disc, Bombal relates
the story of the Cotton Club in New York City, with studio recordings of artists and songs introduced and performed at the
club. He also presents a broadcast by Hellmut H. Hellmutt of the Reichs-Rundfunkgesellschaft, a supplier of pre-recorded programs
to radio stations in Germany of the midnight show of April 20-21, 1931. It is the only known complete broadcast from the original
location of the Cotton Club on 142nd Street at Lennox Avenue in Harlem and among the earliest surviving sound documents of
German radio. The broadcast was discovered in the vaults of Sony/BMG by archivist Michael Brooks. The last track on the disc
is a copy of an excerpt from the news talk show Insight, in which Jeffrey Callison interviews Matías Bombal about the Swingin'
at the Cotton Club program. The other compact disc is a production reference recording of Bombal interviewing Michael Brooks
about his discovery. Excerpts of the interview were broadcast on KXJZ.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bombal, Matías, 1967-
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
Box 1, Folder 10
Clifford Brown Jr. - The Clifford Brown Story, radio program from KDIA
2006
Physical Description:
5 CD-Rs
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Brown, Clifford
Box 1, Folder 2-5
Jim Cullum Collection Transfers and Documentation
2004
Physical Description:
7 CD-Rs
Scope and Contents
Four folders of transfers and documentation on optical media related to the Jim Cullum Collection (ARS0036), likely overlapping
with that collections' contents.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Cullum, Jim
Box 3, Folder 6
Dmitri Dobkin Material
1946-1947
Physical Description:
3 pamphlets
Scope and Contents
Dmitri (spelled here Dmitry) Dobkin, a singer and recording artist, was director of the Brooklyn Free Musical Society's School
of Music. Material includes two pamphlets and a concert program.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Dobkin, Dmitri
Box 3, Folder 2
Alexander Fried Material
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Fried was a music critic for the San Francisco Examiner. Material includes reprints of early phonograph leaflets, newspaper
clippings of reviews, a press release from Philips-Mercury, a San Francisco Symphony Program from 1972, handwritten notes,
and various notes related to Berg's Lulu.
Box 2, Folder 2-3
Ted Hallock - The Mystery of Artie Shaw, radio program from KBOO
1998
Physical Description:
13 CD-Rs
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004
Box 1, Folder 12
Jascha Heifetz, transfer for Deutsche Gramophon 477 627-1 (two copies)
Physical Description:
2 CD-Rs
Creator:
Heifetz, Jascha, 1901-1987
Scope and Contents
Jascha Heifetz - Pianist/Composer. When You Make Love To Me ; So Much In Love
Box 1, Folder 8
Ozzie Hilton Collection Photographs
1930s
Physical Description:
9 photographs
Scope and Contents
Photographs separated from original donation. Featured are Tom Coakley (two images, one autographed to Hilton), Carl Ravazza,
Al Bowlly, The Biltmore Trio (Paul Gibbons, Eddie Bush, Bill Seckler), Ray Noble, and Russ Columbo. All are promotional photographs.
Box 3, Folder 4
Edward Jabès Material
Physical Description:
1 folder
Creator:
Jabès, Edward
Scope and Contents
Jabès (1903-1983) was a professional singer based in Berkeley, California. Material includes class notes from c.1950, an
insert for his LP French Songs From Medieval To Modern Times, a paper compiled and translated by Jabes titled Yvette Guilbert
Columbia Recordings, and French sheet music with Guilbert on the cover.
Box 3, Folder 5
Russ Lambert - Bing Crosby Material
1940-2004
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Russ Lambert (1918-2004) was a Bing Crosby enthusiast and record collector. Material includes a scrapbook and correspondence
with record labels, dealers, collectors, and associates from 1940-1948, and chronicles the relatively early development of
the Crosby discography. Also enclosed is a memorial notice and a photograph of a Heathkit color television from 1962.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Crosby, Bing, 1903-1977
Box 2, Folder 1
Marian McPartland - Piano Jazz, radio program on NPR. Artie Shaw, with Richard Sudhalter
2002-06
Physical Description:
1 CD-R
Creator:
McPartland, Marian
Creator:
Sudhalter, Richard M.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Shaw, Artie, 1910-2004
Box 2, Folder 4
James B. McPherson - Ernestine Schumann-Heink Research Material
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Typewritten chronology and notes, handwritten notes, transcribed or photocopied newspaper articles
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
Box 1, Folder 9
William R. Moran - Nellie Melba Lecture
1990-01-14
Physical Description:
1 audiocassette
and transcript
Creator:
Moran, William R.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Melba, Nellie, Dame, 1861-1931
Box 1, Folder 11
Grover Sales - Imagining Buddy Bolden, radio program from KALW
1997-09
Physical Description:
2 CD-Rs
Creator:
Sales, Grover
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bolden, Buddy, 1877-1931
Box 1, Folder 7
Cecil Taylor, All The Notes DVD
2004
Physical Description:
1 DVD-R
Scope and Contents
Features Cecil Taylor speaking about himself and about jazz and performing in various venues, with added commentaries about
Taylor's music from other narrators.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Taylor, Cecil, 1929-
Box 3, Folder 3
Fred Terman - Speech Transcript, West Coast Electronic Manufacturing Association Dinner
1955-05-12
Physical Description:
1 folder
Creator:
Terman, Fred, 1900-1982
Box 3, Folder 7
Theater Records scrapbook
Physical Description:
1 scrapbook
Scope and Contents
Scrapbook from an unidentified owner probably from the Los Angeles area, with clippings from theater, opera, and ballet programs,
1899-1919. Also some criticism. Venues include the Mason Opera House, Los Angeles Theatre, Columbia Theatre, Temple Auditorium,
Macdonough Theatre, Hamburger's Majestic Theatre, Burbank Theatre, Alcazar, Shrine Auditorium, and a few from UC Berkeley's
Greek Theatre. Performers include Schumann-Heink, Tetrazzini, De Rezke, Galli-Curci, Teyte, Harry Lauder, and actors Billie
Burke and Tyrone Power.
Box 3, Folder 1
Harold Youngberg Material
Physical Description:
1 folder
Scope and Contents
Youngberg was a classical music critic in the 1930s and 40s. Material includes a phonograph record log from 1943 with comments,
and typewritten reprints of criticism from 1935-1936.
Box 4
Miscellaneous Objects
Scope and Contents note
Two record cleaning brushes (Decca, Pocatello Music Co.) ; Rockwalk/1995 Grammy Award toy tambourine ; 1995 Grammy Awards/Guitar
Center/Fender outsized guitar pick ; Ampex coaster ; two Robins tape splicers (one in box with instructions) ; Ampex demagnetizer
; G. Bettini International Exposition Paris 1900 souvenir medals (from Moran Collection) ; B+K Precision 3020 Sweep/Function
Generator (in box) ; Stax SR-5 Electrostatic Ear-speaker headphones (in box)
