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  • Sponsor
  • Scope and Contents
  • Transferred tapes
  • missing and duplicated numbers

  • Contributing Institution: Archive of Recorded Sound
    Title: Jim Cullum Collection
    Identifier/Call Number: ARS.0036
    Physical Description: 61 box(es) This collection contains open reel tapes, audiocassettes, videocassettes, eight tracks, phonograph records, compact discs, music scores and financial records.
    Date (inclusive): 1886-2010
    Date (bulk): 1961-2011
    Physical Location: Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California 94305-3076
    Abstract: The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas. Devoted to jazz from between the World Wars, the Happy Jazz Band was perhaps the foremost exponent of Dixieland in the Southwest. Jim Cullum, Jr. continued the band after his father passed as the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The Jim Cullum collection consists of tape recordings of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and covers over thirty years of the band's performances. In addition, the collection contains performances by other noteworthy performers including Jack Teagarden and Bobby Hackett, as well as lesser known, but important jazz musicians from Texas, such as cornetist Garner Clark.
    Media in this Collection: Audio: 3-5" Reels - 41 7" Reels - 686 10.5" Reels - 109 Ampex 456 1/2" Reels - 6 Ampex 456 2" Reels - 5 Audiocassettes - 200 DAT - 1 Eight Tracks - 3 Compact Discs - 8 7" vinyl discs - 10 12" vinyl discs - 4 10" instantaneous discs - 7 12" instantaneous discs - 7 Video: VHS - 33 U-Matic - 1 DVD - 1
    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.

    Source

    The Jim Cullum Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Jim Cullum, Jr. in 2008.

    Preferred Citation

    Jim Cullum Collection, ARS-0036. 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 Jim Cullum Collection consists of audio and video recordings of traditional jazz revivalism in Texas. In 1962 Jim Cullum, Sr., who had played clarinet professionally with Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini and others in the 1930s and 40s, formed a seven-piece traditional jazz group in San Antonio, Texas with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. on cornet, called the Happy Jazz Band. After the senior Cullum's passing in 1973, the band continued under Jim's leadership as the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The group still plays today, and the collection contains compact discs and a DVD of recent recordings.
    Among the thousand-plus tapes in the collection, Cullum chose to have digitally transferred certain reels he felt were of the highest priority, highlighting undersung regional players such as cornetist (and family friend) Garner Clark and pianists Peck Kelley and Son Harrell. In order to get a better sense of the collection's contents, these transferred tapes are listed below. Other lesser known groups represented in the collection include the Bourbon Street Bums, the Dixie Ramblers, the Rubber City Retreads, the Crawford-Ferguson Night Owls, and Johnny Wigs and The Bayou Stompers. More familiar musicians, such as Jack Teagarden, Bobby Hackett, Baby Dodds, Turk Murphy, and Knocky Parker are also present.
    A substantial portion of the collection belongs to performances by the Happy Jazz Band, including tape masters, live recordings, and radio broadcasts on WOAI and WWL (many of which are remotes from The Landing, a San Antonio club which has hosted their residency since they began). There are also interviews, including the Cullums on Voice of America in 1969, commercial releases (almost all Happy Jazz and the JCJB), and dubbed copies of commercial releases. A complete paper contents listing is available at the Archive.

    Transferred tapes

    Selected tapes digitized by request of donor: Harold Duke Dejan's Olympia Brass Band: Explanation of Funeral Procession, etc. 1971 ; Son Harrell: Blues, Sweet Lorraine ; Bobby Hackett: Marko Piano Solo, Riverboat Shuffle, Shreveport Stomp, Winin' Boy 1972 ; Hackett: Westmoreland Weave, Everybody Loves My Baby, etc. 1972 ; Garner Clark no. 2 ; Son Harrell: Sweet Loraine; Peck Kelly: You Took Advantage of Me, Body and Soul ; Garner Clark: How Come You Do Me, Angry, If I could Be with You 1953; Hackett: Live at the Landing; Smile, Loss Butterfly, etc. 1972 ; Curtis Hurn ; Happy Jazz Band Rehearsal for record 1963 ; Jim Cullum Jazz Band Central City, Colo. 1981 ; Terrace & Jim Cullum's Happy Jazz Band 1962 ; Garner Clark no. 22: Wolverine Blues, Basin St. Blues 1953 ; Garner Clark no. 26: Tin Roof Blues, Jazz Me Blues, Royal Garden Blues 1951 ; Happy Jazz Band & Paul Crawford: San Antonio Jazz Society 1962 ; Garner Clark with Chuck Carroll and James: White Rock Terrace 1953 ; Hackett: Memphis Blues 1972 ; Hackett 1972 ; Hackett, Kevin Hess, Speed, Pryor, Mark 1972 ; Hackett and Happy Jazz Band: Strutting with Some Barbecue, New Orleans, etc. 1972 ; Garner Clark & Terrance; Happy Jazz Band on Shadow Land 1962 ; Son Harrell: Who's Sorry Now, When A Woman Loves a Man ; Happy Jazz Band; WOAI Live from the Landing 1964 ; Garner Clark no. 21: Muskrat Ramble, Peg o' My Heart, Milenburg Joys 1953 ; Garner Clark no. 25: Jada, Ballin' the Jack, Da Da Strain 1951 ; Curtis Hurt, Jim Cullum, CWR, Cliff Brewtin, Bob McClender ; Don Albert Recalls Music Of New Orleans - Southwest Jazz Foundation 1961 ; Curtis Hurt, Garner Clark, Jim Cullum Sr., etc.: Put your Arms Around Me, Jazz Me Blues, etc. ; Garner Clark no. 4: Sister Kate, Black and Blue, I Want to Be Happy, etc. 1953 ; Garner Clark no. 6: Wolverine Blues, Basin St. Blues, I Found a New Baby, etc. 1951 ; Garner Clark no. 15: Ballin' the Jack, Ain't She Sweet, Jazz Band Ball 1953 ; Garner Clark and Mel Torme: Tin Roof Blues, Boogie in C, etc. 1953 ; White Rock Terrace 1962 ; Bonnie and Geo. C. 1966 ; Mike Wallace Show ; Garner Clark no. 28 at the VFW, Dallas: Fidgety Feet 1951 ; Jesse James, Jim Cullum Sr., Cliff Brewton, etc.: China Bay and Shine from Record no. 2 1942 ; Teagarden: Dallas Jam Session.

    missing and duplicated numbers

    Numbering done by donor prior to accession. Many duplicated numbers, and some missing numbers (some items known to be missing before donation was received). Some duplicated numbers acknowledged in contents listing and ammended with ".1" Contents list notes that 1079-1083 are not to be distributed; however, these appear to be among those missing. This list has not been confirmed with absolute certainty.
    Reels: no 109, two 100, no 179, no 219, no 356, 370, no 385, no 476, no 487, no 639, two 635, no 653, two 654, two 565, two 657, no 695, no 698, two 709, no 781, no 794, no 1036, two 1098
    Tapes: no 918, two 922-937, no 954, no 970, two 938, two 953, two 955, no 997, two 974, two 977, two 981, two 1004

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Dixieland music
    Jazz
    Texas