Descriptive Summary
Preferred Citation
Biography
Scope and Content
Organization and Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Jeff Alexander Television, Radio, and Motion Picture
Music Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1943-1970
Collection number: 42-M
Creator: Alexander,
Jeff
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
University of California, Library Special
Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection consists of holographs and/or ozalid
copies of musical sketches for TV commercials, radio programs; television shows,
and various television specials, and holographs or copies of motion picture
scores. Also included are additional manuscript scores, framed tributes, awards,
letters of recognition, photographs with personalities, drawings, and sound
recordings.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jeff Alexander Television, Radio, and Motion
Picture Music Collection, 42-M, University of California, Library Special
Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Alexander was a founder of the Screen Composers of America; he wrote music
for more than 40 feature films, starting with
Shall We Dance (1937), and
including
The Mating Game,
The Tender Trap, and
Jailhouse Rock; collaborated on
several MGM musicals, including
Gigi,
Singin' In The Rain, and
Kismet; arranged
music for various radio programs, including
The Hit Parade,
The Camel Hour, and
The Lucky Strike hour; he was music director for Amos 'n' Andy and Hollywood
star playhouse; composed music for television shows, including
Columbo,
Wagon
Train,
and
The Twilight Zone; died at the age of 79 on Whidbey Island,
Washington, on Dec. 23, 1989.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of holographs and/or ozalid copies of musical sketches
for TV commercials, radio programs (most notably
Amos and Andy); television
shows (including
My Three Sons,
Family Affair,
Greatest Show on Earth,
Please
Don't Eat the Daisies
,
Dr. Kildare,
Sam Benedict, and
The Rounders), and various
television specials. Holographs or copies of the following motion picture scores
(MGM productions unless cited otherwise):
Double Trouble (1967);
Dirty Dingus
Magee
(1970);
Support Your Local Sheriff (United Artists, 1969);
Partygirl
(1958);
The Sheepman (1958);
Ask any Girl (1959);
Day of the Evil Gun (1968);
Slander (1956); It Started with a Kiss (1959); All the Fine Young Cannibals
(1960);
The Gazebo (1959);
These Wilder Years (1959);
Men of the Fighting Lady
(1954);
Rogue Cop (1954);
Ransom (1956);
Gun Glory (1957);
The Mating Game
(1959);
High Cost of Loving (1958);
Great American Pastime (1956);
The Tender
Trap
(1955);
Saddle the Wind (1958);
Wings of Eagles (1957);
Kismet (1944);
Kid
Galahad
(United Artists, 1962);
The George Raft Story (Allied Artists, 1961);
Clambake (United Artists, 1967); also includes some choir arrangements. Also
additional manuscript scores, framed tributes, awards, letters of recognition,
photographs with personalities, drawings, and sound recordings.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Series 1. Scores
- Series 2. Awards
- Series 3. Correspondence
- Series 4. Photographs
- Series 5. Drawings
- Series 6. Sound Recordings
- Series 7. Newspaper Clippings
- Series 8. Music Manuscripts
- Series 9. Sheet Music
- Series 10. Photographs
- Series 11. Awards
- Series 12. Correspondence
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Alexander, Jeff--Archives.
Composers--United States--Archival resources.
Music--Manuscripts.
Motion picture music--Scores.
Television music--Scores.
Radio music--Scores.