Pat Yankee Traditional Jazz Collection, 1953-2016

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Summary

Abstract:
This collection contains recorded sound, photographs, music scores, promotional material, awards and other materials relating to the career of American jazz and blues singer Pat Yankee dating from 1953-2016.
Extent:
15 Linear Feet 10 boxes.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Pat Yankee Traditional Jazz Collection (ARS.0219). Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains sound and moving image media, music scores, photographs, a scrapbook, promotional materials and other ephemera relating to the musical career of jazz singer Pat Yankee dating from 1953-2016.

Biographical / historical:

Pat Yankee (1927- ) is an American jazz and blues singer and songwriter. Yankee began performing at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco at thirteen and was touring as a teen with the Ted Lewis review and Milt Britton Comedy Band. She is the recipient of the Bay Area Critics Award for Best Female in a Musical for her performance in "To Bessie, With Love," and has been a recording artist with record lables RCA, Roulette and GHB.

Yankee frequently collaborated with San Francisco based jazz trombonist and bandleadeer Turk Murphy starting in 1958 when she joined the Turk Murphy band. Together they performed in music venues Easy Street, the Italian Village, Earthquake McGoon's and the New Orleans Room in the Fairmont Hotel.

Acquisition information:
The Pat Yankee Traditional Jazz Collection was acquired by the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound from Pat Yankee in 2020.
Arrangement:

This collection is organized into four series: Sound recordings, Music scores, Promotional material and ephemera and Photographs.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive of Recorded Sound for assistance.

Terms of access:

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head Librarian, Archive of Recorded Sound, Braun Music Center, Stanford, California 94305. Consent is given on behalf of the Archive of Recorded Sound as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns.

Preferred citation:

Pat Yankee Traditional Jazz Collection (ARS.0219). Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA.

Location of this collection:
Braun Music Center, 541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076, US
Contact:
(650) 723-9312
soundarchive@stanford.edu
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