Bales (Burt) Collection

Documents 1937-1992

Scope and Contents

This series consists of correspondence, price lists and logbooks, newspaper and magazine clippings, newspaper clippings scrapbooks, and jazz festival and concert programs.

box 1, folder 1

Correspondence 1943-1990

Scope and Contents

This file contains correspondence from Willie Bunk Johnson to Burt Bales regarding integration of the musicians' union, musical prospects, travel plans, and the possibility of Bales and Johnson playing together again.

It also includes correspondence from 2nd Lt. Karl Gertenhouse, Miriam B. Compton, Mildred Beck, Lester Koenig, Thomas Jancosek, Howard Skinner, Earl Saxton, Estelle Caen, Richard Hadlock, Bob Reed, Pat Casey, Paul Larson, and others.

There is additionally a small amount of photographs and newspaper clippings.

box 1, folder 2

Festival and concert programs 1958-1990

box 1, folder 3

Magazines and newsletters 1957-1992

box 1, folder 4

Price lists and logbooks 1937-1941

Scope and Contents

These logbooks are from the Musicians' Union Local 6, American Federation of Musicians. The logbooks contain price lists and logbooks where Burt Bales recorded every gig he played. He recorded the name of the club, how much he was paid and sometimes the names of any accompanying musicians.

box 1, folder 5

Price lists and logbooks 1941-1945

Scope and Contents

These logbooks are from the Musicians' Union Local 6, American Federation of Musicians. The logbooks contain price lists and logbooks where Burt Bales recorded every gig he played. He recorded the name of the club, how much he was paid and sometimes the names of any accompanying musicians.

box 1, folder 6

Price lists and logbooks 1945-1951

Scope and Contents

These logbooks are from the Musicians' Union Local 6, American Federation of Musicians. The logbooks contain price lists and logbooks where Burt Bales recorded every gig he played. He recorded the name of the club, how much he was paid and sometimes the names of any accompanying musicians.

box 1, folder 7

Clippings 1949-1959

Scope and Contents

Mostly newspaper clippings but also contains some clippings from magazines.

box 1, folder 8

Clippings 1960-1969

Scope and Contents

Mostly newspaper clippings but also contains some clippings from magazines.

box 1, folder 9

Clippings 1970-1979

Scope and Contents

Mostly newspaper clippings but also contains some clippings from magazines.

box 1, folder 10

Clippings 1980-1989

Scope and Contents

Mostly contains newspaper clippings but there are also some clippings from magazines.

box 2, volume 1

Clippings scrapbook 1944-1958

box 2, volume 2

Clippings scrapbook 1959

box 2, volume 3

Clippings scrapbook 1960-1969

box 2, volume 4

Clippings scrapbook 1970-1979

box 2, volume 5

Clippings scrapbook 1980-1990

Photographs 1938-1989

Scope and Contents

This series contains photographs and negatives of Burt Bales, Turk Murphy, Bob Scobey, Bob Helm, Dick Oxtot, Bob Mielke, Marty Marsala, Vince Cattolica, Bunky Colman, Paul Lingle and others.

box 1, folder 11

Clubs 1939-1949

Scope and Contents

Photographs feature Burt Bales, Willie Bunk Johnston, and others at various San Francisco Bay Area night clubs, including Ozzie's Lovchen Gardens, The Bowery Club, Backstage, The Lions Den, The Nut Club, and the Bungalow Cafe.

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Photographs 1938-1957

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Ken Austin (autographed), Burt Bales, Byron Berry, Joe Darensbourg, Lola R Douglas (performed under stage names Princess Lola and Princess Narda, married to Leon Mandrake, autographed), Ernie Figueroa, Clancy Hayes, Bob Helm, Freddie Higuera, and others.

box 1, folder 13

Photographs 1947-1975

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Ken Austin, Burt Bales, Bill Bardin, Byron Berry, Jack Raymond Buck, Jerry Butzen, Vince Cattolica, Bunky Colman, Jack Crook, Hambone Lee Crosby, Robert 'Cus' Cousineau, Joe Darensbourg, Ernie Figueroa, Jim Goodwin, Clancy Hayes, Ginny Hodes, Hadlock Jerome, Dick Lammi, Carl Lorraine, Bill Maginnis, Marty Marsala, Skip Moore, Bill Napier, Bill Newman, Charles Oden, Walter Roberts, Bob Scobey, and others.

box 1, folder 14

Photographs 1955-1978

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Louis Armstrong, Burt Bales, Jack Buck, Jerry Butzen, Vince Cattolica, Robert 'Cus' Cousineau, Ray Durand, Ernie Figueroa, Jesse Fuller, Marty Marsala, Skip Moore, Charles Oden, Jack Teagarden, and others.

box 1, folder 15

Photographs 1955-1982

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Burt Bales, Bunky Colman, Burr Curtice, Ginny Hodes, Don Marchant, Bob Mielke, Dick Oxtot, Jan Scobey, and others.

box 1, folder 16

Photographs 1954-1979

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Burt Bales, Vince Cattolica, Don Davis, Ralph Gleason, Helen Helm, Carl Lorraine, and others.

box 1, folder 17

Photographs 1960-1987

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Louis Armstrong, Burt Bales, Paul Lingle, and others.

box 1, folder 18

Photographs 1939-1989

Scope and Contents

Includes images of Burt Bales, Steve Pistorius, and others.

Also includes negatives.

box 2, folder 1

Drawing 1985

Scope and Contents

Framed drawing, inscription reads "To Burt Bales for playing the "Real Jass", from the Santa Rosa Dixieland Jazz Committee. United Cerebral Palsy and Agency for Infant Development, thank you!, August 24 and 25, 1985".

Audio recordings 1945-1978

Scope and Contents

This series is comprised of 37 open reel tapes and 8 audiocassettes that document performances and interviews of Burt Bales and others.

box 3, reel 1

ABC Dixie Reel 1 undated

Scope and Contents

1. St. Louis Blues (take 1) 3:28

2. Jelly Roll (take 2) 3:18

3. Kansas City Man Blues (piano) (take 1) 3:05

4. Aunt Hagar's Blues (take 1) 3:06

5. Chicago (take 1) 2:30

6. Fidgety Feet (take 3) 3:18

7. Nobody Knows You When You're Down An' Out (take 1) 3:25

8. Milenberg Joys (take 1) 3:10

box 3, reel 2

ABC Dixie Reel 2 undated

box 3, reel 3

ABC-Paramount Dixie Final Reel undated

Scope and Contents

1. St. Louis Blues (take 1) 3:28

2. Jelly Roll (take 2) 3:18

3. Kansas City Man Blues (take 1) 3:05

4. Aunt Hagar's Blues (take 1) 3:06

5. Chicago (take 1) 2:30

6. Fidgety Feet (take 3) 3:18

7. Nobody Knows You When You're Down An' Out (take 1) 3:25

8. Milenberg Joys (take 1) 3:10

9. Wolverine Blues (take 2) 3:50

10. Sister Kate (take 1) 3:40

11. Sister Kate (take 2) 3:03

12. Mr. Joe (take 1) 3:05

13. Tin Roof (take 2) 5:19

14. Floatin' Down the Cotton Town (take 3) 2:00

15. The Pearl (take 1) 3:40

16. Don't You Have Me Here (take 1) 2:50

box 3, reel 4

ABC Reject Reel 3 undated

Scope and Contents

From afternoon session Oct. 16:

1. Melancholy Blues (take 3) 4:17

2. Naughty Sweetie Blues (take 1) 2:10

box 3, reel 5

Bales-Helm and Bales copy 1973

Scope and Contents

Bales-Helm June 14, 1973, Volume III:

1. Sweet Substitute

2. Wolverine

3. Wolverine

4. Winin' Boy fragment

5. Winin' Boy

6. Buddy Bolden Says

7. Mamies Blues

8. Michigan Water

9. Don't You Leave Me Here

10. Sweet Substitute

11. Hanna Johnson

12. Original Rags fragment

13. Original Rags fragment

14. Original Rags fragment

15. Original Rags

16. Interlude

Bales copy, Volume II:

1. Mr. Jelly Lord fragment short

2. Mr. Jelly Lord

3. Mr. Jelly Lord last chorus

4. Mr. Jelly Lord for splicing

5. Mr. Jelly Lord for splicing

6. King Porter fragment short

7. King Porter

8. Pearls fragment long

9. Pearls

10. N.O. Joys interruption

11. N.O. Joys

12. Sidewalk Blues fragment short

13. Sidewalk Blues defects

14. Sidewalk Blues

15. Sidewalk Blues faster

16. Some Day Sweetheart fragment short

17. Kansas City Stomps

18. Coughs - Sweet Substitute

box 3, reel 6

Kublai Khan Trio tape 1 undated

Scope and Contents

1. Cheat's A Plenty

2. Tin Roof Blues

3. Milenberg Joys

4. Clarinet Marmalade

box 3, reel 7

Kublai Khan Trio reel 4 undated

Scope and Contents

Burt Bales, Vince Cattolica, Dave Lario.

1. Limehouse Blues

2. Maple Leaf Rag

3. If I Had You

4. How How the Moon

5. Jungle Drums

6. Vincology - Moon Over Miami - Just You, Just Me

7. Fine and Dandy

8. Perdido

box 3, reel 8

Kublai Khan Trio, reel 5 undated

Scope and Contents

1. I've Got a Feelin I'm Fallin'

2. Royal Garden Blues

3. Someday Sweetheart

4. Pennsylvania Polka

5. If I Could Be With You

6. One Hou [?] Tonight

7. Come Back Sweet Papa

8. Dada Strain

9. Beale St. Blues

10. Indiana

box 3, reel 9

Kublai Khan Trio, reel 6 undated

Scope and Contents

1. Maple Leaf Rag

2. Just Because

3. Beale Street Blues

4. Under the Double Eagle

5. Muskrat Ramble

6. Charmaine

7. Don't Take Your Love From Me

8. Kansas City Kitty

box 3, reel 10

Burt Bales, Dick's at the Beach, reel 2 January 22, 1978

box 3, reel 11

Burt Bales, Dick's at the Beach, reel 2 January 29, 1978

box 3, reel 12

Pops 1959

box 3, reel 13

Pops 1960

Scope and Contents

Looking Out the Window

box 3, reel 14

Pops undated

box 3, reel 15

Chessman undated

box 3, reel 16

Mike & Elaine undated

box 3, reel 17

Hambones 1950

Scope and Contents

1. Chinatown

2. Squeeze Me

3. Yellow Dog Blues

4. I Never Knew

5. Down Home Rag

6. Mandy

7. Mountain Top Blues

8. King Chanticleer

9. Smoky Mokes

10. New Orleans Joys

11. That's My Weakness

12. Aunt Hagar's Blues

13. Oriental Strut

14. Melancholy

15. Gladiolas Rag

16. Corinne Corina

17. Daddy Do

box 3, reel 18

Hambones, reel 5 1950

Scope and Contents

1. Dusky Stevedore

2. Sage Hen Strut

3. Wolverine Blues

4. Emperor Norton

5. The Pearls

6. Riverside Blues

7. Come Back Sweet Papa

8. When the Saints

9. Curse of an Aching Heart

10. King Chanticleer

11. King Chanticleer - Jug a la Helm

12. King Chanticleer

13. Terrible Blues

14. Doin' the Hambone

15. Dallas Blues

16. Emperor Norton

17. Broken Promises

box 3, reel 19

Hambones, reel 6 1950

Scope and Contents

with Turk Murphy:

1. Come Back Sweet Papa

2. Frankie and Johnny

3. Gut Bucket

4. Peoria

5. Riverside Blues

6. The Pearls

7. A Yonder Come the Blues

8. Shake That Thing

9. Weary Blues

10. Skid da de dat

11. Sweethearts on Parade

12. New Orleans Toys

13. Got dem Blues

box 3, reel 20

Hambones, reel 8 1950

Scope and Contents

Jacob Tea, Charlie Tea and Ray Bauduc:

1. My Honey's Loving Arms

2. Hesitation Blues

3. Sister Kate

4. Irish Black Bottom

5. Rosita

6. My Heart

7. Emperor Norton

box 3, reel 21

Hambones, reel 10 1950

Scope and Contents

March 26, 1950 with Red Doris:

1. Alexanders R.B.

2. Trouble in Mind

3. Dill Pickle Rag

4. St. Louis Blues

5. Shake That Thing

March 12, 1950 with Turk Murphy:

1. Mountaintop

2. Terrible Blues

3. Twelfth St. Rag

4. See See Rider

5. Shake That Thing

box 3, reel 22

Scobey, Hambones, reel 11 1950

Scope and Contents

Bob Scobey, Bob Helm, Freddie Higuera, Burt Bales, Gersh, Jack Buck - Jenny Lind Hall, June 4, 1950:

1. Doctor Jazz

2. Nobody Knows When

3. Struttin With Some

4. New Orleans Joys

5. Didn't He Ramble

6. I Hate to Lose You

7. How Come You do Me

8. Some of These Days

Hambones, March 30, 1950:

1. Cake Walkin' Babies

2. You Made the Night

3. King Chanticleer

4. Gladliolus Rag

5. Coal Cart Blues

6. Bill Bailey

7. London Blues

8. Dusky Stevedore

9. Weary Blues

box 3, reel 23

Hambones, Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band, reel 13 1950

Scope and Contents

Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band - Bob Scobey, Warren Smith, Clancy Hayes, Wally Rose, Bob Helm, Bill Dart:

1. Doctor Jazz

2. Carless Love

3. My Heart

4. London Blues

5. When the Saints

6. Peoria

7. Mountain Top Blues

8. Daddy Do

9. Irish Black Bottom

10. Panama

11. St. Louis Blues

12. See See Rider

13. Doin' the Hambone

14. Ding Dong Daddy

15. New Orleans Joys

16. Roll Jordan Roll

17. London Blues

18. High Society

box 3, reel 24

Hambones, reel 19 1950

Scope and Contents

Hambones, July 1, 1950:

1. My Huey's Lovin' Arms

2. Found a New Baby

3. How Come You do Me

4. Shake That Thing

5. Beale St. Blues

6. Down Home Rag

Hambones, August 10, 1950:

1. How Come You Do Me

2. Pineapple Rag

3. Frankie and Johnnie

4. High Society

5. My Heart

6. Indiana

7. Richard M. Jones Blues

8. When the Saints

box 3, reel 25

Hambones, reel 20 1950

Scope and Contents

Hambones, July 1, 1950:

1. St. Louis Blues

2. How Come You Do Me

3. I'm Goin' Huntin'

4. Irish Black Bottom

5. Sweet Georgia Brown

6. Tar Paper Stomp

7. Struttin' With Some

8. Mandy

9. Mountain Top Blues

10. 12th St. Rag

11. Doctor Jazz

12. Bill Bailey

13. Mandy Make Up Your Mind

14. I'm in the Market for You

15. Gladiolus Rag

box 3, reel 26

Dorsey Brothers, reel 22 1950

Scope and Contents

1. Stay on the Right Side

2. Some One Stole Gab

3. Mood Hollywood

4. Shim Sham Shimmy

5. Doin' the Uptown Lowdown

6. Give Me Liberty or Love

7. Judy

8. Annie's Cousin Fanny

9. Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe

10. Annie's Cousin Fanny

11. By Heck

12. Basin St. Blues

13. Milenberg Joys

14. St. Louis Blues

15. Stop Look Listen

16. Heat Wave

17. Honeysuckle Rose

18. Parts 1 and 2

19. Weary Blues

20. Dese Dem Dose

box 3, reel 27

Hambones, reel 23 1950

Scope and Contents

1. You Gotta See Mama

2. Georgia Camp Meeting

3. Alligator Crawl

4. Dippermouth

5. Pineapple Rag

6. Workingman Blues

7. When the Saints

8. Come Back Sweet Papa

9. Friendless Blues

10. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

11. Home

12. Copenhagen

13. You Made the Night too Long

14. King Chanticleer

box 3, reel 28

Hambones, reel 24 1950

Scope and Contents

1. You Can Depend on Me

2. Irish Black Bottom

3. Sidewalk Blues

4. You Made the Night too Long

5. Original Rags

6. St. Louis Blues

7. Willie the Weeper

8. Antigua Blues

9. Blues My Naughty Sweetie

10. Trouble in Mind

11. Grandpa's Spells

12. Down Home Rag

13. Love Me or Leave Me

14. Sage Hen Strut

box 3, reel 29

Hambones, reel 25 1950

Scope and Contents

Hambones, August 11, 1950:

1. Beale St. Blues

2. I'm in the Market for You

3. Dallas Blues

4. Alcoholic Blues

5. Canal St.

6. New Orleans Stomp

Hambones, August 12, 1950:

1. Oriental Strut

2. 12th St. Rag

3. Shake That Thing

4. Melancholy

5. Hot House Rag

6. St. Louis Blues

7. Maple Leaf Rag

box 3, reel 30

Glass Blowers Ball, reel 27 1952

Scope and Contents

Bill Dart, Jack Minger, Liebermit, Turk Murphy, Ellis, Dick Lammi, Wally Rose - Leamington Hotel, Glass Blowers Ball, November 24, 1952:

1. St. Louis Blues

2. South

3. Black and Blue

4. Margie

5. Love Me or Leave Me

6. Jazz Me Blues

7. Dr. Jazz

8. Shake That Thing

9. St. James Infirmary

10. Ain't Misbehavin'

11. Jazz Band Ball

12. Muskrat Ramble

13. Somebody Loves Me

14. When My Sweetie

15. Dixieland Ramble

box 3, reel 31

Spoken Japanese, lesson 1 undated

Scope and Contents

Lesson 1 of spoken Japanese, including grammar, read into the record.

box 3, reel 32

unlabeled undated

box 3, reel 33

Unlabeled undated

box 3, reel 34

Unlabeled undated

box 3, reel 35

Unlabeled undated

box 3, reel 36

Unlabeled undated

box 3, reel 37

Number 1 undated

Scope and Contents

1. Birmingham

2. Melancholy Blues

3. Some of These Things

box 3, audiocassette 1

Burt Bales tribute with Phil Elwood, KPFA June 30, 1964

Scope and Contents

Burt Bales Tribute: Broadcast on Jazz Archives, KPFA, 30 June 1964. Produced and announced by Phil Elwood.

box 3, audiocassette 2

Burt Bales tribute with Phil Elwood, KPFA June 30, 1964

Scope and Contents

Burt Bales Tribute: Broadcast on Jazz Archives, KPFA, 30 June 1964. Produced and announced by Phil Elwood.

box 3, audiocassette 3

KQED interview I February 9, 1977

box 3, audiocassette 4

KQED interview II February 9, 1977

box 3, audiocassette 5

Burt Bales undated

Scope and Contents

Side A:

1. Burt - Birmingham Blues

2. (Elwood talks)

3. John Maraboto and Brew Moore: Ol' Man Blues/New Kinda Love/I Can't Believe That You're

4. Rebroadcast of program on KPFA Burt made 25 years ago

(A). Melancholy - Solo

(B). Some of These Days (with Scobey, continued on Side B)

Side B:

1. (Elwood talks)

2. Mr. Joe - Burt solo

3. King Porter - Burt solo

4. London Blues - Burt solo

5. (Elwood talks)

6. Tiger Rag - solo

7. (Elwood talks)

8. Wildman Blues - solo

9. Hindustan - band

10. J.R.M. - Buddy Bolden

box 3, audiocassette 6

1 undated

box 3, audiocassette 7

2 undated

box 3, audiocassette 8

4 undated

Box 4, othertype disc 1

Clancy Hayes and Burt Bales undated

Scope and Contents

Rose of Washington Square.

Box 4, othertype disc 2

Clancy Hayes undated

Scope and Contents

Mamy Skinney. Otto's New Auto.

Box 4, othertype disc 3

Chuck Mordecai, Bertha Gonzoulin, and Burt Bales undated

Scope and Contents

Saints go marching. Tiger rag, 2 pianos.

Box 4, othertype disc 4

Blues 1 and 2 undated

Box 4, othertype disc 5

Burt Bales and Bill Dart undated

Scope and Contents

King Porter Stomp. Maple Leaf Rag.

Box 4, othertype disc 6

Shake that thing undated

Box 4, othertype disc 7

Burt Bales and Clancy Hayes undated

Scope and Contents

Black and White. Otto's New Auto.

Box 4, othertype disc 8

Unlabeled undated

Box 4, othertype disc 9

Vince Dotson undated

Scope and Contents

Cornet Chop Suey. Baby's Won't You Please Come Home.

Box 4, othertype disc 10

Clancy Hayes, Bordin, Vince Cattolica, Ellis, Burt Bales undated

Scope and Contents

Shake That Thing. Careless Love with Vince Cattolica, Slim, Hotz, Ben.

Box 4, othertype disc 11

St. James Infirmary undated

Box 4, othertype disc 12

I wouldn't trade the silver in my mother's hair, Million dollar smile undated

Box 4, othertype disc 13

Vince Dotson undated

Scope and Contents

Birmingham Blues.

Box 4, othertype disc 14

Coquette undated

Box 4, othertype disc 15

Unlabeled undated

Box 4, othertype disc 16

After you're gone, She's a good girl undated

Box 4, othertype disc 17

Somebody's wrong, Rose of Washington Square 1945-02-22

Box 4, othertype disc 18

Unlabeled undated