Los Angeles Town Bicentennial Collection
1973-1994
Title: Los Angeles Town Bicentennial Collection
Dates: 1973-1994
Collection Number: GC 1314
Creator/Collector:
Cude, Billy
Pickens, Watie Riley
Cude & Pickens Publishing
Extent: (Boxes: 1/2 letter; 1 flat; 1 5x5)
Repository:
Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Abstract: "Los Angeles Town" was a song self-promoted by a Daytona Beach, Florida songwriting pair, Billy Cude and Watie Riley Pickens
during the city's 1981 bicentennial. The songwriting team also sponsored a performance contest open to secondary school bands
within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Manuscripts, letters, photographs, posters, music scores, clippings, audiocassette
tapes and one compact disc. 1973-1994
Language of Material: English
Research is by appointment only
Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder
Los Angeles Town Bicentennial Collection. Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
County
Scope and Content of Collection
"Los Angeles Town" was a song self-promoted by a Daytona Beach, Florida songwriting pair, Billy Cude and Watie Riley Pickens
during the city's 1981 bicentennial. The songwriting team also sponsored a performance contest open to secondary school bands
within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Manuscripts, letters, photographs, posters, music scores, clippings, audiocassette
tapes and one compact disc. 1973-1994
Los Angeles (Calif.)