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Victor Young music manuscripts,
1948-1956
PASC-M 110
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Title: Victor Young music manuscripts
Collection number: PASC-M 110
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
14.8 linear ft.
(17 flat boxes and 8 oversize flat boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1948-1956
Abstract: This collection consists of manuscript sketches, scores and parts for compositions by Victor Young, created for the television
programs Medic, The Tony Martin Show (drawing on material from Texaco Star Theater), and various films and popular musicians
from the 1950s.
Physical Location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Creator:
Young, Victor, 1900-1956
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library Special
Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright
and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Victor Young Music Manuscripts (Collection PASC-M 110). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles
E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4234983
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Roberta Fromberg, 1998.
Victor Young was an American composer, conductor, and violinist. Born in Chicago, IL on August 8, 1900, into a musical family,
he was educated at the Warsaw Conservatory in Poland. As a teenager, he toured Europe as violinist with the Warsaw Philharmonic,
and later gave imperial concerts in Russia. Returning to the United States in 1920, he worked in Chicago as a violinist, arranger
and conductor for radio and theater during the 1920s and 1930s. He arranged many of Bing Crosby's records for Decca, and worked
as a songwriter for Broadway musicals and revues such as Murder at the Vanities (1933), Blackbirds of 1933 (1933), and Winged
Victory (1944). He joined Paramount studios in 1935 and wrote over 300 film scores over a period of 20 years, including music
for Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Quiet Man (1952), The Star (1952), and others. Young received
22 Academy Award nominations for his film music, finally being posthumously awarded an Oscar for Around the World in 80 Days.
He composed many popular songs, such as "Love Letters", "My Foolish Heart", "Stella By Starlight", "Sweet Sue, Just You",
and "Street of Dreams." He died in Palm Springs on November 11, 1956.
This collection contains manuscript sketches, full scores, parts, and sequence sheets for the television programs
Medic,
The Tony Martin Show (drawing on material from Texaco Star Theater), and various popular songs and film music from the 1950s.
This collection has been arranged into the following series:
- Series 1. Medic
- Subseries 1.1. Completed scores
- Subseries 1.2. Sketches and sequence sheets
- Series 2. Tony Martin Show
- Series 3. Film and popular music
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Young, Victor, 1900-1956--Archives.
Scores.
Television music--Scores and parts.