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Series 8: Sound recordings (continued)
Subseries 1: Artists, bands, and interviews (continued)
The Blue Sky Boys, #2, October 17, 1964 (continued)
Time Content
Start Bill from The Blue Sky Boys (BSB) sings "After the Ball"
00:05:45 BSB sing "Behind These Prison Walls of Love"
00:09:51 BSB sing "Don't Trade"
00:13:09 BSB perform "Little Bessie"
00:22:56 BSB shows the audience their albums and explains why they chose specific songs for each album (monologue, a little history, and a sales pitch)
00:32:22 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR148 The Blue Sky Boys, #3, October 17, 1964
Rack number: RXH 3697
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate, 00:10:31) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in.
Recorded at Lincoln Hall, at the University of Illinois. Collector's original number: 235.
Time Content
Start Earl explains what it was like to record using equipment in the early days
00:01:24 BSB sing "The Butcher's Boy"
00:05:00 BSB perform another selection titled "Are You from Dixie" (a short and long version)
00:10:31 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR750 Blues Is Killing Me, Side 1, 1978
Rack number: RAA 59288
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:21:23) : analog, 15 ips, half track, stereo ; 10 in.
Archivist's note: Released as Juke Joint 1501, this is a compilation of songs by various artists. It's unclear if this is a master or dub tape.
Vendor's digitization note: The program has distortion, hiss, and flutter from the source tape. Test tones are on the tape: the audio begins before the test tones.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR751 Blues Is Killing Me, Side 2, 1978
Rack number: RAA 59289
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (00:20:06) : analog, 15 ips, half track, stereo ; 10 in.
See the notes for SR750.
Vendor's digitization note: The program has distortion and hiss from the source tape.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR772 Blues With A Feeling #1, May 25, 1976
Rack number: RAA 59310
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 10 in.
Collector's original ID number: 8.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR773 Blues With A Feeling #2, May 25, 1976
Rack number: RAA 59311
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 10 in.
Collector's original ID number: 9.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR774 Blues With A Feeling #3, May 25, 1976
Rack number: RAA 59312
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 10 in.
Collector's original ID number: 10.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR775 Blues With A Feeling #4, May 25, 1976
Rack number: RAA 59313
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 10 in.
Collector's original ID number: 7.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR606 Blues With A Feeling, #1, undated
Rack number: RXH 5467
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR607 Blues With A Feeling, #2, undated
Rack number: RXH 5468
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR608 Blues With A Feeling, #3 (Fred McDowell), undated
Rack number: RXH 5469
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 7 in.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR094 Ted Bogan interview, January 14, 1966
Rack number: RXH 3232
Extent: on one side of 1 sound tape reel (polyester; 00:41:40) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in.
Time Content
Start In response to PW's question, TB says he was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1910. He started playing guitar when he was 16 years old and left at age 18 to earn his living playing music. He first started to play piano, then moved to guitar. He had 3 brothers and 5 sisters. During his growing up years, his family sang mostly religious music.
00:03:52 He says, as a kid, he heard lots of blues: Bessie smith, Lonnie Johnson, and Tampa Red (among others). He heard their records. His family had mostly records of sacred music. He was attracted the blues when he was around 12 years old.
00:06:37 TB talks at length about why he was attracted to the blues.
00:08:45 TB talks about switching from piano to guitar. He talks about Pink Anderson and Blind Simmie Dooley who he heard in Spartanburg. He talks about a fiddle player named Blind Roland Martin.
00:12:41 PW asks TB how he learned to play guitar. He answers that he is basically self-taught. The first song he learned to play through was "John Henry."
00:14:30 TB says he went to Chicago in 1933. He heard Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red. Prior to moving he worked as a barber. He went on the road in 1928.
00:16:40 PW asks about the period from 1928 to 1933. TB answers. He says he worked on a medicine show and talks about it.
00:19:30 TB says that after he left the medicine show he went to Knoxville. Where he met Carl Martin, Howard Armstrong and Bill Ballanger. They travelled and did radio broadcasts. TB talks, at length, about this group. They played mostly in Taverns and private homes.
00:23:58 PW asks what happened when the band got to Chicago in 1933. TB answers. They were booked into theaters, mostly doing variety shows. He mentions some of the other musicians playing around Chicago at this time.
00:28:40 TB talks about making records with Louie Blue [Hill Louis] in 1934. They cut 4 numbers. TB talks about other records he made.
00:33:50 TB talks about playing around Chicago. Then he went into the Army. When he got out, after WWII, he worked in plants in Detroit. They talk about Howard Armstrong.
00:36:56 TB talks about some songs he has written. He talks about Joe McCoy. They made some records together.
00:40:10 TB talks about touring with several other musicians in 1951. He lived in Dayton, Ohio, then returned to Chicago in 1953.
00:41:40 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR149 Luiz Bonfá, April 10, 1968 or before
Rack number: RXH 3698
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (polyester, 00:12:15) : analog, 15 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.
All but one of the works are instrumentals.
Time Content
Start "Melancolia"
00:02:54 "Samba de Orfeu"
00:05:24 "Bahia Soul"
00:08:32 "Manha de Carnaval," with Maria Toledo as a guest vocalist
00:12:15 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR575 Bossa nova recordings: Vera Brasil / Nara Leão, 1964-1965
Rack number: RXH 5436
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (Side 1: 00:32:21, Side 2: 00:31:44) : analog ; 7 in.
Dubs of commercial recordings. Vera Brasil: Tema Do Boneco De Palha (Farroupilha LPFA-400), released 1964. Nara Leão: O Canto Livre de Nara (Phillips P 632.748 L), released 1965.
Side 1
Time Content
Start "Tema do Bonecco do Palha" by Vera Brasil
00:03:03 "Samba bom" by Vera Brasil
00:05:42 "Era uma vez" by Vera Brasil
00:08:08 "Rimas de ninguém" by Vera Brasil
00:10:22 "Minha fé, meu amor" by Vera Brasil
00:13:25 "Prá você que nao vem" by Vera Brasil
00:15:40 "Menino Desce O Morro" by Vera Brasil
00:17:34 "Quase Ilusão" by Vera Brasil
00:19:20 "O azul do céu" by Vera Brasil
00:21:40 "Nao é por falar" by Vera Brasil
00:24:22 "Depois da chuva" by Vera Brasil
00:26:00 "Tema para recordacao" by Vera Brasil
00:28:56 "Carcara" by L. Nara Leão
00:30:50 The above song ends. Blank.
00:31:38 An unidentified song [incomplete]
00:32:21 End
Side 2
Time Content
Start "Corisco" by L. Nara Leão
00:02:34 "Samba Da Legalidade" by L. Nara Leão
00:05:02 "Não Me Diga Adeus" by L. Nara Leão
00:06:42 "Uricuri" by L. Nara Leão
00:11:05 "Canto Livre" by L. Nara Leão
00:15:22 "Suite Dos Pescadores" by L. Nara Leão
00:17:41 "Malvadeza Durão
00:20:20 "Aleluia
00:23:00 "Nêga Dina
00:25:26 "A Minha Namorada
00:30:19 "Incelença
00:31:44 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR761 Bobby Bradford and the John Carter Quintet - "No U Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975," reel 1 of 3, November 17, 1975
Rack number: RAA 59299
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips, 4 track ; 10 in.
Recorded at Baxter Lecture Hall, Caltech (California Institute of Technology), in Pasadena, California. Personnel: John Carter; Bobby Bradford; Stanley Carter; Roberto Miranda; William Jeffrey.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR762 Bobby Bradford and the John Carter Quintet - "No U Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975," reel 2 of 3, November 17, 1975
Rack number: RAA 59300
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips, 4 track ; 10 in.
See the notes for SR761.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR763 Bobby Bradford and the John Carter Quintet - "No U Turn: Live in Pasadena, 1975," reel 3 of 3, November 17, 1975
Rack number: RAA 59301
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog, 15 ips, 4 track ; 10 in.
See the notes for SR761.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR216 Avery Brady - John Lee Granderson, November 30, 1963
Rack number: RXH 4099
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (polyester, 00:45:02) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in.
Time Content
Start "City of New Orleans"
00:02:11 "Times Hard in Chicago" (partial song)
00:04:30 "Times Hard in Chicago" (breaks off)
00:06:45 "Times Hard in Chicago" (breaks off)
00:09:22 "Times Hard in Chicago" (breaks off)
00:13:33 "Mama, Where Your Daughter Gone"
00:17:27 "Bad Weather" (Brady)
00:19:46 "Stop Your Train" (Brady and Willie)
00:21:47 "Stop Your Train" (Brady solo)
00:24:11 "Uncle Sam's Own Ship" (Brady solo)
00:25:25 "Across the Street"
00:25:42 "Across the Street" (Brady and harp)
00:28:32 "Been a Long Time" (Brady and harp; weak boogie)
00:30:40 "Keep Your Arm Around Me"
00:31:31 "Sugar Mama"
00:34:33 "Gangster Blues"
00:37:15 "Remember Me One More Time"
00:39:31 "Bottle Up and Go"
00:43:02 "Bottle Up and Go"
00:45:00 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR783 Avery Brady #9, undated
Rack number: RAA 59321
Extent: 1 sound tape reel : analog ; 10 in.
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR138 Ruby Braff, April 24, 1976
Rack number: RXH 3687
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (backcoated polyester; Side 1: 01:37:00, Side 2: 01:36:41) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, quarter track; stereo ; 7 in.
Archivist's note: Recorded at Rick's American Bar, in the Holiday Inn, Chicago, Illinois.
Side 1
Time Content
Start unidentified jazz tune
00:04:40 unidentified jazz tune
00:08:58 unidentified jazz tune, (perhaps "The Man I Love")
00:21:48 introduction, then "This Can't Be Love"
00:27:17 talking, then "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"
00:31:19 unidentified jazz tune
00:35:03 unidentified jazz tune
00:36:10 unidentified jazz tune, the band members are introduced
00:41:40 unidentified jazz tune
00:47:28 talking, the band members are introduced, more talking, then "Sleepy Time Down South"
00:57:11 unidentified jazz tune
01:02:42 blank, then, unidentified jazz tune
01:11:00 unidentified jazz tune
01:16:34 talking, then unidentified jazz tune, talking
01:25:30 unidentified jazz tune
01:32:52 Over the Rainbow
01:37:00 End
Side 2
Time Content
Start unidentified jazz tune
00:06:41 unidentified jazz tune, band member introduced and talking over the music
00:17:17 "Them There Eyes"
00:22:42 talking, the "Let's Do It (Let's Fall in Love)"
00:30:08 unidentified jazz tune
00:35:46 talking, then "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
00:43:47 unidentified jazz tune
00:50:05 perhaps "This Can't be Love"
00:54:22 unidentified jazz tune
01:00:46 unidentified jazz tune
01:02:57 perhaps "St. James Infirmary"
01:07:29 unidentified jazz tune
01:11:27 unidentified jazz tune
01:15:09 unidentified jazz tune
01:19:23 unidentified jazz tune
01:25:23 unidentified jazz tune
01:29:41 perhaps "Sweet Georgia Brown"
01:32:05 unidentified jazz tune
01:32:05 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR225 Jimmy and Fannie Brewer, #1a, March 7, 1964
Rack number: RXH 4108
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate, 00:18:21): analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.
On the tape box, Jimmy Brewer is also identified as James Brewer. Collector's original ID number: 187.
Time Content
Start "Jesus Healed the Woman"(better known as "Jesus Gave Me Water")
00:02:30 "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again"
00:06:20 "Just a Little Talk With Jesus"
00:10:30 "I'll Fly Away"
00:15:48 "Kennedy Was Our President" (better known as "When We Got the Message")
00:18:21 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR224 Jimmy and Fannie Brewer, #1, early May 1964
Rack number: RXH 4107
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate, 00:32:33) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in.
Recorded in Chicago, before an audience. Collector's original ID number: 186.
Time Content
Start Spoken introduction by Pete Welding. He introduces Jimmy and Fannie Brewer, who are married, and both are blind.
00:03:07 "Just a Little Talk With Jesus"
00:06:56 "Farther Along"
00:10:59 "Jesus Gave Me Water"
00:14:15 "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again"
00:18:16 "Just A Closer Walk With Thee"
00:21:45 "Before This Time Next Year"
00:25:50 Jim Brewer introduces the next song.
00:26:19 "I'll Fly Away"
00:30:25 Fannie Brewer introduces the next song, which she wrote about President Kennedy.
00:31:48 "When We Got the Message" (song cuts off abruptly)
00:32:33 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR226 Jimmy and Fannie Brewer, #2, 1964
Rack number: RXH 4109
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate, 00:28:38) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.
Archivist's note: On the tape box, Jimmy Brewer is also identified as James Brewer. While Fannie's name appears on the tape title, she does not perform on this recording. Vocals and guitar by Jimmy on all songs. Collector's original ID number: 188.
Time Content
Start "Why Did He Have To Go"
00:04:40 "Poor Kelly"
00:07:57 "Pea Vine Special"
00:11:35 "Mean Old Frisco"
00:14:24 "Trouble in Mind" (song ends at 00:17:08, followed by silence until the next song)
00:18:36 "Hair Like Drops of Rain"
00:20:48 "What's Gonna Become of Me"
00:25:22 "All I Had Was Gone"
00:28:38 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR227 Jimmy and Fannie Brewer, #3, 1964
Rack number: RXH 4110
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate, 00:16:59) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.
Archivist's note: While Fannie's name appears in the title for the recording, only Jimmy performs (vocal and guitar). Collector's original number: 189.
Time Content
Start "Worried Life Blues"
00:03:22 "Step It Up and Go"
00:06:06 "Talking Guitar Boogie"
00:09:33 "Come On, Take a Walk With Me"
00:13:01 "Night Time Is the Right Time"
00:16:38 End
Item-ID: AFC 2011/053: SR782 J. Brewer, circa mid-1960s
Rack number: RAA 59320
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