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Glenda Abdoo and Ken Crawford papers from the Kurt Weisbecker collection, 1931-2006

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Series 3. Miscellany, 1931-1977
Includes Billie Holiday material originally kept with the Glenda Abdoo--Jack Millar correspondence.
BOX-FOLDER 1/16 "Lady Day Sang the Blues" article by William Dufty
Copy and proofs for a reprint of William Dufty's article "Lady Day Sang the Blues," originally written on the day of Billie Holiday's death, July 17, 1959.
BOX-FOLDER 1/17 Billie Holiday discography, compiled circa 1968
Apparently compiled by Jack Millar for Brian Rust's Jazz Records discography, and sent to Glenda Abdoo in correspondence.
BOX-FOLDER 1/18 Index of Plaza/ARC recordings listed in Brian Rust's American Dance Band Discography, 1917-1942; compiled by John and Ross Wilby
BOX-FOLDER 1/19 Magazines and pamphlets
RCA Radiotron Radio Log, 1931
His Master's Voice, vol. III, no. 7, 1943-07
The Capitol News from Hollywood, vol. 5, no. 3, 1947-03
Music Views, 1956-03
Storyville 59, 1975-06--1976-07
BOX-FOLDER 3/1 Down Beat, vol. 4, no. 8, 1937-08
BOX-FOLDER 3/2 The Pittsburgh Press Roto Magazine, 1955-01-02
Contains article describing the Jack Teagarden--Tommy Dorsey jam session from December 12, 1954. See photographs.
BOX-FOLDER 3/3 "New life for U.S. jazz: young innovators share boom with old hands" photo essay by Eliot Elisofon, from Life magazine, 1955-01-17
BOX-FOLDER 3/4 The Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh's Family Magazine, 1965-08-15
BOX-FOLDER 1/20 Newspaper clippings
"Billie Holiday dies here at 44; jazz singer had wide influence," New York Times, 1959-07-18
"3,000 at funeral of Billie Holiday," New York Times, 1959-07-22
"Can the Saints improve upon perfection?," The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, 1965-09-08
"Whiteman, King of Jazz, dies at 76," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1967-12-30
"Rocking at the cradle of New York jazz," Los Angeles Times, 1971-11-28
Want ad for record catalogs placed by collector Tim Brooks, Collectors News, 1977-07
BOX-FOLDER 1/21 Ephemera, 1940, 1958, and undated

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