As we approach year’s-end, here’s a list of materials donated, Named Special Collections built, a bit of news and some swell new items that arrived at ARC.
First, and most importantly, we’ll be moving to our 24,000 sq ft new home in upstate New York in the New Year. Details to follow when all the lawyers are smiling.
Now to the Roundup
• Bill Bahlman Collection – Major 80s DJ (Anvil, Hurrahs, Danceteria), photographer and AIDs activist, who ran 99 records label and the store in NYC – to date we’ve catalogued 1,253 of his punk singles and 509 pop singles – so much more to come!
• Lee Bishop – 3,500 Bluegrass and C&W LPs.
• Tim Broun – 118 LPs, 432 singles, Liquid Liquid song list Nov. 19, 2008 at Santos Party House, signed Kansas LP, and various odds and ends donated by our archivist.
• Joan Butcher – 6 sheet music magazines, 167 pieces of sheet music.
• Debra Cattani – 7 LPs
• John Delgatto – 340 US CDs, 60 EU CDs.
• Estate of Carl D’Errico – Acclaimed songwriter, composer, musician, and actor donated his studio equipment, including Tannoy speakers Gold five (2 sets), a Yamaha key board, Bluebird mikes, Element 24, Stanton turn table, Tone generator Yamaha Mu 128, M audio control, AKG earphones, Denon tape deck, Onkyo radio/CD, Furman power conditioner, Focusrite scarlett 22 (monitor) and some CD makers. We’d have gotten his guitar, but Bruce Springsteen took it!
• Michael Friedman – Mostly activist, worker’s rights and protest material from the 1960s, including 41 Sing Out Magazines, 27 songbooks and 2 pocket sized IWW (Wobbly) songbooks.
• Doris Ghitelman – 780 LPs, 565 seven-inch singles.
Out of the blue we got this Ukrainian pressing of the Beatles “Love Me Do” on
x-ray film from the 1960’s.
• Peter Glazer – 205 seven-inch singles, 40 Portland Oregon concert handbills, late 1960; 62 Oregon radio station surveys and giveaways.
• Mark Grigalunas – 93 LPs
• Alan Grossman – 502 seven-inch singles, 88LPs, 2 fanzines and 6 Elvis Tee Shirts
• Joe Hagan – 1 LP, 1 book
• Thomas Helmacy – 2,413 seven-inch singles, 720 LPs, 61 eight inch vinyl 45rpm Lang-worth compilation Eps, 44 ten-inch LPs.
• Dr. Ronald D. Hennessey – 21 seven-inch singles
• Nancy Bookman Hoffman – 83 ten-inch 78rpm shellac discs. Wall Hangings of Million Dollar Record Sales, and a remarkable set of eleven Dizzy Gillespie Original Orchestrations, written in hand by Mr. Gillespie, including “A Night In Tunisia.”
• Wilbur Houghtaling – 1,226 fab Hillbilly 78rpm 10”shellac discs.
• Eric David Johnson – 21 ten-inch 78rpm shellac discs, 33 CDs, 6 VHS, 1 DVD, 69 LPs.
• William Johnson – 6,000 jazz recordings
This just in! 72 autographed photos from a remarkable collection of 50’s and 60’s concert show programs from the Charlotte Coliseum in North Carolina.
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see many more donations that arrived here in 2024 on the next page
• Estate of Katharine Kean – 271 LPs, 182 pieces of sheet music, 3 singles.
• Roy Kaufman – 330 LPs, 81 CDs, 2 song books, 4 music magazines, 8 music related video games, 1 shattered magazine press kit, 3 autographed photos, 1 DVD, 2 newspaper clippings.
• Hubie King – 15 banker’s boxes and a 3×5 card file with references for fiddle tune names, song origins, banjo history, and Civil War sources, conference paper presentations, 13 CDs of interviews and his banjo playing on his Old Time Music show on WAMU, digital recordings of King playing with John Duffy (mandolin, Country Gentlemen and Seldom Scene) and with “Sonny Johnson and the Piedmont Valley Boys”. Plus 76 books.
• Joel Lee – 2 CDs, 2 cassettes
• Dan Levinson Banjo and Fiddle Archive – Clawhammer banjo teacher and performer : 6 music magazines, 41 cassettes, 8 CDs, 30 CDs of original material, 2 DVD audio tapes, hard drives, various VHS and DVDs, and 102 folder containing approx. 1,500+ pages of interviews, writing, reviews, correspondences, production info, teaching notes, and photographs. Material basis for recent book by Lew Stern.
• Alfred Lopez – 112 Latin LPs
• Paul Matthias – 47 brass, trombone and rock CDs, 2 CD box sets
• Barry Mayo – 1,132 LPs, 575 seven-inch singles, 206 shellac 10″ 78rpm discs, 9 vinyl 10” LPs.
• Daniel McMaster; Diane Hessler – audio equipment : turntables, CD players and a receiver
Keith Richards / Rolling Stone Records / Raindrop Services –
744 Rolling Stones Tour Tee shirts. These from the Havana show!
• Lea Pisacane – 23 Music books, and 76 packets of ChewPop!
• Geoffrey Rezek – 57 LPs, 82 cassettes, 108 CDs, 200 pieces of sheet music and music books
• Eric Savage / Amy Brams Savage – 175 CDs
• Patricia Savarese – Country and pop recordings, 1,562 LPs, 193 CDs, 26 VHSs and 113 cassettes. MOSTLY Marty Robbins material, including a Marty metal bust, wall plate, clock and paper fans!
• Jennifer Slemmer – 230 Rock, Blues and Jazz songbooks
• Elle Smith – 81 pieces of sheet music, 11 songbooks.
• Dylan Suher – 6 Chinese LPs. Sent from China!
• John Szwed – Author, Jazz historian. Includes his books on Sun Ra, Billie Holiday, Alan Lomax, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton,and Harry Smith. 12,000 US and UK Jazz magazines, including complete runs of Jazz Times, Downbeat (990 copies), Jazz Review, Coda, Avant, Collusion and others.
• M. Tomasetta – 5 guitar music books, 57 CDs.
• TMWRK Records – 22 of their releases on CD.
• Don Voisine – 760 CDs, 53 cassettes, 15 DVDs, 6 VHS, 4 books and 1 cassette head cleaner set
Renee Pappas : Part One of the Jerry Wexler Collection, including 40 CDs, 19 music DVDs, 14 books, 2 unreleased Linda Ronstadt CDs produced by Mr. Wexler, oversize contact sheets and 7 photo CDs of Jerry’s parties and events shot by Bob Gruen, one photo CD of Janice Joplin shot by Bob Gruen; hundreds of clippings, paper memorabilia assorted photos and notes by Mr. Wexler
• Merideth Wright – 2 CDs, 14 Eastern European songbooks, 18 ten-inch 78rpm shellac discs, 2 reel-to-real audio tapes, 21 singles, 161 LPs.
A few things donated earlier, but just now arriving from our West Coast office (OK, it’s a storage space) offering us a first look…
• Cliff Richard and the Shadows Collection – 302 LPs, 623 seven-inch singles, a few thousand press clippings, magazines, and photos.
• Box of Buddy Holly Press Clippings and photos
• Box of Elvis Presley Press Clippings and photos
All of this fab material courtesy of our old pal Gary Johnson @ Rockaway records
• Greg Shaw / Bomp Records Collection – New items added include his collection of Trouser Press magazines and Greg’s typewriter used to turn out every issue of Bomp.
DO consider donating material. Anyone can do it!