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Alberta Hunter interviews and performances collection

Title: Alberta Hunter interviews and performances collection [sound recordings]
Author: Hunter, Alberta.
Publication: [1921-1985]

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Found In

p1bc Hunter, Alberta. Alberta Hunter Collection (CstRLIN)NYPW95-A15.

Description

86 sound cassettes : analog; 1/4 in.
10 audiotapes : analog ;
5 sound discs : analog
1 sound track film reel : analog ;

Summary

The Alberta Hunter Interviews and Performances Collection consists of interviews with Hunter from 1984 and with numerous friends and associates from 1984-1985. Over 12 hours of interviews of Hunter by biographer Frank C. Taylor are included along with his interviews of Rosetta Lenore, Jimmy the Greek, Mildred Crisp Little, Chris Albertson, Sam Sharp, Dorothy Clark, Lenny "Baby Doo" Caston, Dorothy "Dossie" Young, Irene Miller, Dick Campbell, Barney Josephson, Slow Kid Thompson, Dorothy Dowling, Florence Thornley, Mae Gaddy, Bobby Short, Johnny Hudgins, Margot Webb, Bill Moore, Mae Barnes, Barbara Bordnick, Joe A. Tiles, Hatcher Story, Elsworth Wright, Lillian Alpert, Bubba Gaines, Alan Macmillan, Flo Brown Robinson, Mabel Hampton, Mollie Moon, Robert Altman, John Hammond, Bill Krasilovsky, Marian Cooper, Rosa Henderson, and Barney Josephson.
The collection also consists of recordings of television appearances and radio broadcasts of Alberta Hunter. Television appearances include the Mike Douglas Show (1977), where she was interviewed by host Mike Douglas; the Today Show (1985); a Final Net Hair Spray commercial (1978); Eubie Blake's 100th birthday celebration (1983); plus a gala postmortum tribute to Hunter. Radio broadcasts include: Hunter on WHTG with Ray Knight, host; and at The Cookery (New Year's Eve) on National Public Radio (1977). Included is a segment featuring Marian Anderson receiving an award at City Hall, New York City, in 1984.
Musical recordings by Alberta Hunter are included in the collection along with those of Gordon Thomas, the Don Burrows Quartet, Lenny Hat, [P. Jennings and L. Marcus], Steve Cooper, John Stout, Lovie Austin and Her Blues Serenaders with Alberta Hunter, the Red River Trio, Emmett Hobson, John Stout, Penelope Annie Kenniston, Naomi Sunshine, Edith G. Hodge, Nicole Powers, Virginia Vee, Patricia Mascolino, George Recetae, and Viola McCoy.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources Access Project.

Uniform Title

Today show (Television program)

Subject

Note

Individual shows are being cataloged separately.

Reproduction (note)

Service copies.

Biography (note)

Alberta Hunter was a legendary blues singer, jazz vocalist, composer,and recording artist. Active from 1914, she took a 20-year (1955-1975) retirement from singing to become a practical nurse. She returned to the music and entertainment world in her later years and continued performing until her death in 1984. She performed in clubs and cabarets, toured internationally including several United Service Organizations (USO) Camp Show tours and recorded and composed music.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Alberta Hunter Collection, 1900-1986.

Call Number

Sc Audio C-

OCLC

NYPG94-R1739

Author

Hunter, Alberta. Interviewee

Title

Alberta Hunter interviews and performances collection [sound recordings]

Imprint

[1921-1985]

Reproduction

Service copies. New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 1993-1995.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Alberta Hunter Collection, 1900-1986.

Biography

Alberta Hunter was a legendary blues singer, jazz vocalist, composer,and recording artist. Active from 1914, she took a 20-year (1955-1975) retirement from singing to become a practical nurse. She returned to the music and entertainment world in her later years and continued performing until her death in 1984. She performed in clubs and cabarets, toured internationally including several United Service Organizations (USO) Camp Show tours and recorded and composed music.

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Added Author

Albertson, Chris. Interviewee

Alpert, Lillian. Interviewee

Altman, Robert, 1925-2006, interviewee.

Austin, Lovie. Performer

Bordnick, Barbara, 1943- Interviewee

Campbell, Dick, 1903-1994 Interviewee

Caston, Leonard, 1917- Interviewee

Clark, Dorothy. Interviewee

Cooper, Steve. Performer

Douglas, Mike. Interviewer

Gaddy, Mae. Interviewee

Gaines, Bubba. Interviewee

Hammond, John. Interviewee

Hampton, Mabel. Interviewee

Hat, Lenny. Performer

Henderson, Rosa. Interviewee

Jimmy the Greek. Interviewee

Josephson, Barney. Interviewee

Kenniston, Penelope Annie. Performer

Knight, Ray. Interviewer

Krasilovsky, M. William. Interviewee

Lenore, Rosetta. Interviewee

McCoy, Viola. Performer

Macmillan, Alan. Interviewee

Michaels, Gil. Interviewer

Moon, Mollie. Interviewee

Pierce, Ponchitta Anne, 1942- Interviewer

Powers, Nicole. Performer

Sharp, Sam, Jr. Interviewee

Short, Bobby. Interviewee

Sunshine, Naomi. Performer

Taylor, Frank C. Interviewer

Thomas, Gordon. Performer

Thompson, Slow Kid. Interviewee

Vee, Virginia. Performer

Webb, Margot, 1910- Interviewee

Whiston, Henry. Interviewer

Blues Serenaders. Performer

Don Burrows Quartet. Performer

National Public Radio (U.S.)

WHTG (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)

Added Title

Today show (Television program)

Found In:

p1bc Hunter, Alberta. Alberta Hunter Collection (CstRLIN)NYPW95-A15.

Research Call Number

Sc Audio C- Originals in Sc Audio TC-

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