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M. Music and Popular Culture

 Record Group
Identifier: M

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Don Kennedy papers

 Collection
Identifier: M223
Abstract: Don Kennedy is an Atlanta-based radio and television station founder, manager, broadcaster, and actor, known for playing Officer Don on children’s television as well as creating and hosting the radio program Big Band Jump. The Don Kennedy papers, 1956-2013, contain writings, audio recordings, photographs, printed materials, and awards related to Kennedy’s television and radio broadcasting career. The bulk of the materials relate to the production of the ...
Dates: 1956-2013

Don Naylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: M103
Abstract: Don Naylor (1910-1991) was production manager of radio station WGST in Atlanta, Georgia, 1936-1950, and program director at WAGA Radio and later television in Atlanta, 1950-1959. His papers include scrapbooks he compiled about his career, and scripts for radio programs he wrote and produced. Most of the scripts were written during Naylor's years with WGST Radio; a few were written for KTAT and KFJZ in Fort Worth, Texas. Listener correspondence and background materials are filed with many of...
Dates: 1934-1970

Doug Spivey papers

 Collection
Identifier: M043
Abstract: W.L. "Doug" Spivey was a guitarist and vocalist, and an original member of the Pine Ridge Boys, a country group created by Pop Eckler. After retiring from the Atlanta country/gospel music scene, Spivey became an evangelist. He died January 13, 1987. His papers contain photocopied news clippings and handbills from the 1940s, a photocopy of a publication featuring photographs of and biographical information on numerous country music groups, and two images of handbills and nine photographs of...
Dates: 1930s-1940s

Eddie Wallace papers

 Collection
Identifier: M054
Abstract:

Eddie Wallace (born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924), was a founding member of "The Sunshine Boys," a male vocal quartet specializing in spiritual music, that appeared on radio, in motion pictures, and on recordings from 1943. His papers consist of copies of correspondence, newsclippings, magazines, programs, and other printed material and reproductions of photographs and posters.

Dates: 1940-1983

Ellen Sappington papers

 Collection
Identifier: M258
Abstract

The Ellen Sappington papers primarily contain materials related to Sappington’s career as a news writer and producer at Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. channels and networks. The papers include project files, rundowns for CNN news broadcasts, and audiovisual materials of promos and TV specials recordings, masters, and reels created by Sappington. The collection dates from 1983 to 1995 with the majority of materials from 1985 to 1993.

Dates: 1983-1995; Majority of material found within 1985-1993

Emma Kelly collection

 Collection
Identifier: M183
Abstract: Emma Kelly was a lifelong resident of Statesboro, Georgia. Having learned to play the piano at the age of six, she continued to perform for civic clubs and special events across the state for the rest of her life. The locally famous "Miss Emma" achieved world-renown when author John Berendt devoted an entire chapter to her in his novel, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The Emma Kelly collection includes documentary materials and artifacts...
Dates: circa 1900-2001; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1999

Ervin Drake collection

 Collection
Identifier: M142
Abstract:

One cassette tape of a song by Ervin Drake.

Dates: 1946

Florence Kopleff papers

 Collection
Identifier: M224
Abstract:

The Florence Kopleff papers contain rich documentation of the contralto's professional life as a performer, member of the Robert Shaw Chorale and associate of Shaw's, and as a vocal teacher, 1938-2012. The papers consist primarily of printed material, including concert programs, publicity material such as press kits and posters, articles, as well as sheet music, 1900-1993.

Dates: 1900-2021; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1998

Frances L. Wallace papers

 Collection
Identifier: M182
Abstract:

Frances Lee Wallace (1921-2001) grew up in the Atlanta area of Lakeland Heights. A piano student since childhood, she began playing professionally in about 1940, when she was hired to play in the basement of Davison's department store in downtown Atlanta. The collection documents Frances Wallace's many musical activities during her long career as a pianist and organist in Atlanta, and it provides a glimpse of Atlanta's musical scene during the middle years of the twentieth century.

Dates: 1903-1995; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1991

Gene Lees papers

 Collection
Identifier: M060
Abstract: This collection consists of research materials used by Gene Lees when he was writing his Johnny Mercer biography, Portrait of Johnny: The life of John Herndon Mercer. The papers include the correspondence files of both Gene Lees and Johnny Mercer, Mercer family biographical information, page proofs of Portrait of Johnny, as well as an unpublished manuscript entitled Song Lake Summer. Other...
Dates: 1808-2004; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2004

Gene Wiggins photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: M056
Abstract:

Gene Wiggins was the author of several articles and books on country music. This collection consists of thirty-four photographs he collected in the course of his research on the history of country music, including images of performers, handbills and newsclippings.

Dates: 1920s-1960s

Geoffrey Parker collection

 Collection
Identifier: M007
Abstract:

This collection consists of newsclippings, press releases, programs, an interview transcript and other material relating to Johnny Mercer, 1946-1977, which Georgia State University professor Geoffrey Parker gathered from various sources including recordings of a GSU tribute to Johnny Mercer.

Dates: 1946-1977

Georgia Roux photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: M180
Abstract:

George A. Mercer (father of songwriter Johnny Mercer) built the home at Vernon View, Savannah, Georgia that was used by the family as a summer home. The collection consists of four color photographs of the house, donated by longtime resident Georgia Roux.

Dates: undated

Georgia State University Mercer Stamp Celebration collection

 Collection
Identifier: M124
Abstract:

This collection consists of fourteen color photo images (28 prints, 2 of each image) of the lobby at the Rialto Theater prior to the Mercer postal stamp celebration in September 1996.

Dates: 1996

Ginger Mercer collection

 Collection
Identifier: M003
Abstract: Ginger Mercer was born Elizabeth Meltzer on June 25, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York, one of three daughters born to Anna and Joseph Meltzer. While a member of the cast of the Garrick Gaieties of 1930 Ginger met an aspiring actor named Johnny Mercer, her future husband, who had moved to New York from Savannah, Georgia to try his hand at a show business career. Following her husband's death, Ginger traveled widely and spent much of her time promoting her Johnny...
Dates: circa 1960-1983

Grady and Hazel Cole papers

 Collection
Identifier: M050
Abstract: Henry W. Grady Cole (1909-1981) was a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, who primarily performed with his wife, Hazel. Later their son, Jackie, joined his parents as a performer. The Coles became popular on Atlanta's WGST and later performed on WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee. The Cole papers include an autobiographical statement by Grady Cole, correspondence, contracts, invoices, news clippings, sheet music and lyrics written by the Coles and others, and 24 images of handbills, sheet music...
Dates: circa 1935-1976

Harpo Kidwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: M033
Abstract:

Horace "Harpo" Kidwell (1910-2003) was one of the most popular, well-known harmonica players active in Atlanta's early country music scene. He appeared on WSB Radio's "Cross Roads Follies" program, 1941-1953, and later on radio and television broadcasts from Cincinnati. His papers consist of fifty-two photographs, sheet music for one of his compositions, a letter, and photocopies of handbills, programs, a logbook, and clippings.

Dates: 1937-1978

Harry Mackenzie collection

 Collection
Identifier: M058
Abstract:

Harry Mackenzie is a resident of Glasgow, Scotland who has researched and written extensively on radio during the 1940s. His collection consists of an unpublished 1992 manuscript, The Johnny Mercer Chesterfield Music Shop, a revision of the discography he published in 1986.

Dates: 1992

Hip Hop Periodicals Collection

 Collection
Identifier: M261
Abstract

The Hip Hop Periodicals collection is an artificial collection of serial publications about hip hop and related music industry issues. The collection includes copies of Elemental and Ozone magazines. It dates from 1998 to 2012.

Dates: 1998-2012; Majority of material found within 1998-2009

Hoyt Pruitt papers

 Collection
Identifier: M042
Abstract:

Hoyt Pruitt was a dobro player, although he also played straight guitar and sang, and was actively involved in Atlanta's country music radio scene, appearing on various programs, including "Fulton County Jamboree" on WJTL and WAGA's "Dixie Fun Barn" in 1939-1940 and 1946-1948. His papers contain newsclippings relating to his career in the 1960s, and nineteen photographs of him and other country music figures.

Dates: 1940s-1960s