Jimmie Baker Oral History Collection

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Jimmie Baker Oral History Collection

1992

https://archivesspace.library.okstate.edu/repositories/3/resources/383

Cassette tape and transcription of interview given by Baker while identifying photographs for the Assistant Special Collections Librarian. Subjects include Baker's reminiscences of A & M (1939-1942 and 1946-1947), in particular his dance band, "Jimmie Baker and the Collegians," and his military service during World War II.

0.003 Linear feet (1 folder)

eng, Latn

Oklahoma State University Library, Edmon Low Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7381801

Oklahoma State University Library, Edmon Low Library

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Oklahoma A & M College.

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United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 11th

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Walker, Susan F.

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Jimmie Baker and the Collegians.

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Baker, Jimmie, 1920-2003

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James Hollan (Jimmie) Baker (ca. 1920- ) graduated from Tulsa Oklahoma Central High School, attended the University of Tulsa (1938), the University of Arkansas (1939) where he started his band "Jimmie Baker and the Collegians," and then was recruited and moved to Oklahoma A & M (1939). In July 1942, Baker was drafted into World War II and was assigned to Special Services where he and his band entertained the troops in Germany and France. After the war, Baker moved back to Oklahoma A & M ...