Harvey Lang collection, 1930s-1998 (inclusive).

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Harvey Lang collection, 1930s-1998 (inclusive).

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Harvey Lang, drummer. Lang started playing the drums at age three and played for over sixty years, primarily in Chicago, Las Vegas, and Disneyworld in Orlando. He played for a long list of performers including Wayne Newton, Herbie Fields, Ginny and the Gallions, Lee Caron, Frank Sinatra, Bubba Kolb, Louis Prima, and Clark Terry. The Harvey Lang Collection includes lists of Lang's record album collection, and thirty-eight scrapbooks containing photographs, newspaper articles, programs, brochures, correspondence, advertisements, postcards, and other ephemera documenting his career as a drummer.

12 linear ft. (18 boxes)

University of Chicago Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7783199

University of Chicago Library

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Slingerland Drum Company

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Ludwig Drum Company

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Lang, Harvey.

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Harvey Lang was born in 1929 in Madison, Wisconsin. Lang retired in the early 1990s. Throughout his career, he endorsed several different drum and percussion companies, including Ludwig, Gretsch-Gladstone, Slingerland, Zildjian, Pearl, Rogers, and Lyon & Healey. Harvey Lang died in 1998. From the description of Harvey Lang collection, 1930s-1998 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 606927077 ...

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