Piano Rolls Collection, 1979, 1982.

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Piano Rolls Collection, 1979, 1982.

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The collection consists of two music rolls of ten songs each, plus two plastic end pieces for a music roll. One of the music rolls is called "Gene Autry Special" and the ten songs are those presumably sung by Autry, including his signature tune "Back in the Saddle Again," but also "Lara's Theme" from Dr. Zhivago.The other music roll is titled "Vampy Tunes" and consists of one-steps, foxtrots, ragtime songs, waltzes, and two-steps such as "Cotton Pickers' Picnic Day" and "When the Kaiser Does the Goose Step to a Good Old American Rag."

1 linear ft. (1 banker's box containting 3 piano rolls)

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8147086

University of Southern California, USC Libraries

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Autry, Gene, 1907-1998

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Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998), nicknamed the Singing Cowboy, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, musician, rodeo performer, and baseball owner who gained fame largely by singing in a crooning style on radio, in films, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was the owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League Baseball team from 19...

Play-Rite Music Rolls Company

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A player piano is a mechanically operated piano, especially a pedal-operated or motor-driven piano using pneumatic suction to move the keys in correspondence to the perforations on a turning piano roll. [American Heritage Dictionary]. The earliest known player pianos date back to the 1500s when piano builder Samuel Bidermann of Augsburg, Germany equipped three spinets (small, upright pianos) with pinned barrels similar to those in music boxes during his lifetime from 1540 to 1622. However, it wa...

Play-Rite Music Rolls, Inc.

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