Joe Reisman scores, 1945-1986.

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Joe Reisman scores, 1945-1986.

The Joe Reisman scores consist primarily of scores and parts that Reisman (and occasionally others) arranged and sometimes composed for recording artists on the RCA Victor and Roulette record labels, and, in a few cases, for outside contractors.

84.4 linear feet (121 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8229118

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Page, Patti

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Como, Perry, 1912-2001

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Big Band singer; radio/television singer and musical program host. From the description of The Perry Como Collection, 1955-1994. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49291739 ...

Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990

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Horne, Lena.

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Singer, actress, performer of stage, films and television. Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917 and began her professional career in 1934 as a chorus girl at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York. In 1935 her career as a singer was launched with the Noble Sissle and later, the Charlie Barnet bands. She toured extensively in the United States and Europe. In the 1940s she appeared at New York's Cafe Society Downtown and from there went to Hollywood where she became the firs...

Reisman, Joe

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Joe Reisman (b. Dallas, TX, 16 Sept. 1924, d. Los Angeles, CA, 15 Sept. 1987) was raised in Ennis, Texas, and attended Baylor University, Texas Western College and Texas Christian University before starting his music career as a saxophonist and arranger with the Herb Miller band. Through the late 1940s he also toured with and arranged for Jimmy Joy, Bob Crosby, Jack Teagarden, Louis Prima, Glen Gray, Sam Donahue, Frankie Masters and Johnny “Scat” Davis. Reisman met Patti...

Mancini, Henry

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Mancini was born on Apr. 16, 1924, in Cleveland, OH; attended Carnegie Tech Music School and Juillard Graduate School; began career after military service in WWII as a pianist with dance bands; studied privately in Los Angeles with Krenek, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Sendrey; staff composer for Universal Pictures, 1952-58; demonstrated his skills as a music arranger and songwriter with The Glenn Miller story (1954), which earned him the first of many Academy Award nominations; subsequently composed...

Previn, André, 1929-

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American conductor, pianist, and composer of German birth. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [s.l., 26 January 1968], to Ray Pitts [1968, Jan. 26]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270952249 Conductor, composer, pianist. From the description of Interview conducted by Dick Cavett, Apr. 27, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861658 ...

RCA-Victor Company, inc.

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Consolidated Talking Machine Company founded ca. 1900; in 1901 incorporated as Victor Talking Machine Company; in 1929 joined with Radio Corporation of America to become Radio-Victor Corporation of America (a subsidiary of Radio Corporation of America); in 1930 name changed to RCA-Victor Company; in 1934 RCA-Victor Company merged with RCA Radiotron Company to form RCA Manufacturing Company, inc.; in 1942 became the RCA Victor Division of the parent company, Radio Corporation of America; later re...

Roulette (Sound recording label)

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Greene, Lorne, 1915-1987

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Jones, Jack, 1938-

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Valli, June

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Van Heusen, Jimmy, 1913-1990

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Cahn, Sammy

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Composer of "Love and marriage" and other songs. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : Beverly Hills, Calif., to Lucretia [Shaler?], 1976 June 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270906654 ...

Reader's Digest Music

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