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Music -- Texas

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13423 Collections and/or Records:

Sojourn (21 photographs)

 File — Box 14, Folder: 25
Series Description From the Series: The photographs are arranged alphabetically, and notable artists and personalities include Asleep at the Wheel, Moe Bandy, Johnny Bush, Johnny Cash, Hondo Crouch, Joe Ely, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, John Lee Hooker, Waylon Jennings & Jessie Colter, Steve Jordan, Augie Meyers, Willie Nelson, Johnny Rodriguez, Leon Russell, Doug Sahm, Billy Joe Shave, Jimmy Spacek, and Jerry Jeff Walker. The Willie Nelson photographs are substantial in number, and of note are some images of his father,...
Dates: 1975-2018
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Sam Kindrick Papers / Photographs / Action Magazine Photographs

Solido , 2000-2001, undated

 File — Box 84, Folder: 17
Series Description From the Series: Series I: Artists Files, 1922-2019, undated Boxes 1-155 Artist Files comprise the bulk of the collection. The files are separated into Male Artist Files and Female Artist Files to maintain Hernández’s original order. Both series are then arranged alphabetically by artist last name or band name. Although the series is titled Artists Files, there are also entrepreneurs, community leaders, promoters, street performers, and many others represented.The material found in...
Dates: 2000-2001, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Male Artist Files

“Somewhere I hear Angels Singing the San Antonio Rose”/ “The Yellow Rose of Texas” by Red River Dave, Reveal Records 45 RPM, undated

 Item — Box 4333, item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archival materials donated by Laurie E. Jasinski pertaining to Aaron Allan and the Red Nickel Record Collection dating 1947-2019. Aaron Allan (1929-2022) was a well-known disc jockey, prolific songwriter and performer from New Braunfels, Texas. In 1959, Allan did one of the earliest radio interviews with a young, up and coming Johnny Cash while working at WOAI-AM, San Antonio, Texas. The bulk of this collection is related to Aaron Allan’s songwriting and personal music performances as well...
Dates: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Aaron Allan Accessions / Accession 2024-015

Somos Hermanos, 2010, undated

 File — Box 85, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: Series I: Artists Files, 1922-2019, undated Boxes 1-155 Artist Files comprise the bulk of the collection. The files are separated into Male Artist Files and Female Artist Files to maintain Hernández’s original order. Both series are then arranged alphabetically by artist last name or band name. Although the series is titled Artists Files, there are also entrepreneurs, community leaders, promoters, street performers, and many others represented.The material found in...
Dates: 2010, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Male Artist Files

Son De Rey, 2015, undated

 File — Box 85, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: Series I: Artists Files, 1922-2019, undated Boxes 1-155 Artist Files comprise the bulk of the collection. The files are separated into Male Artist Files and Female Artist Files to maintain Hernández’s original order. Both series are then arranged alphabetically by artist last name or band name. Although the series is titled Artists Files, there are also entrepreneurs, community leaders, promoters, street performers, and many others represented.The material found in...
Dates: 2015, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Male Artist Files

Sonero Records

 File — Box 9, Folder: 8
Series Description From the Series:

The promotional material series is predominately made up of photographic and printed material sent to Patoski from music, television and film production companies, record companies, and talent agencies. Other promotional materials in this series include catalogs, newsletters, festival advertisements, press releases and ephemera all relating to the music industry.

Dates: 1978-1998, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Joe Nick Patoski Papers / Promotional Material / Music by Label

“Song Contracts File Folder”; Intellectual Property Rights Form and contract agreement form, May 30, 1973, March 30, 2013

 File — Box 4340, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Archival materials donated by Laurie E. Jasinski pertaining to Aaron Allan and the Red Nickel Record Collection dating 1947-2019. Aaron Allan (1929-2022) was a well-known disc jockey, prolific songwriter and performer from New Braunfels, Texas. In 1959, Allan did one of the earliest radio interviews with a young, up and coming Johnny Cash while working at WOAI-AM, San Antonio, Texas. The bulk of this collection is related to Aaron Allan’s songwriting and personal music performances as well...
Dates: May 30, 1973, March 30, 2013
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Aaron Allan Accessions / Accession 2024-015

“Song for a Deck Hand’s Daughter” (notepad and loose pages)

 File — Box 1, Folder: 8
Abstract From the Series: Series I, “Lyrics for Released Albums,” is divided chronologically into sub-series by album, one for each of his studio albums (and one live album) released between 1989 and 2021: Too Long in the Wasteland, Candyland, Where’d You Hide the Body, It Had to Happen, Walk Between the Raindrops, Saint Mary of the Woods, Live in Aught-Three, Childish Things, Just Us Kids, Complicated Game, and The Horses and the Hounds. Within each album sub-series, the lyrics — mostly hand-written on loose notepad...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Released Albums / Too Long in the Wasteland

Song lyrics (photocopies)

 File — Box 78, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: Though essentially consisting of only three projects, all published, this sub-series contains a voluminous amount of research on its subjects, especially Willie Nelson. Included in the Willie materials are numerous tapes and transcripts of interviews Shrake and others did with Nelson and his acquaintances. Also included are clipping files on Nelson and country music going back to 1978 (when Shrake was writing the Songwriter screenplay), and many files of...
Dates: 1978-2002, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Edwin “Bud” Shrake Papers / Non-Fiction / Willie

Songbook photocopies (4) and note

 File — Box 78, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: Though essentially consisting of only three projects, all published, this sub-series contains a voluminous amount of research on its subjects, especially Willie Nelson. Included in the Willie materials are numerous tapes and transcripts of interviews Shrake and others did with Nelson and his acquaintances. Also included are clipping files on Nelson and country music going back to 1978 (when Shrake was writing the Songwriter screenplay), and many files of...
Dates: 1978-2002, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Edwin “Bud” Shrake Papers / Non-Fiction / Willie

Songs and fan letters to Willie Nelson, 1977, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is composed of material relating to Nelson's career as a singer, songwriter and performer. It contains Nelson's own song compositions, scripts for possible movie projects, letters to Nelson suggesting songs and other projects, and Nelson's tour itineraries. Of interest are Nelson's handwritten lyrics, some scribbled on paper scraps, napkins, and hotel stationery.

Dates: 1977, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Willie Nelson Collection / Works and Performance

Songs, “dated” RH 84-85. Includes “It’s a blank space on the map”; “I’m goin’ now”; “I feel no great attachment” (loose pages), , 1985

 File — Box 8, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series:

Series II, “Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs,” contains 94 folders of lyrics for released as singles or that have yet to be recorded or released. Songs are separated into their own folders, and labeled either by song title (if known) or by a key phrase or line that either “opens” the song or appear to be thematically significant.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs / Unreleased Songs

Songs from a Ballad of the West, Review American Cowboy, January/February 2004

 File — Box 2829, Folder: 64
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Archival materials relating to the career and personal life of musician/playwright/author, Bobby Bridger from 1944-2018. Included are photographs (including a photo of Bridger with Lady Bird Johnson); promotional material for A Ballad of the West; handwritten lyrics such as Heal in the Wisdom; and Bridger’s vinyl records of Merging of our Minds, And I Wanted to Sing for the People, and Heal in the Wisdom. Also, included in the collection is a screenplay for Shakespeare and the Indians.

Dates: January/February 2004
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Bobby Bridger Accessions / Accession 2018-087

Songs of Departure - Vietnamese Traditional Music

 Item — Box 26, Folder: 40
Series Description From the Series:

The majority of phonographs in this series are from Patoski's personal collection, but some were sent to him as promotional material. The audio cassettes are mostly non-professional recordings of music, and a few are of interviews with musicians. A relatively large portion of the audio cassettes are of the band Joe "King" Carrasco, which Patoski managed during the 1980s.

Dates: 1975-1992, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Joe Nick Patoski Papers / Sound Recordings / Audio Cassettes

Songs of The Cherokee Cowboy: Special Appearance by Willie Nelson, Curtis Potter, Heart of Texas Records, 2013

 Item — Box 3592, item: 15
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Materials date from 1964-2018 and consist of CDs, CD-Rs DVDs, 45 rpm records, 33 rpm LPs, 16 mm B/W film, video reel and a 30 ips tape master. All recordings are either written by or featuring Willie Nelson as guest artist or performer.

Dates: 2013
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / John Kalinsky Accessions / Accession 2021-020

Songs the Jukebox Taught Me, Dalla Wayne, Heart of Texas Records. Track 1 “Your Time’s Comin’” with Willie Nelson, 2016

 Item — Box 3593, item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Materials date from 1964-2018 and consist of CDs, CD-Rs DVDs, 45 rpm records, 33 rpm LPs, 16 mm B/W film, video reel and a 30 ips tape master. All recordings are either written by or featuring Willie Nelson as guest artist or performer.

Dates: 2016
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / John Kalinsky Accessions / Accession 2021-020

Songwriter, 1978-1985, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: This series is also divided into Produced and Unproduced work. The Produced sub-series is arranged by production date. It contains similar materials: drafts, correspondence, contracts, promotional materials and press clippings. The three projects Shrake was most closely involved with — Kid Blue, Songwriter and Pair of Aces — contain the most materials. The Beverly Hills Cop II folders...
Dates: 1978-1985, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Edwin “Bud” Shrake Papers / Screenplays/Teleplays

“Songwriter #2” Pedernales Studio (copy) A Side: Will She Take the Love, Down to Her Socks, Night to Remember B Side: Night to Remember, Who Am I, Sure Could be Sweet, December 8, 1983

 Item — Box 4
Series Description From the Series: These audio cassettes primarily feature Willie Nelson, though there are several of other recording artists. The cassettes are in varying condition, some have been recorded over multiple times and the labels are not always descriptive of what is on the tape. The series of audio recordings has been divided into 5 subseries; Jody Fischer recordings, Willie Nelson studio recordings, Willie Nelson dated live recordings, Willie Nelson undated live recordings, and other recording artists. The...
Dates: December 8, 1983
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Jody Fischer Collection of Willie Nelson / Audio Cassette Tapes / Willie Nelson Studio Recordings

“Songwriter #3” Pedernales Studio (copy) A Side: Sure Could be Sweet, The Show Goes On B Side: One for the Morning, Late Again, Great Balls of Fire, I’m a Goin’ Fishin’, Lay me Down, Forever in Your Love, The Wonder, If it’s all the Same, December 14, 1983

 Item — Box 4
Series Description From the Series: These audio cassettes primarily feature Willie Nelson, though there are several of other recording artists. The cassettes are in varying condition, some have been recorded over multiple times and the labels are not always descriptive of what is on the tape. The series of audio recordings has been divided into 5 subseries; Jody Fischer recordings, Willie Nelson studio recordings, Willie Nelson dated live recordings, Willie Nelson undated live recordings, and other recording artists. The...
Dates: December 14, 1983
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Jody Fischer Collection of Willie Nelson / Audio Cassette Tapes / Willie Nelson Studio Recordings

“’Songwriter’ Album” Side A –“ Songwriter, Crossing the Border, Who’ll Buy My Memories, Down To Her Socks, Eye of the Storm, Nobody Said” Side B – “How Do You Feel, Write Your Own Song, Under the Gun, Final Attraction, Good Times” (second side seems blank), undated

 Item — Box 5
Series Description From the Series: These audio cassettes primarily feature Willie Nelson, though there are several of other recording artists. The cassettes are in varying condition, some have been recorded over multiple times and the labels are not always descriptive of what is on the tape. The series of audio recordings has been divided into 5 subseries; Jody Fischer recordings, Willie Nelson studio recordings, Willie Nelson dated live recordings, Willie Nelson undated live recordings, and other recording artists. The...
Dates: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Jody Fischer Collection of Willie Nelson / Audio Cassette Tapes / Willie Nelson Recordings