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Music -- Texas

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 13423 Collections and/or Records:

Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement for Performance for Asleep at the Wheel, a hand painted guitar award, 2009

 Item — Box 2812, Folder: 3
Abstract From the Series: Archival materials donated by musician, Ray Benson, as additions to his collection following his music career from 1957-2015. Majority of the addition are photographs of Asleep at the Wheel and headshots of Benson; news clippings and magazine articles on Asleep at the Wheel; and concert promotional materials such as posters and flyers. Included in the collection are handwritten song lyrics; Benson’s guitar, cowboy hat, and concert shirt; and photographs of Benson with former U.S. Presidents...
Dates: 2009
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ray Benson Accessions / Accession 2018-078

Amerimex International Media, Inc., 1988

 File — Box 172, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series:

Series IV: Media Outlets, 1964-2014, undated Boxes 172-177

The bulk of the series is radio station press kits and promotional material. There are a small number of TV stations, news outlets, and film production companies also included. The many radio station coverage maps that span all across Texas are unexpected highlights of this series.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Media Outlets / Radio Stations

Amigos Band, undated

 File — Box 3, Folder: 11
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: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Male Artist Files

Amigosradio.com, undated

 File — Box 172, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

Series IV: Media Outlets, 1964-2014, undated Boxes 172-177

The bulk of the series is radio station press kits and promotional material. There are a small number of TV stations, news outlets, and film production companies also included. The many radio station coverage maps that span all across Texas are unexpected highlights of this series.

Dates: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Media Outlets / Radio Stations

Ammons Memorial Clinic members, 1964-1966, undated

 File — Box 101, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: Two main subseries constitute the Correspondence series: Alphabetical and Chronological. This arrangement reflects Shrake’s, in that he filed some of his letters by correspondent, and some by year. Most correspondence in the Alphabetical sub-series are with friends, collaborators, and family members. The Chronological sub-series contains correspondence from a far wider range of addressors, some strangers to Shrake and others intimate friends. A name index for the chronological...
Dates: 1964-1966, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Edwin “Bud” Shrake Papers / Correspondence / Alphabetical

Amor y Pasion, 2000, undated

 File — Box 96, Folder: 20
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, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Female Artist Files

Amor y Pasion - Audiovisual material, 2000

 File — Box 96, Folder: 21
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
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Female Artist Files

Amos Milburn - "Don't Beg Me," "Down the Road Apiece"

 Item — Box 22, Folder: 12
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: 1962-1990, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Joe Nick Patoski Papers / Sound Recordings / Phonographs

Amparo Ochao, 1992

 File — Box 117, Folder: 19
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: 1992
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Female Artist Files

Amran, David – 7 photographs; handwritten note

 File — Box 2967, Folder: 5
Abstract From the Series:

Additions to the John T. Davis Accessions include his extensive subject files, arranged alphabetically by artist. Contents vary, but typically include promotional photographs, Davis’ writings and interview notes, press releases, newspaper clippings, and other ephemera. Not everything in the folders is listed below, but when they exist, photos, interviews, and select items are noted. Folders titles are Davis’.

Dates: 1980 - 2010
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / John T. Davis Accessions / Accession 2019-046

AMS Records, 1988, 1990, undated

 File — Box 165, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series:

Series III: Record Labels, 1950-2016,undated

Boxes 165-171

Arranged alphabetically by record label, this series contains promotional material, business documents, and catalogs from prominent Tejano record labels. Hacienda Records is particularly well-represented. Also,of note is correspondence from Carmen Marroquin (of the sister musical act Carmen and Laura) whose husband Armando Marroquin founded Ideal Records.

Dates: 1988, 1990, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Record Labels

Amy Heller cover (2), January, 2016

 Item — Box 30
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains a near-complete run of the newspaper from 1975-2019.

Dates: Publication: January, 2016
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Sam Kindrick Papers / Action Magazine Issues / 2016 Issues

An Evening of Country at Matador Stadium promotional poster, June 28, 1986

 Item — Box 4346, item: 4
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: June 28, 1986
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Aaron Allan Accessions / Accession 2024-015

“An Ode to 1939 in View of Becoming 29” to Susanna from Brunel, 1968

 File — Box 6, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series:

This series is composed of five subseries: Correspondence, Personal Materials, Photographs, Artwork, and Awards.

Dates: 1968
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Tamara Saviano Collection of Guy and Susanna Clark / Susanna Clark

“An old Kiowa lived down south …” (losses pages)

 File — Box 7, Folder: 42
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: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs / Unidentified Songs

Ana Maria Del Rio, undated

 File — Box 99, Folder: 30
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: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Female Artist Files

Anani “La Charrita”, undated

 File — Box 96, Folder: 22
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: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Ramón Hernández Tejano Music Collection / Artist Files / Female Artist Files

“And I wanted to sing for the people”; copy of album art and CD

 File — Box 2828, Folder: 25
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: 1944 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1963 - 2003
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Bobby Bridger Accessions / Accession 2018-087

“And if I don’t call tonight …” (notepad and loose pages)

 File — Box 6, Folder: 27
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: undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / James McMurtry Papers / Lyrics for Singles, Unrecorded Songs, and Unidentified Songs / Unidentified Songs

And If You Play Golf You’re My Friend , 1994, undated

 Sub-subseries
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: 1994, undated
Found in: The Wittliff Collections / Edwin “Bud” Shrake Papers / Non-Fiction / Harvey Penick Books