Vivian Harsh Research Collection
of Afro-American History and Literature
Series V. Audio Visual/Oversize
This series consists of Burns’ collection of over one hundred records. Some of the records were borrowed from famous figures such as Horace Cayton. There are various dates for the recordings. Cassette tapes and video footage from the Burns’ and Johnsons’ vacations (“Ben Burns Europe Master 23 min,” “Burns Haiti Master 27 min,” “John H. Johnson & Ben Burns in Europe Spring 1950”) are also included in this series. There are no folders in this series.
Box 40 Contents:
No folders
Record collection; includes:
Archie
Shepp, "Attica Blues"
David Newman, "Lonely Avenue"
Boz
Scaggs, "Silk Degrees"
Jimi Hendrix, "Rainbow Bridge"
Barbara
Streisand, "The Way We Were"
Funk Inc., "Chicken
Lickin'"
Quincy Jones, "Body Heat"
The Harvard
Glee Club, "Lamentations of Jeremiah"
Sidney Poitier, "Sidney
Poitier Reads the Poetry of the Black Man"
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, "Beethoven Symphony No. 9"
Count Basie, "Super
Chief"
New York Philharmonic, "Bernstein Conducts
Ravel, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Mother Goose Suite, La Valse"
Bohannon, "Keep
on Dancin'"
Ruby Andrews, "Black Ruby"
Dionne
Warwicke, "The Love Machine"
Barbara & Ernie, "Prelude
to..."
Donald Byrd, "Stepping into Tomorrow"
Sonny
Boy Williamson, "The Real Folk Blues"
Leonard Bernstein, "West
Side Story, The Original Sound Track Recording"
Charlie Ventura, "East
of Suez"
Igor Stravinsky, "Petrouchka"
Gragnani,
Ibert, Paganini, Scheidler, "Musique Intime"
Box 41 Contents:
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Record collection continues;
includes:
Vinnette Carroll, "You Arms Too Short to
Box with God"
Various artists, "Detroit Blues"
"The
Salsoul Orchestra (no record)"
The World of Duke Ellington"
B.B.King: Live
at the Regal"
Mose Allison, "Local Color, Prestige
7121"
History of Spanish Music, Luys Venegas de Henestrosa
(16th Century)
Buddy Miles "Black Giants"
Switch;
Inner Circle, "Everything is Great"
Sweet Thunder, "Above
the Clouds"
Arthur Adams, "It's Private Tonight"
Harvey
Mason, "Earth Mover"
Danny Johnson, "Learnin' to
Love You Was Easy"
Tchaikovsky, "Symphony No. 4"
"Groove
Merchant Presents"
Quincy Jones, "Smackwater Jack"
Miles
Davis, "Live/Evil"
"Peter Schreier Sings Schubert:
Songs on texts of Goethe"
"Three Concertos for Two Flutes"
Gabor
Szabo, "His Great Hits"
Black Sabbath, "Master
of Reality"
Box 42 Contents:
No folders
Record collection continues
Box 43 Contents:
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Record collection continues
Box 44 Contents:
No folders
Cassette tape:
The
Race Question," April 1996, Ben Burns/Leroy Wimbush questioned
by Cowell Thompson and Derrick Simon
Videotapes titled: "Ben
Burns/Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism"/Book
Signing at Barnes & Noble, Evanston, March 3, 1996
Ben Burns;
Chicago Books, Nitty Gritty, Ben Burns
Ben Burns Europe Master
23 min
Burns Haiti Master 27 min, John H. Johnson & Ben Burns
in Europe Spring 1950