Archive: June 2020 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Melissa Wertheimer; (Year) 2020; (Month) June

Handwritten manuscript lead sheet for Clifford Hayes's "Bye Bye Blues," submitted for copyright registration in 1928.

Clifford Hayes, Ben Hunter, Earl McDonald, and the Louisville Jug Bands

June 22, 2020

The following is a guest post by Reader Services Technician Mary Joy Lamb. While working as a technician in the Library of Congress Music Division I came across Clifford Hayes’s copyright lead sheet for “Bye Bye Blues” from 1928. The yellowed paper, the rushed corrections, and the date caught my eye. I snapped an image …

Posted in: Copyright Deposits, Guest bloggers, Musicians

Woman with dark hair, fancy dress and pearls with eyes closed and mouth slightly open, singing

Chronicling the Candy Man

June 18, 2020

Posted by: Melissa Wertheimer

Columnist Burt Boyar spent much of his life documenting the annals of Sammy Davis, Jr., a generational tour de force who surmounted extraordinary odds with his prodigious talent.

Posted in: Guest bloggers, Musicians, Special Collections

Refined by: (Author) Melissa Wertheimer; (Year) 2020; (Month) June