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Finding-Aid for the Jimmie Rodgers Collection

MUM00394

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Summary Information

Repository
University of Mississippi Libraries
Title
Jimmie Rodgers Collection
ID
MUM00394
Date
1948-1992
General Physical Description note
8 boxes.
Abstract
Collection contains correspondence, photographs, sheet music, ephemera, publications, and posters related to the life and work of Jimmie Rodgers. Items were created 1948-1992.

Preferred Citation

Jimmie Rodgers Collection (MUM00394). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

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Scope and Contents Note

Collection contains correspondence, photographs, sheet music, ephemera, publications, and posters related to the life and work of Jimmie Rodgers. Items were created 1948-1992.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

University of Mississippi Libraries 2005

Access Restrictions

Open.

Use Restriction

The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use", that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Processing Information

Processed by University of Mississippi Department Special Collections Staff . EAD encoded finding-aid begun September 2005.

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Controlled Access Headings

Personal Name(s)

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Collection Inventory

Box 1 

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1949-1974 

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1975-1978 

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1979 

Folder 4: Correspondence, 1980 

Folder 5: Correspondence, 1981-1982 

Folder 6 Correspondence January 1983-April 1983 

Folder 7: Correspondence May 1983-December 1983 

Folder 8 Correspondence, January 1984-June 1984 

Folder 9: Correspondence, July 1984-December 1984 

Folder 10: Correspondence, 1985 

Folder 11: Correspondence, 1986 

Folder 12: Correspondence, 1987 

Folder 13: Correspondence, 1988 

Folder 14 Correspondence, 1989 

Folder 15: Correspondence, 1990 

Folder 16: Correspondence, 1991 

Folder 17: Correspondence, 1992 

Folder 18: Correspondence, undated 

Folder 19: Jimmie Rodgers chronology, re: recording session. 

Folder 20: Jimmie Rodgers postage stamp material 

Folder 21: Weaver Family photographs. 

Folder 22: JMRA/Jubilee/Country Musci Conference Photos 

Folder 23: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival, Jim Cleaveland photos. 

Folder 24: Jimmie Rodgers and family photos and copies 

Folder 25: Miscellaneous photos of Country, Bluegrass performers. 

Folder 26: Miscellaneous photos 

Folder 27: Sheet music 

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Box 2 

Folder 1: Jimmie Rodgers articles 

Folder 2: Jimmie Rodgers Fan Club Newsletter, 1953 

Folder 3: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Association Newsletter, scattered issues. 

Folder 4: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival Brochures, 1982-1986 

Folder 5: Miscellaneous brochures 

Folder 6: News, media releases, 1967-1990 

Folder 7: Weaver family clippings 

Folder 8: Newspapers, magazine, and clippings, 1932-1986 

Folder 9: Newspapers, magazine, and clippings, 1933-1989 

Folder 10: Newspapers, magazines, and clippings, 1990- 

Folder 11: Newspapers, magazines, and clippings, undated. 

Folder 12: Jimmie Rodgers catalogs, ads, promo material. 

Folder 13: Miscellaneous catalogs, ads and promo materials. 

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Box 3 

Folder 1: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Association Constitution and by-laws, incomplete. 

Folder 2: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Association, miscellaneous financial info. 

Folder 3: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Festival, 1983;1985. 

Folder 4: Country Music Conference, 1984. 

Folder 5: First annual Counry Music Conference grant proposals, 1984. 

Folder 6: Country Music Conference, 1985 

Folder 7: Country Music Conference, 1986. 

Folder 8: Country Music Conference 1989 

Folder 9: Country Music Conference 1990 

Folder 10: Country Music Conference 1991 

Folder 11: Country Music Conference, undated 

Folder 12: Miscellaneous proposals, grants and circualtion reports. 

Folder 13: Book and record reviews 

Folder 14: Articles 

Folder 15: Drafts of Old Time Counry materials 

Folder 16: JMRA mailing lists, 1983 

Folder 17: JRMA newsletter, Spring 1984. 

Folder 18: JRMA vol II no. 4, Winter 1984 

Folder 19: JRMA Mem Association vol. 4, no. 3 

Folder 20: JRMA drafts of newsletters 

Folder 21: JRMA newsletter miscellaneous articles, excerpts. 

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Box 4 

Folder 1: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial Concert, 3 reel tapes, 22 August 1987. 

Folder 2: Jimmie Rodgers Video Cassett, sent from Hentry Young Maxwell VHS tape-Otis Roy & Penelope, Cal Poly Pamona. 

Folder 3: Jimmie Rodgers at the Fort Payne Opera House-cassett tape. 

Folder 4: Troy McCort cassette tape 

Folder 5: Al Ferguson cassette tape. 

Folder 6: Roy Accuff cassette tape "Songs from the Opry 1944-46" 

Folder 7: Cassette tape "My Record Collection-A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers" 

Folder 8: "Roy Buchanon's back up band featuring Dave Whitehill and Demos for Solo Album" 

Folder 9: Bretn Moyer-45 record 

Folder 10: Wynn Hammonds 

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Box 5 

Folder 1:  Academy of Country Music  

April 1969-July 1969 

Folder 2:  Alabama Heritage  

Summer 1989 

Folder 3:  Appalshop Notes 

1991 

Folder 4:  BMI the Many Worlds of Music  

January 1968 

Summer 1969 

March 1972 

Folder 5:  The Big C Write Up 

Folder 6:  Billboard 

May 8, 1961 

December 25, 1961 

November 2, 1963- "The World of Country Music" 

November 14, 1963- "The World of Country Music" 

December 26, 1964-"Record & Talent Showcase" 

March 27, 1965-"Music on Campus" 

October 30, 1965- "The World of Country Music" 

October 29, 1966-"The World of Country Music" 

December 24, 1966- "Record Talent Directory 1967 International 

October 28, 1967-"The World of Country Music" 

October 19, 1968- "The World of Country Music" 

October 21, 1967- "The World of Country Music 10th Annual Edition" 

Folder 7:  Bluegrass Breakdown 

January 1990 

Folder 8:  Bluegrass Music News 

Spring 1991 

Folder 9:  The C Note  

October 1989 

December 1989 

February 1990 

April 1990 

August 1990 

Folder 10:  CMA Close-up 

December 1967 

April 1968 

Folder 11:  CMF 

Spril 1986 

Folder 12:   Capital News 

June 1983 

Folder 13:  Close Up 

November/December 1961 

March 1989 

September 1990 

November/December 1990 

January/February 1991 

Folder 14:  The Countrypolitan 

July 1968 

Folder 15:  Country Adlib 

March 1971 

Folder 16:  Country Courier  

February 1961 

Folder 17:  Country Heritage 

July 1983 

February 1986 

Folder 18:  Country Music Annual  

1982 

Folder 19:   Country Music Digest  

October 1972 

Folder 20:  Country Music Star  

October 1967 

Folder 21: County Music Star 

1963 

Folder 22:  Country Song Roundup  

Various issues June 1960-December 1967 

Folder 23:  Country Time Review 

October 1967 

Folder 24:  The Country-Western Express 

April, May, June 1957 

1960 

Folder 25:  Country & Western Gazette 

November 1969 

February 1970 

March 1970 

Folder 26:  Country & Western Jamboree 

July 1955 

August 1955 

September 1955 

October 1955 

December 1955 

Folder 27:  Country and Western Stars 

1958 

Folder 28:  Country and Western Record Review  

February 1958 

Folder 29:  Country and Western Spotlight  

December 1961 

Folder 30: Cowboy Songs 

Number 28 

Number 34 

Number 40 

Number 42 

Folder 31:  Del's Billboard 

Folder 32:  The Earl Scruggs Review  

1972 

Folder 33:  The Folklife of the Upper Midwest 

Spring 1987 

Folder 34:  Frontier Folklife Festival 

1980 

Folder 35:  The Grassometer  

September 1988 

Folder 36:  The Handbook 

1981 

Folder 37:  Hillbilly and Cowboy Hit Parade  

1952 

Folder 38:  The Hillbilly Folk Recrod Journal  

August 1956 

November 1956 

February 1957 

Folder 39:  The Hillbilly and Western Scrapbook 

Volume 1 

Volume 2 

Folder 40:   Inside Country Music 

Folder 41:   International Bluegrass  

April 1986 

September 1986 

November 1986 

January/February 1987 

May/June 1987 

July/August 1987 

January/February 1988 

May/June 1988 

July/August 1988 

January/February 1989 

July/August 1989 

November/December 1989 

January/February 1990 

March/April 1990 

May/June 1990 

July/August 1990 

November/December 1990 

January February 1991 

March/April 1991 

May/June 1991 

Folder 42:   International Musician 

April 1964 

Folder 43:  Kansas Folklore Society Newsletter 

July 1989 

Folder 44:   Leadbelly Letter  

Winter 1991 

Folder 45:   Louisville Music News 

March 1990 

October 1990 

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Box 6 

Folder 1:  MABC Bluegrass Ramblin's 

January 1980 

August 1982 

May-August 1984 

October 1985 

Folder 2:  MSOTFA Quarterly  

Volune 9, number 1 

Folder 3:  Mountain Music News 

March 1989 

Folder 4:  Music City News 

June 1965 

October-November 1968 

March 1971 

August 1971 

September 1971 

December 1971 

February 1980 

May 1980 

June-November 1980 

January 1981 

February 1981 

April 1981 

May 1981 

April1984 

Folder 5:  National Old Time Fiddler  

February 1987 

Folder 6:  New Yorker 

February 12, 1990 

Folder 7:  Phonograph Record Magazine  

Folder 8:  Record Research 

March/April 1962 

July 1969 

December 1970 

May 1971 

July 1971 

Folder 9:  Sabre News 

June 1970 

July 1970 

September 1970 

Folder 10:  Scrapbook of Hillbilly and Western Stars  

1952 

Folder 11:  SESAC Music  

Autumn 1970 

Folder 12:  Southern Scene  

September 1969 

Folder 13:  Southern Register 

Winter 1984 

Folder 14:  Steppin' in Time  

1989 

Folder 15:  Texas Heritage Music Foundation  

February 1989 

September 1989 

Folder 16:  This Week in Country and Western Music  

April 5, 1972 

April 19, 1972 

May 6, 1972 

Undated 

May 17, 1972 

May 24, 1972 

May 31, 1972 

Folder 17:  Tradition 

Fall 1968 

Festive 1987 

Folder 18:  Trail 

February 1959 

Folder 19:  Tri-Son News  

September 1967 

Jan/February 1968 

Folder 20:  WGNU Country  

June 1968 

August 1968 

Folder 21: The Washboard 

Fall 1988 

Winter 1989 

Folder 22:  Western News  

January/February 1971 

Folder 23:  Western Stars 

November 1948-February 1949, Volume 1 

March 1949-June 1949, Volume 2 

Folder 24:  Western Swing Notes  

August - October 1986 

December 1986 

February 1987 

August/September 1987 

January 1990 

September 1990 

November 1990 

March/April 1991 

Folder 25:  Bill and Shirely White Fan Club Journal  

July 1968 

May/June 1969 

Folder 26:  The Window Watcher  

September 1967 

Folder 27:  Works in Progress  

Winter 1989 

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Box 7 

Folder 1:  ASCAP 

Fall 1981 

Folder 2:  The Cash Box  

November 20 1954 

September 17, 1955 

Folder 3:   Close Up 

April 1989 

Folder 4:  The Country Band Wagon of Top Hits 

Folder 5:  Country Music News 

October 1972 

Folder 6:  Country Song Roundup 

December 1969 

Folder 7: Country Sounds 

Intro issue 

July 1986-June 1987 

Folder 8:  Country Music Trail 

October 15, 1972 

Folder 9:  The Country & Western News Scene  

October 1972 

Folder 10:  Esquire  

October 1972 

Folder 11:  Music Business 

November 7, 1964 

Folder 12:  Music City News 

December 1966-July 1981 

Folder 13:  The Nashville Entertainer  

April 29, 1972 

October 1972 

Folder 14:  Precious Memories 

May-June 1989 

Folder 15:  This Week in Country and Western Music  

October 26, 1972 

Folder 16:  The Tri-State Entertainer  

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Box 8 

Folder 1:  American Folk Tales and Songs  

Folder 2:  Blue Three Ring Binder of Top Country Wide Tunes of Greater Chicago  

Various issues from Septemer 18, 1967 - August 31, 1969 

Folder 3: Article Re: Jesse Rodgers 

Folder 4: Newspaper, Magazine Clippings 

Folder 5 

Capitol News 

May 1950 

Disc Collector Newsletter 

Various Issues November/December 1968-Fall 1970 

Disc Collectors Country Music Promoter 

Central Sounds 

Country Sales Newsletter 

July 1969 

October 1969 

Mabc Bluegrass Ramblins 

February 1967 

October 1967 

Middle America Country News 

April 1984 

Old Time Dancing in the Appalachain Mountains 

WWVA Jamoree USA 

October 1970 

WWVA Big Country Jamboree Newletter 

Various issues September 1968-Jluy 1969 

Folder 6: Misc Promotional Ads 

Folder 7: Jimmie Rodgers Newsletters 

Folder 8: Misc Catalogs 

Folder 9: Correspondence and Handwritten Notes 

Folder 10: Songbooks and Sheet Music 

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Posters held in Poster Cabinet Drawer