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Founded in August, 1951, GLARE was a monthly magazine devoted to Black social and cultural life in Birmingham, Alabama. According to an editorial introduction in its inaugural issue, "GLARE pictures the better things of life, the pleasant things, the…

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Program for Birmingham's John Tuggle Whatley Elementary School, named for the city's influential "Maker of Musicians," John T. "Fess" Whatley. Program includes a biography of Whatley and a photo of his early Vibra-Cathedral Orchestra. Please see also…

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Lyrics and music for the official school song of John T. Whatley Elementary School, Birmingham, Alabama. Opened c. 1960, Whatley Elementary was named for John T. "Fess" Whatley, Birmingham's celebrated "Maker of Musicians," longtime local bandleader…

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Songbook Number 4 by the Klaudt Indian Family, Box 397, Doraville, Georgia. Includes family member bios and photos, along with the lyrics and music to eight songs. Published circa 1950s, cover price $1.

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April 1963 issue of Music Memories Monthly (Vol. 3, No. 2), produced in Birmingham, Alabama, by Patrick Cather. Highlights of this issue include a cover story by Cather on the Birmingham blues and boogie-woogie pianist Robert McCoy, as well as a…

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Winter 1963 issue of Music Memories and Jazz Report (Vol. 3, No. 6). The issue marked the merger of Patrick Cather's Birmingham-basedMusic Memories Monthlywith the Ventura, California-basedJazz Report, edited by Paul Affledt. Included in this issue,…

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Original monograph by Patrick Cather, published in a limited edition of 75 copies, Christmas 1990, by Cather & Brown Books. The piece is adapated from an earlier article which appeared in Cather's Music Memories Monthly magazine in 1962; in 2002,…

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Program for the 13th Annual Azalea Trail Square Dance Festival, March 1966, Mobile, Alabama. Program includes photos of local and visiting square dance callers, festival organizers, and multiple Mobile area square dance clubs, along with numerous…

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Rabe Perkins Sings. 1972 songbook, Birmingham, Alabama.In the 1940s and '50s, the duo Rebe and Rabe -- Revin "Rebe" Gosdin and Auburn J. C. "Rabe" Perkins -- established themselves as popular fixtures of Birmingham, Alabama, radio station WVOK.…

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Sheet music for "Waiting and Longing," as featured by Dunk Rendleman and his Alabamians on Birmingham, Alabama, radio station WBRC. Music and ukulele arrangement by Albert Treadway; lyric by Bill Harwell. Published by Albert Treadway and Bill…

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Original Songs By Zeke Clements, The Dixie Yodeler. Published in 1942. Includes a brief bio of Clements; a brief history of the Grand Ole Opry, on which Clements performed; photos; lyrics and music to seventeen of Clements's compositions; and an…

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