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Collector's No(s).
16B--17A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1085--cass 1086

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (99 min.)

Content

Interview with Bob Abrams, Charles' longtime press agent; recorded at Junior's Restaurant, West Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
33

Shelf No(s).
cass 1102

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (68 min.)

Content

Interview with Joe Adams, Charles' longtime manager and closest business associate; recorded in a hotel room in New York City.

Collector's No(s).
16A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1085

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (45 min.)

Content

Interview with Dick Alen, Charles' longtime agent in Black music; recorded at the William Morris Office, Beverly Hills, California.

Collector's No(s).
64

Shelf No(s).
cass 1136

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (60 min.)

Content

Interview with Henry Alter, friend and colleague of Dr. Frederick Hacker, who was Charles' psychiatrist in the mid-1960s while Charles was putting down heroin; recorded in Alter's home in Hastings, New York.

Collector's No(s).
34A/B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1103

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (51 min.)

Content

Interview with Carolyn Baker, Artist Relations staffer at Warner Bros. Records while Charles was there in the 1990s; recorded at Warner Bros. Records in Burbank, California.

Collector's No(s).
5

Shelf No(s).
cass 1074

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (88 min.)

Content

Interview with Paul Behn, former classmate of Charles' from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. Behn later became a teacher at the school; recorded at Behn's home in Jacksonville, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
74

Shelf No(s).
cass 1146

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (63 min.)

Content

Interview with Dorothy Berry, who was a Raelet in the 1970s; recorded in Chino, California.

Collector's No(s).
13

Shelf No(s).
cass 1082

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (60 min.)

Content

Interview with Miriam Bienstock, former wife of Herb Abramson, who helped him found Atlantic Records; recorded at Bienstocks' home in New York City.

Collector's No(s).
79--80A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1151--cass 1152

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (94 min.)

Content

Interview with David Braithwaite, recording engineer for Ray Charles in the early 1970s; recorded at a restaurant in Alta Vista, California.

Collector's No(s).
21

Shelf No(s).
cass 1090

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (73 min.)

Content

Interview with Jeff Brown, Charles' manager in the 1950s; recorded in Brown's limousine at Hotel Wellington, New York City.

Collector's No(s).
22

Shelf No(s).
cass 1091

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (46 min.)

Content

Interview with Jeff Brown, Charles' manager in the 1950s; recorded in Brown's limousine at Hotel Wellington, New York City.

Collector's No(s).
23

Shelf No(s).
cass 1091--cass 1092

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (183 min.)

Content

Interview with Jeff Brown, Charles' manager in the 1950s; recorded in Brown's limousine at Hotel Wellington, New York City.

Collector's No(s).
30

Shelf No(s).
cass 1099

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (22 min.)

Content

Interview with Ruth Brown, rhythm and blues singer on Atlantic Records before Charles; recorded at the Newport Blues Festival, Rhode Island.

Collector's No(s).
88

Shelf No(s).
cass 1160

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (78 min.)

Content

Interview with Shirley Brown, wife of Jeff Brown (widow when interviewed); recorded at a restaurant in New York City.

Collector's No(s).
54

Shelf No(s).
cass 1126

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (76 min.)

Content

Interview with John Bryant, drummer for Charles in the 1970s; recorded at Bryant's home in Dallas.

Collector's No(s).
70

Shelf No(s).
cass 1142

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (42 min.)

Content

Interview with Ralph Burns, jazz arranger who did the arrangement for Charles' "Georgia on My Mind"; recorded at Burn's home in the Hollywood Hills, California.

Collector's No(s).
76A-B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1148

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (36 min.)

Content

Interview with Richard Cason, a synthesizer player/arranger for Charles in the 1990s; recorded at Carson's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
15A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1084

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (37 min.)

Content

Interview with Buddy Catlett, Seattle saxophonist and bass player who knew Charles in the late-1940s; recorded at Catlett's home in Seattle, Washington.

Collector's No(s).
1-2

Shelf No(s).
cass 1070--1071

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (67 min.)

Content

Interview with Ray Charles in his office at the RPM building in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
3

Shelf No(s).
cass 1072

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (22 min.)

Content

Brief tour of Ray Charles' studio with Charles as guide.

Collector's No(s).
4

Shelf No(s).
cass 1073

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (45 min.)

Content

Ray Charles at RPM during an Esquire Magazine photo shoot.

Collector's No(s).
71

Shelf No(s).
cass 1143

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (69 min.)

Content

Interview Duana Chenier, ex-wife of Ray Charles, Jr.; recorded at Chenier's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
28-29

Shelf No(s).
cass 1097--cass 1098

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (120 min.)

Content

Interview with Leroy Cooper, band member from the 1950s to the 1970s; recorded at Cooper's home in Orlando, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
26A/B--27

Shelf No(s).
cass 1095--cass 1096

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (ca. 135 min.) : analog, stereo.

Content

Interview with Leroy Cooper and Phil Guilbeau, band members from the 1950s to the 1970s; recorded at Cooper's home in Orlando, Florida.

Note

SEE: Greene, Susaye

Collector's No(s).
83--84

Shelf No(s).
cass 1155--cass 1156

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (120 min.)

Content

Interview with Hank Crawford, saxophonist and bandleader for Charles in the late-1950s; recorded at a restaurant and at Lydon's home.

Collector's No(s).
25--26A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1094--cass 1095

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (180 min.)

Content

Interview with Tom Dowd, an engineer for Atlantic Records in the 1950s; recorded at Dowd's home in Miami, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
63

Shelf No(s).
cass 1135

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (75 min.)

Content

Interview with Joel Dufour, French fan and Ray Charles activist; recorded at Dufour's house near Paris, France.

Collector's No(s).
9

Shelf No(s).
cass 1078

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (67 min.)

Content

Interview with Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records and early record producer of Charles; recorded in Ertegun's office at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York.

Collector's No(s).
38.3--39

Shelf No(s).
cass 1110--cass 1111

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (146 min.)

Content

Interview with Sid Feller, ABC Records producer in the 1950s-1960s and arranger for Charles in the 1960s and 1970s; recorded at Feller's home in Camarillo, California.

Collector's No(s).
40

Shelf No(s).
cass 1112

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (78 min.)

Content

Interview with Sid Feller, ABC Records producer in the 1950s-1960s and arranger for Charles in the 1960s and 1970s; recorded at Feller's home in Camarillo, California.

Collector's No(s).
60B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1132

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (45 min.)

Content

Interview with Mary Ann Fisher, singer for Ray Charles' band in the 1950s; recorded in Louisville, Kentucky.

Collector's No(s).
81

Shelf No(s).
cass 1153

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (56 min.)

Content

Interview with Bob Gratts, engineer at RPM Studio in the 1970s and 1980s.

Note

SEE: Cooper, Leroy and Phil Guilbeau.

Collector's No(s).
77--78

Shelf No(s).
cass 1149--cass 1150

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (88 min.)

Content

Interview with Susaye Greene, Raelet in the 1960s and 1970s; recorded in a restaurant in Sherman Oaks, California.

Collector's No(s).
61--62

Shelf No(s).
cass 1133--cass 1134

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (130 min.)

Content

Interview with Jean Pierre Grosz, French concert and record producer and a close associate of Ray Charles in the 1980s-1990s; recorded at Grosz's home in Paris, France.

Collector's No(s).
14

Shelf No(s).
cass 1083

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (61 min.)

Content

Interview with Traf Hubert, Seattle bass player who knew Charles in the late-1940s; recorded at Hubert's home in Seattle, Washington.

Collector's No(s).
89B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1161

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (32 min.)

Content

Interview with Margie Hunt, person involved with Charles' country and Western recordings; recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.

Collector's No(s).
42A/B--43

Shelf No(s).
cass 1114--cass 1115

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (110 min.)

Content

Interview with Mable John, lead Raelet in the 1960s and 1970s; recorded at John's home in Los Angeles.

Collector's No(s).
52

Shelf No(s).
cass 1124

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (64 min.)

Content

Interview with Jeff Kaye, trumpeter for Charles in the 1980s-1990s; recorded at Kaye's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
7B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1076

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (39 min.)

Content

Interview with Otis Knowles, a teacher from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, Charles' former school; recorded in Knowles' home in St. Augustine, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
47A-B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1119

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (58 min.)

Content

Interview with Jimmy Lewis, songwriter (Charles recorded many of his songs); recorded at the Dunes Motel in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
55

Shelf No(s).
cass 1127

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (57 min.)

Content

Interview with John Lewis, son of Howard Lewis, who was a Texas R&B booker in the 1950s; recorded at John Lewis' home in Dallas, Texas.

Collector's No(s).
56

Shelf No(s).
cass 1128

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (44 min.)

Content

Interview with Cosimo Matassa, New Orleans R&B recording engineer in the 1950s; recorded at Matassa's family grocery store in the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Collector's No(s).
72--73

Shelf No(s).
cass 1144--cass 1145

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (127 min.)

Content

Interview with Tony Mathews, guitarist for Charles in the 1970s; recorded at the Dunes Motel in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
45--46B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1117--cass 1118

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (41 min.)

Content

Interview with Tina Mayfield, widow of songwriter Percy Mayfield; recorded at the home of one of Mayfield's friends in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
6

Shelf No(s).
cass 1075

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (40 min.)

Content

Interview with Matthew McCoy, a teacher from the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, Charles' former school; recorded in McCoy's home in Jacksonville, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
19

Shelf No(s).
cass 1088

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (90 min.)

Content

Interview with Gossie McKee, guitarist with Charles in Tampa and Seattle in the 1940s; recorded at McKee's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
82

Shelf No(s).
cass 1154

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (41 min.)

Content

Interview with Herb Miller, family friend of Charles' wife, Della Bea, from Houston, Texas; recorded at Miller's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
49

Shelf No(s).
cass 1121

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (63 min.)

Content

Interview with Vernita Moss, who was a Raelet in the 1970s; recorded at Moss' home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
20

Shelf No(s).
cass 1089

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (68 min.)

Content

Interview with Larry Myers, an agent at Shaw Artists in the 1950s; recorded at Myers' home in Queens, New York.

Collector's No(s).
59--60A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1131--1132

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (135 min.)

Content

Interview with David "Fathead" Newman, a tenor saxophonist who was a close friend and colleague of Charles from 1952 until the mid-1970s; recorded at Newman's home in Woodstock, New York.

Collector's No(s).
24

Shelf No(s).
cass 1093

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (82 min.)

Content

Interview with Larry Newton, an executive for ABC-Paramount Records in the 1960s and 1970s, who was a close business associate of Charles'; recorded at a motel in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
50--51

Shelf No(s).
cass 1122--cass 1123

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (113 min.)

Content

Interview with Harold Patton, road manager for Charles in the 1960s-1970s; recorded at Patton's home in Studio City, California.

Collector's No(s).
7A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1076

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (38 min.)

Content

Interview with Alexander Perry, a Jacksonville musician who knew Charles when he was starting out in the 1940s; recorded in Perry's home in Jacksonville, Florida

Collector's No(s).
53

Shelf No(s).
cass 1125

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (44 min.)

Content

Interview with Dr. Jack Pulec, an ear doctor who treated Charles for hearing problems in the 1980s; recorded in Pulec's office in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
57--58

Shelf No(s).
cass 1129--cass 1130

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (120 min.)

Content

Interview with Renald Richard, trumpeter from the New Orleans area and leader of Charles' first band in 1954; recorded in Richard's home in Katonah, New York.

Collector's No(s).
17B--18

Shelf No(s).
cass 1086--cass 1087

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (150 min.)

Content

Interview with David Ritz, co-author with Charles for Charles' autobiography, Brother Ray : Ray Charles' Own Story ; recorded at Ritz's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
65

Shelf No(s).
cass 1137

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (42 min.)

Content

Interview with Ray Charles Robinson, Jr., Charles' son; recorded at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Collector's No(s).
85--87

Shelf No(s).
cass 1157--cass 1159

Physical Description

3 sound cassettes (145 min.)

Content

Interview with Ruth Robinson, a long-term acquaintance of Charles' from the 1970s onward; recorded in a hotel room in New York City.

Collector's No(s).
31

Shelf No(s).
cass 1100

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (69 min.)

Content

Interview with "Little" Jimmy Scott, pop-jazz singer on Charles' circuits in the 1950s; recorded at Scott's home in New Jersey.

Collector's No(s).
76A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1148

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (16 min.)

Content

Interview with Peggy Scott (later Peggy Scott-Adams), singer who performed duets with Charles in the 1990s; recorded in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
32

Shelf No(s).
cass 1101

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (44 min.)

Content

Interview with Sidney Seidenberg, manager for many Black artists over decades; recorded in Seidenberg's office in New York City.

Collector's No(s).
8

Shelf No(s).
cass 1077

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (26 min.)

Content

Interview with Irving Siders, a booking agent who worked for the Shaw Agency in the 1950s; recorded in Siders' Manhattan office.

Collector's No(s).
35A, 38.1--38.2

Shelf No(s).
cass 1105, cass 1108--1109

Physical Description

3 sound cassettes (143 min.)

Content

Interview with Dave Simmons, a valet for Charles' in the 1980s; recorded at the Dunes Motel in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
36A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1106

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (45 min.)

Content

Interview with Clifford Solomon, saxophonist, longtime band member, and bandleader who met Charles around 1950; recorded at Jones Beach, New York.

Collector's No(s).
37

Shelf No(s).
cass 1107

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (55 min.)

Content

Interview with Clifford Solomon, saxophonist, longtime band member, and band leader who met Charles around 1950; recorded at Jones Beach, New York.

Collector's No(s).
34B--35A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1103, cass 1105

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (61 min.)

Content

Interview with Clifford Solomon, saxophonist, longtime band member, and band leader who met Charles around 1950; recorded at Solomon's home in Los Angeles.

Collector's No(s).
80A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1152

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (33 min.)

Content

Interview with Roger Spotts, big band arranger; recorded at the Dunes Motel in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
12

Shelf No(s).
cass 1081

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (67 min.)

Content

Interview with Jesse Stone, arranger and band leader for Atlantic Records in the 1950s; recorded at Stone's home in Orlando, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
42A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1114

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (32 min.)

Content

Interview with Mike Stradford, A&R man at Quincy Jones' Qwest Records; recording location unknown.

Collector's No(s).
46A, 47A, 48

Shelf No(s).
cass 1118--cass 1120

Physical Description

3 sound cassettes (128 min.)

Content

Interview with Vernon Troupe, long-term valet for Ray Charles; recorded at the Dunes Motel in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
41

Shelf No(s).
cass 1113

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (79 min.)

Content

Interview with Ken Tussing, trombonist with Charles' band in the 1970s; recorded at Tussing's home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
66

Shelf No(s).
cass 1138

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (85 min.)

Content

Interview with Victor Vanacore, string orchestra conductor for Charles in the 1990s; recorded at the Taj Mahal Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Collector's No(s).
67

Shelf No(s).
cass 1139

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (69 min.)

Content

Interview with Duke Wade, Charles' valet in the 1950s; recorded at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York.

Collector's No(s).
68--69

Shelf No(s).
cass 1140--cass 1141

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (36 min.)

Content

Interview with Duke Wade, Charles' valet in the 1950s; recorded at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York.

Collector's No(s).
15B

Shelf No(s).
cass 1084

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (23 min.)

Content

Interview with Jabo Ward, Seattle saxophone player who knew Charles in the late-1940s and the 1950s; recorded at Ward's home in Seattle, Washington.

Collector's No(s).
10-11

Shelf No(s).
cass 1079--1080

Physical Description

2 sound cassettes (112 min.)

Content

Interview with Jerry Wexler, longtime producer and co-owner of Atlantic Records during Charles' Atlantic years; recorded at Wexler's home in Sarasota, Florida.

Collector's No(s).
44

Shelf No(s).
cass 1116

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (84 min.)

Content

Interview with Aaron Williams, comedian ventriloquist who opened for Charles in 1970s; recorded at Williams' home in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
75

Shelf No(s).
cass 1147

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (81 min.)

Content

Interview with Gerald Wilson, trumpeter, bandleader, and arranger; recorded at an IHOP restaurant in Los Angeles, California.

Collector's No(s).
89A

Shelf No(s).
cass 1161

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (25 min.)

Content

Interview with Bobby Wood, a person involved with Charles' country and Western recordings; recorded in Nashville, Tennessee.

Shelf No(s).
Unnumbered

Physical Description

2 sound discs (CD-R) (ca. 90 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Technical Note

Item is formatted for playback through iTunes or similar audio programs and will not play on a standard standalone CD player.

Shelf No(s).
Unnumbered

Physical Description

1 sound disc (CD-R) (ca. 60 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Technical Note

Item is formatted for playback through iTunes or similar audio programs and will not play on a standard standalone CD player.

Shelf No(s).
Unnumbered

Physical Description

2 sound discs (CD) (ca. 120 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Producer
Bob McDowall

New York, Berkeley : Patrick Press

c2002

49 p.

Note

Two copies.

Shelf No(s).
CD 2258

New York : Brite Records

c1999, p1999

Physical Description

1 sound disc (CD) (ca. 32 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Location
Shelved with general commercial CD collection.

New York, Berkeley : Patrick Press

c2001

63 p.

Note

Signed copy.

Shelf No(s).
CD 2259

New York : Brite Records

c2002

Physical Description

1 sound disc (CD) (ca. 40 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

Location
Shelved with general commercial CD collection.

New York, Berkeley : Patrick Press

c1993

78 p.

Note

Two signed copies.

Shelf No(s).
Unnumbered

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)

Shelf No(s).
Unnumbered

Physical Description

1 sound cassette (ca. 60 min.)

Physical Description

1 photograph : b&w ; 25 x 20 cm.

Note

Emulsion at top of photo is discolored.