Larry and Peggy Keyes Record Collection – M 2022.07

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Summary Information

Repository
UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives
Title
Larry and Peggy Keyes Record Collection
ID
M 2022.07
Date [inclusive]
1896-c.1950
Extent
3.0 Linear feet
Description note
The Keyes Record Collection includes early phonograph records on various labels, including 12 Berliner Gramophone label records from the 1890s, US Government issued  LPs made for Armed Forces Radio, 12″ vinyl test pressings, 10″ shellac records, and other records. Notable are the Berliner Gramophone records from the 1890s, as this was the first record label to commercially produce and market records. The records are in poor but playable condition.
Location note
Located in Special Collections, Row 5, Section 3.
Language
English and German
Citation –

[name of recording], Larry and Peggy Keyes Record Collection, Special Collections, Ramsey Library, University of North Carolina Asheville

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Historical Information

The collection includes a variety of recordings that document the first 60 years of commercially produced phonograph records, beginning with records on the Berliner Gramophone records that were made in 1890s. These are some of the first records ever made, as Berliner Gramophone was the first record label to commercially produce and market records. It also includes a number of 78s by musicians such as Rosemary Clooney, Nat “King” Cole, Count Basie, Bing Crosby, and Benny Goodman. There are also records produced to be played exclusively on the U.S. Armed Forces Radio network, which was started in 1942 during World War II to broadcast to U.S. military personnel stationed outside the U.S.

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Scope and Contents

The collection includes 12 records made in the 1890s by the Berliner Gramophone, US Government issued LPs for Armed Forces Radio, 12″ vinyl test pressings, 10″ shellac records, commercially produced 78 rpm records on Columbia, Bluebird, RCA Victor, Decca and other record labels.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives

Ramsey Library, CPO # 1500
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina, 28804-8504
828.251.6645
speccoll@unca.edu

Access note

The records are available for listening in the Special Collections Reading Room. A turntable, speakers, and headphones are available for listening.

Custodial History

Donated by Larry and Peggy Keyes.

Accruals note

No accruals are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Michael Dennis and Gene Hyde

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Collection Inventory

Box 1:

  • 78-1 “The Son of God Goes Forth to War” -S.H. Dudley, Berliner’s gramophone #0677 10/28/1899
  • 78-2 “When the Mists have rolled away” – J.J. Fisher, Berliner’s Gramophone #0636J 10/20/1899
  • 78-3 “The Ninety and Nine” – J.J. Fisher, Berliner’s Gramophone #0789J 11/16/1899
  • 78-4 “Blest by the tie that binds” – S.H. Dudley, Berliner’s Gramophone #0338J 7/15/1899
  • 78-5 “Just as I am” – Mr. Steve Porter, Berliner Gramophone #1789 8/13/1897
  • 78-6 “The Holy City” – Mr. A.C. Campbell, Berliner Gramophone #936YY 2/19/1896
  • 78-7 “Jesus Lover my soul” – Steve Porter, Berliner Gramophone, #1755 7/29/1897
  • 78-8 “Pass me not, O Gentle Savior” – Steve Porter, Berliner Gramophone, #1766 8/13/1897
  • 78-9 “Plantation songs Cornet & Piccolo duet” – Dana & Schweinfest, Berliner Gramophone #0726 11/11/1899
  • 78-10 “Lead kindly light” – Climax quartette, Climax Records, Columbia, #510
  • 78-11 “Tenting tonight on the old camp-ground” Vocal Quartette, Columbia Disc Record #514
  • 78-12 “McKinley Memorial record” Climax Records, Columbia, #639
  • 78-13 “My! Oh! My!” / “There’s a Cabin in the Pines” Gus Steck & his Chanticleer Orchestra, Crown records, #3507-A
  • 78-14 “Walking Slow Behind You”/ “Rocky Mountain Blues” Count Basie and his Orchestra, RCA Victor, #20-3572-B
  • 78-15 “My Gal Sal” / “I Love You” Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats, Universal Recording Corp., #U-850 U-851
  • 78-16 Mood music, Seeburg Library, Inc., RCA custom records, #mm-101a 10-1-66
  • 78-17 Mood music, Seeburg Library, Inc., RCA custom records, #mm-107 2a 12-26-66
  • 78-18 Mood music, Seeburg Library, Inc., RCA custom records, #mm-104b 7-1-67
  • 78-19 “Malaguena”/ “Harmonica Boogie” The Harmonicats, Vitacoustic, U615
  • 78-20 “La Valse Des As”/ “Perles de Cristal” Gilbert Roussel, Polydor, #590.258
  • 78-21 “This Ole House” / “Hey There” Rosemary Clooney with Buddy Cole & his orchestra, Columbia, RHCO 10927
  • 78-22 “Atmosphere-Fox Trot”/ “Stuff and things- Fox Trot” Tito Guidotti and his Swingtette, Bluebird, B-10066-B
  • 78-23 King Cole and his trio Vol.4, Nat “King” Cole and his trio, Capitol, H-177
  • 78-24 “I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts”/ “I Never See Maggie Alone” Tony Pastor and his orchestra, Columbia, 41726
  • 78-25 Marie, 612121
  • 78-26 Something missing now FR (?) 612121
  • 78-27 “En Écoutant mon Cœur Chanter”/ “La Mer” – Charles Trenet, Columbia, CL-8101
  • 78-28 “Malaguena” / “Hungarian Rhapsody” Jan August, Mercury record corp, 5140
  • 78-29 78 rpm tone, CS2 78, XED 459-18

Box 2:

  • 78-30 “Let’s Start the New Year Right”/ “White Christmas” Bing Crosby, with Bob Crosby and his orchestra/ with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra, Decca, 18429A
  • 78-31 New Orthophonic frequency test record, RCA Victor, 12-5-49
  • 78-32 ”Mule Train”/”Carry me Back to Old Virginney” Frankie Laine and the Muleskinners/ Frankie Laine with Carl Fischer’s Orchestra, Mercury, 5345
  • 78-33 “Tom Ward’s Downfall” “The Reel of Mullinavat”/ “The Royal Blackbird” Michael Coleman, Vocalion, 107905
  • 78-34 “Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellen Bogen by the Sea”/ “I Hear it Everywhere” The Four Lads, Columbia, 40236
  • 78-35 “Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer” / “If it Doesn’t Snow on Christmas” Gene Autry, Columbia, 38610
  • 78-36 “I’ll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In My Dreams)”/ “Danny Boy” Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, Decca, 18570
  • 78-37 “Luxemburg-Walzer”/ “Kuckucks-Walzer” Franz Lehar/ I.E. Joanasson, Radiodisque, 1551
  • 78-38 Standard Sound Effect “Traffic”/”Heavy Traffic”, Standard Radio Transcription Services Inc, 215
  • 78-39 “Melancolie Gitane”/ “En Pleine Forme” Emile Prud’homme, Odéon, 281.824
  • 78-40 “Artistry Jumps”/ “Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin’” Stan Kenton, Capitol, 229
  • 78-41 “Somewhere Along The Way”/ “Vanessa” Hugo Winterhalter and his Orchestra, RCA Victor, 20-4961
  • 78-42 “Silent Night”/ “Adeste Fideles(Oh, come all ye faithful)” Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra, Decca, 23777
  • 78-43 “Traffic Forty-second Street and Broadway, New York City” Masque Sound and Recording Corp. M501A
  • 78-44 “Hello, Hello”/ “Golden Slippers” Main Street String Band, RCA Victor, 30-0005
  • 78-45 “Traffic Noises 42nd Street & Broadway NYC”/ “Big Ben Striking 12 strokes” “Big Ben Striking ¼ hours” “Church Bells Tolling”, Major Records, 5005
  • 78-46 “Far Away Places”/ “Say It Every Day” Dinah Shore, Columbia, 38356
  • 78-47 Unlabeled, CH05A-1A
  • 78-48 Basic Christmas Library, Seeburg Music Library Inc. Bax-100
  • 78-49 Basic Library, Seeburg Music Library Inc. BA-100

Box 3:

  • 78-50 Two unlabeled one sided records
  • 78-51 Unlabeled one sided record
  • 78-52 Beethoven Concerto No.3 in C Minor, Opus 37, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Musical Masterworks Society, MMS-25
  • 78-52 “The Beast” (Otherwise unlabeled one sided, two holed record)
  • 78-53 Two Unlabeled records (one sided and two sided)
  • 78-54 Unlabeled one sided two holed record
  • 78-55 “This is Hal Kemp”, Hal Kemp and his Orchestra, RCA Victor, LPT-3016
  • 78-56 “Moon River”/ “My Ideas” Jean Thomas, Cadence Records, 1419
  • 78-57 “Hearhe” (?) Unlabeled album
  • 78-58 Transco – 7 2164
  • 78-59 “Benny Goodman Dance Parade Volume II” Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Columbia, CL-6100
  • 78-60 “Up Swing” Side 1 “Stompin at the Savoy” (Sampson-Goodman-Webb, Recorded January 24, 1936) “Song of India” (Rimsky Korsakoff- Arranged by Tommy Dorsey, Recorded January 29, 1937) “Begin the Beguine” (Cole Porter, Recorded July 24, 1938) “Tuxedo Junction” (Johnson-Dash-Hawkins, Recorded February 5th, 1940) – Side 2 “A String of Pearls” (Jerry Gray recorded Nov, 3, 1941) “Oh Lady Be Good (Ira and George Gershwin, recorded August 27, 1939) “Yes Indeed!” (Sy Oliver, Recorded February 17, 1941) “Don’t Be That Way”(Sampson-Goodman-Parish, February 16, 1938), RCA Victor, E1-LVB-3177
  • 78-61 Unlabeled, XLP-822-1F
  • 78-62 “back round” B01B-7-1-61-1A
  • 78-63 unlabeled, B041-7-1.1C
  • 78-64 unlabeled, CH14A-1B
  • 78-65 “backround-dance” M25A-10-1-61-1E

Box 4:

  • 78-66 “Hoch Unsere Trudy”/ “Schwaebisches Liederpotpourri” Columbia Militaer Kapelle, Columbia, 205437
  • 78-67 “Bummel Petrus”/ “Dornroschens Brautfahrt” Runftlerfapelle Ulbert Dajos, Odeon, 85001
  • 78-68 “Dorfkirchweih Walzer”/ “Polka Potpouri” C. Metterle Kapelle, Arion, 521
  • 78-69 “Medley Of Old Waltz Songs-Part 1/Part 2” Side 1: “(1) Sweet Rosie O’Grady (2) The Bowery (3) Little Annie Rooney (4) Daisy Bell (5) After the Ball (6) Molly O’” Side 2: “(1) Just One Girl (2) My Pearl’s a Bowery Girl (3) The Sidewalks of New York (4) Just as the Sun Went Down (5) She Is More to be Pitied Than Censured (6) In The Shade of the Old Apple Tree” Columbia, 49314.
  • 78-70 “Die Gruenhoerner” Waldemar Alfredo mit Peter Stahl Kapelle, Arion, 556
  • 78-71 “An Der Schonen Blauen Donau”/ “Bad’ner Madeln, Walzer” Columbia Orchester, Columbia, 30390/30216
  • 78-72 “In Der Heimat, da giebt’s ein Wiedersehn”/ “Goldaten= Ulbichied” Liedermarich, Odeon, 85021.
  • 78-73 “That Naughty Waltz”/ “My Isle of Golden Dreams” Columbia Orchestra, Columbia, A6139
  • 78-74 “Liebestraum No.3”/ “Clair De Lune” Jose Iturbi, RCA Victor, 11-8851-A
  • 78-75 “Southern Roses Waltz”/ “Blue Danube Waltz” Hurtado Bros. Royal Marimba Band of Guatemala, Victor, 35564
  • 78-76 “Varjaser Madeln”/ “Rührt Euch Doch” Internationale Columbia Kapelle, Columbia, E5161
  • 78-77 “Wer Hat Dich Du Schoener Wald”/ “In Einem Kuehlen Grunde” Waldhorn Quartett, New York Liederkranz, Columbia, 55037
  • 78-78 “Puppchen, du bist mein Augenstern”/ “Geh’n wir mal zu Hagenbeck” Orchester mit Chorgesang, Odeon, 85018
  • 78-79 “Hawaiian Twilight”/ ”On Pensacola Bay” Columbia Orchestra, Columbia, A6168
  • 78-80 “A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Adapted Produced and Narrated by Ernest Chappel” Ernest Chappel, Victor Records, 36414-36417

Box 5:

  • 78-81 “Grand Ole Opry #742” / “Jazz Book #18 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-82 “Grand Ole Opry #749” / “Jazz Book #25 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-83 “New York Philharmonic #320 Part 4” / “New York Philharmonic #320 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-84 “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 62” / “Mitch Miller 261” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-85 “Cleveland Symphony Orchestra #66 Part 1”/ “Music for the Middle Mind” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-86 “Meet Millie #35”/ “The Best of the West #15” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-87 “Jazz Book #13 Part 2” / “Grand Ole Opry #737” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-88 “Mitch Miller 267” / “At Ease With Steve Lawrence 68” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-89 “Meet Millie #33” / “The Best of the West #13” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-90 “Meet Millie #31” / “The Best of the West #11” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service. 78-91 “Jazz Book #15 Part 2” / “Grand Ole Opry #739” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-92 “Master Control #116”/ “E. Power Biggs #188” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-93 “Jazz Book #20 Part 2” / “Grand Ole Opry #744” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-94 “New York Philharmonic #291” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-95 “Cleveland Symphony Orchestra #66 Part 2”/ “Music for the Middle Mind #79 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-96 “Hawaii Calls #428” / “Polka Park #12” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-97 Brook Benton “1. Dearer Than Life” “2. I Got What I Wanted” Steve Lawrence “3. Don’t Be Afraid Little Darlin’” “4. Don’t Come Running Back” Ray Ellis “5. Rubia” “6. Anything, Anywhere”/ Peter Paul and Mary “1. Puff” “2. Pretty Mary” Bill Pursell “3. Our Winter Love” “4. A Wound Time Can’t Erase” Tony Martin “5. A La Mode” “6. I’ll Be Seeing You” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-98 “Jazz Book #17 Part 2” / “Grand Ole Opry #741” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-99 “Jazz Book #16 Part 2” / “Grand Ole Opry #740” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-100 “Mitch Miller 264” / “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 65” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-101 “Mitch Miller 263” / “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 64” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-102 “Jazz Book #1” / “Grand Ole Opry #725” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-103 “Country Corner #4” / “Country Corner #3 Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-104 “Hawaii Calls #396” / “The Big Bands #90” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-105 “A Quarter Century of Swing #25” / “Country Corner #5” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-106 “New York Philharmonic #320 Part 3” / “New York Philharmonic #320 Part 1” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-107 “Jazz Moments” Side 1: “1. Makin’ Whoopee!” “2. What Is This Thing Called Love?” “3. What’s New?” “4. Like Someone In Love” “5. Heart Of Winter” “6. Blues In 9/4” Side 2: “1. Symphony” “2. When Sunny Gets Blue” “3. Wonder Why” “4. The Mood Is Mellow” “5. Gone With the Wind” “6. It Could Happen To You” The George Shearing Trio, Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-108 “Grand Ole Opry #720” / “Sing Along With Mitch #24” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-109 “Grand Ole Opry #726” / “Jazz Book #2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-110 “Grand Ole Opry #727” / “Jazz Book #3” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-111 “New York Philharmonic #291” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-112 “Hawaii Calls #431” / “Polka Park #15” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-113 “Mitch Miller 260” / “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 61” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-114 “Meet Millie #32”/ “The Best of the West #12” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-115 “Grand Ole Opry #743” / “Jazz Book #19 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-116 “Adlai Stevenson Reports”/ “Top Pops #22” “1. You Don’t Love me Anymore- Rick Nelson” “2. Linda- Jan & Dean” “3. Pepino’s Friend Pasqual- Lou Monte” “4. Puff- Peter, Paul and Mary” “5. Dearer Than Life- Brook Benton” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-117 “Mitch Miller 265” / “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 66” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-118 “Brassy Piano” “1. Dill Pickles” “2. Maple Leaf Rag” “3. Down Home Rag” “4. Grandpa’s Spells” “5. Johnson Rag” “6. Tiger Rag”/ “1. Too Much Mustard” “2. Cap D’Antibes” “3. Stumbling” “4. Bugle Call Rag” “5. Entertainer’s Rag” “6. Notoriety” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-119 “Our Man In Latin America” “1. The Peanut Vendor (El Manicero) (Rumba) “2. Tico Tico No Fuba (Bongoson)” “3. Pachito E-Che (Bossa Nova)” “4. Uno (Cha Cha)” “5. Alma Llanera (Bossa Nova)” “6. Compadre Pedro Juan (Bongoson)”/ “1. Canto Siboney (Bossa Nova)” “2. Estrellita Del Sur (Bongoson)” “3. Campanitas De Cristal (Bongoson)” “4. Guadalajara (Bongoson)” “5. Ay Ay Ay (Cha Cha)” “6. Guarare (Bossa Nova)” Perez Pardo and His Orchestra, Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-120 “Grand Ole Opry #738” / “Jazz Book #14 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-121 “Grand Ole Opry #716” / “Sing Along with Mitch #20 ” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-122 “Grand Ole Opry #735” / “Jazz Book #11 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-123 “Grand Ole Opry #747” / “Jazz Book #23 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-124 “Grand Ole Opry #745” / “Jazz Book #21 Part 2” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-125 “Mitch Miller 266” / “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 67” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.
  • 78-126 “Mitch Miller 262” / “At Ease with Steve Lawrence 63” Armed Forces Radio & Television Service.