Transcripts of interviews with Duke Ellington, transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, and scripts to motion pictures, musical reviews, and plays written for or by Duke Ellington. The records date between 1937 and 1970, and are organized into three subseries: Subseries 4A: Interviews, 1961-1970 (box 1) consists of transcripts of interviews with Duke Ellington conducted for various radio and television broadcasts between 1961 and 1970. The records are arranged chronologically. The undated transcripts have been placed at the end of the subseries. Subseries 4B: Scripts, 1941-1970 (boxes 2-11), consists of scripts for motion pictures, musical reviews, and plays which Ellington wrote (e.g. Man With Four Sides, Boola), or had a major role in writing or producing (e.g. Jump For Joy, A Drum Is A Woman). The series also contains scripts submitted to Ellington for possible production (e.g. Moon of Mahnomen). Of particular interest are scripts written by Lorraine Lansberry, Langston Hughes, and William Dufty, as well as a script after the play Turcaret, by the French novelist and dramatist, Alain- Rene Lesage (1668-1747). The records are arranged alphabetically by title of production. Unidentified scripts have been placed at the end of the subseries. Subseries 4C: Broadcasts, 1937-1969 (box 12). Radio and television broadcast scripts for such programs as the Duke Ellington Swing Concert, the Tommy Dorsey Show, the Carnation Contented Hour, the Dean Martin Show, and the Red Skelton Show. In addition there are numerous Treasury Department scripts used by Ellington to advertise the sale of U.S. Victory and Savings Bonds. The records are arranged chronologically. The undated materials have been placed at the end of the subseries.
Series 4A: Interviews
Box 1
Folder 1,Ron Knight, Des Moines, Iowa, ca. 1961-1962 (click here to see a sample from this folder); 2, Walter Kohl, Paris, France, ca. 1962; 3, John Mazer, WQRS-FM, July 14, 1962; 4, Bell Telephone Hour, 1967 (click here to see a sample from this folder); 5, Thomas R. Rees, University of Southwest Louisiana, October 26, 1970; 6, Jo Joseph, undated; 7, "Duke At Tanglewood," undated; 8, Hamburg, Germany, undated; 9, Interview Questions, undated
Series 4B: Scripts
Box 2
Folder 1, Ada, by George Auerbach, undated; 2, Aesop's Fables, by Fred Shevin and Robert Milton, undated; 3, Aesop's Fables, by Edmund Anderson and Russell Sanjek, undated; 4, Aesop's Fables, by Irving Gordon, undated; 5, Aesop's Fables, by Peter Hayward, undated; 6, Aesop Wasn't Hip, by Moxley Waldo Willis Sr., undated; 7-9, Anatomy of A Murder (Otto Preminger), by Duke Ellington, 1959; 10, And All That Jazz, by I. Howard Spivak, October 21, 1970; 11, Asphalt Jungle, by Paul Monash, W. R. Burnett, Duke Ellington, 1960; 12, Ballet Synopsis
Box 3
Folder 1-3, Be My Guest, by Doris Julian, 1953; 4, Beggar's Holiday, by John Latouche and Duke Ellington, 1947; 5, Beggar's Opera, by John Latouche and Duke Ellington, undated; 6-7, Black, Brown and Beige, by Duke Ellington, 1943 sa Boola; 8, Black, Brown and Beige, by Duke Ellington, 1943 sa Boola, Preservation Copy; 9, Boola, by Duke Ellington, undated sa Black, Brown and Beige; 10, Change of Mind, by Seeleg Lester and Dick Wesson, Duke Ellington, January 15, 1969; 11, Cinque, by Clement ffuller [sic], 1968; 12, Clown, undated
Box 4
Folder 1, Cock of the World, by Kaj Gynt, March 22, 1951; 2, Cockshop Symphony, by Moxley Waldo Willis Sr., undated; 3-4, Cole Black and the Seven Dwarfs, by "T. Hee" and William Cottrell, August, 1955 sa Satin Doll; 5, Crystal Tree, by Doris Julian, undated; 6, Degas' Racing World, by Herbert Mitgang, 1968
Box 1
Folder 10, Delia, by Francie Jones, undated; 7, Delta Rose, by Harold Wright Cruse, 1952; 8-13, Drum Is A Woman (U.S. Steel Hour), by Duke Ellington, May 8, 1957
Box 5
Folder 1, The Duke Ellington Story As Hollywood Might Do It, by Leonard Feather, Down Beat, March 17, 1960; 2, Follow Me Up The Stairs, by Jerome Weidman, ca. 1965 sa Pousse Cafe sa Sugar City; 3, Frankie and Johnny, by Paul R. Milton and H. L. Fishel, undated; 4, Frankie and Johnny (sketches by Covarrubias), based on play by John Huston, undated; 5-8, Free As A Bird, by Frank Tuttle, undated; 9-12 Greatest Mother of Them All, by Germaine Firth, August- November, 1968; 13-14, H.M.S. Times Square, by Harry Henderson, Sam Shaw, Sandy Morrison, undated
Box 1
Folder 11, Harlem Is Heaven, by Will Strickland, undated I'd Rather Stay Poor see Pittsville
Box 5
Folder 15, In The Heart of Harlem, by Robert J. Abrams, July, 1964
Box 1
Folder 12, Its (sic) Always Four O'Clock, author unknown, undated
Box 5
Folder 16, Jazzman and His Lady Fare, The, by Stephen W. Rayner, 1965; 17, Journey Into Jazz, by Charles Smith, undated
Box 6
Folder 1, Jump For Joy sa Shhh, He's On The Beat by Paul Webster, Sid Kuller, Duke Ellington, 1941 (Keeper of the Chips see Mute of Male); 2, Kicks & Co., by Oscar Brown Jr., undated; 3, Lady Sings The Blues, by William Dufty, 1955; 4-5, Lane sa Man with Four Sides by Duke Ellington, 1944; 6, Long Day In November, A, by Ernest J. Gaines, 1964; 7, Man Beneath sa Saturday Laughter by Herbert E. Martin and Stephen Bates, undated; 8-20, Man With Four Sides sa Lane by Duke Ellington, 1955
Box 7
Folders 1-9, Man With Four Sides sa Lane by Duke Ellington, 1955
Box 1
Folders 13-14, Man With Four Sides sa Lane by Duke Ellington, 1955
Box 7
Folders 10-12, Mardi Gras, by Norman Rosten, 1954; 13, Midnight Music, by Bart Spicer, undated; 14, Mood Indigo, by Bart Spicer, undated
Box 8
Folders 1-6, Moon of Mahnomen, by C. M. Underhill, 1946-1947; 7, Mute of Male, Unattributed, undated aka Keeper of the Chips; 8, My People, by Duke Ellington, 1963; 9, New Form Of Concert, by Pauline Koner and Kitty Doner, undated
Box 8
Folder 10, Night Fantasy, by Morry Efron and Manny Gurian, undated; 11, Not To Be Kidded, by Moxley Waldo Willis Sr., 1943; 12-13, Paris Blues, by Harold Flender and Duke Ellington, 1960-1961
Box 1
Folder 15, Paris Blues, by Harold Flender and Duke Ellington, 1960-1961; 16, Pencil of God, The, by Ernest Pascal, undated
Box 8
Folder 14, Pittsville, by Julian and Sheila More, undated, based on I'd Rather Stay Poor by James Hadley Chase; 15, Portrait of Nana, by Francois Nesbitte, undated
Box 9
Folder 1-2, Pousse Cafe, by Jerome Weidman, Melvin Isaacson, Marshall Barer, Duke Ellington, 1966 sa Sugar City sa Follow Me Up The Stairs; 3, Question of Time, by George Barraud, undated (Racing World see Degas' Racing World); 4, Queenie Pie, by Duke Ellington, undated; 5, River, The, by Duke Ellington, June 26, 1970; 6-7, Satin Doll And The Seven Little Men, by "T. Hee" and William Cottrell, 1955 (see also Cole Black and the Seven Dwarfs); 8-10, Saturday Laughter, by Herbert Martin and Stephen Bates, undated sa Man Beneath; 11, Sharytown (sic) Blues, by Neal DuBrock, undated; 12, Shout Up A Morning, by Peter Farrow, undated
Box 10
Folder 1, Sign In Sidney Burstein's Window, by Lorrain Hansberry, undated; 2, Silent Woman, by Ben Jonson, ca. 1610; 3, Skin Of Our Teeth, by Mary Ellen Bute and T. J. Nemeth (after Thornton Wilder), undated; 4, Star In Town, by Michael Lindon, undated; 5, Stay 'Till Morning, by Mel Goldberg, undated; 6-7, Sugar City, by Don Appell, Marshall Barer, Duke Ellington, 1966 sa Pousse Cafe sa Follow Me Up The Stairs; 8, Suite Thursday; 9, Swing, Helene, Swing, by Van Grona, undated; 10-13, Three Stories High, by Winifred Wolfe, 1951; 14, Thursday Gal, by Eve Lynn, undated; 15, Tiger In The Land, by John E. Schroeder, 1965
Box 11
Folder 1, Tight Corner, by Edward McSorley, undated; 2, Triumph Over Pain, by Alfred Duckett, undated; 3-7, Turcaret, Unattributed, 1960 (after Alain-Rene Lesage, 1709); 8, White Witch of Rosehall, Unattributed, undated
Box 1
Folder 17, Who Wants a Man Like That, and He Won't Even Practice On Me, lyrics by Dick Hurran, undated
Box 11
Folder 9, Unidentified lists of songs; 10, Unidentified lyrics by Langston Hughes; 11, Unidentified lyrics, 10 titles, typed; 12, Unidentified lyrics, numerous, handwritten; 13, Unidentified proverbs, lyrics written on back
Series 4C: Broadcasts
Box 12
Folder 1, Duke Ellington Swing Concert, Mutual Broadcasting System, January 12, 1937; 2, Duke Ellington, WJZ/ABC, August 18, 1945; 3, Esquire Magazine's All-American Jazz Concert, WJZ/ABC, January 16, 1946; 4, Treasury Department Announcements, KHJ/ABC, April 6, 1946; 5, Treasury Department Announcements, KABC, April 12, 1946; 6, Treasury Department Announcements, April 20, 1946; 7, Tin Pan Alley of the Air, WMAQ/NBC, April 20, 1946; 8, Treasury Department Announcements, May 4, 1946; 9, Treasury Department Announcements, WJZ, May 18, 1946; 10, Treasury Department Announcements, ABC, May 18, 1946; 11, Treasury Department Announcements, WJZ/ABC, May 25, 1946; 12, Treasury Department Announcements, June 1, 1946; 13, Saturday Night Review, June 1, 1946; 14, Treasury Department Announcements, June 8, 1946; 15, Treasury Department Announcements, July 6, 1946; 16, Treasury Department Announcements, July 6, 1946; 17, Treasury Department Announcements, ABC, July 27, 1946; 18, Duke Ellington Entertains, August 3, 1946; 19, Treasury Department Announcements, August 17, 1946; 20, Treasury Department Announcements, August 24, 1946; 21, The Tommy Dorsey Show, August 25, 1946; 22, Treasury Department Announcements, August 31, 1946; 23, The Carnation Contented Hour, October 7, 1946; 24, Treasury Department Announcements, ca. 1946; 25 Notes on the Programme, by Helen and Stanley Dance, Paris, July 1948; 26-28, Standard Oil Company Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Show, October 13, 1957; 29, Hour of Music, November 25, 1957
Box 1
Folder 18, The Duke, 1964
Box 12
Folder 30, The Dean Martin Show, September 29, 1966; 31-32, A Musical Happening-USA, by William A. Bairn, 1967; 33, The Red Skelton Show, 1969; 34, Unidentified Program, October 3, 1972; 35, The Art of Ellington, undated (click here to see a sample from this folder); 36, Close-Up of Duke, undated; 37-39, Ellington!, by Bob Arbogast and Stan Ross undated; 40, Giant In The Sky (The Legend of John Henry), undated; 41, Harlem Highlights, by Denis Preston, BBC, undated; 42, Louis Armstrong - King of the Trumpet Players, undated; 43, Unidentified Miscellaneous Pieces of Paper, undated; 44, Unidentified Monologue, undated
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