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Eric Redd performing at Gay Pride, image 001: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Eric Redd performing at Gay Pride, image 002: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Bobby Morris oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Bobby Morris conducted by Barbara Tabach on March 24, 2016 for the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project. Morris talks about moving to Las Vegas, Nevada and many of the people he played with, for and managed. He also mentions being a musical director for Elvis Presley at International Hotel and Casino when it opened.
Archival Collection
Singer Don Ho at the Sands Hotel: photographs
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Archival Collection
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Series VII. Entertainers
Sands Hotel and Casino
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Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986
Benny Goodman was a famous musician and was an American jazz clarinetist.
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Photograph of showgirls outside of an airplane as celebrities disembark, circa March 1956
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Archival Collection
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Transcript of interview with Johnny Pate and Jillean Williams by Claytee D. White, March 4, 2004
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Archival Collection
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Interview with Johnny Pate and Jillean Williams conducted by Claytee D. White on March 4, 2004. As a jazz pianist and composer, Pate was a close friend to legendary singer Joe Williams. Pate and Williams share fond memories of touring with Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra, cruises on the Norwegian line, and playing at the Dunes. Williams recalls moving to Las Vegas with Joe in 1968 and their first home on the Las Vegas Country Club golf course, where they were visited by the likes of Joe Lewis, Perry Como, and Andy Williams. Pate also details his long career, which began with teaching himself piano, tuba, and bass fiddle in the Army, and progressed to arranging and composing, which led over time to record company deals and film scores. Teaching at UNLV, Pate continues the yearly benefit concert to raise money for the Joe Williams scholarship fund.
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Edyth Hess Hoban oral history interviews
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Oral history interviews with Edyth Hess Hoban conducted by Jane E. Olive on March 11, 2000 and May 23, 2000 for the UNLV University Libraries Oral History Collection. In this interview, Hoban discusses her early life in Scotland, South Dakota. She remembers the 1918 Influenza pandemic, her early interest in music, and becoming the band leader for the all-women orchestra, The Sophisticates. Hoban talks about moving to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1942, competing and winning in golf tournaments, and changes in Las Vegas golf courses.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Dorothy and man examining songs, (Calif.), circa 1934
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Archival Collection
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Photograph of Frank Ross and Norman and Mary Kaye, 1954-1965
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Archival Collection
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