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The Red Skelton Hour television show: photographs and records
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Archival Collection
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Series XI. Red Skelton
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Comedian Red Skelton on stage: photographs
Date
Archival Collection
Description
Series XI. Red Skelton
Sands Hotel and Casino
Mixed Content
Photograph of the Sahara Hotel's music-themed float in the Helldorado Days parade, Las Vegas, circa 1950
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Archival Collection
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Robbins, Adelaide
Adelaide Robbins was born in Manhattan (New York, New York) to a father who was a pianist and arranger and a mother who was a dancer on Broadway. She grew up as an only child in the theater district where she was exposed to the arts from a young age. She began piano lessons at age six and began working professionally by the age of 12. She attended the High School of Music and Art for four years.
Person
Bailey, William Henry, 1927-2014
Alternate Names
William H. "Bob" Bailey was born in 1927 and came to Las Vegas in 1955. First employed as an assistant producer and master of ceremonies in the first interracial hotel in Nevada, the Moulin Rouge, he describes the impact that hotel had on black entertainers during its brief existence. Bailey says the hotel brought life to the Westside where, in 1955, there were only a few telephones and the streets were largely unpaved.
Person
Hunt, Charles T. "Blackie"
Charles T. "Blackie" Hunt, born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1930, started
accordion lessons at age five. He recounts learning from experienced musicians, then
teaching others at age twelve because his teacher was drafted. He attended West Chester
State Teachers College where, among other accomplishments, he put together a group
with Nick Carlino as tenor sax player.
Person
Larry Fotine Music collection
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Abstract
The Larry Fotine Music Collection (approximately 1940-2017) contains the complete library of composer, jazz band leader, and composer for television Larry Fotine. Materials include manuscript scores, printed sheet music of works by Fotine, ASCAP agreements and contracts, photographs, recordings (both published recordings and archival recordings), correspondence, and books by Fotine, and memorabilia. Fotine directed his own bands beginning in the 1930s, with many million-plus seller recordings. He composed over 300 songs, including collaboration with Duke Ellington (“I Ain’t Got Nothin’ but the Blues”), and arranged music for Sammy Kaye’s band (1940-1945), Blue Barron and Art Mooney (1945-1947), and Lawrence Welk (1958-1960). Fotine composed music for the "Buttons and Rusty" cartoon shows at the end of his career in the 1980s. There is an item-level inventory available upon request.
Archival Collection