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By Lindy Smith and Mark Puente
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Collection Overview
Title: Morris and Barnard Young Music Business Records, 1832-1988
ID: 12/9/108
Primary Creator: Young, Morris N. (1909)
Extent: 50.25 cubic feet
Arrangement: Organized in seven series.
Date Acquired: 00/00/1995
Subjects: Music business, Music Publishers
Formats/Genres: Broadsides, Financial Records, Sheet music
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Morris and Barnard Young Business Records consists of financial records, correspondence, royalty statements, songsters and broadsides, radio logs, legal documents, periodicals, music manuscripts, and memorabilia (fliers, brochures, playbills, etc.) that were compiled by Morris N. Young, as part owner of several music publishing, marketing, producing, and artist representation enterprises owned and operated by the brothers between ca. 1934 and 1972. The collection contains legal reports and supporting documentation from key litigation cases that were filed by Barney Young in the 1950s and 1960s against Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) et. al., and the Walt Disney Corporation. The collection also includes periodicals and publications both generated by companies owned by one or both of the Young brothers and those that they collected. The final three series are publications and manuscripts, both musical and prose, created by associates of the Youngs.
See also record series number 35/3/68.
Biographical Note
Morris N. Young -- opthalmologist, author, and collector of books and artifacts on magic, mnemonics, and old sheet music -- was born July 20, 1909 in Lawrence, Massachusetts and died November 13, 2002 in Norwich, Connecticut at the aged of ninety-three. In addition to his vocational and avocational involvements, Young served as president of or was heavily involved with many music publishing companies and performer organizations such as Bomart Music Company, Ferris Records, National Juke Box Records, Godell Music, International Songwriters Association, and the Denton & Haskins Music Corporation which he and his brother, Bernard Young, purchased.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
Acquisition Method:
The UIUC Music Library purchased a related collection, the Morris Young Music Library of Early American Popular Music, in 1986 from rare book broker, J. Lubrano in New York. The business records were acquired in a subsequent gift from the collector's estate ca. 1995.
Box 127 transferred from MPAL: 4/12/2017
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Business Records and Personal Papers, 1936-1986],
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Series 2: Litigation Files, 1936-1973],
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Series 3: Barnard and Morris Young Music Company Periodicals and Publications, 1928-1966],
[
Series 4: Non-Young Company Periodicals and Publications, 1832-1988],
[
Series 5: Merle Kendrick Papers and Music, 1936-1956],
[Series 6:
George Whiting Papers, 1934-1941],
[
Series 7: E.M. Wickes papers, 1948-1951],
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All]
- Series 6: George Whiting Papers, 1934-1941
- Consists of music manuscripts, published music, radio scripts, and papers created by and relating to lyricist George Whiting. Content is arranged first by type and then alphabetically by title.
- Box 120: Correspondence, Financial Records, Photographs, and Radio Scripts
- Folder 1: Correspondence, 1936-1941
- Folder 2: Financial Records, ca. 1934-1939
- Folder 3: Newspaper Articles and Ephemera
- Folder 4: Photographs, No I.D.
- Folder 5: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 1-3
- Folder 6: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 4-6
- Folder 7: Radio Scripts: Charley's (Jimmy's) System Episodes 7-9
- Folder 8: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 10-12
- Folder 9: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 13-15
- Folder 10: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 16-18
- Folder 11: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 19-21
- Folder 12: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 22-24
- Folder 13: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 25-27
- Folder 14: Radio Scripts: Charley's System Episodes 28-31
- Folder 15: Radio Scripts: Fritz and Charley Episodes 1-3
- Folder 16: Radio Scripts: Fritz and Charley Episodes 4-5
- Folder 17: Radio Scripts: Fritz and Charley Episodes 7-11
- Folder 18: Radio Scripts: Fritz and Charley Episodes 12-14, two unnumbered
- Folder 19: Radio Scripts: Fritz and Fred
- Folder 20: Scripts: Frog Hollow
- Folder 21: Song Lyric Sheets Titles A-M
- Folder 22: Song Lyric Sheets Titles P-Y
- Box 121: Manuscripts and Published Music
- Folder 1: Ephemeral Material Found Inside Ledger, ca. 1936
- Folder 2: Ledger and Financial Records, ca. 1936
- Folder 3: Manuscripts and Lyric Sheets: Coocoo-Doo to Keep Hoin'
- Folder 4: Drummer Don- Instrumental Parts
- Folder 5: Manuscripts and Lyric Sheets: Lola O'Brien to You're Never Too Old (fragments)
- Folder 6: Published Music
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Business Records and Personal Papers, 1936-1986],
[
Series 2: Litigation Files, 1936-1973],
[
Series 3: Barnard and Morris Young Music Company Periodicals and Publications, 1928-1966],
[
Series 4: Non-Young Company Periodicals and Publications, 1832-1988],
[
Series 5: Merle Kendrick Papers and Music, 1936-1956],
[Series 6:
George Whiting Papers, 1934-1941],
[
Series 7: E.M. Wickes papers, 1948-1951],
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All]