Perry Botkin Papers, 1920-1972

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Botkin, Perry
Title
Perry Botkin Papers
Dates
1920-1972 (inclusive)
Quantity
44.5 cubic ft. (81 Boxes: 32 F17, 10 DOC, 5 REC, 32 PRB, 2 PRL)
Collection Number
05998
Summary
Perry Botkin (1907-1973) was a musician and composer specializing in string instruments and popular music. He worked on numerous radio shows and was Bing Crosby’s music arranger and supervisor. He also scored the motion picture, “Murder by Contract.” In the 1960s he was the music composer for the Beverly Hillbillies television program. His collection contains his music scores, recordings, correspondence, financial records, and scripts, including ones for the Beverly Hillbillies from 1962 to1964.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
Sponsor
The creation of the EAD-version of this finding aid was made possible through a grant from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Perry Botkin (1907-1973) was a music composer, arranger, pianist, band leader, orchestra conductor, and string instrument musician. His musical career began at age fourteen when he started playing with Harry Frankel, “Singing Sam the Barbasol Man,” in Richmond, Indiana, Botkin’s home town. At the time, Botkin played the bass for the high school band, but Frankel needed a banjo player. Botkin learned to play the banjo, the guitar, ukulele, lute, and several other plectrum (string) instruments. Botkin moved to Hollywood in the 1920s and worked with radio orchestras such as Victor Young, Johnny Green (The Jack Benny Show), Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Paul Whitman, John Scott Trotter, Roy Rogers, and the Sons of the Pioneers. He was part of the original Fibber McGee and Molly radio show and stayed there for fourteen years. He worked for Al Jolson for fourteen years and Eddie Cantor for twenty-five. In 1937, Botkin began working with Bing Crosby and continued that association for eighteen years. He was Crosby’s guitar accompanist and musical supervisor for radio, film, stage, and early television and appeared with Crosby in the 1941 “Birth of the Blues” motion picture.

Botkin went on to arrange music for television programs such as “Wyatt Earp,” “The Rifleman,” “Wells Fargo,” and the motion picture “Murder by Contract.” In 1962 Botkin became the music arranger and composer for “The Beverly Hillbillies” television series through 1964. Botkin hosted one or more of the Bohemian Grove Club’s political gatherings on the Russian River in upstate California. Botkin also spent time in Hawaii learning more about the native sounds of the ukulele, and he traveled to Japan to learn about Japanese string instruments and record music with Japanese musicians. He provided background music for a number of other radio, film, and television shows and commercials. In 1961 Jack Kramer, the tennis star, contracted Botkin to produce a musical score for a tennis tournament. They worked together for the song, “It’s Tennis,” and went on to produce an album of humorous music for tennis playing. Throughout his career, Botkin was recognized as the foremost guitar musician in Hollywood and the first musician to perform ukulele solos. Botkin primarily composed jazz, bluegrass, western, popular, and folk arrangements. He was also a business partner and president of Longridge Music in Hollywood.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The majority of this collection is Botkin’s music compositions, arrangements, and music recordings. Music scores are listed alphabetically by the name of the composition, whereas music recordings are most often listed by the artist’s name. Botkin worked closely with Bing Crosby and John Scott Trotter and much of the music scores and recordings are from these periods of his career. There are also several scripts Botkin used in early radio shows, such as Fibber McGee and Molly and Roy Rogers, in which he participated with lines to read or scripts he used to note when to provide background music, theme music, or accompaniment. Included in these scripts are those for the Burl Ives television specials, the Gary Crosby shows, and the one for the 1941 picture, “Birth of the Blues.” There are also over sixty scripts from the Beverly Hillbillies and multiple recordings that demonstrate Botkin’s use of different string instruments to further create persona for the Beverly Hillbillies characters. The collection includes Botkin’s recordings and scores at different stages of development for “The Executioner’s Theme” from “Murder by Contract.” The recordings in this collection are on reel to reel tape, audiofilm, and phonograph records.

In the collection’s General series, correspondence dates from 1924 to 1970 and includes four letters from Bing Crosby, Botkin’s partnership in Longridge Music, and his work with radio personalities and the musicians’ union in Hollywood. Financial records for Longridge Music and the musicians’ union are also included in the General series as are numerous photographs of Botkin, Bing Crosby, and several other radio, television, and screen stars. There are Botkin’s daily Pocket Planners from 1961 to 1965 in the General series that document his time working with Jack Kramer on “It’s Tennis,” and his years with the Beverly Hillbillies program.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyright Information

The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Preferred Citation

Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Perry Botkin Papers, 1920-1972, Collection Number 05998, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Related Materials

Related Materials

There are no other known archival collections created by Perry Botkin as of the date of processing. Material regarding Perry Botkin may be found in the John Scott Trotter Papers, Accession Number 8424, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

Acquisition Information

Acquisition Information

Papers received from Mrs. Perry Botkin in 1975 and Mr. Perry Botkin Jr. in 1991.

Processing Note

Processing Information

The collection was processed by Rita Burleson in December 2004.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I. Scores, 1934-1972, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Annotated Scores
Box Folder
1 1
Accent the Positive
 No Date
Folder
2
AFRS Opening
 No Date
3
All the Bees Are Buzzin'
 1950
4
All By Myself
 No Date
5
All Dressed Up To Smile
 No Date
Alka-Seltzer:
Box Folder
1 6
Animated Commercial
 No Date
Folder
7
Commercial Closing
 No Date
8
March, Opening
 No Date
9
Second Rate Jingle, Schuffel Opening
 No Date
Folder
10
America (Hymn)
 No Date
11
Am I To Blame?
 1953
12
Angela Mia
 No Date
13
Angels of Mercy
 No Date
14
Anytime
 No Date
15
At Last
 1942
16
Autumn in London
 No Date
17
Autumn Leaves
 No Date
18
Baby There's Smog Outside
 No Date
19
Bactine, Medicine Chest Spelling "Where Oh Where,"
1952
20
Be Honest with Me
 No Date
21
Berlin
 No Date
22
Bess You is My Woman Now
 1949
23
Better Dead Than Wed
 1950
24
Betty Garrett
 No Date
25
Beverly Roberts Scene
 No Date
Box Folder
2 1
Bib-Bi-Di
 No Date
Folder
2
Bidin' My Time
 No Date
3
Big Bad Bill
 No Date
4
Billboard March
 No Date
5
Blame It on My Youth
 No Date
6
Bless the Beast and Children
 1972
7
Blondy
 No Date
8
Blow Gabriel Blow
 No Date
9
Begin the Beguine
 No Date
10
Blue Bonnet Girl
 No Date
11
Blue Eyes
 No Date
12
Blue of the Sabre Dance
 No Date
13
Blue Light Boogie
 No Date
14
Bonnie Wer Lassie
 No Date
15
Breezin' Along with the Breeze
 1952
16
Bow-Legged Cowboy
 No Date
17
Broken Down
 No Date
18
Bugle Call Rag
 No Date
Box Folder
3 1
The Bugler's Lament
 1956
Folder
2
Build a Fence Around Texas
 No Date
3
Bulldogs of Gonzaga
 1937
4
Bump Ti De Ump
 No Date
5
Burl Ives - Celest Holm Show
 No Date
6
Burl Ives - Eddie Howard Show
 No Date
7
Bye Bye Blues
 No Date
8
By the Sea
 No Date
9
Calypso Medley
 1944
10
Camptown Races, Humoresque
 No Date
11
Cara Nome
 No Date
Box Folder
4 1
Careless Love
 No Date
Folder
2
Casey Jones
 No Date
3
Chant of the Wanderer
 No Date
4
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
 No Date
5
Cherro-Cherro-Cherrokee
 No Date
6
China Boy
 No Date
7
Chinatown My Chinatown
 No Date
8
Christmas Test Record, Side One
 1947
9
Christmas Test Record, Side Two
 1947
10
Church in the Wildwood
 1944
11
Cindy
 1950
12
Closing Bumper
 No Date
13
Columbus Stockade
 No Date
14
Come All Ye Faithful
 No Date
Box Folder
5 1
Come On-A My House
 1951
Folder
2
Commercial Chasers
 No Date
3
Cool Cool
 No Date
4
Cool Water
 No Date
5
Count Every Star
 1950
6
The Cowboy
 No Date
7
Crime and Punishment
 No Date
8
Crocodile Tears
 No Date
9
Crystal Ball
 No Date
10
Daddy, Dear Old Daddy
 No Date
11
Daddy's Little Girl
 No Date
12
Dancing in the Dark
 No Date
13
Dancing Doll
 No Date
14
Dark Eyes
 No Date
Box Folder
6 1
Danse with a Dolly
 No Date
Folder
2
The Day After Forever
 1944
3
Dear Hearts and Gentle People
 1949
4
Dear Old Southland
 No Date
5
Dearie
 1950
6
Deck the Halls
 1943
7
Deep in the Arms
 No Date
8
Delia
 1958
9
Determination Bridge
 No Date
10
Diga Diga Doo
 No Date
11
Dixieland Band
 1949
12
Dixieland One Step
 No Date
13
Do I Love You?
 No Date
14
Doney Gal
 No Date
15
Don't Ask
 No Date
Box Folders
7 1-2
Don't Blame It All on Me
 No Date
Folder
3
Don't Ever Be Afraid to Go Home
 No Date
4
Don't Fence Me In
 No Date
5
Don't Give Up the Ship
 1945
6
Don't Hang Around Me Anymore
 1956
7
Don't Itch It, Fitch It
 No Date
8
Don't Let Your Eyes Go Shopping for Your Heart
 1953
Box Folder
8 1
Don't Sweetheart Me
 No Date
Folder
2
Don't Throw Cold Water (on the Flame of Love)
 No Date
3
Do-See-Do
 No Date
4
Do You Ever Think of Me?
 No Date
5
Down on My Bended Knees
 1944
6
Down the Trail to San Antone
 No Date
7
Dramatic Chaser
 No Date
8
Dramatic Cue "A"
 No Date
9
The Dying Cowboy
 No Date
10
Easy to Love
 No Date
11
E Lei Ka Lei Lei
 No Date
Box Folder
9 1
Entombment
 No Date
Folder
2
Etwas Kraftig
 No Date
3
Every Little Movement
 No Date
4
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
 No Date
5
Eyes of Texas
 No Date
6
Fanfare 1 and 2
 No Date
7
Farewell Blues
 No Date
8
Fence Hoke, Pony Boy, Rasslin'
 No Date
9
Fitch Closing, Fitch Fan Fare
 No Date
10
Fitch Theme
 No Date
11
Flamola
 No Date
12
Following the Sun
 No Date
13
Foolin' Myself
 No Date
14
A Friend of Yours
 1945
15
Ghost Town
 1958
16
Give Me Five Minutes More
 No Date
17
Glad Tidings (Nu Oli)
 No Date
Box Folder
10 1
Go West Young Man
 No Date
Folder
2
God Bless My Darling
 No Date
3
Goin' My Way
 No Date
4
Gold Mine in the Sky
 No Date
5
A Good Night for Murder
 No Date
6
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
7
Goodyear Close, Commercial Chaser
 No Date
8
Gotta Get Me Somebody to Love
 No Date
9
Grandfather's Clock
 No Date
10
Half As Much
 No Date
11
Hallelujah
 No Date
12
Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane
 No Date
13
Happiness Ahead
 No Date
14
Happy Days and Lonely Nights
 1958
Box Folder
11 1
The Happy Wanderer
 No Date
Folder
2
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
 1946
3
Hawaii Pondi (Hawaiian National Anthem)
 No Date
4
Hawaiian Night, Bohemain Grove
 1965
5
Heart-Aches
 No Date
6
Hearts and Flowers
 No Date
7
Heart and Soul
 No Date
8
Heavy 2, Light 4, Light 4.5
 No Date
9
Hello Young Lovers
 No Date
10
Hernando's Hideaway
 1954
Box Folder
12 1
Hero Tag
 No Date
Folder
2
Hesitation-Memphis
 No Date
3
Hey Kitty
 No Date
4
Hills of Old Wyoming
 No Date
5
Home
 No Date
6
Home on the Range
 No Date
7
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
 No Date
8
How Deep is the Ocean
 1950
9
Hurry Bridge
 No Date
10
I am Dreaming Tonight (of Bohemia)
 1950
11
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
 No Date
12
I'm an Old Cowhand
 No Date
13
I Can Dream Can't I?
 No Date
14
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
 1954
15
I Can't Go on Without You
 No Date
16
I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
 1944
17
I Got the Sun in the Morning
 1950
18
I Grannies I Love You
 1947
Box Folder
13 1
I Had a Dream
 No Date
Folder
2
I Hang My Head and Cry
 No Date
3
I've Got a Locket in My Pocket
 No Date
4
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
 1951
5
I Know
 No Date
6
I Know I Shouldn't Worry
 No Date
7
I Need You Now
 No Date
8
I Only Have Eyes for You
 No Date
9
I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)
 No Date
10
I See the Moon
 No Date
11
I Was Meant for You
 No Date
12
I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow
 1951
Box Folder
14 1
I'll See You in My Dreams
 No Date
Folder
2
I'll Walk Alone
 No Date
3
I Had a Sweetheart
 No Date
4
I Wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep
 No Date
5
I'd Love to Live in Loveland with a Girl Like You
 1952
6
Ida Red
 No Date
7
If I Had My Way
 No Date
8
If You Were My Girl
 No Date
9
In the Evening By the Moonlight
 No Date
10
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
 No Date
11
It Could Happen to You
 No Date
Box Folder
15 1
It Makes No Difference Now
 No Date
Folder
2
It Serves Me Right
 1940
3
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
 1951
4
It's Home Sweet Home to Me
 No Date
5
It's the Natural Thing to Do
 No Date
6
It's Tennis
 1961
7
Jamboree Jones
 No Date
8
The Jazz Me Blues
 No Date
9
Jingle Jangle Jingle
 1942
10
Judge Bean
 No Date
11
Jungle Town
 1944
12
Just for Today
 No Date
13
The Kansas Line
 No Date
14
Kentucky Babe
 No Date
15
Kiss of Fire
 No Date
16
Koni Au
 No Date
Box Folder
16 1
Lady Killers
 No Date
Folder
2
Lady Play Your Mandolin
 No Date
3
Lady of Spain
 1952
4
La Jesusita, Al Quebrer La Pinata II
 No Date
5
Land of Love
 1949
6
Last Round Up
 No Date
7
Let It Snow
 No Date
8
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
 No Date
9
Let Me Love You Tonight
 No Date
10
Lili Marlene
 1944
11
Linda Lou
 1943
12
Lime House Blues
 No Date
13
Linger Awhile
 1944
14
Little Things Mean A Lot
 1954
15
Liza
 No Date
Box Folder
17 1
Lonely River
 1942
Folder
2
The Lone Star Trail
 No Date
3
Loop De Loop Mambo
 No Date
4
Louella
 1957
5
Love is the Sweetest Thing
 1950
6
Lover
 No Date
7
Love Song of a Waterfall
 No Date
8
The Lucky Level
 No Date
9
Mairsy Doats
 1944
10
Mambo in the Moonlight
 No Date
11
Mamie
 No Date
12
Mandy
 No Date
13
Man in the Moon
 No Date
14
Man on the Flying Trapeze
 No Date
Box Folder
18 1
Many Times
 1953
Folder
2
Marie
 No Date
3
Margie
 No Date
4
The Martins and the Coys
 No Date
5
Massey Tilton Sign-Off
 No Date
6
May I Never Love Again
 No Date
7
Meredith Wilson
 No Date
8
Merry Little Christmas
 No Date
9
Milenberg Joys
 No Date
10
Millstream
 No Date
11
Minute Maid
 No Date
12
Miscellaneous Scores (No Titles)
 No Dates
13
Mississippi Medley
 No Date
14
Mississippi Mambo
 No Date
15
Moments Like This
 No Date
16
Moon Light Date
 No Date
17
Moonlight Bay
 1944
Box Folder
19 1
More and More
 No Date
Folder
2
Mother
 No Date
3
Movie Star
 No Date
4
Mule Train
 No Date
5
The Mummy
 No Date
6
Music Music Music
 No Date
7
My Honey's Lovin' Arms
 1944
8
My Old Kentucky Home
 No Date
9
My Wild Irish Rose
 No Date
10
Neutral Bridge
 No Date
11
Never the Twain Shall Meet
 No Date
12
New Moon Over My Shoulder
 No Date
13
New Panhandle Rag
 No Date
Box Folder
20 1
Night at the 23 Skidooo
 1961
Folder
2
The Nightingale Remembers
 No Date
3
Night Herding Song
 No Date
4
Night is Young (and You're so Beautiful)
 1936
5
Nobody's Sweetheart
 No Date
6
No Letter Today
 No Date
7
The Object of My Affection
 No Date
8
Oh What a Beautiful Morning
 1943
9
Oklahoma
 No Date
10
The Old Chisholm Trail
 No Date
11
Old Fashioned Love
 No Date
12
Old Folks at Home
 No Date
13
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
 No Date
14
One Dozen Roses
 No Date
15
One Postcard
 No Date
16
One Sweet Letter from You (If I Could Get)
 1945
Box Folder
21 1
The One That I Want Won't Have Me (And the One That I Can Won't Do)
 1949
Folder
2
On Top of Old Smoky
 No Date
3
Opener
 No Date
4
Opening Fanfares
 No Date
5
Open Up Your Heart (and Let Me In)
 1952
6
Pages in a Book (Close As)
 No Date
7
Palsy-Walsy
 No Date
8
Panama
 No Date
9
Patio Party Opening
 No Date
10
The Pearls of Telemeco
 1957
11
Pecan Pie
 No Date
12
Pecos Bill
 No Date
13
People Will Say
 No Date
14
Perry Phrase
 No Date
15
Perry's Solo
 1942
16
Peter Cottontail
 No Date
Box Folder
22 1
Philco Commercial (Dixie)
 No Date
Folder
2
Philippine Folkdance (Bamboo Dance)
 1961
3
Pick-A-Lili
 1956
4
Pioneer Intro (Cowboy Wedding)
 No Date
5
Pioneer Mother of Mine
 No Date
6
Please Don't Say No
 No Date
7
Powder Your Face
 No Date
8
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
 No Date
9
Quatro Milpas
 No Date
10
Rainy Day, Flop Parade
 No Date
11
Ready, Willing and Able
 No Date
12
Red, Red Robin
 1952
13
Red River Valley
 1943
14
Red Top
 No Date
Box Folder
23 1
Ridin' Down the Canyon
 1936
Folder
2
Ridin' Herd on a Cloud
 1943
3
Ridin' Home
 No Date
4
Ridin' the Range with You
 1944
5
Riding to the Finish
 No Date
6
Robert E. Lee
 No Date
7
Roll Along Prairie Moon
 No Date
8
Rollin' Stone
 No Date
9
Rosaleen
 No Date
10
Rose of the Rio Grande
 No Date
11
Rubber Band
 1958
12
Russian Rag
 No Date
Box Folder
24 1
St. Louis Blues
 No Date
Folder
2
San Fernando Valley
 No Date
3
Santa Claus is Ridin' the Trail
 1944
4
Santa Fe Town
 No Date
5
Say Si Si
 1951
6
Secret Love
 No Date
7
Seeing Nellie Home
 No Date
8
See You in My Dreams
 No Date
9
Sensation Stomp
 No Date
10
Serenade
 No Date
11
Seventy Times Seven
 1960
12
Shave and a Haircut
 No Date
13
She Left Me When My Dreamboat Started Leakin'
 No Date
14
Shepherd's Dance
 No Date
15
Shrimp Boats
 1951
16
Sign Off
 No Date
17
Silver Lining
 No Date
18
Singin' Down the Road
 No Date
19
Sing a Tropical Song
 No Date
20
Sketch Bridge
 No Date
21
Skip to My Lou
 No Date
22
Sleepy Lou
 No Date
23
Sleigh Ride in July
 No Date
Box Folder
25 1
Small Hotel
 No Date
Folder
2
Smiles Are Made Out of Sunshine
 No Date
3
Soelista M.P.
 No Date
4
Some of These Days
 No Date
5
Somebody Stole My Gal
 No Date
6
Somebody Stole My Horse and Wagon
 No Date
7
Someone to Watch Over Me
 No Date
8
Sound-Off, Play-Off
 No Date
9
Stay Ahwile
 No Date
10
Stay Well
 No Date
11
Strange Music
 No Date
12
String Tease
 No Date
Box Folder
26 1
Studio Four Closing
 No Date
Folder
2
Studebaker Theme
 No Date
3
Sunny Side of the Street
 1945
4
Sunshine in the Soul
 No Date
5
Summertime
 No Date
6
Surrey with the Fringe (on Top)
 No Date
7
Swanee River
 No Date
8
Sweet and Lovely
 No Date
9
Sweet Sue-Just You
 No Date
10
Sweethearts
 No Date
11
Swingin' On a Star
 No Date
12
Take Me Back to Old Missou
 1954
13
Teardrops on the Roses
 No Date
14
Tears on My Pillow
 No Date
15
Tenderfoot
 1953
Box Folder
27 1
Texas Polka
 1944
Folder
2
Texas Star
 No Date
3
That Christmas Feeling
 No Date
4
That's for Me
 No Date
5
That's How I Need You
 No Date
6
That's the Last Tear
 No Date
7
There Goes That Song Again
 No Date
8
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
 1954
9
There'll Be Some Changes Made
 No Date
10
There's a Pawnshop on a Corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 No Date
11
They Say It's Wonderful
 No Date
12
Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
 No Date
13
Think of Me
 1942
Box Folder
28 1
This Heart of Mine
 1943
Folder
2
Three Little Words
 No Date
3
Tico-Tico
 1943
4
Timber Trail
 No Date
5
Tinsel and Gold
 No Date
6
Tipperary
 No Date
7
Together
 No Date
8
A Touch of Texas
 1942
9
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 No Date
10
Trick or Treat
 No Date
11
The Trolley Song
 1944
Box Folder
29 1
Trouble Then Satisfaction
 No Date
Folder
2
Tucumcari Gary
 1949
3
Tulip
 No Date
4
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
 No Date
5
Twilight on the Trail
 No Date
6
Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan
 1952
7
Ukey Ukulele
 No Date
8
The Village Fire Brigade
 No Date
9
Waiting
 No Date
10
Walk Me By the River
 1952
11
Waltz for the Lute
 No Date
12
Wang Wang Blues
 No Date
13
Wanted
 No Date
14
Wayne King
 No Date
15
Weeping Willow
 1957
16
We Get Along So Good Together (Whenever We're Apart)
 1949
17
What a Difference a Day Makes
 No Date
Box Folder
30 1
What Does It Take
 No Date
Folder
2
What Goes on Here in My Heart
 1938
3
What Part of Indiana Do You Come From?
 1954
4
What's Your Hurry
 No Date
5
When I Was Single
 No Date
6
When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
 1941
7
When You Wore a Tulip
 1949
8
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba
 No Date
9
When the Bloom is on the Sage
 No Date
10
Which Way'd They Go?
 No Date
11
Whispering Hope
 No Date
12
Who?
 1944
13
Who Couldn't Love You
 No Date
14
Wildcat
 No Date
15
Wildflower
 No Date
16
Windmill on a Hill
 No Date
17
Wintergreen
 No Date
18
Winter Wonderland
 No Date
19
Wish Waiting
 No Date
20
World Waiting for Sunrise
 No Date
21
Worried Mind
 No Date
22
Yellow Rose of Texas
 1942
Box Folder
31 1
Yes Sir Baby
 No Date
Folder
2
Y'All Come
 No Date
3
You Always Hurt the One You Love
 1944
4
You are My Sunshine
 1940
5
You're the Only One for Me
 1952
6
You Broke My Heart, Little Darlin'
 1942
7
You Do Something to Me
 No Date
8
You Don't Know What Lonesome Is
 No Date
9
You Should Know
 No Date
10
You Was
 No Date
11
Yuba
 No Date
Subseries 2: Not Annotated Scores
Box Folder
32 1
The Angel on the Christmas Tree
 1936
Folder
2
Bass Face Joe
 1958
3
The Bugler's Lament
 1955
4
The Bushwhacker Country
 No Date
5
By the Old Pacific
 1950
6
Corky
 1955
7
Don't Move
 1958
8
Each Night at Nine
 1944
9
Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe)
 1939
10
Flor de Pasion
 1957
11
Gobelues
 1955
12
Hana Maui
 1956
13
I'm Happy I Can Ride the Open Range
 No Date
14
I Came to Town (to See My Love)
 1957
15
I Knew It Would Be This Way
 No Date
16
Jim Bowie-Adventurin' Man
 1956
17
Ke Kali Nei Au, (Hawaiian Wedding Song)
 1953
18
Lay Something on the Bar (Besides Your Elbows)
 1951
19
Little Bo Beep
 1959
20
The Magic Island
 1956
21
The Mistletoe Waltz
 1954
22
The Moon was Yellow
 1934
23
My Pillow was Damp This Morning
 1954
24
North Carolina State College Songs
 No Date
25
Old Forgotten Trails
 1945
26
Once in a While
 1937
27
Parade of the Pennies
 1958
28
Personal Call
 1959
29
The Railroad Corral
 No Date
30
Roll Out the Wagon
 1958
31
So Long to the Red River Valley
 1945
32
There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder
 1944
33
This Feeling for You
 1944
34
This Man is Mine
 1956
35
Tomorrow's Day Dream
 1959
36
Undertow
 1959
37
When-They-Ask-About-You
 No Date
38
When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on His Old Banjo
 No Date
39
Whirlwind
 No Date
40
Wow!
 No Date

Series II. Scripts, 1940-1971, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Miscellaneous Scripts
Box Folder
33 1
Adventures of Michael Shayne, Private Detective
 1945
Birth of the Blues:
Box Folder
33 2
1941
Folder
3
Screen Guild Players' Adaptation
 1950
Box Folder
33 4
Bohemian Grove, Chatauqua Speech and Campfire Spot Script
 1971
Folder
5
Burl Ives Show
 1947-1951
6
Christmas Round-Up of
 1945
7
Christmas Test Record, Side One, Bing Crosby
 No Date
8
Chuck Connors, "This is a Boy,"
No Date
9
Chuck Connors, Western Act
 No Date
10
Command Performance, USA, Bing Crosby
 1942
Cue Sheets:
Folders
11-12
Adventures of Jim Bowie
 1956-1957
Folder
13
Life and Legend of Wyatt Erp
 1955-1958
14
Various Acts
 ca. 1950s
Folder
15
Curt Massey Show
 1953
16
Dennis Day Show #107
 1953
17
Fibber McGee and Molly #25
 1951
18
Fiftieth Anniversary of Indianna Society of Chicago
 No Date
19
Gary Crosby Show #3-5
 1954
Box Folder
34 1
Gary Crosby Show #5-12
 1954
Folder
2
George Gobel Show #16-C
 May 6, 1958
3
Ghost of a Ghost Town, Music Promotion
 No Date
4
Kraft Music Hall
 December 5, 1940
5
Melody Round-Up
 June 24, 1944
6
Miscellaneous Script Pieces
 1941-1958
7
Round-Up Time in Texas, Music Script
 No Date
8
Roy Rogers Show, January-April
 1945
9
Roy Rogers Show, May
 1945
10
Saint of Devil's Island, Movie Script
 1959
11
Sister Kenny Program
 December 8, 1945
12
Twentieth Century Show-Boat, Outline
 No Date
13
Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan, Lead into the Song
 No Date
14
White Owl Audition
 No Date
Subseries 2: The Beverly Hillbillies Scripts
Box Folder
34 15
Another Neighbor, #62
 1964
Folder
16
Back to California, #16
 1963
Box Folder
35 1
Bank Raising, #63
 1964
Folder
2
A Bride for Jed, #60
 1964
3
Chickadee Returns, #46
 1963
4
Christmas at the Clampetts, #50
 1963
5
The Clampetts and the Dodgers, #29
 1963
6
The Clampetts are Overdrawn, #43
 1963
7
The Clampetts Entertain, #31
 1963
8
The Clampetts Get Culture, #49
 1963
9
The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed, #33
 1963
10
The Clampetts Go Fishing, #59
 1964
11
The Clampetts Go Hollywood, #45
 1963
12
The Clampetts in Court, #30
 1963
13
The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale, #4
 1962
14
Continental Touch, #67
 1964
15
The Critter Doctor, #56
 1963
16
The Dress Shop, #65
 1964
17
Duke Becomes a Father, #32
 1963
18
Duke Steals a Wife, #22
 1963
Box Folder
36 1
Elly Becomes a Secretary, #35
 1963
Folder
2
Elly Needs a Maw, #48
 1963
3
Elly Races Jethrine, #11
 1962
4
Elly Starts to School, #38
 1963
5
Elly's Animals, #19
 1963
6
The Family Tree, #23
 1963
7
The Giant Jackrabbit, #52
 1963
8
The Girl from Home, #53
 1963
9
Granny Learns to Drive, #69
 1964
10
Granny Versus the Weather Bureau, #61
 1964
11
Granny's Garden, #37
 1963
12
Granny's Spring Tonic, #26
 1963
13
The Great Crawdad Hunt, #64
 1964
14
Hair Raising Holiday, #41
 1963
15
Home for Christmas, #13
 1962
16
The House of Granny, #66
 1964
17
Jed Becomes a Banker, #25
 1963
18
Jed Buys the Freeway, #24
 1963
Box Folder
37 1
Jed Cuts the Family Tree, #27
 1963
Folder
2
Jed Gets the Misery, #40
 1963
3
Jed Incorporated, #68
 1964
4
Jed Pays His Income Tax, #28
 1963
5
Jed Plays Solomon, #21
 1963
6
Jed Rescues Pearl, #15
 1963
7
Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage, #18
 1963
8
Jed Throws a Wingding, #20
 1963
9
Jed's Dilemma, #17
 1962 (63?)
10
Jethro Goes to School, #8
 1962
11
Jethro's First Love, #44
 1963
12
Jethro's Friend, #36
 1963
13
Jethro's Graduation, #72
 1964
14
Lafe Lingers On, #54
 1963
15
Lafe Returns, #57
 1964
16
A Man for Elly, #51
 1963
17
No Place Like Home, #14
 1962
18
The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted, #34
 1963
19
Pygmalion and Elly, #10
 1962
20
The Race for Queen, #55
 1963
Box Folder
38 1
The Servants, #7
 1962
Folder
2
Son of Lafe Returns, #58
 1964
3
They Done Our Elly Wrong, #12
 1962
4
Trick or Treat, #6
 1962
5
Turkey Day, #47
 1963

Series III. General, ca. 1920s-1970, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
38 6
Bohemia Club Publications
 No Date
Folder
7
Botkin Biographical Material
 1951-1967
8
Bulletins
 1956-1966
9
Call Sheets "Birth of the Blues,"
 1941
10
Concert Programs
 1942-1967
Correspondence:
Box Folder
38 11
1924-1955
Folder
12
1956-1957
13
1958-1959
14
1960-1963
Box Folder
39 1
1964
Folder
2
1965
3
1966
4
1967
5
1968
6
1969-1970
Box Folder
39 7
Cowboy Songs
 No Date
Folder
8
Crosby Music Sheets Scored by Botkin
 1946-1954
9
D.H. Byrd, Biographical Material
 No Date
Financial Records:
Box Folder
40 1
Botkin Bands
 1940-1944
Folder
2
Contracts
 1941-1966
3
Endorsement
 1968
Longridge Music:
Box Folder
40 4
Invoices
 1947-1961
Folder
5
Red Nichols
 1957
Folder
6
Notices
 1957-1958
7
Receipt Books
 1940s
8
Television Pilot Budget, Frank Edwards
 1967
Box Folder
40 9
Handwritten Notes
 No Date
Folder
10
Information Sheets, Invitations, and Itineraries
 1964-1966
11
Korean Air Lift Fact Sheet
 No Date
12
Miscellaneous Lists
 No Date
13
Miscellaneous Tickets, Passes, Ribbons, and Phone Messages
 1940s-1950s
14
Negatives
 No Date
15
News Clippings
 ca. 1929-1960s
16
News Clippings
 ca. 1940s-1960s
17
Newsletters and News Releases
 1939-1966
18
Pamphlets
 1940s-1950s
Photographs:
Box Folder
40 19
Alka-Seltzer Show
 No Date
Folder
20
Armstrong, Louis
 1941
21
Beverly Hillbillies
 1964
22
"Birth of the Blues,"
1941
Box Folder
41 1
Bohemian Grove Club
 No Date
Folder
2
Botkin, Ted
 ca. 1960s
3
Botkin, Perry
 ca. 1920s-1960s
4
Connors, Chuck
 ca. 1960s
5
Crosby, Bing
 ca. 1940s-1950s
6
Daley, Dan
 No Date
7
Devine, Andy
 ca. 1940s
8
Fibber McGee and Molly Radio Show
 ca. 1950s
9
Frankel, Harry A.
 ca. 1948
10
George Gobel Radio Show
 ca. 1950s
11
Goodyear Rubber Band
 ca. 1940s-1950s
12
Harris, Phil
 No Date
13
Hoover, Herbert
 No Date
14
Japanese Television
 ca. 1960s
15
Jolson, Al
 ca. 1950s
16
Linkletter, Art
 ca. 1950s
17
Nelson, Ozzie
 ca. 1950s-1960s
18
O'Brian, Hugh
 ca. 1960s
19
Peabody, Eddie
 No Date
20
Publicity Album
 ca. 1960s
21
Richmond High School Orchestra
 1923
22
Robertson, Dale
 ca. 1950s
23
Sales, Soupy
 1952
24
Sons of the Pioneers
 1950s
25
Unidentified
 No Date
26
Washburne, "County,"
 ca. 1940s
27
Winters, Jonathan
 No Date
Pocket Planners:
Box Folder
41 28
March 1961-February 1962
42 1
March 1962-February 1963
Folder
2
March 1962-April 1964
3
May 1964-May 1965
4
June 1965-October 1965
Box Folder
42 5
Programs
 1938-1960s
Folder
6
Program Guide and Outline
 No Date
7
Promotional Materials
 ca. 1940s-1960s
8
Telegrams
 ca. 1935-1964
9
"It's Tennis" Materials
 1961-1965

Series IV. Audio-Visuals, 1938-1964, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Subseries 1: Reel to Reel Tapes
Box
43
Tango Longa; Rose Marie; Violin, Guitar, and Bass Tunes (Original); Rock-A-Hula and other Uke Tunes; The Act I and II; Open Your Heart and others; Sportsmen Show; Alexander and others; It's Tennis (Sound Only, Kramer); Mes Cheres; Kramer Album: Around the World in Sound and Music; WKAQ Band Session; My Pillow Was Damp Last Night and others; Kosloff Theme; Seventy-Times-Seven; Connors singing Seventy-Times-Seven; Red Nichols and Al Jolson recording; Tenderfoot and others; Flatt and Scruggs; Mississippi Melodie and others; Love Notes and others; Postcard and others; M. Wright Company; Longridge Music. Inc. Demo; The Hoosler Balladeers; Haywood-Music is Everywhere and others; United Airlines (Master); Heroes Die Young and others; Plaza de Toros; Walter O'Keefe; Cues 101-158; Murder by Contract (Sample Themes); Orbit Murder by Contract; The Executioner; Botkin Safari Act; Botkin at Interlochen
 No Dates
44
Pean's March; O'Brian-Kosloff; Connors (Chuck), Casey at the Bat; Twelve Goin' on Thirteen; Ain't She Sweet and others; Saint of Devil's Island; Fraturnity Brothers; Rick Nelson Demo; WKAQ Band Session (Steel Drums) #1; WKAQ Band Session #2 (Steel Drums); WKAQ Steel Band Session #3; Steel Band 1; Steel Band Dubs; Steel Band Cues; Joi Lansing; Joe Frisco Testimonial Dinner (reels 1-3); Orser-Murray; Botkin-Herrah's-Weaver; Botkin-Chicago Music Festival; Banjo Lecture-Lowell Scheyer; Ain't Got a Nickel and others; The Object of My Affection; Darby Demo-Seventy-Times-Seven; Roden, Elmer; Person's Grand Opening; East Side Commercial; Kramer Spots "Tennis"; Mes Cheres and others; Background Music of Kosloff Theme and others; Brown County Hillbillies; Saint Paul Film Narrative; Alexander and others; Alexander and others
 No Dates
45
El Plaza de Toros (2 copies); Nashville; Tuning Tape (Piano); Duke of the Uke and others; Duke of the Uke and others; Seventy-Times-Seven; Connors, Seventy-Times-Seven; Lou Brings and Al Jolson; Ozark Hoedown; Background for Ozark Hoedown; Charles H. Stern Comm.; Tommy Davis Explains; Frank Edwards, Second Half; Frank Edwards-Strangest of All; Raper, Michelle and Edwards, Frank; So? and others; Steel Band II; Steelband Dub; Steeldrums; Steel Drums; Steel Band Cues; The Beverly Hillbillies #2&4; Beverly Hillbillies Sample 1; Beverly Hillbillies #1,2,5,6,7,13; Beverly Hillbillies, Ball Game; Beverly Hillbillies, Mail Order Bride; Beverly Hillbillies T&C; Beverly Hillbillies, various songs
 No Dates
46
Sample Japanese Scoring; Haru Tominaga I&II, (Koto Solo); Tokyo Sound 1-5; Tokyo Sound 1-6, 8 Stereo; Tokyo Sound Single 1-8; Botkin Tokyo Sample; Beverly Hillbillies, Jed Rocks and Rolls; Beverly Hillbillies/Clampett Record; Beverly Hillbillies #37 Outtakes; Executioner Theme; Del Katcher-Executioner Theme and others; Perry Botkin, Crossley Campaign; Crossley for Governor; Red Nichols; Nichols; One Postcard/ Ernie Newton; One Postcard; Alexander-Phonograph; Pillow; Play Along; I Like to Dance to a Banjo; Mistletoe Waltz; Bob Voyage; Dig Dig; That's Nice and others; Hana Maui (Piano Only)
 No Dates
47
Mistletoe Waltz (2 Copies); United Airlines and others; Commercial Medley; B.J. and The Boys, Commercials; Gary Crosby and others; Gary Crosby, Banjo Round; Open Up Your Heart, Crosby; Mississippi Mud, Bing Crosby; Botkin; Botkin, the Act #3; Instrumental Specialist, Botkin; F. Edwards, Flying Saucers; S. Foster, Aunt Rhooy and others; Three Stripe; Conners, Rifleman and others; Seventy-Times-Seven, Connors; Drop Out Music; Kramer, Around the World in Music; D. Specht; Don't Move, Hugh O'Brian; On the Lurline and others; Mes Chers and others; Alexander, Plaza de Toros; Joi Lansing, Embrace Me; Kingsmen; Kirk, Whaling Songs (Eskimo); Joann Jordan, What Happened to July and others; B.B.B. Side Two; Play along and Sing a Song Together; Lookin' Fer and others; Tomlin, Ragtime Cowboy and others; Tamure Murete; Banjo Round and others; Katcher, Little Maid of Mexico and others; Beverly Hillbillies, Elly's ?; The Botkins (Personal); Botkin, Lonesome; Crossley/Mills; Beverly Hillbillies Elly's Spring Song and others; Don't Hang Around and others; This is New Albany
 No Dates
48
Two Unidentified Reels; Rose Marie; Outtakes; Splice #63 (Mrs Abramow); Longridge Music, George Alexander-Perry Botkin, Various Songs
 No Dates
49
Two Unidentified Reels; Beverly Hillbillies # 38-45, (Granny, Elly, Jethro songs); Botkin Music, The River; Beverly Hillbillies #23, Virginia Reel and others; Beverly Hillbillies #10 Sweet Elly Mae and others
 No Dates
50
Beverly Hillbillies (Lafe, Chickadee, Sailor Chimp, Banjo Night songs); Dub Spot; Cues, Botkin Tracks; St. Paul Theme to Melody, Electric Chimes; Fibber McGee, Mistletoe Waltz; Agriculture, Thompson
 No Dates
51
Ain't She Sweet, Short Version; Beverly Hillbillies, Mail Order Bride, Foggy Mountain Breakdown, Clampett Dance, 1964; Four Unidentified
 1964, No Dates
52
Postcard (New); Brass Band Master #41; Perry Botkin #2; Unidentified (Dated 55-61); Royal Hawaiian I; One Unidentified
 1955-1961, No Dates
53
Master, Kramer Dialogue, Opening to Music Around the World; Mas(?); Lurline; Joi Lansing; Longridge; Beverly Hillbillies #6, Piano and Vocals
 1962
54
Kramer, Rough Composite; Kramer, Original Sports Dialogue; Jack Kramer "It's Tennis," Final with Sound Effects; Kramer-Gonzalez Interview, 1960; Stan Ross Master of Kramer Album
 1960, No Dates
55
Buckholz-McKay; Smith Street Minuet; Vocal Outtakes; Star Makers; George Alexander-Perry Botkin, The Ghost of Ghost Town and others. One Unidentified
 No Dates
56
Cass County; Hugh O'Brian; Three Unidentified
 No Dates
57
Beverly Hillbillies #1-2 & 11, 1962; George Alexander-Perry Botkin, Ghost Town and others; Copy of Alexander Album; Beverly Hillbillies Original T&C; Ukulele Music
 1962, No Dates
58
Dale Robertson, Open Up Your Heart, Take One, and others; Dale Robertson, I Came to Town; Royal Hawaiian; Reels 1&2, Vox Pop Forum, 1962; Charley Weaver
 1962, No Dates
59
Uke Takes; Lolly Too Dum, Wabash Cannon, and others; Beverly Hillbillies? Tracks from #38&39?; Three Unidentified
 No Dates
60
Hawaii Calls Program, 1958; Beverly Hillbillies, Vocal Themes; Peggy King and others; St. Paul; Herb Shriner; Cues
 1958, No Dates
61
Nancy Culp; Cues Master #1&2; Kosloff; Kramer #2 Dialogue; One Unidentified
 No Dates
62
Harris-Botkin Trails; I Got Rhythm; Nashville Master Tape; Scrap Outtakes; Walter O'Keefe Album with paper copy of poems; Executioner Theme, O'Brian Demo
 No Dates
63
Object of My Affection and others; Odds and Ends #1; Murder (by Contract) Reels 1, 1, 2; Unidentified Reel without case
 No Dates
64
Burl Ives; Master, Ghost Town and others; Two Unidentified Reels without cases; Fibber Experiment; Uke Instrumental Solos, Botkin
 No Dates
65
Botkin, Capitol Test Reel; CBS Radio; CBS Radio Interview with Botkin about Beverly Hillbillies Music; Dialogue Master; Backhouse (Bing Crosby?); Unidentified Reel without case
 No Dates
66
Bing Crosby, 1953; Theme from Drop Out; Epic Dub; Fibber McGee; Two Reels without cases, Banjo Round; One Reel without case Unidentified
 1953, No Dates
67
Foster Preston (?); Foster, Oil Spots; Walter O'Keefe; Master, Tennis Ball Game; Beverly Hillbillies, Reel without case; #6 Unidentified reel without case; Unidentified Reel without case
 No Dates
68
It's Tennis and Take Me Out to the Ball Game; Harry Babbitt and Bob Bowen; Pickalili; Bushwacher, Jim Bowie; Two Unidentified, one without case
 No Dates
69
Harris-Botkin, Master 1&2; Sound Effects for Ghost Town; Bugler's Lament and others; Arkansas Salesman; Alexander, Two Shillelagh and others
 No Dates
70
Beverly Hillbillies #46-50, 1963-64; Beverly Hillbillies, #1-10; Beverly Hillbillies, Cues, 1962; Beverly Hillbillies #41, Drums and Brass Band; Martin ?; One Unidentified
 1962-1964, No Dates
71
House of Renee #2; Beverly Hillbillies #70, 1964; Beverly Hillbillies, I Love My Critters and others; Beverly Hillbillies, Elly's Spring Song, 1963; Where Oh Where? Beverly Hillbillies, Backgrounds, 1962
 1962-1964, No Dates
72
Perry (Bunny) Botkin Jr., Banjo Medley; Beverly Hillbillies, Reels 2-4; Beverly Hillbillies #51-54; Sessions May 14-15, 1957
 1957
73
Beverly Hillbillies, Basic Banjo Outtakes; Beverly Hillbillies, Lap Organ, 1962; Beverly Hillbillies, Themes and Cues, Basic Tracks
 1962
74
Perry Botkin Album, Side 1-2 Complete; Perry Botkin Reels 1-3. (All 5400 ft.)
 No Dates
Subseries 2: Audio Film
Box
75
Betty Lane, Two containers; Bob Fellow, Hong Kong Collect
 No Dates
76
Music Roll; Hong Kong Collect Music Trailer; Bob Fellow, Hong Kong Collect
 No Dates
77
Music Rolls #6&2
 No Dates
78
Music Rolls 5&3; Bob Fellow, Hong Kong Collect
 No Dates
79
Music Rolls 1&7; Bob Fellow, Hong Kong Collect
 No Dates
Subseries 3: Phonograph Records
Box
80
Meet the Five Pennies, Red Nichols No Date; Jack Kramer, Music to Play World Tennis By, 1960; Dinah Shore, Dinah Down Home; John Raitt, Under Open Skies; Large Unidentified Phonograph Record; House Party, Perry Botkin-John Guedel, CBS; Two Audition Records, Perry Botkin; You Don't Know What Lonesome Is, Bing Crosby; The Company Promoter, John Tilley; The Executioner Theme, Perry Botkin, Two copies; Ghost Town, Alexander-Botkin, Two copies; Plaintive Blues, Red Nichols, Promotional Copy, Two Copies; The Executioner Theme, Perry Botkin, Del Kent, Two Copies; More Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin Part 1&2, Frank Luther, 1938; Walk Me By the River/Tenderfoot; All of Me, Perry Botkin Jr; You're Mine/Wine, Women, and Gold, The Carsons with Perry Botkin; Hong Kong Blues/Riverboat Shuffle, Hoagy Carmichael with Perry Botkin and his Orchestra; You Don't Know What Lonesome Is, Roy Rogers; Riders in the Sky, Curt Massey, 1949
 1938, 1949, 1960, No Dates
81
Miscellaneous recordings of Botkin Orchestra; Red Nichols, Cass County Boys. Reel to reel audio of Botkin playing various string instruments, unidentified reel to reel audio recording

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Container(s) Description
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Motion picture music.
  • Radio music.
  • Television music.

Personal Names

  • Crosby, Bing, 1904-1977.
  • Trotter, John Scott.

Form or Genre Terms

  • Audio tapes.
  • Radio scripts.
  • Screenplays.
  • Sheet music.
  • Television scripts.

Occupations

  • Arrangers (Musicians).
  • Composers.
  • Musicians.

Titles within the Collection

  • Beverly Hillbillies (Television program).

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2005

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