Collection Summary
Botkin, Perry
Perry Botkin Papers
1920-1972
05998
44.5
cubic ft. (81 Boxes: 32 F17, 10 DOC, 5 REC, 32 PRB, 2 PRL)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
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.
Biography of Perry BotkinPerry 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.
Scope and ContentThe 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.
Access Restrictions
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes,
and the collection is open to the public.
Copyright Information
The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright,
property, and libel laws as they apply.
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
Papers received from Mrs. Perry Botkin in 1975 and Mr. Perry Botkin Jr. in 1991.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Rita Burleson in December 2004.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Perry Botkin Papers, 1920-1972, Collection
Number 05998, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Trotter, John Scott.
Crosby, Bing, 1904-1977.
Radio music.
Television music.
Motion picture music.
Audio tapes.
Sheet music.
Radio scripts.
Television scripts.
Screenplays.
Arrangers (Musicians).
Composers.
Musicians.
Beverly Hillbillies (Television program).
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Music
Performing Arts
Container List
Series I. Scores
1934-1972, undated
Subseries 1: Annotated Scores
1
1
No Date
Accent the Positive
2
No Date
AFRS Opening
3
1950
All the Bees Are Buzzin'
4
No Date
All By Myself
5
No Date
All Dressed Up To Smile
Alka-Seltzer:
1
6
No Date
Animated Commercial
7
No Date
Commercial Closing
8
No Date
March, Opening
9
No Date
Second Rate Jingle, Schuffel Opening
10
No Date
America (Hymn)
11
1953
Am I To Blame?
12
No Date
Angela Mia
13
No Date
Angels of Mercy
14
No Date
Anytime
15
1942
At Last
16
No Date
Autumn in London
17
No Date
Autumn Leaves
18
No Date
Baby There's Smog Outside
19
1952
Bactine, Medicine Chest Spelling "Where Oh Where,"
20
No Date
Be Honest with Me
21
No Date
Berlin
22
1949
Bess You is My Woman Now
23
1950
Better Dead Than Wed
24
No Date
Betty Garrett
25
No Date
Beverly Roberts Scene
2
1
No Date
Bib-Bi-Di
2
No Date
Bidin' My Time
3
No Date
Big Bad Bill
4
No Date
Billboard March
5
No Date
Blame It on My Youth
6
1972
Bless the Beast and Children
7
No Date
Blondy
8
No Date
Blow Gabriel Blow
9
No Date
Begin the Beguine
10
No Date
Blue Bonnet Girl
11
No Date
Blue Eyes
12
No Date
Blue of the Sabre Dance
13
No Date
Blue Light Boogie
14
No Date
Bonnie Wer Lassie
15
1952
Breezin' Along with the Breeze
16
No Date
Bow-Legged Cowboy
17
No Date
Broken Down
18
No Date
Bugle Call Rag
3
1
1956
The Bugler's Lament
2
No Date
Build a Fence Around Texas
3
1937
Bulldogs of Gonzaga
4
No Date
Bump Ti De Ump
5
No Date
Burl Ives - Celest Holm Show
6
No Date
Burl Ives - Eddie Howard Show
7
No Date
Bye Bye Blues
8
No Date
By the Sea
9
1944
Calypso Medley
10
No Date
Camptown Races, Humoresque
11
No Date
Cara Nome
4
1
No Date
Careless Love
2
No Date
Casey Jones
3
No Date
Chant of the Wanderer
4
No Date
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy
5
No Date
Cherro-Cherro-Cherrokee
6
No Date
China Boy
7
No Date
Chinatown My Chinatown
8
1947
Christmas Test Record, Side One
9
1947
Christmas Test Record, Side Two
10
1944
Church in the Wildwood
11
1950
Cindy
12
No Date
Closing Bumper
13
No Date
Columbus Stockade
14
No Date
Come All Ye Faithful
5
1
1951
Come On-A My House
2
No Date
Commercial Chasers
3
No Date
Cool Cool
4
No Date
Cool Water
5
1950
Count Every Star
6
No Date
The Cowboy
7
No Date
Crime and Punishment
8
No Date
Crocodile Tears
9
No Date
Crystal Ball
10
No Date
Daddy, Dear Old Daddy
11
No Date
Daddy's Little Girl
12
No Date
Dancing in the Dark
13
No Date
Dancing Doll
14
No Date
Dark Eyes
6
1
No Date
Danse with a Dolly
2
1944
The Day After Forever
3
1949
Dear Hearts and Gentle People
4
No Date
Dear Old Southland
5
1950
Dearie
6
1943
Deck the Halls
7
No Date
Deep in the Arms
8
1958
Delia
9
No Date
Determination Bridge
10
No Date
Diga Diga Doo
11
1949
Dixieland Band
12
No Date
Dixieland One Step
13
No Date
Do I Love You?
14
No Date
Doney Gal
15
No Date
Don't Ask
7
1-2
No Date
Don't Blame It All on Me
3
No Date
Don't Ever Be Afraid to Go Home
4
No Date
Don't Fence Me In
5
1945
Don't Give Up the Ship
6
1956
Don't Hang Around Me Anymore
7
No Date
Don't Itch It, Fitch It
8
1953
Don't Let Your Eyes Go Shopping for Your Heart
8
1
No Date
Don't Sweetheart Me
2
No Date
Don't Throw Cold Water (on the Flame of Love)
3
No Date
Do-See-Do
4
No Date
Do You Ever Think of Me?
5
1944
Down on My Bended Knees
6
No Date
Down the Trail to San Antone
7
No Date
Dramatic Chaser
8
No Date
Dramatic Cue "A"
9
No Date
The Dying Cowboy
10
No Date
Easy to Love
11
No Date
E Lei Ka Lei Lei
9
1
No Date
Entombment
2
No Date
Etwas Kraftig
3
No Date
Every Little Movement
4
No Date
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
5
No Date
Eyes of Texas
6
No Date
Fanfare 1 and 2
7
No Date
Farewell Blues
8
No Date
Fence Hoke, Pony Boy, Rasslin'
9
No Date
Fitch Closing, Fitch Fan Fare
10
No Date
Fitch Theme
11
No Date
Flamola
12
No Date
Following the Sun
13
No Date
Foolin' Myself
14
1945
A Friend of Yours
15
1958
Ghost Town
16
No Date
Give Me Five Minutes More
17
No Date
Glad Tidings (Nu Oli)
10
1
No Date
Go West Young Man
2
No Date
God Bless My Darling
3
No Date
Goin' My Way
4
No Date
Gold Mine in the Sky
5
No Date
A Good Night for Murder
6
Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
7
No Date
Goodyear Close, Commercial Chaser
8
No Date
Gotta Get Me Somebody to Love
9
No Date
Grandfather's Clock
10
No Date
Half As Much
11
No Date
Hallelujah
12
No Date
Hand Me Down My Walkin' Cane
13
No Date
Happiness Ahead
14
1958
Happy Days and Lonely Nights
11
1
No Date
The Happy Wanderer
2
1946
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
3
No Date
Hawaii Pondi (Hawaiian National Anthem)
4
1965
Hawaiian Night, Bohemain Grove
5
No Date
Heart-Aches
6
No Date
Hearts and Flowers
7
No Date
Heart and Soul
8
No Date
Heavy 2, Light 4, Light 4.5
9
No Date
Hello Young Lovers
10
1954
Hernando's Hideaway
12
1
No Date
Hero Tag
2
No Date
Hesitation-Memphis
3
No Date
Hey Kitty
4
No Date
Hills of Old Wyoming
5
No Date
Home
6
No Date
Home on the Range
7
No Date
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
8
1950
How Deep is the Ocean
9
No Date
Hurry Bridge
10
1950
I am Dreaming Tonight (of Bohemia)
11
No Date
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
12
No Date
I'm an Old Cowhand
13
No Date
I Can Dream Can't I?
14
1954
I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me
15
No Date
I Can't Go on Without You
16
1944
I Dream of You (More Than You Dream I Do)
17
1950
I Got the Sun in the Morning
18
1947
I Grannies I Love You
13
1
No Date
I Had a Dream
2
No Date
I Hang My Head and Cry
3
No Date
I've Got a Locket in My Pocket
4
1951
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
5
No Date
I Know
6
No Date
I Know I Shouldn't Worry
7
No Date
I Need You Now
8
No Date
I Only Have Eyes for You
9
No Date
I Said My Pajamas (and Put on My Prayers)
10
No Date
I See the Moon
11
No Date
I Was Meant for You
12
1951
I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow
14
1
No Date
I'll See You in My Dreams
2
No Date
I'll Walk Alone
3
No Date
I Had a Sweetheart
4
No Date
I Wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep
5
1952
I'd Love to Live in Loveland with a Girl Like You
6
No Date
Ida Red
7
No Date
If I Had My Way
8
No Date
If You Were My Girl
9
No Date
In the Evening By the Moonlight
10
No Date
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
11
No Date
It Could Happen to You
15
1
No Date
It Makes No Difference Now
2
1940
It Serves Me Right
3
1951
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
4
No Date
It's Home Sweet Home to Me
5
No Date
It's the Natural Thing to Do
6
1961
It's Tennis
7
No Date
Jamboree Jones
8
No Date
The Jazz Me Blues
9
1942
Jingle Jangle Jingle
10
No Date
Judge Bean
11
1944
Jungle Town
12
No Date
Just for Today
13
No Date
The Kansas Line
14
No Date
Kentucky Babe
15
No Date
Kiss of Fire
16
No Date
Koni Au
16
1
No Date
Lady Killers
2
No Date
Lady Play Your Mandolin
3
1952
Lady of Spain
4
No Date
La Jesusita, Al Quebrer La Pinata II
5
1949
Land of Love
6
No Date
Last Round Up
7
No Date
Let It Snow
8
No Date
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
9
No Date
Let Me Love You Tonight
10
1944
Lili Marlene
11
1943
Linda Lou
12
No Date
Lime House Blues
13
1944
Linger Awhile
14
1954
Little Things Mean A Lot
15
No Date
Liza
17
1
1942
Lonely River
2
No Date
The Lone Star Trail
3
No Date
Loop De Loop Mambo
4
1957
Louella
5
1950
Love is the Sweetest Thing
6
No Date
Lover
7
No Date
Love Song of a Waterfall
8
No Date
The Lucky Level
9
1944
Mairsy Doats
10
No Date
Mambo in the Moonlight
11
No Date
Mamie
12
No Date
Mandy
13
No Date
Man in the Moon
14
No Date
Man on the Flying Trapeze
18
1
1953
Many Times
2
No Date
Marie
3
No Date
Margie
4
No Date
The Martins and the Coys
5
No Date
Massey Tilton Sign-Off
6
No Date
May I Never Love Again
7
No Date
Meredith Wilson
8
No Date
Merry Little Christmas
9
No Date
Milenberg Joys
10
No Date
Millstream
11
No Date
Minute Maid
12
No Dates
Miscellaneous Scores (No Titles)
13
No Date
Mississippi Medley
14
No Date
Mississippi Mambo
15
No Date
Moments Like This
16
No Date
Moon Light Date
17
1944
Moonlight Bay
19
1
No Date
More and More
2
No Date
Mother
3
No Date
Movie Star
4
No Date
Mule Train
5
No Date
The Mummy
6
No Date
Music Music Music
7
1944
My Honey's Lovin' Arms
8
No Date
My Old Kentucky Home
9
No Date
My Wild Irish Rose
10
No Date
Neutral Bridge
11
No Date
Never the Twain Shall Meet
12
No Date
New Moon Over My Shoulder
13
No Date
New Panhandle Rag
20
1
1961
Night at the 23 Skidooo
2
No Date
The Nightingale Remembers
3
No Date
Night Herding Song
4
1936
Night is Young (and You're so Beautiful)
5
No Date
Nobody's Sweetheart
6
No Date
No Letter Today
7
No Date
The Object of My Affection
8
1943
Oh What a Beautiful Morning
9
No Date
Oklahoma
10
No Date
The Old Chisholm Trail
11
No Date
Old Fashioned Love
12
No Date
Old Folks at Home
13
No Date
On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe
14
No Date
One Dozen Roses
15
No Date
One Postcard
16
1945
One Sweet Letter from You (If I Could Get)
21
1
1949
The One That I Want Won't Have Me (And the One That I Can Won't Do)
2
No Date
On Top of Old Smoky
3
No Date
Opener
4
No Date
Opening Fanfares
5
1952
Open Up Your Heart (and Let Me In)
6
No Date
Pages in a Book (Close As)
7
No Date
Palsy-Walsy
8
No Date
Panama
9
No Date
Patio Party Opening
10
1957
The Pearls of Telemeco
11
No Date
Pecan Pie
12
No Date
Pecos Bill
13
No Date
People Will Say
14
No Date
Perry Phrase
15
1942
Perry's Solo
16
No Date
Peter Cottontail
22
1
No Date
Philco Commercial (Dixie)
2
1961
Philippine Folkdance (Bamboo Dance)
3
1956
Pick-A-Lili
4
No Date
Pioneer Intro (Cowboy Wedding)
5
No Date
Pioneer Mother of Mine
6
No Date
Please Don't Say No
7
No Date
Powder Your Face
8
No Date
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
9
No Date
Quatro Milpas
10
No Date
Rainy Day, Flop Parade
11
No Date
Ready, Willing and Able
12
1952
Red, Red Robin
13
1943
Red River Valley
14
No Date
Red Top
23
1
1936
Ridin' Down the Canyon
2
1943
Ridin' Herd on a Cloud
3
No Date
Ridin' Home
4
1944
Ridin' the Range with You
5
No Date
Riding to the Finish
6
No Date
Robert E. Lee
7
No Date
Roll Along Prairie Moon
8
No Date
Rollin' Stone
9
No Date
Rosaleen
10
No Date
Rose of the Rio Grande
11
1958
Rubber Band
12
No Date
Russian Rag
24
1
No Date
St. Louis Blues
2
No Date
San Fernando Valley
3
1944
Santa Claus is Ridin' the Trail
4
No Date
Santa Fe Town
5
1951
Say Si Si
6
No Date
Secret Love
7
No Date
Seeing Nellie Home
8
No Date
See You in My Dreams
9
No Date
Sensation Stomp
10
No Date
Serenade
11
1960
Seventy Times Seven
12
No Date
Shave and a Haircut
13
No Date
She Left Me When My Dreamboat Started Leakin'
14
No Date
Shepherd's Dance
15
1951
Shrimp Boats
16
No Date
Sign Off
17
No Date
Silver Lining
18
No Date
Singin' Down the Road
19
No Date
Sing a Tropical Song
20
No Date
Sketch Bridge
21
No Date
Skip to My Lou
22
No Date
Sleepy Lou
23
No Date
Sleigh Ride in July
25
1
No Date
Small Hotel
2
No Date
Smiles Are Made Out of Sunshine
3
No Date
Soelista M.P.
4
No Date
Some of These Days
5
No Date
Somebody Stole My Gal
6
No Date
Somebody Stole My Horse and Wagon
7
No Date
Someone to Watch Over Me
8
No Date
Sound-Off, Play-Off
9
No Date
Stay Ahwile
10
No Date
Stay Well
11
No Date
Strange Music
12
No Date
String Tease
26
1
No Date
Studio Four Closing
2
No Date
Studebaker Theme
3
1945
Sunny Side of the Street
4
No Date
Sunshine in the Soul
5
No Date
Summertime
6
No Date
Surrey with the Fringe (on Top)
7
No Date
Swanee River
8
No Date
Sweet and Lovely
9
No Date
Sweet Sue-Just You
10
No Date
Sweethearts
11
No Date
Swingin' On a Star
12
1954
Take Me Back to Old Missou
13
No Date
Teardrops on the Roses
14
No Date
Tears on My Pillow
15
1953
Tenderfoot
27
1
1944
Texas Polka
2
No Date
Texas Star
3
No Date
That Christmas Feeling
4
No Date
That's for Me
5
No Date
That's How I Need You
6
No Date
That's the Last Tear
7
No Date
There Goes That Song Again
8
1954
There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
9
No Date
There'll Be Some Changes Made
10
No Date
There's a Pawnshop on a Corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
11
No Date
They Say It's Wonderful
12
No Date
Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
13
1942
Think of Me
28
1
1943
This Heart of Mine
2
No Date
Three Little Words
3
1943
Tico-Tico
4
No Date
Timber Trail
5
No Date
Tinsel and Gold
6
No Date
Tipperary
7
No Date
Together
8
1942
A Touch of Texas
9
No Date
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
10
No Date
Trick or Treat
11
1944
The Trolley Song
29
1
No Date
Trouble Then Satisfaction
2
1949
Tucumcari Gary
3
No Date
Tulip
4
No Date
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
5
No Date
Twilight on the Trail
6
1952
Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan
7
No Date
Ukey Ukulele
8
No Date
The Village Fire Brigade
9
No Date
Waiting
10
1952
Walk Me By the River
11
No Date
Waltz for the Lute
12
No Date
Wang Wang Blues
13
No Date
Wanted
14
No Date
Wayne King
15
1957
Weeping Willow
16
1949
We Get Along So Good Together (Whenever We're Apart)
17
No Date
What a Difference a Day Makes
30
1
No Date
What Does It Take
2
1938
What Goes on Here in My Heart
3
1954
What Part of Indiana Do You Come From?
4
No Date
What's Your Hurry
5
No Date
When I Was Single
6
1941
When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
7
1949
When You Wore a Tulip
8
No Date
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba
9
No Date
When the Bloom is on the Sage
10
No Date
Which Way'd They Go?
11
No Date
Whispering Hope
12
1944
Who?
13
No Date
Who Couldn't Love You
14
No Date
Wildcat
15
No Date
Wildflower
16
No Date
Windmill on a Hill
17
No Date
Wintergreen
18
No Date
Winter Wonderland
19
No Date
Wish Waiting
20
No Date
World Waiting for Sunrise
21
No Date
Worried Mind
22
1942
Yellow Rose of Texas
31
1
No Date
Yes Sir Baby
2
No Date
Y'All Come
3
1944
You Always Hurt the One You Love
4
1940
You are My Sunshine
5
1952
You're the Only One for Me
6
1942
You Broke My Heart, Little Darlin'
7
No Date
You Do Something to Me
8
No Date
You Don't Know What Lonesome Is
9
No Date
You Should Know
10
No Date
You Was
11
No Date
Yuba
Subseries 2: Not Annotated Scores
32
1
1936
The Angel on the Christmas Tree
2
1958
Bass Face Joe
3
1955
The Bugler's Lament
4
No Date
The Bushwhacker Country
5
1950
By the Old Pacific
6
1955
Corky
7
1958
Don't Move
8
1944
Each Night at Nine
9
1939
Farewell to Thee (Aloha Oe)
10
1957
Flor de Pasion
11
1955
Gobelues
12
1956
Hana Maui
13
No Date
I'm Happy I Can Ride the Open Range
14
1957
I Came to Town (to See My Love)
15
No Date
I Knew It Would Be This Way
16
1956
Jim Bowie-Adventurin' Man
17
1953
Ke Kali Nei Au, (Hawaiian Wedding Song)
18
1951
Lay Something on the Bar (Besides Your Elbows)
19
1959
Little Bo Beep
20
1956
The Magic Island
21
1954
The Mistletoe Waltz
22
1934
The Moon was Yellow
23
1954
My Pillow was Damp This Morning
24
No Date
North Carolina State College Songs
25
1945
Old Forgotten Trails
26
1937
Once in a While
27
1958
Parade of the Pennies
28
1959
Personal Call
29
No Date
The Railroad Corral
30
1958
Roll Out the Wagon
31
1945
So Long to the Red River Valley
32
1944
There's a New Moon Over My Shoulder
33
1944
This Feeling for You
34
1956
This Man is Mine
35
1959
Tomorrow's Day Dream
36
1959
Undertow
37
No Date
When-They-Ask-About-You
38
No Date
When Uncle Joe Plays a Rag on His Old Banjo
39
No Date
Whirlwind
40
No Date
Wow!
Series II. Scripts
1940-1971, undated
Subseries 1: Miscellaneous Scripts
33
1
1945
Adventures of Michael Shayne, Private Detective
Birth of the Blues:
33
2
1941
3
1950
Screen Guild Players' Adaptation
33
4
1971
Bohemian Grove, Chatauqua Speech and Campfire Spot Script
5
1947-1951
Burl Ives Show
6
1945
Christmas Round-Up of
7
No Date
Christmas Test Record, Side One, Bing Crosby
8
No Date
Chuck Connors, "This is a Boy,"
9
No Date
Chuck Connors, Western Act
10
1942
Command Performance, USA, Bing Crosby
Cue Sheets:
11-12
1956-1957
Adventures of Jim Bowie
13
1955-1958
Life and Legend of Wyatt Erp
14
ca. 1950s
Various Acts
15
1953
Curt Massey Show
16
1953
Dennis Day Show #107
17
1951
Fibber McGee and Molly #25
18
No Date
Fiftieth Anniversary of Indianna Society of Chicago
19
1954
Gary Crosby Show #3-5
34
1
1954
Gary Crosby Show #5-12
2
May 6, 1958
George Gobel Show #16-C
3
No Date
Ghost of a Ghost Town, Music Promotion
4
December 5, 1940
Kraft Music Hall
5
June 24, 1944
Melody Round-Up
6
1941-1958
Miscellaneous Script Pieces
7
No Date
Round-Up Time in Texas, Music Script
8
1945
Roy Rogers Show, January-April
9
1945
Roy Rogers Show, May
10
1959
Saint of Devil's Island, Movie Script
11
December 8, 1945
Sister Kenny Program
12
No Date
Twentieth Century Show-Boat, Outline
13
No Date
Two Shillelagh O'Sullivan, Lead into the Song
14
No Date
White Owl Audition
Subseries 2: The Beverly Hillbillies Scripts
34
15
1964
Another Neighbor, #62
16
1963
Back to California, #16
35
1
1964
Bank Raising, #63
2
1964
A Bride for Jed, #60
3
1963
Chickadee Returns, #46
4
1963
Christmas at the Clampetts, #50
5
1963
The Clampetts and the Dodgers, #29
6
1963
The Clampetts are Overdrawn, #43
7
1963
The Clampetts Entertain, #31
8
1963
The Clampetts Get Culture, #49
9
1963
The Clampetts Get Psychoanalyzed, #33
10
1964
The Clampetts Go Fishing, #59
11
1963
The Clampetts Go Hollywood, #45
12
1963
The Clampetts in Court, #30
13
1962
The Clampetts Meet Mrs. Drysdale, #4
14
1964
Continental Touch, #67
15
1963
The Critter Doctor, #56
16
1964
The Dress Shop, #65
17
1963
Duke Becomes a Father, #32
18
1963
Duke Steals a Wife, #22
36
1
1963
Elly Becomes a Secretary, #35
2
1963
Elly Needs a Maw, #48
3
1962
Elly Races Jethrine, #11
4
1963
Elly Starts to School, #38
5
1963
Elly's Animals, #19
6
1963
The Family Tree, #23
7
1963
The Giant Jackrabbit, #52
8
1963
The Girl from Home, #53
9
1964
Granny Learns to Drive, #69
10
1964
Granny Versus the Weather Bureau, #61
11
1963
Granny's Garden, #37
12
1963
Granny's Spring Tonic, #26
13
1964
The Great Crawdad Hunt, #64
14
1963
Hair Raising Holiday, #41
15
1962
Home for Christmas, #13
16
1964
The House of Granny, #66
17
1963
Jed Becomes a Banker, #25
18
1963
Jed Buys the Freeway, #24
37
1
1963
Jed Cuts the Family Tree, #27
2
1963
Jed Gets the Misery, #40
3
1964
Jed Incorporated, #68
4
1963
Jed Pays His Income Tax, #28
5
1963
Jed Plays Solomon, #21
6
1963
Jed Rescues Pearl, #15
7
1963
Jed Saves Drysdale's Marriage, #18
8
1963
Jed Throws a Wingding, #20
9
Jed's Dilemma, #17
1962 (63?)
10
1962
Jethro Goes to School, #8
11
1963
Jethro's First Love, #44
12
1963
Jethro's Friend, #36
13
1964
Jethro's Graduation, #72
14
1963
Lafe Lingers On, #54
15
1964
Lafe Returns, #57
16
1963
A Man for Elly, #51
17
1962
No Place Like Home, #14
18
1963
The Psychiatrist Gets Clampetted, #34
19
1962
Pygmalion and Elly, #10
20
1963
The Race for Queen, #55
38
1
1962
The Servants, #7
2
1964
Son of Lafe Returns, #58
3
1962
They Done Our Elly Wrong, #12
4
1962
Trick or Treat, #6
5
1963
Turkey Day, #47
Series III. General
ca. 1920s-1970, undated
38
6
No Date
Bohemia Club Publications
7
1951-1967
Botkin Biographical Material
8
1956-1966
Bulletins
9
1941
Call Sheets "Birth of the Blues,"
10
1942-1967
Concert Programs
Correspondence:
38
11
1924-1955
12
1956-1957
13
1958-1959
14
1960-1963
39
1
1964
2
1965
3
1966
4
1967
5
1968
6
1969-1970
39
7
No Date
Cowboy Songs
8
1946-1954
Crosby Music Sheets Scored by Botkin
9
No Date
D.H. Byrd, Biographical Material
Financial Records:
40
1
1940-1944
Botkin Bands
2
1941-1966
Contracts
3
1968
Endorsement
Longridge Music:
40
4
1947-1961
Invoices
5
1957
Red Nichols
6
1957-1958
Notices
7
1940s
Receipt Books
8
1967
Television Pilot Budget, Frank Edwards
40
9
No Date
Handwritten Notes
10
1964-1966
Information Sheets, Invitations, and Itineraries
11
No Date
Korean Air Lift Fact Sheet
12
No Date
Miscellaneous Lists
13
1940s-1950s
Miscellaneous Tickets, Passes, Ribbons, and Phone Messages
14
No Date
Negatives
15
ca. 1929-1960s
News Clippings
16
ca. 1940s-1960s
News Clippings
17
1939-1966
Newsletters and News Releases
18
1940s-1950s
Pamphlets
Photographs:
40
19
No Date
Alka-Seltzer Show
20
1941
Armstrong, Louis
21
1964
Beverly Hillbillies
22
1941
"Birth of the Blues,"
41
1
No Date
Bohemian Grove Club
2
ca. 1960s
Botkin, Ted
3
ca. 1920s-1960s
Botkin, Perry
4
ca. 1960s
Connors, Chuck
5
ca. 1940s-1950s
Crosby, Bing
6
No Date
Daley, Dan
7
ca. 1940s
Devine, Andy
8
ca. 1950s
Fibber McGee and Molly Radio Show
9
ca. 1948
Frankel, Harry A.
10
ca. 1950s
George Gobel Radio Show
11
ca. 1940s-1950s
Goodyear Rubber Band
12
No Date
Harris, Phil
13
No Date
Hoover, Herbert
14
ca. 1960s
Japanese Television
15
ca. 1950s
Jolson, Al
16
ca. 1950s
Linkletter, Art
17
ca. 1950s-1960s
Nelson, Ozzie
18
ca. 1960s
O'Brian, Hugh
19
No Date
Peabody, Eddie
20
ca. 1960s
Publicity Album
21
1923
Richmond High School Orchestra
22
ca. 1950s
Robertson, Dale
23
1952
Sales, Soupy
24
1950s
Sons of the Pioneers
25
No Date
Unidentified
26
ca. 1940s
Washburne, "County,"
27
No Date
Winters, Jonathan
Pocket Planners:
41
28
March 1961-February 1962
42
1
March 1962-February 1963
2
March 1962-April 1964
3
May 1964-May 1965
4
June 1965-October 1965
42
5
1938-1960s
Programs
6
No Date
Program Guide and Outline
7
ca. 1940s-1960s
Promotional Materials
8
ca. 1935-1964
Telegrams
9
1961-1965
"It's Tennis" Materials
Series IV. Audio-Visuals
1938-1964, undated
Subseries 1: Reel to Reel Tapes
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
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
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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