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.
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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.
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Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish.
Arrangement
Materials are organized into four series:
Series I. Manuscript scores and paperwork, approximately 1940-1989;
Series II. Published material by Larry Fotine, approximately 1950-1989;
Series III. Personal papers, 1946-2017;
Series IV. Reel-to-reel recordings, approximately 1940-1979.
Preferred Citation
Larry Fotine Music Collection, approximately 1940-2017. MS-01179. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/f1j48g
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Acquisition Note
Materials were given to the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Research Center and subsequently transferred to UNLV Special Collections and Archives in 2024 by Jonathan Rhodes Lee; accession number 2024-036.
Processing Note
Material was organized and inventoried by Jonathan Rhodes Lee (Director, Arnold Shaw Popular Music Center) and Barbara Fotine Barbara Fotine Atkins (original collection donor). In 2024, Sarah Jones reboxed the material and transferred a summary of the inventory into ArchivesSpace. This collection is not fully processed. There is an item-level inventory available upon request.
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The published 45PRM and 78RPM records, audiocassettes, and CD recordings were retained by the Arnold Shaw Popular Music Center. For more information, visit the Shaw Center's website: https://asc.unlv.edu/.