Fake Book
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Creator
content: Blake, Eubie (James Herbert), 1883-1983
label: Collection Creator
content: Darensbourg, Joe, 1906-1985
label: Collection Creator
content: Davison, Bill
label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Creator
content: Garland, Ed
label: Collection Collector
content: Levin, Floyd, 1922-2007
label: Collection Donor
content: Levin, Lucille
label: Collection Creator
content: Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941
label: Collection Creator
content: Wilson, Buster
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content: Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection
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content: Floyd Levin Jazz Reference Collection / Series 7: General Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1222, Subseries 7.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: Contains the more than 5,000-page manuscript originally collected by Charles B. Anderson and given to Levin. The Fake Book, musical lead sheets intended to help a performer quickly learn and perform new songs, includes the basic melody line, basic chords and occasionally lyrics of over 5,000 songs. Featured composers within the book are Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Hoagy Carmichael, and Duke Ellington among many others. Charles B. Anderson also collected and passed on to Levin a list of the composer names of every song Bessie Smith recorded as found in Edward Brooks' the Bessie Smith Companion: A Critical and Detailed Appreciation of the Recordings. The Fake Book is arranged by page numbers with a partial index of the Bessie Smith materials at the beginning.