Commodore and Decca Business Correspondence and Gabler Rolodex
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content: Armstrong, Lucille
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content: Bechet, Sidney, 1897-1959
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content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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content: Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973
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content: Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
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content: Commodore Records.
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content: Feather, Leonard, 1914-1994
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content: Gabler, Milt
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content: Davis, Sammy, 1925-
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content: Decca (recording company).
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content: Granz, Norman
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content: Hawkins, Coleman
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content: Kaempfert, Bert, 1923-1980
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content: Ives, Burl, 1909-
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content: Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
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content: Norvo, Red, 1908-1999
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content: Mills Brothers.
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content: Krupa, Gene, 1909-1973
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content: Kelly, Peck, 1898-
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content: Williams, Cootie, 1911-1985
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content: United Hot Clubs of America.
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content: Stewart, Rex (William), Jr., 1907-1967 (cornetist)
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content: Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975
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content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
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content: Milt Gabler Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1936-1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0849, Series 5
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content: Archival materials
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content: Commodore/Decca (1931-1974) reflects Gabler's simultaneous work as owner/recording producer with Commodore and staff-producer and later vice-president in charge of artists and repertoire for Decca Records.  Because the material (business correspondence, financial, and legal records) overlaps and is interwoven, it was arranged together within its own subgroup.  The material here pertains mainly to joint Commodore/Decca recording projects.  Correspondents were mainly business associates in the recording industry and include Jack Crystal, Stanley Dance, Leonard Feather, and Ralph Gleason--most of these correspondents may also be found in topical files on various recording projects include Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Burl Ives, Al Jolson, the Mills Brothers, and Ella Fitzgerald.  The bulk of Commodore material not integrally used at Decca is arranged in  Series 11.

this series consists of letters to and from Gabler and various recording companies, recording artists, and music publishing corporations.  Also included are fan mail and Gabler's intact rolodex of contact information for business associates/recording artists.