LG110 Interviews: Brother John Sellers; Richard Yancey; Elliot Beal (LG110Goreau_Side1)

LG110Goreau_Side1

Goreau, Laurraine

Sellers, John, 1924-1999
Beal, Elliot
Yancey, Richard

1973-01-13

2020-03-14
2020-03-14

Side 1: Interview with Brother John Sellers on 1973-01-13, continued from Tape ID: LG108. Side 2: Interview with Richard Yancey on 1973-07-16, in Miami, Florida, on the topic of movie scripts. Interview with Elliot Beal on 1973-07-19. Abstract for Sellers: [00:00–18:27] Continued from LG108Goreau_Side1, Sellers discusses Jackson's fallout with John Hammond, who purportedly said that Jackson was only interested in money. Sellers discusses his relationship with Hammond, the musicians and executives at Vanguard Records in 1959, and his reluctance to speak about the details of their fallout. They go on to discuss Bess Berman and other Apollo record executives – 13:40 and speak about Jackson's fallout with Johnny Miles – 15:03. The interview ends with discussion about musicians on the program with Jackson at Carnegie Hall, and her relationship with Evelyn Gaye – 17:03.

18 min., 29 sec.

sound recording

Audio

interviews

Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, Tulane University Special Collections

Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059

https://archives.tulane.edu/

Music trade

Nineteen fifties

Tulane University Digital Library

eng

HJA059_LG110_1.mp3

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This recording was digitized in 2020 as part of a Recordings at Risk grant funded project administered by CLIR, "Tell the real story of me": Mahalia Jackson and Black Gospel Quartets in the South.

LG110 Interviews: Brother John Sellers; Richard Yancey; Elliot Beal, Laurraine Goreau collection, HJA-059, Tulane University Special Collections, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.

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