Contents

Collection Summary

Scope and Content Note

Organization of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers

Selected Search Terms

Correspondence

Administrative Papers

Publications, Non-Music

Miscellaneous

Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers

Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress

2006

Scope and Content Note

On September 25, 1941, the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation announced the appointment of a Sub-committee on Music, formed to advise the Army, Navy and Marine Corps on all matters pertaining to musical activities within military camps and reservations during and after World War II (1941 to 1946). The Sub-committee was also to aid in coordinating plans for musical entertainment of the soldiers in the communities outside the camps and stations. Dr. Harold Spivacke, chief of the Music Division at the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1972, was named as the chairman. This collection consists of the working papers of the Sub-committee.

In addition, the collection contains some related materials that were given to the Library of Congress Music Division on June 24, 1943, by the Industrial Service Division, Bureau of Public Relations, War Department, Washington, D.C. Before the collection was processed these War Department materials, which were designated "for War Collection, Music Division," were interfiled among the Sub-committee's papers.

The bulk of the collection consists of an alphabetically arranged correspondence and subject file. Present are letters from original members of the sub-committee including Fred Birnbach, Secretary of the American Federation of Musicians; C. V. Buttelman, Executive Secretary of the Music Educators National Conference; music publisher, Harry Fox; and Noble Sissle, President of the Negro Actors Guild of America, Inc. In addition, there are copies of letters to such well-known musical personalities of the era as Aaron Copland, Leonard Feist, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Jerome Kern, Erich Leinsdorf, Alan Lomax and Walter Toscanani. A sub-series of correspondence addressed to member publishing companies of the Music Publishers' Protective Association, Harry Fox, General Manager, from servicemen requesting complimentary sheet music, is included in the collection. Of special interest are the lists of best selling recordings during the war years and a collection of "Army Hit Kits," pamphlet-size song books that were distributed to servicemen.

Original file folder identification and filing order as maintained by Sub-committee staff has been preserved in the processing of this collection.

Jerry Pietrosewicz, TechnicianRobert Saladini, Music SpecialistJune 1993

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Selected Search Terms

People

• Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990--Correspondence.
• Feist, Leonard, 1910-1996--Correspondence.
• Hammerstein, Oscar, 1895-1960--Correspondence.
• Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945--Correspondence.
• Leinsdorf, Erich, 1912-1993--Correspondence.
• Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002--Correspondence.
• Spivacke, Harold, 1904-1977.
• Toscanini, Walter, 1898-1971--Correspondence.

Organizations

• United States. Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation.Sub-Committee on Music.
• United States. War Dept.Bureau of Public Relations.Industrial Service Division.

Subjects

• Musicians--United States--Correspondence.
• World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war.

Titles

• Papers of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music 1941-1946

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Organization of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers

The Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers are organized into four series:

• Correspondence
• Administrative papers
• Publications, non-music
• Miscellaneous

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Container List

Correspondence

The Correspondence series is represented by two subseries: General Correspondence ; Music Publishers Protective Association.

Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.

General correspondence

Aaron, Henry

Aaronson, Arthur

Academy of Vocal Arts

Adair, Thomas

Ager, Yellen, & Bornstein

Ahern, J. L.

Allen, Warren D.

American Amplifier Company

American Library Association Carl H. Milam, Exec. Secretary

American Red Cross

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers

Anderson, Dwight

Anderson, Florence

Anderson, Miss Katherine

Angell, Richard

Archive of American Folk Song in the Library of Congress

Arensburg, Charles C.

Arkus, Frederick

Armed Forces Institute

Armed Forces Master Records Inc.

Armed Forces Music Contest

Army Bands

Army Air Forces

Army Education Branch, Morale Services Division

"Army Hit Kit"

Army Library Service

Army Music School Plan

Army Specialist Corps

Army Song Book

Asbury, Eugene K.

Associated Glee Clubs of America

Australia

Babbitt, Milton Byron

Bachman, Harold

Bader, Albert E.

Bain, Wilfred C.

Bainum, Glenn C.

Baldwin, Joseph S.

Ball, Robert

Band leader requirements

Band Training Units. Camp Lee, Virginia. Camp Crowder, Missouri

Bank, Theodore P.

Barber, Samuel

Barlow, Samuel

Barrett, Herbert

Barry, David S. Colonel

Bartholomew, Marshall

Barton, Walter E.

Barzin, Leon

Bauer, Marion

Baughman, C. C.

Baughman, Fred C.

Beattie, John W.

Beck, Sydney

Becker, John J.

Beckett, Wheeler

Benbow, Spencer D.

Benditzky

Bennett, Harold H.

Bernstein, Louis

Bernstein, Martin

Bingham, J. R.

Birnbach, Fred W.

Blake, Whitney

Bolte, Brown

Bond, H. M.

Books for the Adult Blind

Books on Music

Boutwell, William

Boyd, James

Braslavsky, S. G. Secy., Victory Concerts Committee, Boston, MA

Brendler, Charles

Brent, Earl

Bricken, Carl

British Broadcasting Corporation

Bronson, Howard C.

Brown, Mrs. Fanny

Brown, Francis

Bruinsma, Henry A.

Bryson, Lyman

Budget of Fort Bragg project (Bartholomew and Knapp)

Burkat, Leonard

Burris-Meyer, Harold

Burton, Robert R.

Busch, Mrs. Adolf

Buttleman, C. V.

Byrnes, Mrs. Eugene

Cable, Mrs. Arthur G.

Callahan, Leonard D.

Campbell, George W.

Campbell, Milt D.

Camp Lee, Virginia

Camp Murphy, Florida

Canby, Edward T.

Canterbury, Lewis B.

Capitol Radio Wholesalers

Capitol Records, Inc.

Cappel, C. C.

Capra, Frank

Carnegie Corporation

Carpenter, Alfred

Carson, Leon

Carter Alan

Casaday, Virgil P.

Catalogs of Phonograph Records

Chabe, Alex

Chalmers, Godron K.

Chamberlain, Miss Betty

Chase, Richard

"Cheers from the Camps"

Chenette, Clate

Chenette, Ed

Child, Charles J.

China

Choate, Seth T.

Christian Commission for Camp and Defense Communities

Clair, Francis S.

Clarke, Eric Metropolitan Opera Association

Coast Guard

Coats, R. Roy

Cohen, Philip

Collections for Instrumental Groups

Collections of songs, List of Collections (by Goldman)

Committee for National Morale

Community singing

Copland, Aaron

Craig Field, Selma, Alabama

Crane, A. B. (Lt. Col.)

Crocker, Samuel E. M.

Crosby, Harry Lillis ("Bing")

Cummings USN retired, Commander John W. W.

Curtis, Louis W.

Cushing, Commander D. B.

Damrosch, Walter

Dana, Richard H.

Darby, T. E.

Darcy, Thomas F.

David, Leon T.

Davis, Mrs. B. S. L.

Decca Records, Inc.

de Paul, Leonard

Diercks, Louis H.

Directory of United States Government Films

Dolgorukov, Gregory S.

Dollard, Charles

Douglas, Walter G.

Downes, Olin

Downes, Mrs. Olin

Drake, Mrs. Florence L.

Drumm, S. L.

Dugan, Jimmy

Dunham, Franklin

Durán, Gustavo

Edgar, Alvin R.

Education Handbook for Regimental Morale and Recreation Officers, U. S. Army

Elkus, Albert

Embassy Music Corporation

Engel, Lehman

Erb, John Warren

Erlandson, Ray S.

Ervin, Mrs. Marguerite

Evans, Miss Druscilla

Evans, Edward

Farnham, Robert M.

Faullin, Mrs. B. C.

Federal Radio Education Committee

Federal Works Agency Works Project Administration (George Foster correspondence)

Feist, Leonard

Fiedler, Arthur

Film Catalog, 1943

Finney, Ross Lee

Finston, Nat

Fischer, Alfred A.

Fischler, William

Fisher, James W.

Fitch, W. S.

Fort Belvoir recording project

Fosdick, Raymond B

Foster, Georgesee: Federal Works Agency Works Project Administration

Foulkes, Robert H.

Fox, Harry, 1945

Fox, Homer S.

Franco, Johan

Fraser, John C.

Free Library of Philadelphia

Freeman, Miss Carolyn R.

Freeman Field, Seymour, Indiana

Fremont-Smith, Frank

Fuleihan, Anis

Friewald, Belmont

Frye, Allen

Fuchs, Joseph

Futterman, Harry, 1945

Gabrielsen, M.

Gannett, Mrs. Guy P.

Gelrud, Paul

Gellert, Lawrence

German, Francis

Gewehr, Hamilton D.

Gifts for service men

Glaister, Mrs. Agnes C.

Glazer, David

Glover, Ernest N.

Godfrey, Mrs. Stuart C.

Goldberg, Albert L.

Goldstein, Mrs. Julius

Gomberg, Robert A.

Goranson, Arthur R.

Gottlieb, Victor

Goss, Miss Doris

Gottschalk, Nathan

Grant, Richard W.

Green, J. C.

Greene, Leonard

Greenfield, Arthur M.

Grey, Charles C.

Grolle, Johann

Grosbayne, Benjamin

Guide for Army Song Leaders

Gurney, Chan

Gwynn, Henry B.

Hall, David

Hall & McCreary Company

Hammerstein, Oscar, 2nd

Hansen, Peter S.

Hanson, Howard

Harper, Fowler V.

Harper, Hames C.

Harris, Roy

Hartmann, Arthur

Hathaway, Charles

Haydon, Glen

Heiberg, Alf

Heim, Fritz

Heininger, Robert M.

Helfer, Walter

Henry, E. G.

Hesselbach, Mrs. Hugo

Hetrick, Mrs. O. W.

Hindsley, Mark

Hirsch, Stefan

Hittenmark, Gordon

Hodgson, Hugh

Holton, J. B.

Holtz, Fred A.

Holtzmann, Fanny E.

Hospers, Jackson

Hovland, Carl I.

Howard, George S.

Howard, John Tasker

Hoyle, R. E. D.

Humphreys, Arthur

Humphreys, Dick

Hunt, Arthur Billings

Hunter, George H.

Illingworth, Chester

Ingebretsen, James C.

Ives, Mrs. Charles E.

Jacob, C. Albert, Jr.

Jacobs, Randall

James, Philip

Johnson, Harold E.

Johnson, Thor

Joint Army and Navy Sub-Committee on Welfare and Recreation

Jones, Archie N.

Jones, John R.

Jordan, Joseph

Josephy, Alvin M. Jr.

Katims, Milton

Kayze, Louis

Kemp, Matty

Kendall, Raymond

Kent, Harold W.

Keppel, Francis

Kern, Jerome

Kerr, F. R.

Kerr, Harrison

Kindler, Hans

King, Mrs. Charles Grant

King, Wayne

Kinsley, Simeon

Kirchhoff, Richard L.

Kirksmith, Carl

Kizis, Frank

Kliger, Paul

Knapp, J. Merrill

Knopf, Alfred A., Inc.

Knuth, William E.

Koch, Frederick D.

Kraft, Elwood H.

Kratt, Theodore

Kucinski, Leo

Kuersteiner, Karl O.

Kulp, Blaine

Kutener, Luis

Lamb, George H. H.

Landers, A. A.

LaPrade, Ernest

Laupe, Sylvain R.

Lawrence, Miss Gertrude

Lawson, David T.

Lawton, Mrs. Dorothy

Leathem, Barclay S.

Lebendiger, Enrique

Lederman, Miss Minna

Leinsdorf, Erich

Leonard, Clair

Leuning, Otto

Lewinson, Paul

Lewis, Thomas H. A.

Library of Congress band classification

Licht, Sidney

Lichtenwanger, William C.

Lieberson, Goddard

Liepmann, Klaus

Lindgren, Carl

Lipkin, Arthur Bennett

List of 100 records

Lomax, Alan

Losey, Joseph

Louchheim, Henry S.

Loventhal, W. F.

McAllister, A. R.

McAllister, Forrest L.

McArthur, Edwin

McClosky, Blair

McConathy, Osbourne

McDonald, Harl

McFarlan, Mrs. W. L.

McGrath, Earl J.

MacKinnon, Douglas A.

Maganini, Quinto

Magriel, Paul

Mann, Robert

Marine Corps [U. S.]

Marks, Edward B. Music Corporation

Mariner, Guy V. R.

Marvin, Lloyd

Maynard, James E.

Mear, S. E.

Meltzer, Edward

Meyers, Emerson

Micallef, Raymond H.

Military and patriotic music project

Miller, Arthur H.

Miller, Frank

Miller, Glenn

Miller, Philip L.

Miller, Mrs. Ada Holding

Mininberg, Ian

Monroe, Lucy

Moody Field, Valdosta, Georgia

Moore, Earl

Moore, E. R

Morgan, Russell V.

Morgan, Sherley W.

Morrissey, John J.

Mowe, Homer G.

Mueller, Harold

Müller, J. Frederick

Multer, W. L.

Murphy, Albert J.

Murray, Lyn

Mursell, James L.

Music Education Conference, June 29-30, 1944, undated

"Music in the Armed Forces"

Music Library Association

Music Library for the camps [a list]

Music Officers

Music Publisher's Journal

Music Publisher's Holding Corporation

Music Publisher's Protective Association Phonograph records

Music Publisher's Protective Association Shee Music

Music Teacher's National Association Subject: Participation of military and naval personnel [ASTP & V-12] in musical activities on college campuses.

Music War Council of America

Musical Courier

Musical periodicals of the United States

Musicians in the Army

Musicians Mutual Protective Association

NBC Summer Series

Nagle, William S.

National Catholic Community Service

National Federation of Music Clubs

National Music Council

National Theatre Conference

National Foundation of Musical Therapy

Navy [U.S.]

Navy School of Music [U.S.]

Navy Songbook

Navy Songbook (Harry Fox)

New York Times

New York University

Nickel, L. F.

North, Alex

Nutt, H. E.

Oahu Publishing Company

Obear, Legare

Ober, Mrs. Vincent [Julia Fuqua]

Occupational brief No. 32

Odegard, Peter H.

Offers of service from civilians

Office of Defense, Health and Welfare Services

Oftedahl, Einar C.

O'Hara, Geoffrey

Osborne, F. H.

O'Shea, M. V. Jr.

Otterstein, Adolph W.

Page, Arthur W.

Pantner, Mrs. Elsa

Pappi, Eugene

Park, Mrs. Zoa Pearl

Parker, Frank N.

Parrish, Carl

Pennington, George E.

Pennington, Pearl

Pensacola Naval Air Station

Pepper, George

Personnel Placement Questionnaires

Pictures

Piermont, Benjamin

Pilcher, Lewis S.

Pitts, Miss Lilla Belle

Posselt, Eric

Pratt, Carroll C.

Prescott, Gerald R.

President's War Relief Control Board

Price, William H.

Public relations releases, War Department

Puner, Paul

Purga, Adelbert

Quick, Captain Robert

Quinn, Kathleen Lieutenant

Quinto, O. Leonard

Radio Guide for Public Relations Officers

Raney, William S.

Ray, Nicholas

Recordings of service men's musical compositions

Records For Our Fighting Men, Inc.

"Red, White and Blue Network"

Reese, Gustave

Reese, U. K.

Regimental Recreation Officers Guide, U. S. Army

Reis, Mrs. Claire R.

Report on Army Music in Camps-Posts-Stations

Research Branch, Morale Services Division [formerly a part of Special Services Division]

Reynolds, John L.

Richardson, Dean

Richman, Luther A.

Riker, Charles

Ringle, Dave

Roberts, Harry Bill

Rose, Jack

Rosenberry, M. Claude

Rosenwald, Hans

Ross, Gilbert

Ross, Sidney

Roth, Feri

Rozsa, Miklos

Rubinstein, Beryl

Rubsamen, W. H.

Ruskay, Burrill

Russell, John M.

Russell, Theodore

Sackas, John J.

Sackson, David

Sagalyn, Arnold J.

Saidenberg, Daniel

Salter, Harry

Sanders, Robert L.

Santelmann, William F.

Scheide, William H.

Schenkman, Edgar

Schenkman, Irvin

Schmidt, Harold

Schneider, George G.

Schner, Barbara

Schubert, Bernard L.

Schulhof, Andrew

Schullian, Miss Dorothy M.

Schuman, William

Science Service

Scott, E. H. Radio Laboratories Incorporated

Seabury, Mrs. Mortimer

Search, Frederick Preston

Seeger, Charles

Seeger, Peter

Selective Service System

Self-teaching courses in the field of music, suggestions for

Selman Field, Monroe, Louisiana

Selz, Lawrence H.

Severtson, T. S.

Seymour, Harold J.

Shanet, Howard S.

Shapiro, Elliot

Sharpe, Norvelle W.

Shavitch, Vladimir

Shaw Field, Sumter, South Carolina

Shay, Philip Wendell

Sheffield, Vernon

Sheinfeld, David

Shimer, Miss Alma K.

Shosteck, Robert

Shumsky, Oscar

Sibley, Harper

Sillerman, Michael M.

Sinclair, Mrs. Amy

Sissle, Noble

Skornicka, Joseph E.

Smith, Carlton Sprague

Smith, Fred

Smith, Henry Lee

Snapp, Roscoe R.

Song leaders [Army] during the last world war

Song Lyrics Incorporated

Sonkin, Robert

Souvaine, Henry

Spalding, Albert

Spalding, Charles Sumner

Spaulding, Francis T.

Spaulding, William E.

Special Service School

Special Service Units

Special Services Division

Spivacke, Charles A.

Stackhouse, David L.

Stacy, King G.

Stapleton, Erle

Stebbins, Barton A.

Stein, Jules

Sterling, P. R.

Stern, Jack

Stewart, E. Louise

Stoessel, Albert

Stokowski, Leopold

Strickland, William

Stringer, Ronald

Stroube, Walter A.

Sub-committee on Athletics of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation

Sub-committee on Education of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation

Sub-committee on Music of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation

Sub-committee on Religious Activities of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation

Sub-committee on Singing of the Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation

Surgeon General

Swarthout, Donald M.

Swartley, Lloyd F.

Swift, Frederic Fay

Syria

Taaffe, Florence

Raft, Charles P.

Toubman, Howard

Talbert, Wendell P.

Taylor, Davidson

Taylor, Mrs. Estelle T.

Taylor, Lloyd E.

Teta, A. R.

Thaviu, Samuel

Thayer, Lynn W.

Thurmond, James

Tibbett, Lawrence

Todd, Charles H.

Todd, Charles L.

Toscanini, Walter

Town Hall - New York City

Training Center for the Bandsmen

Trautman, Ray L.

Treasury Department

Tuthill, Burnet C.

Tuttle, G. P.

Types of Music for Service Camps

United Services Organizations, Inc. [general]

United Services Organization, Inc. [general], cont.

United Services Organization, Inc., Bulletin

United Services Organization, Inc., Monthly Reports

United Services Organization, Inc., Camp Shows, Inc.

United Services Organization, Inc., Weekly Reports

Uhl, Richard

Van de Wall, Wilhelm

Van Surdam, H. E.

Vassau, Vivian

Veale, Frank M.

Wagner, Oscar

Wagner, W. W.

War Production Board

Warburg, Frederick

Warburg, Gerald

Ward, Arthur E.

Waring, Fred and His Pennsylvanians

Warren, Mrs. John

Watrous, Livingston

Watters, L. E.

Watters, William I.

Wecker, Karl

Wedge, George A.

Weeks, H. A.

Weigel, Eugene J.

Weiss, Bob

Welch, Roy D.

White, William Braid

Wiesner, Jerome B.

Wilhousky, Peter J.

Williamson, Hugh

Wilson, Harry R.

Wolf, Mrs. Charles

Wolf, Hans

Work, Martin

Works, George A.

World Book Company

Wotawa, E. J.

Wulsin, Lucien

Young, Marvin

Young, Paul Howard

Young, Victor

Yount, Mrs. Barton K. [Mildred]

Zanzig, A. D.

Zeisler, Leonard

Zeisler, Peter B.

Ziegfeld, Edwin H.

Ziman, Edmund

Zinsser, Hans

Zobel, Edgar H.

Zook, George Frank

Music Publishers' Protective Association

Advanced Music

ABC Music

Bernstein Company and Yeller Ager

Berlin Music

Braun Music Company

Chappell Company

Crawford Music

Connelly Dash, Incorporated

Famous Music

Leo Feist

Fillmore Music House

Sam Fox

Gershwin Music

Handy Music Company

Harms Incorporated

Jewel Music

Kay and Kay Publishing Company

Edward B. Marks Music Corporation

Mayfair Music

Melody Lane Publishers

Mercer and Morris Incorporated

E. H. Morris and Company

Miller Music Company

Music Publishing Corporation

Mutual Music Society Incorporated

Paramount Music Corporation

Remick Music Corporation

Charles Rinker Music Publishing Company

Robbins Music

Shepherd Music Corporation

Santly-Joy Select, Incorporated

Southern Music Publishing Corporation, Incorporated

Twentieth Century Music Corporation

Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Corporation

Clarence Williams Music Publishing Company

Witmark & Sons

Various publishing companies

Various lists of requestors

Administrative Papers

The Administrative Papers series consists of meeting minutes, memorandas and various lists.

Arranged by topic.

Minutes of Meetings

Memoranda, reports

Lists

Publications, Non-Music

The Publications, Non-Music series consists of various non-music publications.

Arranged by topic.

Army Navy Opinion Surveys

Music

Miscellaneous

The Miscellaneous series consists of assorted items.

Arrangement is by format.

Miscellaneous materials

Miscellaneous materials