Pearl Bailey Collection
Span: 1944-1989
Bulk: 1950s-1970s
English
collection
62 boxes
African American entertainer, Pearl Bailey, gained fame for her work in Broadway, cabaret, and Hollywood as vocalist, dancer and actress. Bailey's humorous, sultry, slurred delivery livened up many a standard, including "Baby It's Cold Outside" and her only hit, "Takes Two to Tango." Although there is no sheet music included with the Bailey deposit, arrangements of some of her performance pieces are included with the Louis Bellson materials, Mr. Bellson being the donor of the Bailey materials. Bailey's life and career is chronicled in sound recordings, newsclippings, and photographs and memorabilia.
Sound recordings (misc. cassettes), photos (loose and bound in photo albums), scrapbooks, memorabilia, honors & awards, books, realia.
Transfer of recorded sound formats expected.
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Pearl Bailey Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Bailey, Pearl
Papers, photos and recordings of the unique entertainer and singer.
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African American Music
American Musical Theater
Dance
Jazz
Women in the Performing Arts
Bailey, Pearl
Bellson, Louis
Calloway, Cab
Gershwin, George
Gershwin, Ira
Hayes, Edgar
Redman, Don
Sissle, Noble
Williams, Cootie
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
IHAS
110201
loc.natlib.scdb.200033687