Particularly highlights the female "Classic Blues" singers of the 1920s and 1930s. Over 1,800 78-rpm discs document the early commercial recordings of blues, jazz, and popular American songs. His wife of 47 years, Gladys, died in 1994. He also had a three-year war service record, serving in the U.S.
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In 1945, he began a 30-year professional career in the advertising business, eventually serving as a longtimeĪccount executive at Doyle Dane Bernbach Advertising Agency of New York City, handling many local and national accounts, including An emendated soft-cover edition was published in 1981 and is presently in its In the classics of blues literature category. Handy Award" in 1981 as the outstanding blues book of the year and in 1983 won its "Blues Hall of Fame Award"
It won the Memphis Blues Foundation's "Nationalīlues Music W.C. Of the blues and is now considered the prime reference source in the field. The 775-page work listed detailed biographical facts on 571 of the most noted singers in the history
Presented live concerts at the International Center in New York.Īfter almost 20 years of research, his bookīlues Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers was published in 1979. Schools and universities as well as community and student centers, clubs and private social groups. Related music at Rutgers University, Alfred University, Jersey City State, Brooklyn College and Queens College, among other Jazz & Pop Magazine, a national publication, writing feature stories, critiques, record and book reviews. Serving as a volunteer secretary until its transfer to Rutgers University in 1966. Stearns at New York Institute of Jazz Studies, As an after-hours interest, he attended extended jazz and blues history and appreciationĬlasses during the late 1940s at New York University and the New School for Social Research, New York, under the direction His interest in jazz and blues began asĪ record collector in the 1930s. Williams Library, The University of Mississippiīorn in Cleveland, Ohio, Sheldon Harris was raised and educated in New York City. Sheldon Harris Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D.