Special Collections and Archives Finding Aids

Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...

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The Dr. E. Grey Dimond and Mary Clark Dimond China Files contains correspondence, documents, and research materials related to the Dimonds advocacy efforts to bridge relations between the United States and China in the 1970s and 1980s. Their papers include correspondence and documents related to planning and initiating tour groups in China.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This record group series contains University of Kansas City and University of Missouri--Kansas City theses and dissertations published between 1940 and 2019. Theses and dissertations stored onsite pertain to Kansas City and regional history, arts, and culture, and oversized volumes. The majority of theses and dissertations are stored offsite.Please note that there are theses and dissertations available to check out via the UMKC University Libraries online catalog at ...

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Armed Forces Radio Service. Track listing: Wide Blue Yonder -- No. 1 in the Books -- Don't You Know I Care -- Sweet and Lovely -- Great Day -- There Goes that Song Again -- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes -- Don't Fence Me In -- Don't Sweetheart Me.

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Armed Forces Radio Service.

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Armed Forces Radio Service. Track listing: Cherokee -- Always -- Begin the Beguine -- If I Knew Then What I Know Now -- Panama -- Embraceable You -- Exactly Like You -- In a Little Spanish Town -- Basin Street Blues.

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Armed Forces Radio Service. Track listing: Swingin' On a Star -- Takin' My Time.

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Armed Forces Radio Service. U.S. Navy Pre-Flight Orchestra of St. Mary's College.

Scope and Contents Tracklist: Artist Title 1 Louis Jordan/Saturday Night Fish Fry 2 Yank Rachell/Do the Boogie Mama 3 Blue Boys/Memphis Stomp 4 Knocky Parker/Knocky-Knocky 5 Walter Trout/Danger Zone 6 Allman Brothers Band/One Way Out 7 Elmore James/Look On Yonder Wall 8 Carol Fran/Emmitt Lee 9 Katie Webster/Sea of Love 10 Donna Angelle/Let's Do It Again 11 Rick Estrin/Lucky You 12 Jody Williams/Lucky Lou 13 Delbert McClinton/Everytime I Roll the Dice 14 Isley Brothers/Shake It With Me...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains recordings of interviews with Duke Ellington band members, live performances around the world, the Sacred Concert Performance at the National Presbyterian Church in 1970, rehearsals, and radio broadcasts. This series also holds recordings of Harold Ashby performing with many other jazz musicians, such as Ben Webster, Jay McShann, Randy Yonk, Jim Galloway, Johnny Hodges, Buddy Tate, Rufus Reid, Emma Jean, Connie Day, Richard Wyand, Dick Katz, Roland Kirk, Paul Gonsalves, Tim Price,...

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War Department. Track listing: Just Kidding Around -- Concita, Marcheta, Lolita, ect. -- Skylark -- Strip Polka -- Embraceable You -- It Ain't Nothing -- String of Pearls -- Please.

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War Department. Track listing: Elks Parade -- One Dozen Roses -- Let There Be Love -- Song of Freedom -- Stardust -- Night and Day -- Cow Cow Boogie -- Scramble Two -- He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings.

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War Department. Track listing: I'm in the Army Now -- My Extraordinary Gal -- Instrumental -- Some of These Days -- Tweedle-O-Twill -- Humoresque -- You're a Heavenly Thing -- March of the Paper Doll -- Jingle, Jangle, Jingle.

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Composer: Gershwin, George/Lyricist: unknown/Arranger: Helm, Mornay D./Publisher: Irving Berlin Inc./Publishing Place: New York, NY

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Composer: Livernash, Will L./Lyricist: unknown/Arranger: Alford, Harry L./Publisher: Will Livernash Music Co./Publishing Place: Kansas City, MO

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Frank Messina and the Mavericks; Side A : Called by Fenton "Jonesy" Jones; Square Dance with Call

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Composer: Cohan, George M./Lyricist: unknown/Arranger: Weirick, Paul/Publisher: George M. Cohan Music Pub. Co., Inc/Publishing Place: New York, NY

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Grenn Incorporated, Akron, Ohio, Recorded at Audio Recording Studios, 1406 East 6th Street, Cleveland, Ohio

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Contained in Box 5, and Box 6, Folders 1-8; Includes many newspaper clippings and photocopies of newspaper clippings related to Thomson, as well as some longer articles (1941-1984).

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This series is part of Addendum 1 and consists of additional scripts dating 1930-1980. Materials are located in box 21, folders 41-53.

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The Dr. E. Grey Dimond and Mary Clark Dimond China Files contains correspondence, documents, and research materials related to the Dimonds advocacy efforts to bridge relations between the United States and China in the 1970s and 1980s. Their papers include correspondence and documents related to planning and initiating tour groups in China.

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Performers: Bill Murray; Year of release from Indestructible and U.S. Everlasting Cylinders: An Illustrated History and Cylinderography; Kurt Nauck and Allan Sutton Male vocals

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The audiovisual materials in this collection consists of many live recordings of renown jazz musicians playing in the Kansas City area and surrounding region, including Jay McShann, Pat Metheney, Clark Terry, Zoot Simms, Woody Herman, Barney Kessel, and Ella Fitzgerald, among other legends. The collection also consists of jazz festival recordings, including the Mid-America Jazz Festival, Wichita Jazz Festival, Jazz Olympics, and the Kansas City Women's Jazz Festival.

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Composer: Holden, Sidney; Frankl, Abe/Lyricist: unknown/Arranger: Van Loan, Paul/Publisher: Irving Berlin Inc./Publishing Place: New York, NY