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Francis Craig Collection:
Boxes 1 - 3

Box 1

Series I. General

1. Correspondence – Outgoing – 2 letters – April 28, 1944; Sept. 19, 1947
2. Correspondence - Incoming – Barton, Margaret – Craig, Robert J. (father) (9 letters)
3. Correspondence – Incoming – Crooker, Herbert – Tanberg, Frances Hill (9 letters)
4. Correspondence – Donia Craig Dickerson, outgoing Sept. 24, 1988; and incoming from Pee Wee Marquette, 1994
5. Personal and Biographical – items from 1919, 1937, 1948, 1951, 1960, n.d.
6. Personal and Biographical – Memorabilia, 1941 – 42, 1948, 1951, n.d.
7. Publicity Flyers, c. 1947 – 48
8. Hermitage Hotel – Donation of Memorabilia, 1981, includes correspondence, invitations, menus, guest lists
9. Lawsuit, 1953, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Thelma Hester Jones, Appellant vs. Francis Craig, Appellee
10. Radio Scripts, 1947
11. Seventh Infantry Bayonet Division, 1960; History, letter, and words to the song “Arirang”

Series II. Newspaper Clippings and Publications

12. About Francis Craig [1930], 1937, 1945 – 48, 1952, 1955, 1961, 1965, 1977, 1986, 1990, 1991

[1930] Re: stay in Rockies for health ( 2 items)
February 7, 1937 – “Music Master is Maker of Magic,” Birmingham News-Age-Herald (2 copies)
April 20, 1937 – “Nick Kenny Speaking . . .” Daily Mirror (place unknown)
May 23, 1937 – “Francis Craig Piping Majors Up from Dixie,” New York Enquirer
June 7, 1945 – “Nashville Profile” [of Craig] by Mary Jane Brooks, Nashville Banner
March 7, 1946 – “Francis Craig to Play Dance Here April 4,” Union City Daily [Advance?]
June 15, 1946 – “Craig Band Broadcasts From Here,” The Cherry Point Wind Sock [NC]
1947 – “Near You’s Author Tells How It’s Done,” by Lib Wiley, Lynchburg, Virginia [paper unknown]
September 11, 1947 – “Newsweek Honors Craig” Nashville Banner
October 17, 1947 – “Screen Reviews” by Prunella Hall, Boston Post
October 19, 1947 – “Corny Arrangement Leads Musician to Jackpot with Top Platter Seller,” Mobile Press Register
October 24, 1947 – “State Presents Francis Craig” Hartford Times
October 29, 1947 – “ Top O’ the Morning” Nashville Tennessean
December 20, 1947 – “Vaudeville Reviews – Loew’s State, NY” Variety
March 4, 1948 – “In this Corner,” by Cedric Adams, Minneapolis Star
April 24, 1948 – “Box Office Barometer,” Billboard Personal Appearances Supplement
May 3, 1948 – “In this Corner,” by Cedric Adams, Minneapolis Star
May 26, 1948 – “Francis Craig Impresses Folk Here as Southern Gentleman,” Paducah Sun Democrat (2 copies )
March 23, 1952 – “Francis Craig to be Honored . . .” by Frank Sartwell, Jr. Washington Sunday Star
August 27, 1955 – “ I Remember . . .” Nashville Banner ( 3 copies)
July 2, 1961 – “Now and Then with Nashville Music Men,” by Pat Anderson, Nashville Tennessean
February 16, 1967 – “Big-Time Composer Visiting in Naples,” [Naples, Florida] Collier County News
March 20, 1977 – “ ‘Near You’ Still on Top After All These Years,” by Laura Eipper, Nashville Tennessean (9 copies)
[1986?] – “’Near You’ was Craig’s Lucky Accident,” Nashville Banner (3 originals and 4 photocopies)
August 20, 1990 – “Tennessee’s Musical Influence Great,” by Belden Menkus, Nashvile Tennessean

13. About Francis Craig, n.d.
14. Subject Files – Advertisements, n.d.
15. Subject Files – Hermitage Hotel, 1981, 1988
16. Subject Files – People – Bulleit, Jim, 1948, 1971
17. Subject Files – People – DeLuca, Gaetano, 1985
18. Subject Files – People – Hall, Jim, n.d.
19. Subject Files – People – Kerr, Anita, 1979
20. Subject Files – People – Lamm, Robert, 1972
21. Subject Files – People – Lansom, Snooky, 1990
22. Subject Files – People – Lenk, Walter Albert, n.d.
23. Subject Files – People – Marquette, Pee Wee, 1978, n.d.
24. Subject Files – People – McEwen, Red, n.d.
25. Subject Files – People – Melton, James, 1961, n.d.
26. Subject Files – Songs – “Beg Your Pardon” 1948
27. Subject Files – Songs – “Near You” 1947 – 48, 1971
28. Subject Files – Songs – other, 1979, n.d.
29. Subject Files – Vanderbilt University, 1933, 1946, 1948, 1967, other

Box 2

1. Subject Files – The Billboard, Jan. 3, 1948
2. Subject Files – Juke Box Record Review, September 1948
3. Subject Files – “Opryland: A Modern Musical Adventure,” April 15, 1972 in Billboard
4. Subject Files – WSM
5. Subject Files – Photographs and photo spreads (no articles), 1938, n.d.
6. Scrapbooks – photocopies – (1 of 3)
7. Scrapbooks – photocopies – (2 of 3)
8. Scrapbooks – photocopies – (3 of 3)

Series III. Sheet Music

9. “Beg Your Pardon”
10. “ A Broken Heart Must Cry” 1953
11. “Do Me a Favor, Will Ya?” 1948
12. “Fly Our Flag Forever” 1961
13. “Fly Our Flag Forever” (addition 3/11/08) with accompanying materials
14. “Foolin’” 1946
15. “I Thought I was Dreaming” 1937
16. “Lost Motion” 1938
17. “Near You” 1947
18. “Near You” foreign and other versions
19. “Put All Your Love in a Cookie Jar,” 1949
20. “Red Rose, “ 1937
21. “She’s a Bad Little Girl,” 1950
22. “Sometimes I Wonder,” 1945
23. “When Vandy Starts to Fight” 1941
24. “Won’t You Buy Some Girl Scout Cookies” 1957 [Manuscript]
25. Orchestrations “Lost Motion”
26. Orchestrations “The Nashville Banner March”

Box 3

1. Orchestrations “Red Rose”
2. Orchestrations “When Vandy Starts to Fight” (the Dynamite Song) [w/manuscript]
3. Other composers (featuring Francis Craig), 1926, 1930, 1936-38, 1940-41

“Boo Hoo,” 1937
“Day Dreaming,” 1941
“Dear Diary,” 1936
“Don’t Take the Sweet Out of Sweetheart,” 1936
“Hula Blues,” 1939
“I Hear Bluebirds,”1940
“I Still Get A Thrill,” 1930
“In the Chapel in the Moonlight,” 1936
“Let Me Dream of Havana,” 1935
“The Little Old-Fashioned Music Box,” 1924

4. Other composers (featuring Francis Craig), 1926, 1930, 1936 -38, 1940-41

“Moon Over Burma” 1940
“On a Little Dream Ranch,” 1937
“Polka Dots and Moonbeams,” 1940
“Shame on You,” 1937
“Something Seems to Tell Me,” [date ?] – fragment
“Sweetheart Let’s Grow Old Together”
“Taint Good,” 1936
“Talking to the Moon,” 1926
“There’s a Far-Away Look in Your Eye,” 1938

Series IV. Photographs

Number in parentheses ( ) indicates the number of photographs in the file.

5. Francis Craig (1) 1931
6. Francis Craig (5) n.d.
7. Billboard (1) n.d..
8. Billy Schaeffer and Cecil Bailey, (1) n.d..
9.“Burns Birds” Bill Burns (1) n.d.
10.“Burns Birds” and Irene Burns (1) n.d.
11. FC w/ Cosmopolitan Hotel Personnel (1) 1932
12. Dancers –Unidentified (2) n.d.
13. “Flying to Cherry Point, NC” (2) 1946
14. Freddy Martin and Francis Craig (1) n.d.
15. FC w/ his mascot “Pee Wee” (2) 1932
16.James Barton (1) n.d.
17.Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats (1) 1948
18.Jim Lownsbury and Francis Craig (1) n.d.
19.Lander and Holland (1) Dec. 7, 1947
20.Marjorie and James Melton’s Wedding (1) n.d.
21.Mrs. Lupton, “This is Your Life” (1) Fall, 1953, Clarksville, Tennessee
22. Photograph postcards – FC –blank (6) n.d.
23. Photograph postcards – orchestra (1) 1949 (to Mrs. Buford Dickerson)
24. Ray Thortun and Francis Craig (1) n.d.
25. Ray Brown and Francis Craig (1) September, 1955
26. Tex Beneke and Francis Craig (1) 1948
27. Tours (4) n.d. Vaudeville, Loew’s State Marquee; Billboard, location unknown; Window display, location unknown
28. Unidentified (2) n.d.
29. Washington, D.C. Tour (7) 1948
30. w/Bob and Florence Lamm (1) n.d.
31. w/Group (1) n.d. Florence and Bob Lamm; Jean Brown; Ray Brown; Pat Tiffault; Fergee; Junie Ferguson
32. w/Olee Elrick and Jack Owens (1) n.d.
33. w/Orchestra (3) n.d.
34. w/Orchestra and Dancers (1) n.d.
35. w/Orin Remsnyder and Marion Woodward (2) n.d. Christmas Booth; Gift for disabled veterans
36. w/Others at the piano (3) n.d.
37. w/Unidentified Group (3) n.d.
38. w/Unidentified Man (2) n.d.
39. w/Unidentified Woman (2) n.d.
40. Negatives (2) n.d. w/Snooky Lansom on Trumpet in VU Gym; w/Dinah Shore

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