Guide to the Jim Cullum Collection
ARS036
Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst
Archive of Recorded Sound
Braun Music Center
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Stanford University
Stanford, California, 94305-3076
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Jim Cullum Collection
Dates: 1942-2007
Dates: Bulk, 1961-1971
Collection number: ARS0036
Creator:
Cullum, Jim
Collection size:
35 boxes
: open reel tapes, audiocassettes, videocassettes, eight tracks, phonograph records, compact discs, etc.
Repository:
Archive of Recorded Sound
Abstract: The Happy Jazz Band was formed in 1962 by Jim Cullum with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. in San Antonio, Texas. Devoted to jazz
from between the World Wars, the Happy Jazz Band was perhaps the foremost exponent of Dixieland in the Southwest. Jim Cullum,
Jr. continued the band after his father passed as the Jim Cullum Jazz Band. The Jim Cullum collection consists of tape recordings
of the Happy Jazz Band and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and covers over thirty years of the band's performances. In addition,
the collection contains performances by other noteworthy performers including Jack Teagarden and Bobby Hackett, as well as
lesser known, but important jazz musicians from Texas, such as cornetist Garner Clark.
Language of Material: English
Access
Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for
assistance.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound.
Preferred Citation
Jim Cullum Collection, ARS-0036. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Source
The Jim Cullum Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Jim Cullum, Jr. in 2008.
Sponsor
This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Scope and Contents
The Jim Cullum Collection consists of audio and video recordings of traditional jazz revivalism in Texas. In 1962 Jim Cullum,
Sr., who had played clarinet professionally with Jack Teagarden, Jimmy Dorsey, Adrian Rollini and others in the 1930s and
40s, formed a seven-piece traditional jazz group in San Antonio, Texas with his son, Jim Cullum, Jr. on cornet, called the
Happy Jazz Band. After the senior Cullum's passing in 1973, the band continued under Jim's leadership as the Jim Cullum Jazz
Band. The group still plays today, and the collection contains compact discs and a DVD of recent recordings.
Among the thousand-plus tapes in the collection, Cullum chose to have digitally transferred certain reels he felt were of
the highest priority, highlighting undersung regional players such as cornetist (and family friend) Garner Clark and pianists
Peck Kelley and Son Harrell. In order to get a better sense of the collection's contents, these transferred tapes are listed
below. Other lesser known groups represented in the collection include the Bourbon Street Bums, the Dixie Ramblers, the Rubber
City Retreads, the Crawford-Ferguson Night Owls, and Johnny Wigs and Bayou Stompers. More familiar musicians, such as Jack
Teagarden, Bobby Hackett, Baby Dodds, Turk Murphy, and Knocky Parker, are also present.
A substantial portion of the collection belongs to performances by the Happy Jazz Band, including tape masters, live recordings,
and radio broadcasts on WOAI and WWL (many of which are remotes from The Landing, a San Antonio club which has hosted their
residency since they began). There are also interviews, including the Cullums on Voice of America in 1969, commercial releases
(almost all Happy Jazz and the JCJB), and dubbed copies of commercial releases. There is a paper contents listing available
at the Archive.
Transferred tapes
Selected tapes digitized by request of donor: Harold Duke Dejan's Olympia Brass Band: Explanation of Funeral Procession, etc.
1971 ; Son Harrell: Blues, Sweet Lorraine ; Bobby Hackett: Marko Piano Solo, Riverboat Shuffle, Shreveport Stomp, Winin' Boy
1972 ; Hackett: Westmoreland Weave, Everybody Loves My Baby, etc. 1972 ; Garner Clark no. 2 ; Son Harrell: Sweet Loraine;
Peck Kelly: You Took Advantage of Me, Body and Soul ; Garner Clark: How Come You Do Me, Angry, If I could Be with You 1953;
Hackett: Live at the Landing; Smile, Loss Butterfly, etc. 1972 ; Curtis Hurn ; Happy Jazz Band Rehearsal for record 1963 ;
Jim Cullum Jazz Band Central City, Colo. 1981 ; Terrace and Jim Cullum's Happy Jazz Band 1962 ; Garner Clark no. 22: Wolverine
Blues, Basin St. Blues 1953 ; Garner Clark no. 26: Tin Roof Blues, Jazz Me Blues, Royal Garden Blues 1951 ; Happy Jazz Band
& Paul Crawford: San Antonio Jazz Society 1962 ; Garner Clark with Chuck Carroll and James: White Rock Terrace 1953 ; Hackett:
Memphis Blues 1972 ; Hackett 1972 ; Hackett, Kevin Hess, Speed, Pryor, Mark 1972 ; Hackett and Happy Jazz Band: Strutting
with Some Barbecue, New Orleans, etc. 1972 ; Garner Clark and Terrance; Happy Jazz Band on Shadow Land 1962 ; Son Harrell:
Who's Sorry Now, When A Woman Loves a Man ; Happy Jazz Band; WOAI Live from the Landing 1964 ; Garner Clark no. 21: Muskrat
Ramble, Peg o' My Heart, Milenburg Joys 1953 ; Garner Clark no. 25: Jada, Ballin' the Jack, Da Da Strain 1951 ; Curtis Hurt,
Jim Cullum, CWR, Cliff Brewtin, Bob McClender ; Don Albert Recalls Music Of New Orleans - Southwest Jazz Foundation 1961 ;
Curtis Hurt, Garner Clark, Jim Cullum Sr., etc.: Put your Arms Around Me, Jazz Me Blues, etc. ; Garner Clark no. 4: Sister
Kate, Black and Blue, I Want to Be Happy, etc. 1953 ; Garner Clark no. 6: Wolverine Blues, Basin St. Blues, I Found a New
Baby, etc. 1951 ; Garner Clark no. 15: Ballin' the Jack, Ain't She Sweet, Jazz Band Ball 1953 ; Garner Clark and Mel Torme:
Tin Roof Blues, Boogie in C, etc. 1953 ; White Rock Terrace 1962 ; Bonnie and Geo. C. 1966 ; Mike Wallace Show ; Garner Clark
no. 28 at the VFW, Dallas: Fidgety Feet 1951 ; Jesse James, Jim Cullum Sr., Cliff Brewton, etc.: China Bay and Shine from
Record no. 2 1942 ; Teagarden: Dallas Jam Session.
Indexing Terms
Cullum, Jim, Sr.
Cullum, Jim
Happy Jazz Band.
Jim Cullum Jazz Band.
Dixieland music
Jazz
Texas
1. Open Reel Tape
Physical Description:
27 boxes
Box 1
1-38
Physical Description:
38 7" open reel tapes
Box 2
39-74
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 3
75-111
Physical Description:
37 7" open reel tapes
Box 4
112-148
Physical Description:
37 7" open reel tapes
Box 5
149-185
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 6
186-223
Physical Description:
37 7" open reel tapes
Box 7
224-259
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 8
260-295
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 9
296-332
Physical Description:
37 7" open reel tapes
Box 10
333-369
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 11
371-406
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 17
543-561
Physical Description:
19 10.5" open reel tapes
Box 14
488-506
Physical Description:
19 10.5" open reel tapes
Box 12
407-442
Physical Description:
36 7" open reel tapes
Box 13
443-485
Physical Description:
38 open reel tapes
three 3" ; five 4" ; eighteen 5" ; seventeen 7"
Box 15
507-525
Physical Description:
19 10.5" open reel tapes
Box 16
525-542
Physical Description:
18 10.5" open reel tapes
Box 18
562-567, 570, 595, 600-610
Physical Description:
18 open reel tapes
: ten 7" ; seven 10.5" ; one 2" master
Box 19
611-648
Physical Description:
38 open reel tapes
: one 5" ; thirty-seven 7"
Box 20
649-683
Physical Description:
37 open reel tapes
: four 5" ; thirty-three 7"
Box 21
684-724
Physical Description:
42 open reel tapes
: five 3" ; one 5" ; thirty-six 7"
Box 22
725-741
Physical Description:
17 open reel tapes
: five 7" ; seven 10.5" ; four 1/2" masters, one 2" master
Box 23
742-780
Physical Description:
39 mixed media
: thirty-six 7" open reel tapes ; three 8 tracks (two sample/test releases, one commercial release by Cullum)
Box 24
782-792
Physical Description:
11 open reel tapes
: six 10.5" ; two 1/2" masters ; three 2" masters
Box 26
793-798, 826, 828-832, 835-838, 1020-1042
Physical Description:
37 open reel tapes
: one 3" ; four 5" ; thirty-two 7"
Box 32, Audio 36
1046-1072, 1091-1092, 1107-1113, 1124, 1126 (in Box 36) 1132-1134
Physical Description:
44 open reel tapes
: one 5" ; forty-two 7" ; one 10.5"
Box 34
1023-1024, 1078, 1093, 1096-1100, 1102, 1105
Physical Description:
13 10.5" open reel tapes
2. Audiocassettes
Physical Description:
6 boxes
Box 27
816, 844-878
Physical Description:
36 audiocassettes
Box 28
879-914
Physical Description:
36 audiocassettes
Box 29
915-937
Physical Description:
36 audiocassettes
Box 30
938-974
Physical Description:
38 audiocassettes
Box 31
974-1007
Physical Description:
36 audiocassettes
Box 33
1008-1017, 1072-1078, 1114
Physical Description:
17 mixed media
: sixteen audiocassettes, one DAT
3. Video
Physical Description:
1 box
Box 25
799-825, 833-834, 1115-1119
Physical Description:
34 videocassettes
: thirty-three VHS ; one U-Matic
Box 35
1019, 1021, 1028, 1084, 1086, 1088, 1090, 1129-1131
Physical Description:
10 vinyl discs
: 7" 45 rpm
Audio 36
Instantaneous discs
Physical Description:
13 instantaneous discs
: six 10" ; seven 12"
Scope and Contents
10" discs: The Chordsmen and Happy Jazz Band (Mastersound, San Antonio) ; Charlie Carl- Big Fat Mama/Woodchopper (Duodisc)
; Hindustan/Struttin' with Some B (Audio Devices) ; New Orleans/Swanee (Audio Devices) ; Bugle Call Rag/Stumbling (Audio Devices)
; Dee Bell (Music City Recorders
12" discs: I Found a New Baby/It Had to be You, Roses of Arcady (RCA) ; Isle of Capri/Song of the Islands (Sound Recording
Studios, Dallas) ; I Can't Give You Anything but Love/No. 50 Blues (Sound Recording Studios, Dallas) ; 2 unlabeled Presto
; Moonlight on the Ganges/Blue Lou, The Sheik (RCA) ; Georgia/Sweet Lorraine (RCA)
Audio 36
Happy Jazz Band (Happy Jazz Records AP-87) [no cover] ; three white-label test pressings
Physical Description:
4 12" vinyl discs
Box 25
5. Optical media
Physical Description:
8 mixed media
: seven compact discs ; one DVD
Scope and Contents
Seven unnumbered compact disc recordings of the Jim Cullum Jazz Band including Riverwalk Live from the Landing CD series RW
CD-1, 3-6, 8-9, and one DVD recording of 2007 Concert Highlights.
Box 35
6. Notes on recordings (photocopies, inserts from tape boxes, etc.)
Physical Description:
12 folders
