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  • The harp styles of Sonny Terry / by Sonny Terry ; as told to Kent Cooper ; harp instruction and musical transcriptions by Fred "Boy Blue" Palmer ; music calligraphy by Marie Savettiere ; book design by Iris Weinstein.

    • Text
    • New York : Oak Publications, c1975.
    • 1975
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *L8X 7 [Phonodisc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JNF 81-63Offsite
  • Ralph Willis; [Carolina blues, with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry] [Sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Blues Classics BC 22. [1970?]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 6770Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Blind Boy Fuller, with Sonny Terry and Bull City Red. [Sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Blues Classics BC 11. [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 6761Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • 100% blues [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • France : EPM Musique, c1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 2675 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • This is the blues [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Folkways, 1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio RE-5337Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Blues at Newport [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Santa Monica, Calif. : Vanguard, c1964.
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording Sc Audio RE-8130Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Rev. Gary Davis & Sonny Terry / John S. Ullman, producer ; Ronald Ciro, director ; produced for Yazoo Video by George Sempepos ; directed by Stefan Grossman & George Sempepos.

    • Moving image
    • [S.l.] : Yazoo Video, p1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 9Offsite
  • The Bessies: New York Dance and Performance Awards [1987] [electronic resource]

    • Moving image
    • 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Resource

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d352de10-b2c0-0131-1d13-3c075448cc4b
  • Harmonica breakdown [videorecording] : speaking about the dance / a Singh Production for the Arts Council of England ; directed by Darshan Singh Bhuller and Tom Hurwitz ; executive producer, Rodney Wilson ; producer, Sallie Estep ; choreography by Jane Dudley ; music by Sonny Terry.

    • Moving image
    • c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-2269Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Hometown blues [sound recording] / Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

    • Audio
    • New York : Mainstream : Legacy, p 1991.
    • 1991-1948
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 11517 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Mainstream sampler [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 11423 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The JVC/Smithsonian Folkways video anthology of music and dance of the Americas. Volume 1, Canada and the United States / JVC, Victor Company of Japan, in collaboration with the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan, and Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, Washington, D.C. ; director, Hiroaki Ohta ; co-producer, Stephen McArthur, Multicultural Media ; executive producers, Katsumori Ichikawa and Yuji Ichihashi.

    • Moving image
    • [Tokyo?] : JVC, Victor Company of Japan ; Montpelier, VT : Multicultural Media, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIA 4-2480Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Goodnight Irene [sound recording] / Lead Belly.

    • Audio
    • Salem, MA : Tradition, p1996.
    • 1996-1943
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 13648 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Whoopin' the blues : 1958-1974 / Sonny Terry.

    • Moving image
    • [Sparta, NJ] : Vestapol Productions ; Cambridge, MA : Distributed by Rounder Records, ©1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS Sc Visual VRA-412Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry sing [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Washington DC : Smithsonian Folkways ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Rounder Records, p1990.
    • 1990-1958
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 3958 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Struggle [sound recording] / Woody Guthrie.

    • Audio
    • Washington DC : Smithsonian Folkways ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Rounder Records, p1990.
    • 1990-1940
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 3807 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Muleskinner blues [sound recording] / Woody Guthrie.

    • Audio
    • Washington, DC : Smithsonian/Folkways, p1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 21107 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Struggle [sound recording] / Woody Guthrie.

    • Audio
    • New York : Folkways Records, p1976.
    • 1976-1946
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 7652 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 7652 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Songs of street & road [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York, N.Y.] : American Record Society, [c1966]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 11085 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Book of numbers [sound recording] : original sound track recording / composed and arranged by Al Shackman.

    • Audio
    • New York : Brut, p1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 13181 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Blind Sonny Terry [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Los Angeles : Everest Records, [1966?]
    • 1966
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 9670 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Hard travelin' [sound recording] / Woody Guthrie.

    • Audio
    • N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity] : Disc Records, c1964.
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 21661 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • On the road [sound recording] / Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, Sticks McGhee.

    • Audio
    • New York City : Folkways Records, c1959.
    • 1959
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26115 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26115 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The rural blues [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : RFB, 1964.
    • 1964
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26090 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26090 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The country blues. vol.2 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : RBF, 1964.
    • 1964-192
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 8487 v. 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26075 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26075 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Midnight special with Leadbelly. [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Folkways Records, p1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 26739 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Sonny Terry's new sound; the jawharp in blues and folk music. [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Folkways Records, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26258 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26258 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Poor boy [sound recording] / Woody Guthrie.

    • Audio
    • New York City : Folkways Records, 1968.
    • 1968
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26711 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Where the blues begin [sound recording] / Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry.

    • Audio
    • Chicago : Fontana, [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26973 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Hootenanny tonight [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Folkways Records, [1959]
    • 1959-1954
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26171 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26171 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Leadbelly sings folk songs [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • N.Y.C. : Folkways Records, [1962]
    • 1962
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26167 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26167 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Pete Seeger and Sonny Terry [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Folkways Records, c1958.
    • 1958
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26142 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26142 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The folk music of the Newport Folk Festival. Vol. 2 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Folkways Records, [1961]
    • 1961
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26147 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 26147 [Lyrics]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Hollywood hootennany [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Chicago, Ill.] : Horizon Records, [1964?]
    • 1964
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 28694 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The big hootenanny [sound recording] : [live recordings of hootenannies at the Troubadour, the Ice House and the Ash Grove].

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : In Records, [1984?]
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 29033 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Favorite songs [sound recording] / Paul Robeson.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Monitor, [1959?]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 34386 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Lightnin' Hopkins greatest hits [sound recording] / Lightnin' Hopkins.

    • Audio
    • Bergenfield, N.J. : Prestige, [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 38907 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • 1938 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Paris, France] : Jazz Magazine, p2001.
    • 2001-1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 27576 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Harmonica breakdown [videorecording] / choreography by Jane Dudley ; music by Sonny Terry.

    • Moving image
    • [n.d.]
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    VHS *MGZIC 9-5242Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
    Not available - Please for assistance.
  • Climbin' up [sound recording] / Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry.

    • Audio
    • New York, NY : Savoy Jazz, p1984.
    • 1984-
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 43024 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Southern mountain hoedowns [sound recording] : sung and played.

    • Audio
    • New York : Stinson Records, [195-?]
    • 195
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZO 2179 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Folksay. Volume 1 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • N.Y. [i.e. New York City] N.Y. : Stinson Records, [1962?]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZO 2183 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Chain gang. vol. I-II [sound recording] / sung & played by Woody Guthrie, Sonny Terry & Alex Stewart.

    • Audio
    • Granada Hills, CA : Stinson Records, [1962?]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 44368 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Brownie McGhee - Sonny Terry [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Storyville ; New York : Distributed in U.S.A. by the Moss Music Group, p1975.
    • 1975-1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 44410 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Folk festival at Newport. [vol. 2] [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [New York] : Vanguard, [1959]
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 47085 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Talkin' 'bout the blues [sound recording] / Sonny Terry.

    • Audio
    • New York : Washington Records, [1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 48781 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • "Blues is a story" [sound recording] / Sonny Terry [and] Brownie McGhee.

    • Audio
    • Hollywood, Calif. : World Pacific, [c1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LZR 49717 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • California blues [sound recording] / Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee.

    • Audio
    • Berkeley, Calif. : Fantasy Records, p981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Musical recording *LRX 8296 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Absolutely the best of the blues. Volume 2 [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Hollywood, Calif.] : Fuel 2000 Records, [2005]
    • 2005-2000
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 39280 [CD] v. 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 39280 [Notes] v. 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Rock Island Line [sound recording] : original recordings 1935-1943 / Leadbelly.

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Naxos Folk Legends, p2003.
    • 2003-1935
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 32843 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Music CD *LDC 32843 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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