Oral History and Research Materials: Lloyd Smith
This is the table of contents for the interview of Lloyd Smith. It is part of the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive which is located in
Lovejoy Library at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
For a complete contents list of all musician interviews for the oral history project, please click on this link: Oral History and Research Materials.
If interested in reviewing these materials from the National Ragtime and Jazz Archive, please contact Therese Dickman, Fine Arts Librarian.
Tape # Side Running Time on Tape Subject
1 a 021-046 Birth, Date & Place; Family; Start in Music
1 a 047-059 Music lessons; violin
1 a 060-102 Move to St. Louis; Parents
1 a 103-126 Interest in saxophone; first lessons
1 a 127-164 Hearing Louis Armstrong and other musicians
1 a 165-189 Junior High Band; Summer High School
1 a 190-204 First paying job - high school
1 a 205-230 Professional jobs; Musicians
1 a 231-240 Watermelon Barbecue
1 a 241-315 Joins Musicians union; union troubles
1 a 316-324 First "named" bands; Johnny White Mose Wiley
1 a 325-384 Rube Floyd Band; musicians, pay , hours, traveling
1 a 385-425 Eddie Randle and His Seven Blue Devils
1 a 426-449 Eddie Johnson Band
1 a 450-466 Reading music
1 a 467-476 Eddie Johnson
1 a 477-488 Jeter-Pillars; George Hudson
1 a 498-513 Chicago train excursion
1 a 514-534 Eddie Johnson Band; travel
1 a 535-553 Racial prejudice
1 a 554-589 Dress, pay, means of travel
1 a 590-605 George Hudson Band
1 a 606-648 River boats; Fate Marable Band; New Orleans
1 a 649-674 Blues Singers; other bands
1 a 675-683 Marable as a musician and a leader
1 a 684-703 Charlie Creath; Dewey Jackson
1 a 704-719 Personnel - marriages and bands
1 a 720-750 White musicians and bands
1 b 005-020 George Hudson Band
1 b 021-249 Earl Hines Band - traveling, recording, instruments, pay, Hines
as leader, discoverer of talent; band members
1 b 250-279 Leaves Hines; St. Louis - Musicians Club
1 b 280-304 "May Tatum" Beverly White
1 b 305-329 Close Musicians club; work for Colonial Bakery & Union
1 b 330-359 NOT TRANSCRIBED - discuss Jazz Archive and collection
1 b 360-400 St. Louis Symphony; playing now
1 b 401-425 Teaching music; looking at memorabilia
1 b 426-453 Armstrong and other musicians Smith knew
1 b 454-460 Drug use by musicians
1 b 461-499 Mrs. Smith
1 b 500-550 Types of jazz; definition of "Dixieland"
1 b 551-603 Chicago Symphony; Hines now; Effects of depression
1 b 604-639 Prejudice; treatment of black musicians
1 b 640-658 Grandparents; ancestors
1 b 659-713 Best bands, Basie, Lunceford
1 b 714-722 Teaching; Hudson, oral history project
1 b 732-end Blank
2 a 004-134 First professional job; Rube Floyd
2 a 135-206 Theaters, talking pictures, dances, types of music
2 a 207-286 Eddie Randle Band; instruments, musicians, tunes
2 a 287-348 Jimmy Blanton - influence; Wendell Marshall
2 a 349-381 Randle Band
2 a 382-439 Eddie Johnson Crackerjack Band
2 a 440-484 Jeter-Pillars; George Hudson
2 a 485-545 Crackerjack Band, personnel; Fats Waller
2 a 546-575 Benny Washington, Cab Calloway, Don Stovall
2 a 576-601 Dewey Jackson Band, Riverboats, and New Orleans
2 a 602-629 Singleton Palmer; Jackson as a leader
2 a 630-655 Alphonso Trent; Charlie Creath
2 a 656-688 Hawaiian Social Club excursions to Chicago: Jessie Johnson
2 a 689-723 Ballroom jobs in South; New Orleans, boats
2 a 724-753 Recording, show work; substitute with Ellington
2 b 003-149 Earl Hines as leader
2 b 150-213 West Coast and Canada with Hines
2 b 214-257 Stevens Point, Wisconsin
2 b 258-297 Big stars Smith worked behind, Sinatra, Harry James, etc.
2 b 298-331 Detroit, Graystone Ballroom, Jean Goldkette
2 b 332-353 Recording with Hines, Hines as discoverer of talent
2 b 354-417 Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie; Drugs in music Business
2 b 418-431 Female musicians
2 b 432-479 Wilbur Kirk; evaluation of drummers
2 b 480-499 Various instruments with Hines; Gillespie; Clark Terry
2 b 500-540 Ellington band
2 b 541-589 Lunceford, Basie Kenton - changes in big bands
2 b 590-670 St. Louis Bands; Cecil Scott, Fate Marable
2 b 671-709 Music heard as a youngster
2 b 710-722 Lessons, training, practicing, other bands
2 b 723-750 Lionel Hampton, Jimmy Rochelle, Lucky Millender
3 a 012-052 New York City; comparison of musicians
3 a 053-089 Theater Acts
3 a 090-130 Havens with Buck & Bubbles (actually Butterbeans & Susie)
3 a 131-204 Lena Horne, other singers
3 a 205-277 Leaving Hines band; Starting Musicians Club
3 a 278-301 Gas Light Square, G Clef Club
3 a 302-330 Leaving Hines Band, other musicians
3 a 331-354 Effects of formal education on musicians
3 a 355-370 Smith's music collection and equipment
3 a 371-408 Mixed bands; prejudice
3 a 409-500 Gangsters, prostitutes
3 a 501-547 "May Tatum", Beverly White
3 a 548-559 Teddy Wilson; "carving sessions"
3 a 560-624 Musicians unions
3 a 625-659 Black - white relations; Prejudice
3 a 660-712 Movie work with Hines ; arrangements, musicians
3 a 713-740 Arranging, demise of shows and vaudeville
3 a 741-749 Louis Jordan
3 b 002-039 Ahmad Jamal. stage names, nicknames
3 b 040-089 King Cole
3 b 090-151 Types of instruments, sound
3 b 152-186 Young musicians
3 b 187-216 NOT TRANSCRIBED
3 b 217-424 Music training, environment, college programs, teaching of
music
3 b 425-506 Earl Warren, Trummy Young, various clarinet players
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Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Updated by Kristin Walker
May 2005