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Spines of 78rpm record albums on a shelf

78rpm record albums on display

New exhibit of 78rpm record albums highlights the visuals that housed the sounds.

Boxes containing Ben Sidran's personal archives

Mills acquires Ben Sidran’s archives

Madison music legend’s materials become part of Wisconsin Music Archives.

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  • Steve Miller is on the cover of the new issue of @guitarplayer, and our copy just arrived. Miller, who was born in Milwaukee and attended @uwmadison in the early 1960s before going on to form @stevemillerband.official, speaks of how Les Paul entered his life when he was a boy and set him on his course to make music for a living. We got to hear an expanded version of this tale—and many others—when Miller came to Mills for a tour last fall while he was back on campus to play a benefit concert during Homecoming weekend. #stevemiller #lespaul #guitarplayer #wisconsinmusic #millsmusiclibrary
  • We purchased a Loricraft Professional Record Cleaning Machine recently to replace our Keith Monks machine, and Ethnic American Music Curator Nate Gibson is giddy about how great it works. Swipe to see before and after pictures of “Mistr Vokulka ve stare country” (Mister Pickle in the Old Country), by Václav Albrecht a Spol, Victor 79444-A, one side of one of our 78s Nate is digitizing as part of the NEH grant-funded project Local Centers/Global Sounds. #loricraft #loriclean #recordcleaning #recordcleaningmachine #78rpm #78 #victor #misterpickle #localcentersglobalsounds #millsmusiclibrary
  • The curators of the exhibit The Sixties: Remembering Who Was T/here chose materials representing who was creating the culture in that decade, both throughout the world and here in Madison. Otis Redding was on his way to Madison from Cleveland to perform on December 10, 1967, when his plane crashed into Lake Monona, killing him, his pilot, and all but one of his band members onboard. He was only 26. The exhibit case devoted to the tragedy includes this LP, which Atco released in June 1968: The Immortal Otis Redding [AAD9309]. #otisredding #theimmortalotisredding #thesixties #millsmusiclibrary
  • It’s Flag Day in the US, and we’re displaying Dave Dudley’s 1966 LP There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere [LP 796206], which is included in the Vietnam case of The Sixties: Remembering Who Was T/here. Dudley (1928-2003) was a country music artist from Wisconsin who became famous in the ‘60s for his songs about truck driving, such as “Six Days on the Road,” but for this album he took a patriotic angle on the unrest in this nation regarding the country’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The title song had been a hit for Elton Britt in 1942, during World War II. Dudley recorded two songs by Tom T. Hall voicing support for the Vietnam War—“What We’re Fighting For,” and “Hello Vietnam.” This LP is part of our Ford Porter Collection and the Wisconsin Music Archives. #davedudley #theresastarspangledbannerwavingsomewhere #whatwerefightingfor #flagday #thesixties #fordporter #fordportercollection #wisconsinmusicarchives #millsmusiclibrary
  • “Too many of these hip people are telling me where the answer is but oh I won’t believe that.” —Bob Dylan. From Sing Out! Vol 12 No. 4, Oct.-Nov. 1962 [ML1 S588]. This is included in the case devoted to folk music in the exhibit The Sixties: Remembering Who Was T/here, up now through August 10 in Special Collections, 9th Floor of Memorial Library. #bobdylan #blowininthewind #singout #folkmusic #thesixties #millsmusiclibrary