Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 305

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MUSIC.) Archive of Sarah Vaughan-related material, including musical arrangements, a film, a checkbook, and more. Hundreds of items in one box (0.4 linear feet); generally minor wear. Vp, 1958-62
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The music in this collection includes extensive arrangements for the Rodgers and Hart tune "It Never Entered My Mind": about 60 pages of printed arrangements for each instrument (some with manuscript notes), and most significantly 14 pages of manuscript arrangements for the song as performed by Hal Mooney's orchestra for Vaughan, with all instruments on together on one sheet. Other music includes a 3-page Mooney vocal arrangement for "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (accompanied by the published sheet music); mimeograph arrangements for 7 other songs; and 2 sheets of manuscript melodies in an unknown hand for songs titled "What Does It Matter" and "Wrong Joe."
Sarah Vaughan's checkbook covers October 1955 to May 1956. It consists mostly of check stubs noting each check's date and payee, with 3 unissued checks still bound in. It records checks issued to her then-husband George Treadwell and her "dependent mother" Ada Vaughan, as well as drummer Roy Haynes, Birdland Restaurant, clothing, travel, and more. Found tucked into the checkbook were more than 40 receipts and luggage tickets, apparently all submitted by drummer Max Roach for tax purposes or reimbursement.
Also included are a reel of 16mm film, apparently from Vaughan's 1960 musical appearance on Hugh Hefner's television show Playboy's Penthouse; a publicity photo of singer Dorisetta Clark; 5 unused Sarah Vaughan Christmas cards; copies of two press releases from August 1962; and a 2-inch stack of clippings and publications relating to Vaughan's career from 1959 to 1962. Found with the collection are five envelopes sent to the Manhattan business address of Clyde B. Atkins (1928-1994), who was Vaughan's husband and manager from 1958 to 1961.