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Document Details


Title: Reminiscences of Jack Yellen
RLIN number: NXCP87-A178
Document type: Oral history
Accessibility: Free Only
Repository: Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
Collection: Popular Arts Project, Part I
Description: Breaking into songwriting, 1913; working methods with Abe Olman and Milton Ager; writing for the moving-pictures in the 1920s and 1930s; negro influence on songwriting; rock; payola; changes in music publishing.
Extent: Transcript: 40 leaves
Restrictions: Access: Open. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Original Language: English
Time span: Not indicated ... to 1958 (Year of interview)
Speaker: Yellen, Jack, 1892-
Speaker gender: Male
Speaker date of birth: 1892
Speaker occupation: Songwriter
Age at speaking: 66
Document date: 1958
Interviewer: Franklin, Joan; Franklin, Robert
Topics discussed - ASP terms: Composers; Motion pictures and music
Topics discussed - Other terms: Music, Popular (Songs, etc)--Writing and publishing; Yellen, Jack
ASP release: 2005-06
Document code: OHI0017692-13135