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This Saturday is Scan Day!
Help preserve rock history by bringing in your memorabilia to the Library and Archives to be digitized.
When: Saturday, November 14th, 1-5pm
Where: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s Library and Archives, 2809 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44115
What to bring:
photos, small posters, handbills, and other flat rock and roll ephemera (like in the photos above -- no ticket stubs please!)
up to 12 in. x 16 in.
limit is 10 items
What you get:
a complimentary USB drive with the digital image files of your items
voucher for free admission to the Museum
RSVP: 216-515-1956 or [email protected]. (Reservations are recommended but not required.)
We hope to see you there!
Treasures from the Jane Scott Papers
As one of the country’s first daily newspaper rock-music reporters, Jane Scott (May 3, 1919 - July 4, 2011) diligently covered the local music scene, from the most obscure local bands to stadium headliners, documenting thousands of people, places, and events that otherwise would have been lost to history. Over the course of her 40 year career with The Plain Dealer, Scott covered every major rock concert in Cleveland and was on a first name basis with many stars. For 2015, the Library and Archives received a History Fund grant from the Ohio History Connection to process Scott’s archival collection and digitize her reporter’s notebooks.
The Jane Scott Papers are a part of the Northeast Ohio Popular Music Archives (NEOPMA), which comprises a substantial group of archival collections (including personal papers, correspondence, photographs, song manuscripts, business records, posters, and rare audio and video recordings) and library materials (including books, dissertations, magazines and journals, commercial audio and video recordings, and sheet music) that focus on popular music, musicians, radio stations, record labels, recording studios, music venues, concert promoters, booking agencies, and music publishers in Northeast Ohio.
Our Project Archivist Liz Campion is currently working on the clippings series, so here is a newly discovered gem from the collection! Keep an eye out at the end of the year for the complete finding aid to the collection!
Image: Jane Scott, “Singer Jewel: A diamond who can rough it,” Plain Dealer, Oct. 13, 1995 - article on Jewel, who was performing at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium, opening for Belly and Catherine Wheel.
In Memoriam: Harry Hershey
Harry Eugene Hershey, 81, died September 10, 2015 in Lecanto, Florida, at the Hospice of Citrus & the Nature Coast. He was born on January 21, 1934 to Harry H. and Velma (Ryder) Hershey in Ashland, Ohio. Hershey was a professional musician for most of his life, and a big band mainstay of the Cleveland area.
With a bachelor’s degree in music education from Baldwin-Wallace, he taught vocal and instrumental classes for grades 5-12 in the Euclid Schools for 27 years; simultaneously serving as organist and choir director at four local churches. He also organized the award-winning Euclid Youth Jazz Orchestra, Euclid Civic Chorus, and Euclid Civic Orchestra, which at its height had 70 members with Hershey as musical director.
From 1962-1967, he even entertained baseball fans at Municipal Stadium as organist for the Cleveland Indians!
Hershey’s most significant contribution to the Cleveland music scene, however, was the creation of the 12-piece Harry Hershey Orchestra, which he led for over 40 years. Every Sunday for 12 years, the group performed live from Swingos on the “Big Band Brunch” on WBBG-AM. The group was also invited to play at numerous black-tie events around town, including a Governor’s Ball for George Voinovich.
Hershey’s solo piano and organ skills were in demand as well, accompanying or providing musical direction for Bobby Vinton, Connie Francis, the Drifters, the Harry James and Guy Lombardo Orchestras, the Four Aces, Joan Rivers, the Andrews Sisters, Bob Hope, and Elvis Presley. As the Presley story goes:
Back in the early 1950s, Harry Hershey got a call from an agent asking him if he would play piano for a young guy, a truck driver who would be coming to Cleveland, eager to make a name for himself in music.
Hershey met the guy at a church that was having a dance. The truck driver introduced himself, handed him a list of songs and then the guy -- whose name was Elvis Presley -- sat on a stool and played his guitar and sang while Hershey accompanied him on piano. (Kennedy)
You can hear clips from Hershey’s album, I Love a Piano, on allmusic.com -- particularly entertaining is a cover of the song “My Kind of Town (Chicago Is)” substituting Cleveland for Chicago. After moving to Florida in 2000, Hershey continued to entertain at many local venues in Citrus and surrounding counties, and was most recently the organist for First Presbyterian Church of Inverness.
Sources “Harry Hershey, 1935-2015.” Citrus County Chronicle, Sept. 16, 2015.
“Harry E. Hershey, Euclid Senior High School, Class of 1952.” Euclid Senior High School Distinguished Achievement Hall of Fame, 2007.
Kennedy, Nancy. “Postscript: Harry Hershey: He swung with Elvis and the Indians.” City County Chronicle Online, Sept. 16, 2015.
Treasures from the Jane Scott Papers
As one of the country’s first daily newspaper rock-music reporters, Jane Scott (May 3, 1919 - July 4, 2011) diligently covered the local music scene, from the most obscure local bands to stadium headliners, documenting thousands of people, places, and events that otherwise would have been lost to history. Over the course of her 40 year career with The Plain Dealer, Scott covered every major rock concert in Cleveland and was on a first name basis with many stars. For 2015, the Library and Archives received a History Fund grant from the Ohio History Connection to process Scott’s archival collection and digitize her reporter’s notebooks.
The Jane Scott Papers are a part of the Northeast Ohio Popular Music Archives (NEOPMA), which comprises a substantial group of archival collections (including personal papers, correspondence, photographs, song manuscripts, business records, posters, and rare audio and video recordings) and library materials (including books, dissertations, magazines and journals, commercial audio and video recordings, and sheet music) that focus on popular music, musicians, radio stations, record labels, recording studios, music venues, concert promoters, booking agencies, and music publishers in Northeast Ohio.
Our Project Archivist Liz Campion is currently working on the clippings series, so here is a newly discovered gem from the collection! Keep an eye out at the end of the year for the complete finding aid to the collection!
Image: "Women Journalists to Honor Lakewoodite,” ca. 1970s - Scott is inducted into the national journalism honorary for women, Theta Sigma Phi.
The Jane Scott collection highlight's Scott's career covering more than 10,000 concerts and and artists like The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Nirvana.
Follow our journey through the Jane Scott Papers here on tumblr!
Popular-culture critic and historian Bob West hated Forrest Gump. His wife, Traci, recalls him complaining about how unrealistic it was, with the main character moving through so many different experiences and historic moments.
At the behest of the Library and Archives, veteran radio personality, educator and historian Mike Olszewski conducted an oral history with Bob in February of this year, regarding his contributions to Cleveland radio and the local music scene. The interview is included in the collections of our Northeast Ohio Popular Music Archives: http://library.rockhall.com/resources/guides/neopma.
Born Today: Joey Ramone
Jeffrey Ross Hyman (May 19, 1951 – April 15, 2001), best known by his stage name Joey Ramone, was an American musician and singer-songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the punk rock band the Ramones. Learn more about this inductee at the Library and Archives.
Audio clip: Ramones, “I Wanna Be Sedated,” recorded at the Agora, Cleveland, Ohio, on March 16, 1982. From the Frederick S. Boros Audio Recordings.
