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American disc jockey. Accounting records, Assistant District Attorney notes, cancelled checks, contracts, correspondence, indictments, invoices, memoranda, music clearance sheets, reports, State of New York Grand Jury exhibits, subpoenas, witness statements and summaries, and duplicate and annotated photocopies of documents regarding the Payola case against Freed; also lobby cards, magazine articles, movie posters, programs, audio and video recordings, sheet music, and yearbooks related to Freed's career and personal life.

The Sing Out! Records collection documents folk music and its related genres throughout the decades of the 1940s to the present. The photograph and subject files in this collection were originally a part of the Sing Out! Resource Center, created in the 1980s to document the diverse nature and history of folk music in order to better serve the folk community. Because Sing Out's mission is focused not on folk music but the "people's music," the collection documents a wide range of musical genres and styles, including blues, folk, alternative, country, rock, and world music; as well as festivals and organizations related to the creation, performance, and dissemination of the music.

The Terry Stewart Collection contains rock and roll ephemera collected by Stewart over the course of several decades. The materials date from 1926-2009, and include undated items. The collection is organized by format into five series: artist and subject files, photographs, posters, programs, and video recordings. From a general point of view, the collection offers an extensive survey of rock and roll as it appears in advertisements, film, and on stage. The collection documents Stewart's personal interests, which include Alan Freed, doo-wop vocal groups, Elvis Presley, record labels, and rock and roll films. Please note that there is little material of other personal or professional nature in this collection.

Charlie Gillett, The Alternative, 1 October 1970

Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 February 1975

Philip Norman, Daily Telegraph, 30 January 2009

Bill Millar, Record Mirror, March 1972

Colin Escott, History of Rock, The, 1981

Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2002

Rolling Stone Magazine

The New Yorker