Finding Aid for Medicare 7, 8, or 9 Dixieland Cooperative Band Records, 1966-2000 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

By Melissa Martinez, Ruth Ann Jones, Diane Hickey, and Noah Lenstra

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Collection Overview

Title: Medicare 7, 8, or 9 Dixieland Cooperative Band Records, 1966-2000

ID: 48/3/5

Primary Creator: Medicare 7, 8 or 9 (1969-2000)

Extent: 11.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Organized in four series: Series 1,Administrative correspondence, 1972-2001; Series 2, Publicity and Performance Records, c. 1966-2000; Series 3, Original Music Arrangements, c. 1966-2000; Series 4, Sound Recordings and Photographs, 1966-1999; Series 5: Audiovisual materials, c. 1969-1998 and Series 6 Dan Perrino personal papers, c. 1969-2001. Each series arranged chronologically.

Date Acquired: 06/16/2009

Subjects: Bands, Faculty Social Life, Jazz, Medicare 7, 8 or 9, Race Relations

Formats/Genres: Financial Records, Newspaper Clippings, Papers, Photographs, Sheet music, Sound Recordings

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection contains correspondence, business records, band member rosters and travel itineraries, press releases and newspaper clippings, original music scores and parts, reel-to-reel and cassette sound recordings, photographs, concert programs and liner notes, ephemera, and Dan Perrino's Rolodex. The records and artifacts document the band's early formation and performances between 1966 and 2000 when Dan Perrino stepped down as the band's manager and director. Of particular interest are the records documenting the band's performances at the 1982 Liberty Bowl and 1984 Rose Bowl.

Biographical Note

The Medicare 7, 8, or 9 Dixieland Cooperative Band was formed by Dan Perrino during a period of unprecedented student unrest at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (UIUC) in 1969.�? Perrino, then Dean of Student Programs and Services and a former professor of music at UIUC, gathered together a group of faculty to play jazz in the student union to help ease the tensions between the campus' students and faculty.�? Perrino chose to have the band perform its first concert in the University's Illini Union South Lounge, a gathering place for activist-minded students, in order to provide a common music experience that the faculty and students alike could enjoy.�? Eventually the band was named Medicare 7, 8, or 9�? as a humorous reference to the wide range of its membership's ages and the diverse number of performers that frequently played for each concert.�? For over thirty years the band was recognized as a beloved community institution that played for alumni and campus events, community organizations throughout Illinois, Illinois governors, and nationally-televised football games.

Subject/Index Terms

Bands
Faculty Social Life
Jazz
Medicare 7, 8 or 9
Race Relations

Administrative Information

Repository: The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

Acquisition Source: Dan Perrino

Acquisition Method: Gift

Related Materials:

John O'Connor Papers, 1968-1997 - 12/05/034

Medicare Records, 1968-2001 - 48/03/004

For more information please see http://www.library.illinois.edu/archives/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=314&q=medicare.

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Administrative correspondence],
[Series 2: Promotional material],
[Series 3: Concert planning notes, contracts and financial records, 1970-1995],
[Series 4: Sheet music],
[Series 5: Audiovisual materials],
[Series 6: Dan Perrino faculty and personal papers, 1977-2000],
[All]

Series 5: Audiovisual materials

The series is comprised of cassette tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, sound recordings, photos, negatives and mounted slides.

Box 9: Black and white and color photographs

Folder 1: Performance candids, 1969-1977
Folder 2: Candids from on the road (black and white), 1970s
Folder 3: Candids from road trip and performance candids from Florida, 1970s
Folder 4: Performance candids, 1978-1980
Folder 5: Performance candids, 1981-1983
Folder 6: Performance candids, 1988-1995
Folder 7: Performance candids, undated
Folder 8: Black and white performance candids (1 of 2), undated
Folder 9: Black and white performance candids (2 of 2), undated
Folder 10: Color candids from on the road, 1980s/1990s
Folder 11: Color performance candids, undated
Folder 12: Candids - proofs and oversized negatives, undated
Folder 13: Band member photographs, undated

Box 10: Mounted color slides of performances, life on the road

Folder 1: Group photographs, for publicity and remembrance, undated
Folder 2: Film negatives (1 of 2), undated
Folder 3: Film negatives (2 of 2), undated
Folder 4: Performance candids, undated: Color slides
Folder 5: Outdoor performance candids, undated: Color slides
Folder 6: Performance and social events candids, 1966-1981: Color slides
Folder 7: Performance candids and California tour, 1973-1974: Color slides
Folder 8: Performance candids and Washington, D.C. tour, 1975: Color slides
Folder 9: Performance candids, Chicago and Florida tours, 1976: Color slides
Folder 10: Performance candids, Western tour, 1976-1978: Color slides
Folder 11: Performance candids, Rockford, 1980-1981: Color slides
Folder 12: Performance candids and candids from on the road, 1970s: Color slides
Folder 13: WILL TV shoot and Southern US tour, 1974/1977: Color slides
Folder 14: Performance candids, 1972-1978: Color slides
Folder 15: West Coast tour and Aurora performance, Feb. 1978/May 1978: Color slides
Folder 16: New Orleans "Hot Jazz" jubilee, circa 1980s: color slides
Folder 17: 20th anniversary performance: New Orleans "Hot Jass" and Illini Union performance, 1989: color slides
Folder 18: Slide show for Medicare's 20th anniversary, 1989: color slides
Folder 19: Candids from on the road, 1982-1984: color slides
Folder 20: Performance candids, 1987: color slides
Folder 21: Performance photos and travel photos, includes Medicare's 10th anniversary, 1974-1982
Folder 22: WILL-TV Medicare 7, 8 or 9 show/East Coast Tour/Channel 3 Morning Show and Concert Excerpts, 1994/1991/1998: VHS tapes
Folder 23: Medicare 7, 8 or 9 retrospective/WCIA show, undated/1994-1995: VHS tapes

Box 11: Reel-to-reel tapes and other audio recordings

Item 1: Medicare Gospel Service, reel-to-reel tape, June 10, 1984: Side 1: Intro, Amazing Grace, Old Rugged Cross, Amen, The Lord is Listening, Gonna Build Me a Mountain, Put Your Hand in the Hand, Just a Closer Walk with You, Down by the Riverside
Item 2: Willowbrook Concert, reel-to-reel tape (1 of 4), 1976
Item 3: Willowbrook Concert, reel-to-reel tape (2 of 4), 1976
Item 4: Harry's vocals, reel-to-reel tape, undated
Item 5: Gospel Service at First Presbyterian Church, Rockford, tape 2, June 23, 1985: Side A: Make a Joyful Noise, He, Dan Perrino Commercial, Saints, end.
Item 6: Performance for Secretariat at Illini Rooms A-B, December 20, 1972
Item 7: Willowbrook concert (4 of 4), 1976
Item 8: Willowbrook concert (3 of 4), 1976
Item 9: IMPE Pool concert, July 17, 1973
Item 10: Herb F., undated
Item 11: Performance at South Lounge of Illini Union, December 13, 1972
Item 12: Cuts from concert, February 8, 1976: Tracks include: Peoria; Bye, Bye Blues; Tiger Rag; Jazz Me Blues; Alexander's Ragtime Band; and Panama.
Item 13: Willowbrook concert, reel 1, 1975
Item 14: Gospel Service, tape 2, June 10, 1984: Side a: Battle Hymn of the Republic, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, When the Saints Come Marching In
Item 15: Gosper service at First Presbyterian, Rockford, Reel 2, June 12, 1983: Tracks include Hymn of Dedication, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Give Me That Old Time Religion, When the Saints Come Marching In
Item 16: Gospel service, tape 3, June 9, 1984: Side 1: Battle Hymn, Put Your Hand, Swing Low, The Lord Is Listening, Gonna Build a Mountain
Item 17: Gospel Service at First Presbyterian Church, Rockford, reel number 1, June 11 and 12, 1983: What A Friend, Whole World, Come to the Church in the Wild Wood, Crusader's Hymn, Amen, Put Your Hand in the Hand, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Doxology and Prayer, Hymn of Preparation, Gospel and Gloria Patria
Item 18: Willowbrook Concert, reel #4, 1975
Item 19: Medicare 7, 8 9 Jazz band, undated
Item 20: B BSTR concert, 1977
Item 21: Medicare slideshow audio accompaniment, undated
Item 22: Concert tape, undated: Tracks include: Down Bourbon Street, St. James Infirmary, Ragtime, Bill Bailey with Stan Rahn on voice, Closer Walk With Thee, Over the Waves
Item 23: Scott Joplin, Ragtime piano, undated
Item 24: Concert tape, 1978: Tracks include: Ja Da, Da Da Strain, After You from Rudy's Ain't Misbehavin, In the Mood for Love, Goody Good
Item 25: Willowbrook Concert, reel 2, 1975
Item 26: Gospel Service, June 23, 1985: Tracks include The Old Ragged Cross, Battle Hymn, It Is No Secret, Amen, The Lord Is Listening, God Give Me Love, Swing Low, Just a Closer Walk, Rock a My Soul, Sermon, Kumbaya
Item 27: Woody and Rachael at the Levis Faculty Center, January 11, 1974
Item 28: New Year's at Virginia: Cassette tape, broken

Box 12: Oversized material

Folder 8: Oversized color photographs and print-sheets, 1970s-1990s: IAJE Award, Perrino UIUC award and candids from the road

Box 13: Records

Item 1: "Medicare Illinois" LP - all songs from various live performances, 1975: Medicare's first album Distributed by University of Illinois Alumni Association. Copy of Stan Rahn. 2 discs. Side 1: High Society, Sound of the Bells, Chromatic Rag, Saint James Infirmary, Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey, Basin Street Blues; Side 2: That's a Plenty, Sugar Blues, Nostalgic Medley, Sweet Georgia Brown; Side 3: South Rampart Street Parade, Tin Roof, Second Hand Rose, I Can't Get Started With You, Is It True What They Say About Dixie; Side Four: Down Bourbon Street, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, I Found a New Baby, Do You Know What It means to Miss New Orleans.
Item 2: "Medicare Illinois" LP - all songs from various live performances (copy 2), 1975: Medicare's first album Distributed by University of Illinois Alumni Association. Copy of Stan Rahn. 2 discs.
Item 3: "Medicare Jazz" LP - all songs from various live performances, 1978: Medicare's second album. Tracks include: Side 1: Down Bourbon Street, Buddy Bolden Blues, Basin Street Blues, The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, Hello Dolly, Sweet Georgia Brown; Side 2 - Someday You'll be Sorry, Washington and Lee Swing, I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate, Up the Lazy River, After You're Gone; Side 3 - Ice Cream, Medley, When Day is Done, Hindustan; Side 4 - Wolverine Blues, Feeling Too Good Blues, You and Me Against the World, Some of These Days, 12th Street Rag, Wining Boy Blues, Tiger Rag.
Item 4: "Medicare Jazz" LP - all songs from various live performances (second copy), 1978
Item 5: "The Medicare 7, 8 or 9: Live...at Charlotte's Web", 1980: Recorded in Rockford, Illinois. Side 1: Down Bourbon Street Parade, Someday Sweetheart, Dr. Jazz, Four String Love, After the Lovin', Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey, Kansas City Stomp. Side 2: Panama, Nothing Could be Finer Than to be in Carolina in the Morning/Swanee, Piano Jazz, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans, Tiger Rag
Item 6: "The Medicare 7, 8 or 9: Live...at Charlotte's Web" (second copy), 1980: Recorded in Rockford, Illinois. Side 1: Down Bourbon Street Parade, Someday Sweetheart, Dr. Jazz, Four String Love, After the Lovin', Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey, Kansas City Stomp. Side 2: Panama, Nothing Could be Finer Than to be in Carolina in the Morning/Swanee, Piano Jazz, Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans, Tiger Rag
Item 7: "The Medicare 7, 8 or 9 Make a Joyful Noise" LP, 1984/5: Recorded live during worship services at First Presbyterian Church, Rockford. Side 1: Down by the Riverside, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Battle Hymn of the Republic, The Old Rugged Cross. Side 2: Amazing Grace, Amen, The Lord is Listening Halleluia, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Put Your Hand in the Hand of the Man That Stilled the Water
Item 8: "The Medicare 7, 8 or 9 Make a Joyful Noise" LP (second copy), 1984/5
Item 9: "Medicare 7, 8 or 9...15 years later", 1984: 2 discs. Songs drawn from performances at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in September 1982 and Willowbrook concert, 1984. Side 1: Panama Rag, Tin Roof Blues, When We Danced All Night At the Mardi Gras, Oh, How I Wish That I was in Peoria, Mood Indigo. Side 2: Michigan, St. Louis Melody, Medley, Milneberg Joys, Black and Blue. Side 3: 12th Street Rag, Old Rockin' Chair's Got Me, Who's Sorry Now, Back Home in Indiana, Minnie the Mermaid, South Rampart Parade. Side 4: Alexander's Ragtime Band, In a Mellow Tone, I've Got it Bad and That Ain't Good, When the Saints Go Marching In.
Item 10: "Medicare 7, 8 or 9...15 years later" (second copy), 1984
Item 11: Rolled film negatives, undated

Box 14: Reel-to-reel tapes with mold damage

Item 1: Medicare '73 with Ron Riddle, November 2, 1972: Recorded in the South Lounge of the Illini Union
Item 2: Dixie Dialog, May 20, 1971
Item 3: Dixie Dialog, reel 2
Item 4: Dialog in Dixieland, February 19, 1971
Item 5: Indiana, Marian, June 7, 1973
Item 6: Aurora Concert, June 25, 1978: reel 2
Item 7: Dixie, undated
Item 8: Medicare 8, October 20, year unknown
Item 9: Woody and Donnie, undated
Item 10: Down Bourbon Street, undated: Recored at St. James. Tracks on tape: Rag Time (with Ron Riddle on Piano) - Chromatic Rag and Climax Rag; Bill Bailey (with Stan Rahn on vocals); Closer Walk with Thee; and Over the Waves.
Item 11: Medicare intro and rambling, undated
Item 12: Unknown content, undated
Item 13: Dialog in Dixieland, May 20, 1971: Recorded in South Lounge of Illini Union. Tracks include: High Society; Do you Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans; My Blue Heaven; You're Nobody Till Somebody Love's You; Chinatown - Fourleaf clover; St. James Itinerary; Froglegs; Maple Leaf Rag; Faithful Hussars; Birth of Blues; All of Me; Simple Melody; Midnight in Moscow; Just a Closer Walk with Thee; Sing-sing-sing. Side 2: Basin Street, Sound of Bels, Saints
Item 14: Diplomats Jazz Ensemble, April 26, 1978: Recorded at Chanute Air Force Base
Item 15: Shades of Blue Jazz Band, APril 26, 1978: 528 Air Force Band
Item 16: 81st Army Jazz Band, April 26, 1978: Fort Sheridan
Item 17: Willowbrook concert, undated: reel 4. Contains Twelfth Street Rag.
Item 18: Willowbrook concert, undated: reel 3. Tracks include Georgia Brown
Item 19: Concert tape, undated: Side 1: Louis Armstrong tracks. Side 2: Dixieland
Item 20: Willowbrook concert, undated: reel 2. Contains Can't Get Started and Closer Walk with Thee
Item 21: Clark, September 27, year unknown
Item 22: Concert, June 25, 1978
Item 23: Willowbrook concert, undated: reel 1. Contains Bourbon Street Blues, That's a Plenty, Old Rockin' Chair and Shiek
Item 24: Willowbrook concert, undated: reel 5.
Item 25: Larry Scott (chancellor) farewell address, script only, undated
Item 26: Dixieland Jazz, undated
Item 27: Concert, undated: reel 1
Item 28: Unknown content, undated
Item 29: Carle Park concert, October 1, 1972: Reel 2 of 2.
Item 30: Dialog in Dixieland, May 20, 1971: South Lounge of the Illini Union
Item 31: Carle Park Concert, October 1, 1971: Reel 1 of 2
Item 32: Dixieland concert, November 9, 1971: South lounge of the Illini Union
Item 33: Medicare '73 with Ron Riddle, November 2, 1973: Original.
Item 34: Medicare 9, undated: Recorded in South Lounge of Illini Union
Item 35: State Public Instruction Leadership Conference, Springfield, October 22, 1973: Performers include Stan Rahn, John O'Connor, Dan Perrino, Morgan Powell, Woody Woodwind and Buddy Wade
Item 36: Concert at Allen Hall, October 18, 1972
Item 37: Dixieland Story, Volume 1, with Matty Matlock, 'Papa' Celestin, undated
Item 38: ITV Children's Series "We, the People" producer Douglas Anderson, undated: Medicare playing "America the Beautiful"
Item 39: College Alum Luncheon, October, 1968: Sen. Percy
Item 40: Aurora concert, June 25, 1978: reel 1
Item 41: Willowbrook concert, 1975: reel 3
Item 42: Early Medicare, undated: Unboxed
Item 43: Urbana High School, January 18, 1960: Director: Daniel Perrino. Side A
Item 44: Urbana High School, January 18, 1960: Director: Daniel Perrino. Side B