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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)
Other Creators: Perrino, Daniel J.
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
Administrative Information
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Administrative correspondence],
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Series 2: Promotional material],
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Series 3: Concert planning notes, contracts and financial records, 1970-1995],
[Series 4: Sheet music],
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Series 5: Audiovisual materials],
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Series 6: Dan Perrino faculty and personal papers, 1977-2000],
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- Series 4: Sheet music
- Comprised of the band's sheet music, usually arranged specifically for the band. Contains a variety of parts, but most often includes piano and saxophone parts. Organized alphabetically by title and undated.
- Box 8
- Folder 5: Amazing Grace
- Folder 6: Amen
- Folder 7: And the Lord Said
- Folder 8: Battle Hymn (Of the Republic)
- Folder 9: Come Sunday
- Folder 10: Down by the Riverside
- Folder 11: Give Me that Old Time Religion
- Folder 12: Gonna Build a Mountain
- Folder 13: He Gives me Love
- Folder 14: I Wish You Love
- Folder 15: I Shall Not be Moved
- Folder 16: In the Garden
- Folder 17: It is No Secret
- Folder 18: Just a Closer Walk with Thee
- Folder 19: Kansas City Man Blues
- Reprinted for program of Medicare's 20th anniversary concert at Krannert Center.
- Folder 20: Lassus Trombone
- Folder 21: Let There be Peace on Earth
- Folder 22: Louisiana
- Folder 23: My man Demo/As Time Goes By
- Folder 24: Mack the Knife
- Folder 25: Maple Leaf
- Folder 26: Midnight in Moscow
- Folder 27: Minnie the Mermaid
- Folder 28: Original Dixieland One Step
- Folder 29: Porter's Love Song
- Folder 30: Put Your Hand
- Folder 31: Rocky Mountain Moon
- Folder 32: Royal Garden Blues
- Folder 33: Sensation Rag
- Folder 34: Shimmy as my Sister Kate
- Folder 35: Shine
- Folder 36: Si tu vois ma mere
- Folder 37: Sleepy Time Down South
- Folder 38: Snake Rag
- Folder 39: Someday Sweetheart
- Folder 40: Someday You'll be Sorry
- Folder 41: Some of These Days - Demo
- Folder 42: St. Louis Blues March
- Folder 43: Joe Young-Gee Meyer, Sugar
- Folder 44: Sweet Substitute
- Folder 45: Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
- Folder 46: Take My Hand, Precious Lord
- Folder 47: What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- Folder 48: One-part pieces, A-Z
- Pieces that have only one part, including the Calgary South Rotary Club Welcome Song, Tummy Aching Blues, A Kiss to Build a Dream On, Asleep in the Deep, Buddy Bolden Blues, Black and Blue, Begin the Beguine, Do Lord, Every Time I Feel the Spirit, Firefly, Georgia Camp Meeting, Gimme that Old Time Religion, Go Down Moses, Go Tell it On the Mountain, High Society - Clarinet Solo, His Sheep Am I, Ice Cream, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, If I Had My Way, I'm Alone Because I Love You, In the Wee Small Hours of A.M., It's Me It's Me O Lord, I've Found a New Baby, Jazz Me Blues, Jesus We Want to Meet, Just a Little While to Stay Here, Kumbayah, Last Night on the Back Porch, Let There Be Peace on Earth, Liberty Bowl Stomp, Limehouse Blues, Memphis Blues, Minnie the 'Mermaid,NULL Old Man Time, Old Rockin Chair's Got Me, Over the Waves, Panama, Petite Fleur, Prelude - Bach, Rock-a-my Soul, Rotary Smith, September Song - Kurt Weill, Shine on Harvest Moon, Sing a Song of Peace, Slappin that Bass, Sleepy Time Down South, Smile, Some of these Days, Someday You'll be Sorry, Someday Sweetheart, South, Special Intro to Bourbon Street, Sweethearts on Parade, 'Swonderful, Tail Great Theme, The Old Rugged Cross, Wang Wang Blues, Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, When We Danced at the Mardi Gras, Whispering Hope, Wolverine Blues, Yellow Dog Blues.
- Folder 49: Jazz for Children program notes and sheet music, 1990s
- Folder 50: Published songbooks, 1926/1990
- Includes Illini Song Book (1926), Urbana Rotary Song Book (undated) and Fighting Illini Song Book (1990)
- Box 12: Oversized sheet music
- Folder 6: Oversized sheet music (1 of 2)
- Includes Semper Fidelis, South Rampart, When Day is Done, Peace, Wholly Nite, Praises to Rotary
- Folder 7: Oversized sheet music (2 of 2)
- The Lord is Listenin' To Ya', Hallelu! Includes all parts and full score, with multiple drafts.
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Series 1: Administrative correspondence],
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Series 2: Promotional material],
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Series 3: Concert planning notes, contracts and financial records, 1970-1995],
[Series 4: Sheet music],
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Series 5: Audiovisual materials],
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Series 6: Dan Perrino faculty and personal papers, 1977-2000],
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