- unitid
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{"value"=>"187982", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22252521", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Bailey 1981-10", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"circa 1950-1978", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1950/1978", "certainty"=>"approximate"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Charity Bailey audio and moving image collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"6 audio_recordings", "unit"=>"audio_recordings"}]}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"4 video_recordings", "unit"=>"video_recordings"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Charity Alberta Bailey (1904-1978) was a pioneering children's music educator, and the host of two children's television shows, <span class=\"title\">Sing a Song</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Here's Charity</span>. The collection consists of six audio recordings and four videos relating to Charity Bailey's career as a children's music educator dating from circa 1950 to 1978."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Bailey, Charity", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Charity Alberta Bailey (1904-1978) was a pioneering children's music educator, and the host of two children's television shows, <span class=\"title\">Sing a Song</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Here's Charity</span>.</p> <p>Bailey was nationally recognized for her use of folk music to teach children the elements of rhythm, melody, and folk dances. Her repertoire included folk songs from the Caribbean, South Africa, Scotland, and the American South. Her teaching methods included ear training; sight singing; and the use of percussion and simple tone instruments, such as the recorder. From 1954 to 1956, Bailey hosted <span class=\"title\">Sing a Song</span>, a musical television show for children, on New York City's WRCA-TV (now WNBC). In the late 1960s she hosted another children's television program, <span class=\"title\">Here's Charity</span>, on WNET-TV, New York, New York. Bailey also recorded albums of folk music for children, released on Decca Records, Smithsonian Folkways Records, and Young People's Records.</p> <p>Bailey was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1904. She studied at the Rhode Island College of Education, the Dalcroze School of Music, and Juilliard School of Music. She taught at Spelman College Laboratory Elementary School in Atlanta, Georgia, and at the Heathcote School in Scarsdale, New York, from 1959 to 1970. She was the music director at the Little Red School House in New York City for ten years. Bailey died at age 74 in New York.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of six audio recordings and four videos relating to Charity Bailey's career as a children's music educator dating from circa 1950 to 1978. They are organized chronologically, and then alphabetically by title. The collection's notable items include three videos of <span class=\"title\">Sing a Song</span> and one video of <span class=\"title\">Here's Charity</span>. The original format of the audio recordings was cassette, with many items containing two parts. Items are audio unless indicated otherwise. Square brackets indicate unclear spelling.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Jack White, 1981 and 1994.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Charity Bailey papers, Sc MG 71.</p> <p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Charity Bailey photograph collection [graphic], Sc Photo Charity Bailey Collection.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Collection inventoried by <span class=\"name\">Nathan Evans</span>. Collection processed and described by <span class=\"name\">Lyric Evans-Hunter</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p><span class=\"title\">Music Time: A Teaching Record with Charity Bailey</span>, Sc Audio RE-5105.</p>"}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"An anonymous donor funded preliminary processing for this collection. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported a research library-wide grant for the digitization, and funded the Schomburg for the description and production of the finding aid as part of The Next Century of Black Studies Project."}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Scope and content notes, and extent notes updated to facilitate public access by Lyric Benjamin-Hunter.", "date"=>"2026-05-27"}
- date_start
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1950
- keydate
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1950
- date_end
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1978
- date_inclusive_start
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1950
- date_inclusive_end
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1978
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Charity Bailey audio and moving image collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}