- unitid
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{"value"=>"24670", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b22900734", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"Sc MIRS Sharp 1993-16", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1964", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1964"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Bobby Sharp audio collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 audio_recording", "unit"=>"audio_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"=>"Bobby Sharp (November 26, 1924- January 28, 2013) was a singer, songwriter, and musician who was active during the 1950s and 1960s. The collection consists of one 7-inch record titled <span class=\"title\">Blues for Mister Charlie</span> recorded by Sharp, a special tribute to James Baldwin's 1964 play of the same name."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Sharp, Bobby", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Bobby Sharp (November 26, 1924- January 28, 2013) was a singer, songwriter, and musician. Sharp, born in Topeka, Kansas, was the son of concert tenor Louis Sharp. Sharp attended the Greenwich School of Music in 1946 and the Manhattan School of Music in 1948. His songs were recorded by artists such as Sammy Davis Jr. and Sarah Vaughan. His most notable song was <span class=\"title\">Unchain My Heart</span>, which was a hit record for singer Ray Charles in 1961, and the focus of a publishing rights lawsuit that Sharp won in the early 1970s. Sharp died at eighty-eight years old at a hospital in Oakland, California.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of one 7-inch record titled <span class=\"title\">Blues for Mister Charlie</span> recorded by Sharp, a special tribute to James Baldwin's 1964 play of the same name.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Bobby Sharp, April 1993.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>See the Photographs and Prints Division for the Bobby Sharp collection, Sc Photo Bobby Sharp Collection.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p>See the Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division for the following separated titles: <span class=\"title\">The Decorative Arts of Africa</span> (1973) by Louise E. Jefferson, Sc *745-J (Jefferson, L. Decorative arts of Africa); <span class=\"title\">My Spiritual</span> (1972) by Eva Jessye, Sc 784.7-J (Jessye, E. My spirituals); and <span class=\"title\">Mellows: A Chronicle of Unknown Singers</span> (1925) by R. Emmet Kennedy, Sc 784.7-K (Kennedy, R. Mellows).</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\">Ornella U. Baganizi</span>, archivist. Finding aid published in <span class=\"date\">2025</span>.</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."}
- date_start
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1964
- keydate
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1964
- date_end
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1964
- date_inclusive_start
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1964
- date_inclusive_end
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1964
- extent_statement
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1 audio_recording
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Bobby Sharp audio collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library"}