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{"value"=>"<p>This series documents the arrangements and songs Gore recorded, performed, or composed over the course of her career. It is in two divisions, Arrangements and Songs.</p> <p>The bulk of the series consists of musical arrangements recorded and/or performed by Gore between 1963 and 2014. These include material arranged for Gore's Mercury recording sessions, her later recordings, and live performances from the 1970s to 2009. The orchestrations range from studio orchestra or big band, to small rock ensembles with horn sections, to piano trio. Arrangers, who are credited in the container list when known, include Claus Ogerman, Al Capps, O.B. Masingill, Alan Lorber, Jimmie Haskell, Paul Leka, Robert Davie, Luther Henderson, John Lesko, and Mariano Longo. Gore may have written some arrangements herself. The content includes varying combinations of full scores, conductor-production scores, and parts. Most are arranged by title, with two exceptions: Four sets of parts are arranged by instrument, and filed under Band Part Books; and a set of Backing Vocal Arrangements. Both are filed at the end of the Arrangements, along with a chart list.</p> <p>The Songs are in three divisions: Those fully written and composed by Gore, those written in collaboration with other composers or lyricists, and those fully written and composed by others.</p> <p>Gore's songs consist of drafts of music and lyrics, and finished lead sheets, some produced by copyists. They include material written as early as 1964, but the bulk dates from the 1970s to the 2000s. The files contain unfinished music and lyric ideas in addition to finished songs.</p> <p>Gore's songwriting collaborators included Ellen Weston (with whom she created the most material), Benjy King, Michael Gore, Gloria Nissenson, Pat Resnick, Louis St. Louis, Howard Greenfield, and Lou Christie. In some cases, as with Weston, Gore composed the music, while in others (such as with her brother Michael), she wrote the lyrics. These files contain music and lyric drafts and finished lead sheets.</p> <p>Songs By Others consist of published sheet music and lead sheets with annotations, suggesting they were performed or recorded by Gore. Also present are three marked-up scripts for theater productions in which Gore performed in the 1960s: <span class=\"title\">Finian's Rainbow</span>, <span class=\"title\">Funny Girl</span>, and <span class=\"title\">South Pacific</span>. Box 67, folder 11 holds a list of sheet music held by Gore, not all of which was retained in the collection.</p>"}