- Blind Boys of Alabama
Entry Corporate Name
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
- control field: 134638
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
- control field: DLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
- control field: 20211215094737.0
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- fixed length control field: 021219n| azannaabn |a ana c
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
- LC control number: no2002115082
- Canceled/invalid LC control number: no 92003379
- Canceled/invalid LC control number: no 98034809
- Canceled/invalid LC control number: n 2004065134
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
- System control number: (OCoLC)oca05937167
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
- Original cataloging agency: IArlh
- Language of cataloging: eng
- Description conventions: rda
- Transcribing agency: IArlh
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: OOC
- Modifying agency: DLC
- Modifying agency: OOC
046 ## - SPECIAL CODED DATES
- Start period: 1939
- Source of date scheme: edtf
110 2# - HEADING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Blind Boys of Alabama
368 ## - OTHER ATTRIBUTES OF PERSON OR CORPORATE BODY
- Type of corporate body: Musical groups
- Source: lcsh
370 ## - ASSOCIATED PLACE
- Place of residence/headquarters: Alabama
- Source of term: naf
372 ## - FIELD OF ACTIVITY
- Field of activity: Gospel music
- Source of term: lcsh
373 ## - ASSOCIATED GROUP
- Associated group: Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind
- Source of term: naf
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Five Blind Boys of Alabama
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: 5 Blind Boys of Alabama
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Original Blind Boys of Alabama
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Blind Boys (Musical group : Alabama)
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Happyland Singers
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Happy Land Jubilee Singers
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Happyland Jubilee Singers
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Happyland Gospel Singers
410 2# - SEE FROM TRACING--CORPORATE NAME
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Alabama Blind Boys
500 1# - SEE ALSO FROM TRACING--PERSONAL NAME
- Control subfield: r
- Relationship information: Member:
- Personal name: Fountain, Clarence
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: Its Higher ground, p2002:
- Information found: label (the Blind Boys of Alabama)
670 ## - SOURCE DATA FOUND
- Source citation: The Blind Boys of Alabama WWW Home page, Dec. 5, 2002
- Information found: (formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, founding members Clarence Fountain, Jimmy Carter and George Scott)
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- Source citation: New York times, Mar. 12, 2005
- Information found: (George Scott, 75, gospel group's baritone; d. Mar. 9, 2005, Durham., N.C.; b. Mar. 18, 1929, Notasulga, Ala.)
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- Source citation: People don't sing, p1973:
- Information found: label (Five Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: New Grove dict. of Amer. music:
- Information found: v. 2, p. 258 (Five Blind Boys of Alabama; organized 1939; led by Clarence Fountain)
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- Source citation: The Original Blind Boys of Alabama, p1980:
- Information found: label (Original Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: To mother [SR] p1973:
- Information found: label (The Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: All music guide, c1994
- Information found: (Five Blind Boys of Alabama; Black gospel quartet; by '40s became "The Blind Boys"; current lineup includes 7 names)
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- Source citation: Holdin' on [SR] p1997:
- Information found: label (The Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: Jesus rocked the jukebox, ℗2017:
- Information found: container (The Happyland Singers) insert (The Happyland Singers (aka, Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama); February 3, 1956, recorded Living for my Jesus and Swingin' on the Golden Gate (Specialty #894, 1956))
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- Source citation: Discogs WWW site, January 29, 2019
- Information found: (statement of responsibility on disc label of Specialty XSP-894: The Happyland Singers, also known as, Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: Grove music online, January 29, 2019
- Information found: (Blind Boys of Alabama (Happy Land Jubilee Singers); American gospel quintet formed by students at the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Alabama in 1939 to sing black religious quartet music; original members were Clarence Fountain, Johnny Fields, George Scott, Olice Thomas, and Velma Bozman Traylor; called the Happy Land Jubilee Singers until a concert promoter suggested the group change its name in 1948 in anticipation of a double bill concert with the already successful Five Blind Boys of Mississippi)
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- Source citation: Wikipedia, January 29, 2019
- Information found: (The Blind Boys of Alabama; American gospel group; first sang together in the school chorus in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in Talladega, Alabama; founding members were Clarence Fountain, Jimmy Carter, George Scott, Velma Bozman Traylor, Johnny Fields, Olice Thomas, and the only sighted member, J.T. Hutton; the earliest version of the group was known as "The Happyland Jubilee Singers" (or "Happy Land Jubilee Singers"); name changed to Five Blind Boys of Alabama in 1948; under entry for Jubilee quartet: "the Original Five Blind Boys of Alabama (formally [that is, formerly?] known as the Happyland Jubilee Singers)")
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- Source citation: Encyclopedia of American gospel music, 2005
- Information found: (Five Blind Boys of Alabama; formed 1937 at the Talladega (Alabama) Institute for the Deaf and Blind; founder/lead vocalist: Clarence Fountain; went professional by the early 1940s, sometimes billing themselves as the Happyland Gospel Singers, sometimes simply as the Blind Boys; their first recording, "I can see everybody's mother but mine," was issued in 1948 on the Savoy label; around 1950 the group settled on the name the Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: Oxford reference online, February 5, 2019:
- Information found: Encyclopedia of popular music, 4th edition (Five Blind Boys of Alabama; gospel group, formed at the Talladega Institute for the Deaf and Blind in 1937; original members: George Scott, John Fields, Olice Thomas, Velma Bozman Traylor, J.T. Hutton, and Clarence Fountain; originally known as the Happy Land Jubilee Singers; changed their name in 1948, due to the success of the Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, and again in the early 90s, opting for the Blind Boys of Alabama)
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- Source citation: OCLC #50537477, viewed February 6, 2019
- Information found: (The Alabama Blind Boys presents Mr. Clarence Fountain, alive in person)