GUIDE TO THE
JOHN RAO JR. WESTERN ENTERTAINERS COLLECTION, 1900-1972
JOHN RAO JR. Collection, 1900-1972.
8.2 cubic feet (4 document boxes, 6 sound recording boxes, 2 flat boxes, 4 oversized folders).
Location: 0474-0476; 0657-0658; 0669-0670; Flat File 2, Drawer 4.

BOX/ FLR		TITLE/DESCRIPTION
SERIES 6: SOUND RECORDING DISC SLEEVES, n. d.
003/001		Disc Sleeves, 7 inch, (Sound Recording Disc Box 5 part I)
003/002		Disc Sleeves, 8 inch, (Sound Recording Disc Box 5 part II)
003/003		Disc Sleeves, 8 inch, (Sound Recording Disc Box 6, part I)
004/001		Disc Sleeves, 8 inch, (Sound Recording Disc Box 6, part II)
004/002		Disc Sleeves, 8 inch, (Sound Recording Disc Box 7)
004/003		Disc Sleeves, 8 inch, (Sound Recording Disc Box 8)
BOX/ FLR	CATALOG #	TITLE	PUBLISHER	DATE	COMPOSER
SERIES 7: SHEET MUSIC AND SONGBOOKS, 1900-1952
011/001	82.17.594	Oh Dem Golden Slippers	Calumet Music Co.	1935	Arr. by Nick Manoloff
011/002	82.17.595	You're the Only Star (In My Blue Heaven)	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc.	1938	Gene Autry
011/003	82.17.596	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer	St. Nicholas Music Inc.	1949	Johnny Marks
011/004	82.17.597	Home on the Range	Harold Flammer Inc.	1938	Stanford King
011/005	82.17.598	I Wish I had Never Met Sunshine (And Sunshine Had Never Met Me)	Golden West Melodies, Inc.	1945	Oakley Haldeman, Gene Autry, Dale Evans
011/006	82.17.599	South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc.	1939	Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr
011/007	82.17.600	Mister and Mississippi	Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Inc.	1951	Irving Gordon
011/008	82.17.601	Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane)	Western Music Publishing Co.	1947	Gene Autry & Oakley Haldeman
011/009	82.17.602	Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen)	Miller Music Corporation	1951	John Redmond, James Cavanaugh, Frank Weldon
011/010	82.17.603	Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails (Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen)	Miller Music Corporation	1951	John Redmond, James Cavanaugh, Frank Weldon
011/011	82.17.604	That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1932	Jimmy Long & Gene Autry
011/012	82.17.605	Gene Autry's Sensational Collection of Famous Original Cowboy Songs and Mountain Ballads	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1932
011/013	82.17.606	Gene Autry's Book No. 2 Famous Cowboy Songs and Mountain Ballads	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1934
011/014	82.17.607	Gene Autry's Deluxe Edition of Famous Original Cowboy Songs & Mountain Ballads	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1938
011/015	82.17.608	Songs Gene Autry Sings	Western Music Publishing Co.	1942
011/016	82.17.609	Sgt. Gene Autry Presents His Favorite Patriotic and Hillbilly Songs	Western Music Publishing Co.	1943
011/017	82.17.610	Gene Autry and Jimmy Long Cowboy Songs, Mountain Ballads	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1935
011/018	82.17.611	Smiley Burnette Cowboy and Western Songs	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1938
011/019	82.17.612	Tex Ritter Song Folio with Scenes from Columbia Pictures	Western Music Publishing Co.	1941
011/020	82.17.613	Deluxe Edition Tex Ritter Cowboy Songs, Mountain Ballads	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1941
011/021	82.17.614	Tom Mix Western Songs	M. M. Cole Publishing Co.	1935
011/022	82.17.615	Buck Jones Songs of the Western Trails	Chart Music Publishing House Inc.	1940
011/023	82.17.616	Original Songs The Texas Rangers Sing	Midland Music Company	1946
012/001	82.17 .702	Arrah Wanna	FB Haviland	1906	Jack Drislane & Theodore Morse
012/002	.703	At the Wild Bully Wooly Wild West Show	Maurice Abrahams Music Co.	1913	Edgar Leslie, Grant Clarke & Maurice Abrahams
012/003	.704	The Cowboy March and Two-Step	The Kings & Queens of the Range Pub. Co.	1900	Wm. B. Fassbinder
012/004	.705	Cowboy Songs- Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along LIttle Doggies, The Little Old Sod Shanty, When The Work Is Done Next Fall, Zebra Dun, The Tenderfoot, Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie	Pacific Coast Borax Co.	1934
012/005	.706	Cowboy Sue	Eastman & Murphy Music Co.	1911	Mel Eastman & Bert Murphy
012/006	.707	Neath the old Acorn Tree Sweet Estelle	Hitland Music Pub. Helf & Hager	1907	C. M. Denison & J. Fred Helf
012/007	.708	Home on the Range	Calumet Music Co.	1935	Nick Manotoff
012/008	.709	I'm a Yiddish Cowboy "Tough Guy Levi"	Ted S. Barron Music Co.	1908	Leslie Mohr, Al. Piantados & Halsey K. Mohr
012/009	.710	Laughing Water	Sol Bloom	1903	Frederick W. Hager
012/010	.711	Look Out the Window (The Winter Song)	Choice Music Inc.	1949	Lew Porter & "TeePee" Mitchell
012/011	.712	Meet Me at the Round Up Song "Ride 'Em Cowboy" dedicated to the cityof Pendleton OR	Chas. S. Guilford	1924	Chas. S. Guilford & Emil Bierggren
012/012	.713	Mister and Mississippi	Shapiro Bros. & Co.	1951	Irving Gordon
012/013	.714	My Pony Boy	Jerome H. Remick & Co.	1909	Bobbie Heath & Charlie O'Donnell
012/014	.715	Navajo (Navaho) Indian Characteristic March & Two-Step	Shapiro Bros. &Co.	1903	Egbert Vanalstyne
012/015	.716	Old Faithful	Shapiro Bernstein & Co.	1934	Michael Carr & Hamilton Kennedy
012/016	.717	On the Arizona Trail & On a Little Balconey in Spain	Phil Kornheiser, Inc.	1930	Dave Oppenheim & Al. Piantadosi
012/017	.718	Pretty Little Rainbow-an Indian Love Song	Joe Morris Music Co.	1919	Robert Levenson & Vincent C. Plunkett
012/018	.719	Pride of the Prairie (Mary)	Jerome H. Remick & Co.	1907	Harry Breen & George Botsford
012/019	.720	Silverheels Indian Intermezzo-Two Step	Jerome H. Remick & Co.	1905	Neil Moiret
012/020	.721	The Sun Dance Song	Sol Bloom	1903	Hugh Willing & Leo Firedman
012/021	.722	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine	Shapiro Bernstein & Co.	1913	Ballad Macdonald & Harry Carroll
012/022	.723	The Trail of the Lonesome Pine	Shapiro Bernstein & Co.	1913	Ballad Macdonald & Harry Carroll
012/023	.724	Your Cheatin' Heart	Fred Rose Music Co.	1952	Hank Williams
012/024	.725	West of the Great Divide	M. Witmark & Sons	1924	Alice Terry & Conway Tearle
012/025	.726	It's My Lazy Day	Stevens Music Co.	1945	Smiley Burnette

JOHN RAO JR. COLLECTION: ADDENDUM
Correspondence to Larry Smith, photograph signed by Gene Autry and newspaper clipping comprise the addendum to the John Rao Jr. collection. The correspondence consists of 2 brief thank you notes written in 1982 by John Rao Jr., an autographed Gene Autry and John Rao Jr. photograph, and newspaper clipping featuring John Rao Jr., 1981.
Container List
BOX/ FLR	TITLE/DESCRIPTION
001/016	Clippings, Lifetime of Gene Autry Memorabilia donated to Cowboy Hall of Fame,1981
001/018	Correspondence, John Rao Jr. to John Smith, 1982
002/039	Photograph, Gene Autry to John Rao Jr., n. d. "To John from Gene Autry" & "To Larry Smith my best always From John Rao Jr."