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Special Collections and Archives
SONNY BURKE
researched by Music Librarian Christopher Popa
The official repository of Sonny Burke materials is his alma mater, Duke University in Durham, NC, where he graduated in 1937.
Their "Sonny Burke Papers," which they acquired 50 years later, include "76 complete big band charts."
Other memorabilia, such as the letter shown below which Burke wrote while President of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) in 1961, is held by private collectors.
sources:
Guide to the Sonny Burke Papers, http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/burke/inv/
?DwebQuery=sonny%2520burke
Lois Schultz. "Biographical Note," http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/burkebio.htm, Jul. 23,
1996.
---. "The Papers of Sonny Burke," http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/burketp.htm, Jul. 23, 1996.
