Johnny Rivers collection
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 15 sheet music arrangements and 3 vinyl LP records of American musician Johnny Rivers. These include the arrangements for the songs "Baby I Need Your Lovin'," "Positively 4th Street," "Better Life," "Brother Where Are You," "Right Relations," "Whiter Shade of Pale," "Mountain of Love," "Secret Agent," "Do What You Gotta Do," "Tune Smith," "Poor Side of Town," "Summer Rain," "Look to Your Soul," "Tracks of My Tears," and "California Dreamin'."
Dates
- Creation: 1964 - 1968
Creator
- Rivers, Johnny (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Johnny Rivers (born 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. His popular 1960s singles include "Memphis" (a Chuck Berry cover), "Mountain of Love" (a Harold Dorman cover), "The Seventh Son" (a Willie Mabon cover), "Secret Agent Man," "Poor Side of Town," "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" (a 1967 cover of the Four Tops single from 1964), and "Summer Rain."
Extent
1.563 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of 15 arrangements and 3 vinyl LP records of American musician Johnny Rivers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Johnny Rivers, December 30, 1968.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Subject
- Rivers, Johnny -- Archives (Person)
- Title
- Finding aid for the Johnny Rivers collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Marissa Chavez for History Associates Incorporated
- Date
- 2022 May
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Cinematic Arts Library Repository
Doheny Memorial Library G4
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0185 United States
ctlibarc@usc.edu