The HistoryMakers video oral history with Shelley Fisher.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Shelley Fisher.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 33 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Fisher, Shelley, -- 1942- -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11337201

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Shelley Fisher Shelley Fisher
Other authors / contributors:	Fisher, Shelley, 1942- interviewee. Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. Recorded Las Vegas, Nevada 2013 November 23. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Singer and pianist Shelley Fisher was born on April 6, 1942, in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He studied music at Roosevelt University's Chicago Conservatory of Music, and received his A.A. degree in music education and social science from Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1963. Fisher became the featured vocalist for the Morris Ellis Orchestra in Chicago, and went on to perform with Stevie Wonder. In 1985, Fisher launched Vantown Productions, Inc., a publishing and production company that published Jimmy Randolph's Plainsville, USA, The Valentine Brothers' King Size Bed, and Garland Green's Girl, I Love You. From 1978 through 1999, Fisher worked abroad in Japan, Canada and Europe. In 2000, he moved to Las Vegas, where he also performed. Fisher recorded and performed with Earth, Wind & Fire; The Dells; Eartha Kitt and B.B. King. He also recorded two full-length CDs: Driving Home in 2003, and Stories in 2004.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 33 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color. 033348
Playing Time:	03:33:48
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey.