{"id":529,"date":"2016-12-01T04:45:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T04:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2025-11-20T21:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:00:39","slug":"skinner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/about\/collections\/specialcollections\/collections_descriptions\/skinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1272 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/12\/Bonzo-Goes-To-College-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"Plain cover of Bonzo Goes to College.\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/12\/Bonzo-Goes-To-College-259x300.jpg 259w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2016\/12\/Bonzo-Goes-To-College.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/h3>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Frank Skinner (1897-1968), born in Meredosia, IL, wrote several dozen film scores for Universal Studios during the period 1937-1966. These include <em>Son of Frankenstein<\/em> (1939), <em>Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein<\/em> (1948), Harvey (1950), <em>Bedtime for Bonzo<\/em> (1951), and <em>Man of a Thousand Faces<\/em>\u00a0(1957). His brother Wilbur Albert (Al) Skinner donated several hundred scores, recordings, and books in summer 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The collection includes 83 film scores (typically condensed conductor scores in black-line or diazo reproduction, with cue sheets affixed inside front covers) by Skinner. In addition, a group of privately produced 78-rpm records of Skinner\u2019s works (43 10-inch discs, presently grouped within 10 albums) includes performances of significant portions of Saboteur, Spring Parade, House of the Seven Gables, Arabian Nights, and Back Street, as well as individual selections from numerous other motion pictures.<\/p>\n<h2>Location \/Access<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Music and Performing Arts Library<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Selected commercial recordings, books, and scores not by Skinner, which may be located via the online catalog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>Sousa Archives and Center for American Music<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Bound film scores and privately-produced 78-rpm records of Skinner\u2019s works. Also see the finding aid <a href=\"https:\/\/archon.library.illinois.edu\/archives\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=11811&amp;q=skinner\">Music and Performing Arts Library Frank Skinner Movie Scores and Sound Recordings, 1937-1966<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Skinner scrapbook and newsletter clippings are described in Series 1, Box 6 of the finding aid\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/archon\/index.php?p=collections\/controlcard&amp;id=10705&amp;_gl=1*10azq2z*_ga*MTk5OTQ3OTMxOS4xNzYwMTEyMzE0*_ga_YKXZBYWM4X*czE3NjAxMjI4NjYkbzIkZzEkdDE3NjAxMjU4MTUkajIzJGwwJGgw\">Music and Performing Arts Library Small Special Collections, 1911-1981 Finding Aid<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Index terms<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ui-lib-list__no-bullets ui-lib-list__zero-left-pad\" >\n<ul>\n<li>Motion picture music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>See also<\/h2>\n<p>Wright, H. Stephen. \u201cThe Frank Skinner collection at the University of Illinois.\u201d In Cue Sheet 5:2, May 1988, p. 54-56.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Frank Skinner (1897-1968), born in Meredosia, IL, wrote several dozen film scores for Universal Studios during the period 1937-1966. These include Son of Frankenstein (1939), Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), Harvey (1950), Bedtime for Bonzo (1951), and Man of a Thousand Faces\u00a0(1957). His brother Wilbur Albert (Al) Skinner donated several hundred scores, recordings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/5328"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/mux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}