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The Joe Negri archives consist of the collection of manuscripts, recordings, memorabilia, and original hand-written scores that document the life, work and influence of jazz musician and composer Joe Negri. The collection was donated by Negri in 1999 to the Center for American Music within the University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh. It became the 1,000th collection at the ULS to have an electronically-accessible "finding aid" (i.e., a guide that describes the contents of an archival collection and creator). The holdings of the archives include recordings, memorabilia and original composition scores.

Finding aids
The 161-page aid lists and describes the contents of the Joe Negri collection for the purpose of locating specific items in the collection. The finding aids allow for the efficient work for scholarly research on this collection and others held by Pitt's University Library System. Kathryn Miller Haines was responsible for cataloging each item in the collection with editorial reviews. The finding aid describes the collection's content by box, folder and item level.

Contents
The contents of the collection include: Class notes from his music studies at Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), recordings, manuscripts, correspondence, recordings and other assorted holdings.

Examples in the collection:
 * Radio & TV Jingles
 * Commissioned Compositions
 * Compositions co-written with Robert J. McCully
 * Compositions written for the Beck's Charter Oaks Shows
 * Compositions written for the Poetry Forums
 * Compositions written for films
 * Early Compositions and those created for College
 * Compositions written for the River City Brass Brand
 * Lyrics

Companies that commissioned work

 * McDonald's
 * Alcoa
 * Eat and Park
 * Landmark Savings
 * Monoreville Mall
 * West Penn AAA
 * Kaufmann's
 * Kilowatt – OHM – Electricity
 * Sun Drug
 * Westinghouse Electric Corporation
 * Thrift Drug
 * Waterford Park
 * Horne's Warehouse*U.S. Steel guitar*Concord Savings and Loan*Duquesne Light Company*Westland Milk*
 * Gimbel's Department Store

Film work
Joe Negri's original manuscripts of the compositions he wrote for short films and documentaries are also part of the archives:
 * Air Pollution Film (WTAE-TV)
 * ALOA History of Aluminum (ALCOA)
 * Amazons Film (WTAE-TV)
 * Consol Film (Consolidated Coal Company)
 * Heart of the Law (WTAE-TV)
 * Our Native Quarters (WTAE-TV)
 * Shalom Film (WTAE-TV)
 * Tin Whistle (WQED)
 * To Give a Hand (Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel)
 * To Give a Hand (Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel)
 * Ventroux Film (State of West Virginia)

Recordings

 * "Bluesville"
 * "Caprice Vienouse Singing Strings"
 * KDKA Christmas Music
 * WTAE Christmas Show
 * WTAE Xmas Show 1964
 * "Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts Show"
 * "Summer Sounds"
 * WTAE Easter Seals Music
 * Film Title - "The Boy Who was Half Past Three" Produced for the Easter Seals Society by (WTAE-TV) Music Composed by Joe Negri - Arranged by Kloman Schmit Classical Guitar Joe Negri Cello Allan Sher* Flute & Piccolo Ethan Stang
 * (Minor mode Em) Waltz Theme -
 * Mr. Stang & Mr. Sher were members of the Pittsburgh Symphony
 * [Untitled Reel to Reel for WTAE-TV]
 * "Flying Home"
 * "The Girl Next Door"
 * "Guitar with Love"
 * Commercial recording
 * 1. Lazy Day
 * 2. The Boy (Girl) Next Door
 * 3. Spring in Manhattan
 * 4. Harlequin **
 * 5. Django
 * 6. A Felicidade
 * 7.The Tiny Whistle
 * 8. A Time for Love
 * 9. Serenata
 * 10. 'Round Midnight
 * 11. Watch What Happens
 * 12. After Today
 * "Hamps Boggie/If I Had You," September 21, 1945
 * "How High the Moon", Pennies from Heaven, Marvelous for Words, Penthouse Serenade; Recorded by Joe Negro Trio.
 * "Jazz Quintet"
 * side one: All God's Children Got Rhythm, Autumn Leaves, Flight of the Bumble Bee
 * side two: Cherokee Jolly-Joe
 * "Joe Negri Trio"
 * blank record. Both sides marked Joe Negri Trio, early '50s.
 * "Lisa"
 * blank record. 2nd side marked "stage fright"
 * "Ma Leguena"
 * KQV Air check on Soundcraft
 * "Minute Waltz," October 21, 1948
 * Guitarist Joe Negri KDKA "Singing Strings" Program, Aircheck
 * "Porto Bay"
 * Joe Negri Trio on 45 rpm Audiodisc blank recording
 * "Sunny Side of Street," September 21, 1945
 * Duodisc recording, 78 rpm. Joe & Bob Negri
 * "They'll Never Be Another You/Summertime"
 * Fremont 1-7800 Audio-Video Company, Wilkinsburg. 78 rpm disc
 * "This is No Ordinary Girl"
 * Telaword Records, 78 rpm disc. Recorded by Lennie Martin at Carlton House, Pittsburgh
 * "Tico, Tico/ Nancy with the Laughing Face," September 21, 1945
 * Performance by Joe and his brother Bob on September 21, 1945. Presto record
 * "Trimacki in Concert," 1940s
 * Joe Negri Trio. Audiodisc recording disc
 * "Woman of Stone", "I Like the Girls." Music by Joe Negri, Lyrics by Bob McCully from Beck's Summer Shows
 * "Yesterdays"
 * 2nd Side "Stagefright" solo by Joe Negri
 * "The Girl Next Door"
 * Bell Sound Stereo, New York.
 * Side I:
 * 1. The Girl Next Door
 * 2. Spring in Manhattan
 * 3. Lazy Day
 * 4. Harlequin
 * 5. Django
 * 6. Felicidad
 * Side 2:
 * 1. After Today
 * 2. A Time for Love
 * 3. Tin-Whistle
 * 4. Round About Midnight
 * 5. Watch What Happens
 * 6. Serenata