Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Mildred Arbor.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Arbor, Mildred, 1941-
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Stearns, Scott
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 45 min., 46 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Singer and performer Mildred Arbor was born on October 15, 1941 in Mississippi and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She attended Western Michigan University, where she met Bertha McNeal. In 1961, they formed a singing group called the Velvelettes, which included Arbor's younger sister, Carol Street; McNeal's cousin, Norma Fairhurst; and Street's friend, Betty Kelley. The group was signed to Motown Records in late 1962. From 1963 to 1967, the Velvelettes released a number of singles including the charting hits "Needle In A Haystack" and "He Was Really Sayin' Somethin', " and "These Things Will Keep Me Loving You," which became a hit in the United Kingdom. The Velvelettes disbanded in 1969 but reunited in 1984. They recorded the album One Door Closes in 1990, and Motown Records later released three more albums: The Very Best of the Velvelettes (1999), The Velvelettes: The Best Of (2001), and The Velvelettes: The Motown Anthology (2004).

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Mildred Arbor
• Mildred Arbor

Subjects

• Nonfiction films
• Internet videos
• Oral histories
• Interviews
• Singer
• African Americans > Interviews
• Arbor, Mildred, 1941- > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Scott Stearns.

OCLC

994208855

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Mildred Arbor.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

024546

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Scott Stearns.

Event

Recorded Flint, Michigan 2014 June 25.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Singer.

Added Author

Arbor, Mildred, 1941- interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Stearns, Scott, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.