Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries (0434)Jennifer Mitchell, Archivist
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The collection is open for research.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Melvin Feldenheimer Collection, Ms2008-083, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Melvin Feldenheimer Collection was donated to the University Archives in Special Collections in 1997.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Melvin Feldenheimer Collection was completed in August 2009.
Melvin Feldenheimer graduated from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1944. While attending VPI he was the band leader of the Southern Colonels. The band became very popular following World War II and they toured the south under the name "Mel Felton and the Southern Colonels." In 1946 the band was featured on the radio station WCSC in South Carolina. A copy of this broadcast is included with the collection.
The collection consists of a recording of an August 1946 performance by Mel Felton and the Southern Colonels as well as materials from Melvin Feldenheimer's time as a cadet at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Materials include dance tickets, event programs, and two photographs. The collection also contains photocopies of newspaper clippings about Mel Felton and the Southern Colonels as well as a photocopy of a poster advertising a performance by the band. An article from the Fall 1997 Virginia Tech Magazine about the Southern Colonels is included as well as a letter praising the 1946 recording.
The collection is arranged by material type.
See the Mel Felton and the Southern Colonels Recordings, Ms2016-002 , also at Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech.
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