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Allen Gillispie publishes the “Living Music” talking magazine, 1959

Also 1959 Living Music talking magazine · Allen Gillispie recorded magazine

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Locator map: Chicago highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at ChicagoLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date1959-08
WithinChicago
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Chicago highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at ChicagoLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
1959-08
Kind
Publication
Where
Chicago
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communicationpublicationmusiccommunity
Within
Chicago

Summary

The August 1959 Beaver Beacon describes Allen Gillispie, a Chicagoan and relative of island families, as publisher of Living Music, a 22-minute recorded magazine of popular and classical musical excerpts.

Evidence limits

The notice does not provide a recording, catalog, release history, or business record.

Sources

  1. Describes 28-year-old Chicagoan Allen Gillispie as publisher of “Living Music,” a 22-minute recorded magazine containing excerpts from popular and classical records. It does not provide a recording, catalog, release history, or business record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1959-08_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held five-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the talking-magazine notice; it does not expand the publication record.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1959-08_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Allen Gillispie publishes the “Living Music” talking magazine, 1959”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-living-music-talking-magazine-1959/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1959, "EDITS A TALKING MAGAZINE." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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