I Am Selling my Memorabilia

I am selling my 160 storage boxes, trunks and filing cabinets filled with 75 years of thousands of photographs, letters, films, audio and video tapes, recordings (45s, 33s, 78s, CDs, DVDs), news stories and personal belongings. This eclectic collection of memorabilia can be purchased and then donated to a college collection's library or museum for a substantial tax credit. Or the various treasures could be sold on eBay for additional profits, as well as recouping the purchase price.

My original scripts from popular radio shows (Fred Allen, Norman Corwin, etc.) and recorded air checks would provide excellent source material for students in communications; ditto for music majors analyzing scores given to me by Henry Mancini, Fred Waring, Ray Anthony, David Rose, Charlie Spivak, Freddie Martin and other Big Bands and Orchestras of the 1940’s.

I also have interviews with Rod Serling ("Twilight Zone") on audio tape that are priceless; also an hour discussion with Henry Morgan (“To Tell the Truth”);  13 fifteen- minute filmed TV programs (never aired) featuring the late jazz pianist Dwike Mitchell (Mitchell/Ruff Duo); an hour interview with an inebriated Jane Fonda on audio tape; an hour interview with Shel Silverstein  (artist/author) and Helen Gurley Brown (Editor-in-Chief of  “Cosmopolitan”) on audio and video tape; over 1,500 radio and TV shows with celebrities, putting them on in the spirit of Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G).

      
Just a few of the notable ones spoofed were:  Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jenny Jones, Johnny Carson, Phil Donahue, Walter Cronkite, Groucho Marx, George Plimpton, Dick Cavett, Michael Palin and many others.  For general information on my background: www.abelraisescain.com

Finally, view the award-winning documentary on my past adventures, "Abel Raises Cain" - available from Netflix - It won Best Documentary at Slamdance Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, SNOB Film Festival and others in England, Canada Germany, Spain, China, New Zealand and Denmark.