Stereo Embers The Podcast 0339: Jackie Clary (MTV News and Docs, Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie)

“Born To Archive”

Alright, so imagine this: The thing you do really well as a kid becomes your career. In the case of my guest today on the program, that’s exactly what happened. Jackie Clary is a born archivist. As a young girl growing up, she was a huge fan of Wham! and George Michael, and she started collecting ephemera that was related to them and their music. But it wasn’t just that—Jackie had a librarian like penchant for cataloging and preserving a lot of things that extended far past Wham! Jackie has had a really cool career and this list of her accomplishments is only a partial one, but one eI read through it, you’ll get the idea of what she’s done. She worked at Reelin’ In The Years, researching and cataloging a 20,000 hour strong cache of interview and music performance, she ran the tape library for ABC news affiliates, she worked for MTV News and Docs, produced the videos for the Roots Rhymes and Rage: The Hip-Hop Story at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and was the lead curator of the Hall’s first Teen Idols exhibit, she worked on a lot of DVDs, including Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, The Definitive Performances 1963-1987, The Temptations 1963-1972 and she interviewed Englebert Humperdinck for h is Greatest Performances DVD. She was the associate producer on the 12-DVD Merv Griffin box set, produced an oral history on Newport Beach’s Carden Hall School, and she worked as the archivist on documentaries by everyone ranging from Little Richard to the new movie Still: A Michael J. Fox. Jackie is the coolest and in this chat she talks about how her curatorial skills emerged early on as a kid packed the road to where she is now.

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