“THE END OF THE ROAD FOR KID TWIST”

“At the End of the Road”; Tom Waring and Waring’s Pennsylvanians; Ballard Macdonald; James F. Hanley; Victor (19602-A); 1925

“The End Of The Road”; Sir Harry Lauder; William Dillon; RCA Victor (9024-B); 1926

“Waiting At The End Of The Road”; Harold Lang; Irving Berlin; Pathe Actuelle (32484)

The New York Times, November 14, 1941

GUARDS DEMOTED IN RELES ESCAPE

Five to Get Departmental Trials on Laxity Charge – Mayor Orders Inquiry

…speculation mounted as to Reles’s motive in attempting to escape that admittedly afforded him a haven from an underworld enraged… it was known that Reles feared only one underworld figure, Albert Anastasia… He always did the weird, fantastic thing…
He could sing but couldn’t fly”…

“Waiting At The End Of The Road”; Kate Smith; The Harmonians; Berlin; Harmony (999-H); August 27, 1925

Long Island Daily Press, November 14, 1941, (Unidentified photographer)

FUNERAL. Mrs. Rose Reles, left, widow of the gangster, Abe Reles, who fell to his death from the window of a sixth floor room at the Half Moon Hotel in Coney Island, is helped to a car after attending the burial services yesterday in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale. She screamed incessantly during the rather sketchy ceremony.

“Waiting At The End Of The Road”; The Kay Starr Style; Irving Berlin; Harold Mooney; Capitol (15910)

New York Post, November 14, 1941, (Unidentified photographer)

THE END OF THE ROAD FOR KID TWIST

GRAVEDIGGERS finish covering all that is mortal of “Abe Reles… Died Nov. 12th 1941… Age 36 years, 6 months, 2 days…”

“End of the Road”; Jerry Lee Lewis With His Pumping Piano; Jerry Lewis; Sun (259); December 1, 1956