Music in the “Collyer Museum”

April 10, 2021
1947, PM


PM, April 1947

Turn Up ’98 Discs In Collyer Museum

“…Collyer had boasted the house contained 10 pianos. Fourteen have been found to date. Also:

Three radios.
Two organs.
Two violins.
An old fashioned gramophone.

The record collection had items that were a record-collectors dream, to wit:

Bugle Calls, by Chief Trumpeter Cassi of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. One side, 7-inch, 1898.

A recording of La Marseillaise, by Sousa’s Band. One side, 7-inch, 1898.

American Republic March, also by Sousa, 7-inch. One side, 1898.

A record of Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon for her Lover Who is Fur Away, by the American Quartet.”

1. “Bugle Calls, by Chief Trumpeter Cassi of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. One side, 7-inch, 1898.”:


Bugle Calls, Trumpeter Cassi (1898).

Bugle Calls of the Rough Riders in Their Charge Up San Juan Hill, Columbia (A180).

Bugle Calls of the Rough Riders in their Charge up San Juan Hill, Manhattan (638)

2. “A recording of La Marseillaise, by Sousa’s Band. One side, 7-inch, 1898.”:

La Marseillaise. Sousa’s Band. Victor (16514-B).

La Marseillaise. Sousa’s Band. Victor (17668-A)

La Marseillaise-National Air of France. Sousa’s Band. Victor (17668-A).

3. “American Republic March, also by Sousa, 7-inch. One side, 1898.”:

American Republic March, Columbia Band; Thiele. Columbia (A87), 1901.

American Republic March, Prince’s Band; Thiele. Columbia (A2223). 1917.

4. “A record of Round Her Neck She Wears a Yeller Ribbon for her Lover Who is Fur Away, by the American Quartet.”:

‘Round Her Neck She Wears A Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover Who is Fur, Fur Away). American Quartet; George A. Norton. Victor (18436-B).

‘Round Her Neck She Wears A Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover Who is Fur, Fur Away). American Quartet; George A. Norton. Victor (18436-B).

‘Round Her Neck She Wears A Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover Who is Fur, Fur Away). American Quartet; George A. Norton. Victor (18436-B).

‘Round Her Neck She Wears A Yeller Ribbon (For Her Lover Who is Fur, Fur Away). American Quartet; George A. Norton. Victor (18436-B).

“The Hard Life of Billie Holiday”

April 7, 2021
1945, PM


“Billie’s Blues, “Billie Holiday and her Orchestra; Billie Holiday, 1936.


Billie Holiday, Joe Guy, her trumpeter-husband, and Mister, her dog, photographed in Billie’s dressing room at the Downbeat Club. Photo by Skippy Adelman.

“One of the these days things will get better,” she sighed. “They’ll get better for everybody. We’ll all have a chance to eat and sleep in peace. I just know it will come about. It will take a long time, but it will come about. It won’t be in my lifetime, though. Oh, no, I’ll never profit by it.”

PM, 1945, Photos by Skippy Adelman.


“Why Was I Born?“, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, John Jackson, Lester Young, Joe Jones, Walter Page, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green, Oscar Hammerstein 2nd, Jerome Kern, 1937.


New York Post, 1945.


“I Must Have That Man!“, Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra, Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, John Jackson, Lester Young, Joe Jones, Walter Page, Buck Clayton, Freddie Green, Fields, McHugh, 1937.


Manhattan Phone book, 1940.


“Fine and Mellow,” Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, Frankie Newton, Billie Holiday, 1939.


Billie Holiday singing Strange Fruit. Billie says: “It depresses me every time I sing it. It reminds me of how Pop died. But I have to sing it. Things are still going on in the south.
PM, 1945, Photos by Skippy Adelman.


“Strange Fruit,” Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, Sonny White, Lewis Allan, 1939.

Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959).

“Shorty, the Bowery cherub, welcomes the New Year”

December 31, 2020
1945, Naked City, Sammy's Bowery Follies


Weegee, Naked City, 1945, pp. 148-149

Shorty, the Bowery cherub, welcomed the New Year…


“Shorty, the Bowery Cherub, New Years Eve at Sammy’s Bar,” 1943
Barth, Miles, Weegee’s World, New York: Bullfinch Press, 1997, p.139


“Shorty, the Bowery cherub, welcomed the New Year…”
Weegee, Naked City, New York: Essential Books, 1945, p. 148


“Shorty, the Bowery cherub, welcomes the New Year…”
Weegee, Naked City, Cincinnati, Ohio: Zebra Picture Books, 1948

“THIS IS IT!”

December 31, 2020
Sammy's Bowery Follies


Excerpt from World by Night, Mondo Di Notte, 1960, (Directed by Luigi Vanzi, Produced by Julia Film, in Technirama)

THIS IS IT! The sensation-filled motion picture that has smashed records all over Europe! It’s fantasterrific! Over two hours of entertainment with the most celebrated cabaret and night club acts in the world. World By Night. From burlesque to ballet. (Poster, presented by Warner Bros, 1961.)

“Photographer Dies”

December 29, 2020
1968

PHOTOGRAPHER DIES – Arthur Fellig, the famous photographer known as “Weegee,” who turned his experiences covering Manhattan police headquarters into the novel “Naked City”…