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Madonna Handwritten Lyrics For Unreleased Song “You Are The One.” This song was originally for the Rain Tapes, a collection of songs recorded by Madonna back in 1991 and 1992 during the recording of the Erotica album. The upbeat dance song was not used on the album, instead being abandoned.....
Musician, member of The Beatles. Harrisongs Ltd. business check, 7.5 x 3.5, filled out in another hand and signed by Harrison, "George Harrison" payable to David Tabb for £820.0.0, January 10, 1972. Double-matted and framed with a large color portrait of Harrison on stage as a member of the Beatles.....
[Black Panther], [Civil Rights] May Day Protest Poster from the Black Panthers New Haven Chapter, one of the most successful Black Panthers branches, featuring the music of Santana. "May 1 Rally, Music, People". Photocopied poster. New Haven, 1 May [1970]. Measures 16 1/4 x 11 inches. A poster for an.....
African American 1940's Jazz Club Photo Archive. This Archive of 16 photos, including two photos with souvenir paper Jazz club covers and 13 photos on five album pages of African American men and women at jazz clubs, including the Band Box in Chicago and the Cotton Club in Cincinnati. All.....
Porgy: A Play in Four Acts. Dorothy and DuBose Heyward. Doubleday, Page and Company: New York, 1927. First edition of first theatrical version based on the novel of Dubose Heyward. 203 pages. Measures 5 x 7.5 inches. Front and back boards with original orange wrappers, The Theatre Guild Library insignia.....
[African American- Film] Porgy and Bess Archive of 8 Movie Lobby Cards. Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1959. All cards measure 14" x 11". Includes six vibrant color movie stills. Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film starring notable Black actors and actresses Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey.....
[African American Film], [African American Music] Nat King Cole, Eartha Kitt, Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway... St. Louis Blues 1958 Movie Lobby Card Archive of 3 Original Lobby Cards. Paramount Pictures Corp., 1958. Each colorful lobby card measures 11" x 14". St. Louis Blues is a1958 American film broadly based on.....
Handbill for an Adam Clayton Powell event in Harlem. Handbill, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches;New York, 3 November 1968. A Harlem fundraiser event at the Renaissance Ballroom featuring the longtime congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., as well as soul music, a dance contest, and cash prizes, put on by.....
[African American- Music] Miles Davis Archive of 7 black and white press photos and 1 press manuscript. Columbia Records, 1985. Each press photo measures 10" x 8". Press manuscript measures 8.5" x 11". 6 pages. Three photos reflect the press manuscript, as they promote Miles Davis's album, "You're Under Arrest".....
[African American- Film] Car Wash Archive of 9 Movie Lobby Cards. Universal Pictures, 1976. Eight lobby cards measure 10" x 8', one Mexican lobby card measures 10" x 14". Includes eight black and white silver gelatin movie stills and one colorful Mexican lobby card. Car Wash is a 1976 comedy.....
[African American- Music], [African American- Film] A Man Called Adam Archive of 8 Black and White Movie Lobby Cards. Each measures 10" x 8". An Avco Embassy Film, A Trace-Mark Production, 1966. A Man Called Adam is a 1966 American drama musical film directed by Leo Penn and starring Sammy.....
Alan Lerner. An original My Fair Lady songbook signed by Lerner and Loewe. First Edition. Booklet measuring 12" x 9" inches. 30 pages. The original songs by Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe, initially made popular by a Broadway iteration of My Fair Lady, also became more iconic once Hepburn.....
Musician; Founding Member and keyboardist for The Doors. Signed check, on Raymond and Dorothy Manzarek heading dated Oct. 2, 1990. Signed "RD Manzarek". Manzarek has also written the payee in his hand "Capitol", the date, and the amount. In the memo line he has written "L.A. Woman." LA Woman was.....
French Composer. Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed, November 14, 1930, 1 page, on the back of a postcard. Dear Friend, your program seems very good to me, and your idea to give one or two records is excellent. Unfortunately, I have extremely difficult work at this time and I cannot assure.....
Collection of scored music with lyrics of African American gospel, spiritual songs, and plantation melodies: “Roll, Jordan Roll”, “The Gospel Train”, “Prepare Me, Lord”, “My Old Kentucky Home Good Night", etc. Ends with a three-page biography of the Williams’ group. Charles P. Williams of Holly Springs, Mississippi, organized this African-American.....
[African American- Music] Duke Ellington archive of 2 portraits. Associated Booking Corportation, n.d. Includes two black and white portraits of Duke Ellington. One photo measures 8" x 7" and the second photo measures 10" x 8". Duke Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz.....
Playbill from American folk opera "Porgy and Bess" composed by George Gershwin. Philadelphia, 1936. Measures 6 x 9 inches. 4 pages. Includes full production credits, cast list, scene synopsis and list of musical numbers. From the post-Broadway tour stop at the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia. The play featured a cast.....
HOWE, Julia Ward. Battle Hymn of the Republic. Printed in black on cream paper. 8” x 5” inches. Double-sided leaflet. Two poems by Julia Ward Howe printed on recto and verso, “Battle Hymn of the Republic” and “Suffrage Song.” “Battle Hymn…” a Union anthem in the Civil War, is rife.....
Songbook for “The Lone Girl Flyer”. Words and music by Jack O’Hagan. Melbourne: Allan’s Music Publishers, 1930. 7 pages. Heavy losses to back cover upper right corner, and tape repairs at binding. Surface loss to upper left corner of front cover. Song is dedicated to Amy Johnson, a pioneering woman.....
[African American- Music] Bob Marley playing an acoustic Guitar Original Poster. Measures 25" x 35.5". Robert Marley was a Jamaican singer and musician. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements of reggae, ska, and rocksteady, as well as his distinctive vocal and.....
Original vintage poster of Bob Marley singing in concert with microphone in one hand and his electric guitar on his neck. In very good condition.
[African-American Music] Sheet music from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Gershwin Publishing Corporation: New York, 1935. Measures 9 x 12 inches. 6 pages. Features the opening aria entitled "Summertime" in Gershwin's 1935 American folk opera Porgy and Bess. Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935.....
[Album] [Women College] Memory album with Gelatin silver print photographs, newspaper clippings, and rare mementos from a student graduating from Switzer Woman’s College, Class of 1907 in Itasca, Texas. 4 original black and white photos, approximately 4 x 3 in. “The Girl Graduate Her Own Book,” Designed and Illustrated by.....
[Women Eduation] [Music] Saroni, Herrman S. “The Twin Sisters. An Operetta, adapted to the use of Female Colleges, Schools, Exhibitions, &c.“ Musical Score. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 1888. 5.5 x 7.5 in. Original boards. 101 pages. “The Twin Sisters” is considered by some to be the first American operetta. The.....
[African American Music] Williams, John A. Night Song. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. First Edition, First Printing. 219 pages. Bound in tan hardcovers with a brown spine and black lettering. Tan and black dust jacket with orange and yellow lettering, and a powerful quote from James Baldwin. Dust.....