They had a factory outside of Philadelphia and one in Jersey, I think. And Milton used to travel for them. So after we were married several days – we had no honeymoon or anything – he had to go on a trip. While he’s away on the trip, the doorbell rings in my house, and th...
I completed it down in Philadelphia through Bunny Ziegler because I was trying to get that Philly sound. I was trying to get away from that New York sound. Although those cats from Philly were pretty much done by the time I started doing my thing but I still dug that Philly sound as ...
Yes,, I remember Tommy Flanagan too. I’ve heard Tommy Flanagan at a huge nightclub. One of the biggest nightclubs in the tri-state area was in Newport, Kentucky. And I think gangsters probably had it. It was so elaborate and so gorgeous. MARGARET COOPER: And Ella Fitzgerald was feature...
Decca (Eng.) Ace of Clubs ACL 303 Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge (WILSON QT., PAUL); Schubert: Die schone Mullerin--6 exc. (in English); songs of Sharp, Schumann (2), & anon. S. WILSON, MOORE. From 78s, 1929-30. A Decca (Eng.) Ace of Diamonds...
Dick Allen was one of the coolest to ever play.I never got to watch Dick Allen play, but he was always one of my favorites. The mutton chops, the glasses, the big swing and willingness to push back against a Philadelphia media that couldn’t accept a Black star. Allen passed away las...
His father, Bill, was an accomplished jazz musician. Spike would sometimes go with his father to the clubs where he played. By the time Lee was old enough to attend school, the already independent child had earned the nickname his mother had given him as an infant, Spike—an indirect ...
The Anglo-American Oil Company's iron hulled barqueAlcideswas a familiar sight on the USA-Japan-China run. At the turn of the century, many Old China Hands made their trip out to China in vessels such as these. Oliver Hall sailed on her from Philadelphia to Kobe, Japan, in 1909. ...
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