Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love pose with Earl Burtnett and his Brunswick Orchestra and a huge replica of a disc containing the title song of the first MGM […]
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best in peace Mickey Moore (October 14, 1914 – March 4, 2013) above, with brother Pat below, on the set of 1921’s All Souls’ Eve, with Mary Miles Minter, director Chester […]
Laura La Plante, Marian Nixon and Ena Gregory ‘stand in’ with Carlyle Stevenson’s Bon-Ton Ballroom Orchestra on its visit to Universal Studios, c. 1924/5. The Stevenson band recorded several fine […]
a group of children of the Royal College of Music, with stringed instruments
First University of Kentucky woman’s band, directed by Elmer Sulzer, 1927 -1928
women’s jazz band (perhaps The Ingenues) on a ship, by Sam Hood
moonlight serenade
Meredith College girls on Old Campus, Raleigh, North Carolina (1910s?)
guess what city we’re headed to this weekend? hint… St Louis Cotton Club Band, photographed by Block Brothers Studio, 1925
and the unhappiest orchestra of 1927 is… from Saline, Louisiana