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Teddy Wilson. side 1: Cheek to Cheek; side 2: You're My Favorite Memory (Musicraft 369), from the album, Teddy Wilson Plays (Musicraft N7).
78 rpm.

The cover art for this album was made by Art Seiden (1923-2004) an American artist and illustrator best known for his illustrations for children’s books. Seiden illustrated over 300 books and was author and artist for more than 20 children’s books.

Kid Rena's Delta Jazz Band. side 1: Panama; side 2: High Society Rag (Circle J-1037), from the album, Kid Rena's Delta Jazzband (Circle S-10).
78 rpm. These recordings were made at the Hotel Roosevelt and recorded by local radio station WWL on August 21, 1940.

Album design and typography was by Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst, 1920-1984), a German-born American painter.

Jelly Roll Morton. side 1: The Crave; side 2: Fickle Fay Creep (Circle JM-31/32), from the album, Jelly Roll Morton, Volume 4: The Spanish Tinge (Circle Limited Edition #306).
78 rpm.

This recording is part of a limited edition 45 twelve-inch record set, The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord. The set is comprised of interviews and musical performances of musician Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1890-1941) recorded by American ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax (1915-2002) at the Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, from May 23, 1938 to December 14, 1938. In the interviews, Morton recounts his experiences, both in New Orleans and on the road, as a popular musician of the early twentieth century.

The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord limited edition record set was issued by Circle Sound Inc., incrementally with two albums every three months, beginning in late 1947. The recordings were pressed on red vinylite. Album design and typography for this set was by Jimmy Ernst (born Hans-Ulrich Ernst, 1920-1984), a German-born American painter.

This sheet music is for the song “‘Till There Was You,” by Meredith Willson. It was published by Frank Music Corporation in New York, New York in 1957.

"Till There Was You" was featured in the musical The Music Man, with book, music and lyrics by Meredith Willson. The Music Man opened on Broadway on December 19. 1957 and starred Robert Preston, Barbara Cook, Eddie Hodges, and Pert Kelton.

This barrel organ was made by George Hicks in Brooklyn, New York, around 1858-1862. It is a barrel organ, with 8 tunes. This instrument has a pinned wooden barrel, with 35 keys, and 35 pipes. This barrel organ is hand cranked. Tune selection is made by a pointer on a dial.

Programmed to play popular songs and dance tunes like waltzes and polkas, barrel organs were equipped with loud sounding wooden organ pipes to provide entertaining music outdoors. The name of the instrument comes from the wooden barrel with protruding pins that rotates as the crank is turned; each pin activates a note to be played. As the barrel rotates, the positioning of the pins determines the sequence of notes played and hence the melody produced by the 35 organ pipes. While portable barrel organs were popularly used on the 19th century city streets of America, the idea of a pinned barrel system came from 14th century European clock mechanisms and large 18th century church organs.