Isn't this a lovely day --Puttin' on the Ritz --I used to be color blind --The continental --Let's call the whole thing off --Change partners --'S wonderful --Lovely to look at --They all laughed --Cheek to cheek --Steppin' out with my baby --The way you look tonight --I've got my eyes on you --Dancing in the dark --The carioca --Nice work if you can get it --New sun in the sky --I won't dance --(Ad lib) Fast dances --Top hat, white tie and tails --No strings --I concentrate on you -- I'm putting all my eggs in one basket --A fine romance -- Night and day --Fascinating rhythm --I love Louisa --(Ad lib) Slow dances --(Ad lib) Medium dances --They can't take that away from me --You're easy to dance with --A needle in a haystack --So near and yet so far --A foggy day --Oh, lady be good! --I'm building up to an awful letdown --Not my girl --Jam session.
Track Information:
1A1 Isn't This a Lovely Day.
1A2 Puttin' on the Ritz.
1A3 I Used To Be Color Blind.
1A4 The Continental.
1B1 Let's Call the Whole Thing Off.
1B2 Change Partners.
1B3 'S Wonderful.
1B4 Lovely to Look At.
1B5 They All Laughed.
2A1 Cheek to Cheek.
2A2 Steppin' Out with My Baby.
2A3 The Way You Look Tonight.
2A4 I've Got My Eye's On You.
2A5 Dancing in the Dark.
2B1 The Carioca.
2B2 Nice Work If You Can Get It.
2B3 New Sun in the Sky.
2B4 I Won't Dance.
2B5 (Ad Lib) Fast Dancer.
3A1 Top Hat, White Tie, And Tails.
3A2 No Strings.
3A3 I Concentrate on You.
3A4 I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket.
3A5 A Fine Romance.
3B1 Night and Day.
3B2 Fascinating Rythym.
3B3 I Love Louisa.
3B4 (Ad Lib) Slow Dances.
3B5 (Ad Lib) Medium Dances.
4A1 They Can't Take That Away from Me.
4A2 You're Easy To Dance With.
4A3 A Needle in a Haystack.
4A4 So Near And Yet So Far.
4A5 A Foggy Day.
4B1 Oh, Lady Be Good!
4B2 I'm Building Up to an Awful Letdown.
4B3 Not My Girl.
4B4 Jam Session.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-3792
Mercury.926
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
Mercury
General:
2 DISC SET, AUTOGRAPHED; Mercury: (MG C-1001--MG C-1004). Produced by Norman Granz. Performer(s): The musicians used are Flip Phillips, tenor saxophone ; Charlie Shavers, trumpet ; Oscar Peterson, piano ; Barney Kessel, guitar ; Ray Brown, bass ; and Alvin Stoller, drums.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
H. Edwin Jackson created this scrapbook of radio stars while living in Chicago, Illinois during the Great Depression.
Scope and Contents:
One homemade scrapbook created and compiled by H. Edwin Jackson. The book contains photographs, some autographed, news clippings, and commercially printed reproductions of photographs of numerous radio and entertainment personalities from 1933 forward. The arrangement of the book and its artwork was the creation of Jackson. Many pages have photographs and/or news items of additional personalities associated with the featured personality.
Subjects include: The Mills Brothers, Ruth Etting, Fred Allen with Portland Hoffa and Jack Smart, Lanny Ross, Phil Baker, Ireene [?] Wicker, The Pickens Sisters, Raymond, Knight, Clara (Louise Starkey), Lu (Isobel Carothers) n' Em (Helen King), Phil Harris and Leah Ray, Vera Van, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Gladys Swarthout, Jeanie Lang, Myrt and Marge, Helen Jepson, Jack Benny and Mary Livingston, Deanna Durbin, Helen Morgan, Jimmy Durante, Alexander Woolcott, The Boswell Sisters, Edwin C. Hill, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Paul Whiteman, Jessica Dragonette, Dave Rubinoff, Little Jackie Heller, Joe Penner, Mildred Bailey, Olga Albani, Vivienne Segal, Ed Wynn, Beatrice Lillie, Burgess Meredith, Dorothy Page, Bing Crosby, Rosa Ponselle, Stoopnagle and Budd, Grace Moore, Frank Crumit and Julia Sanderson, Frances Langford, Conrad Thibault, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard, Bobby Breen, Jack Pearl, The Big Show, Olsen (Ole Olsen) and Johnson (Chick Johnson), Ramona, Rudy Vallee, The Easy Aces, Annette Hanshaw, Ben Bernie, Alice Faye, Charles Winninger, Ray Perkins, Eddie Cantor, Irene Rich, The Weiner Minstrels, Frank Parker, Jane Froman, Walter O'Keefe, James Melton, Al Jolson, Donald Novis, Morton Downey, The First Nighter (Charles P. Hughes), Lawrence Tibbett, Fred Astaire, Abe Lyman, Ethel Shutta, Fanny Brice, Joe Cook, Ken Murray, Jack Oakie, Tony Wans, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians, Bob Burns, Don Ameche, Nelson Eddy, Ted Bergman, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Arrangement:
Collection is arranged into one series.
Biographical / Historical:
H. Edwin Jackson (1907-1989) was born in Union City, Indiana, the youngest of three children. Jackson's interest in entertainment personalities began early. His father was engaged in real estate and through a land swap acquired The Star Theater in Union City, one of the town's three theaters. The Star was a mid-size theater with a screen and stage. The Jacksons ran The Star as a family business. Jackson was the assistant projectionist to his older sister Mary Elizabeth and he and his father were the janitors. The Star showed silent movies starring such personalities as William S. Hart, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Charlie Chaplin, and Wallace Reid. During the influenza epidemic of the teens the theater closed. The family eventually sold The Star, and Jackson went to work as an assistant projectionist at The Grand, Union City's largest and most modern movie house.
When Jackson graduated from high school, the family moved to Chicago, Illinois. The Jackson family's first radio was "The Freshman" and the family eventually owned an Atwater Kent. Jackson became an avid radio fan listening to local Chicago stations WKYW, WENR, and WBBM as well as the national radio networks. Some of Jackson's favorite shows were The Shadow, Amos n' Andy and the Lux Radio Theater. Jackson was laid off from his job in 1933 and spent a great deal of his time listening to radio. His mother gave him money to purchase materials to make a scrapbook of radio and entertainment personalities. He began his book in January 1933, entitling it "Ed Jackson's Book of Radio Personalities." Jackson wrote to many of the personalities he featured in his scrapbook asking for autographed photographs which he put into the book along with clipped photographs and other items of interest from magazines and newspapers, radio show ticket stubs, and programs. Jackson included comics, singers, commentators (both news and social), and stars of popular radio programs. He revised/repaired the book in January, 1982 but Jackson did not detail his revisions.
Jackson was employed by the Lindberg Steel Treating Co. in Melrose Park, Illinois, for thirty years. He married Louise LaJeunesse in 1935 and had two children. Louise died in 1947, and Jackson married Eugenia McDougald in 1951. At the time of his death in December 1989 he was living in Walden, New York.
Sources
Oral History by H. Edwin Jackson, Archives Center Control File
Memorial Obituary for Edwin Jackson, The Newburgh News, December 14, 1989.
Bello, Paul. "Local scrapbook to be displayed at the Smithsonian". Times Community Papers, May 17, 2006.
E-mail message from Annette Smith to Cathy Keen, June 2, 2009.
Related Materials:
Materials in the Archives Center
George H. Clark Collection Radioana Collection, 1880-1950 (NMAH.AC.0055)
Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: Radio, Motion Pictures, 1896-1963 (NMAH.AC.0060)
National Bureau of Standards Radio Collection, 1917-1933 (NMAH.AC.0217)
Jean Clairmook Radio Scrapbook, 1930-1932 (NMAH.AC.0674)
Provenance:
Donated to the National Museum of American History, Archives Center by Annette L. Smith (H. Edwin Jackson's daughter) in June, 2004.
Donated to the Archives Center by Edwin Jackson's daughter, Ms. Annette Smith.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but is stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
The largest part of Astaire music is songs from movies. Sheets are in alphabetical order by song title, not movie title.
Series Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Series Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Includes: "Blue without You" and "Just Like Taking Candy from a Baby," both with music by Astaire, and "I'm Building Up for an Awful Letdown" from the London musical Rise and Shine. The cover photo for "My Croony Melody" shows Astaire at about age fourteen, with his older sister Adele.
Series Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Series Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Series Citation:
The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Durations on labels. The moon shines on the moonshine / Francis De Witt and Robert Hood Bowers --Second-hand Rose / James F. Hanley --Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean / Ed Gallagher and Al Shean --I'll build a stairway to paradise / Ira Gershwin and George Gershwin --A cup of coffee, a sandwich and you / Al Dubin and Joseph Meyer --Doin' the new low-down / Jimmy McHugh --Moanin' low / Howard Dietz and Ralph Rainger --Shine on, harvest moon / Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth --On the sunny side of the street / Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh --Hoops ; Paree / Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz --Anatole of Paris / Sylvia Fine --Are you havin' any fun? / Jack Yellen and Sammy Fain --South American way / Al Dubin and Jimmy McHugh.
Track Information:
101 The Moon Shines On The Moonshine / Bert Williams. Vocals. English language.
102 Second Hand Rose / Brice, Fanny. English language.
103 Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean / Al Shean, Ed Gallagher. English language.
104 I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise / Paul Whiteman. English language.
105 A Cup of Coffee a Sandwich and You / Gertrude Lawrence. English language.
106 Doin' the New Low-Down / Bill Robinson, Don Redman. English language.
201 Shine On, Harvest Moon / Ruth Etting. English language.
107 Moanin' Low / Libby Holman. English language.
202 On the Sunny Side of the Street / Harry Richman, Jack Golden. English language.
203 Hoops / Adele Astaire, Fred Astaire, Leo Reisman. English language,French language.
204 Paree / Beatrice Lillie. English language.
205 Anatole of Paris / Danny Kaye. English language.
206 Are You Havin' Any Fun? / Ella Logan. English language.
207 South American Way / Carmen Miranda. English language.
Local Numbers:
FP-RINZ-LP-0293
New World.215
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York New World 1977
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: New York (N.Y.), United States, New York.
General:
"At head of title: Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc." Songs from musical revues and comedies. Original serial no. and program notes by George Oppenheimer ([4] p. : ill.) bound in container. Performer(s): Various performers. Production notes: Recorded 1919-1942.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
