Music Memorabilia Show

Celebrates Black History

 

January 10, Tip Top Shoe Building, Find

LPs, Photos, Posters, Books & More

FOR 12/26 MLK BIRTHDAY, OBAMA INAUGURATION, BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPECIALS AT MUSIC MEMORABILIA SHOW W/1CUT

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NEW YORK CITY — The Music Memorabilia Show will fill the fourth floor of the Tip Top Shoe Building, 155 West 72nd Street, Saturday, January 10, from 10 am to 2 pm.

Black History Month can be celebrated in January as well as February this year; January 15 is Marin Luther King’s birthday (celebrated January 19), and on January 20 Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States.

To commemorate these important occasions, the Music Memorabilia Show will feature many rare jazz records of African American legends on LP and 78 rpm, featuring Miles Davis, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and many others. Also, there will be blues records by W.C. Handy (“Father of the Blues”), Ray Charles, Little Brother Montgomery, Taj Mahal, Josh White, B.B. King, et al.

There will be doo-wop records, rhythm and blues of Aretha Franklin, James Brown, The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Junior Walker, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye and other Motown favorites.

Comedy LPs of Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley, Slappy White and others, plus jazz concert posters of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and many more will be available.

There is sheet music from the early 1900s and photos such as Diana Ross and the Supremes. In addition, there is a large, spectacular art piece of Martin Luther King with his wife, Coretta, and Rosa Parks.

Other categories include rock and roll rarities of Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Jim Morrison, The Beach Boys, The Who and the Rolling Stones. Folk finds are there from Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, The Weavers and Ed McCurdy.

Country legends include Johnny Cash, Sons of the Pioneers, Webb Pierce, Bob Wills and many more. Big bands are represented by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Stan Kenton, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and Quincy Jones. There is opera and classical music, plus reggae from Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff. In all, there will be more than 10,000 items from 1800s to 1980s.

For additional information, www.musiccollecting.com or 212-579-0689.