MLK Birthday, Obama Inauguration, Black History Month Specials at Music Memorabilia Show January 10, 2009

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MLK Birthday, Obama Inauguration, Black History Month Specials at Music Memorabilia Show
LPs, 45rpm, 78rpm, sheet music, photos, posters, books, magazines, etc.

Saturday - January 10th
Time: 10am to 2pm
Location: Tip Top Shoe Building, 155 West 72nd Street, 4th Floor,
New York, NY (near Broadway). Subway - Nos. 1, 2 or 3 to 72nd Street. Bus - Nos. 104, 7 or 11 to 72nd Street.
Admission: FREE
Information: (212) 579-0689, weekdays
Email: info@musiccollecting.com

This year Black History Month can be celebrated in January as well as February since January 15th is Martin Luther King's birthday, January 20th Barack Obama will be sworn in as our next president and February is, as usual, Black History Month. To commemorate these important occasions the Music Memorabilia Show will feature many rare jazz records of African American legends of African American legends on LP and 78rpm 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, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and many more. There is sheet music from the early 1900s and photos such as Diana Ross and the Supremes and many more. In addition there is a large, spectacular art piece of Martin Luther King with wife Coretta and Rosa Parks.

Other categories include rock and roll rarities of Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jim Morrison, The Beach Boys, The Who, The Rolling Stones, et al. Folk finds are there from Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, The Weavers, Ed McCurdy et al. Country legends include Webb Pierce, Bob Wills, Johnny Cash, Sons of the Pioneers 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, etc.

Over 10,000 items. From 1800s to 1980s.

Records - LPs (33 1/3 rpm), 45rpm, 78rpm - jazz, rock and roll, R & B - soul, blues, gospel-spiritual, soundtracks, theatre music, disco, pop vocals, country, folk, opera, classical, Latin, world music, TV-radio, comedy, spoken word, big bands, swing, instrumentals, Christmas and religious, sweet bands, sports, etc.

***Also sheet music, photographs, posters, magazines, books, etc.

Web site: http://www.musiccollecting.com