GENE AUSTIN - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CIRCA 1935 - HFSID 280709
Price: $200.00
GENE AUSTIN
The crooner pens a note on the back of a meal ticket
Autograph Note Signed: "To Audrey/a pretty Girl/Sincerely/Gene
Austin", 3½x2½ card. Pencil date (unknown hand) in lower right corner:
"1935." Printed on verso is a printed Thank You from the Trocadero French Grill
and a price total of $1.20. American singer, songwriter and pianist Gene Austin
(1900-1972), one of the first "crooners," ran away from home and joined a
vaudeville act at age 15. After military service in France and Mexico during
World War I, he became one of the nation's most popular voices of the 1920s,
selling 80 million records (a total unmatched by any artist for 40
years). He wrote the popular standards "When My Sugar Walks Down the
Street" and "Why Do You Do Me Like You Do?" Hit songs he didn't write but
turned into big hits included "Bye Bye Blackbird" and "My Blue Heaven." The
latter record from 1928 sold over 5 million copies, a total unmatched until
Bing Crosby's "White Christmas." Austin appeared in three films with his friend
Mae West. Pencil light but legible. Mounting remnants on verso (no
show-through). Fine condition.
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