GENE AUSTIN - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED CIRCA 1937 - HFSID 225624
Price: $200.00
GENE AUSTIN
Signed Autograph Sentiment on an album leaf, with a magazine photo
attached
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Sincerely/Gene Austin", 6x4 album leaf.
Magazine photo (b/w, 1x2) affixed in lower right. Pencil note (unknown hand) at
left edge: "Studio Theater Vine St. Mar. 7, 1937." 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. Binding holes at left edge. Adhesive residue on verso
(no show-through). Otherwise, fine condition.
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