GLENN MILLER BAND (RAY EBERLE) - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 279848

RAY EBERLE
B/w publicity photo by James de Kriegsmann of big band vocalist and leader Ray Eberle in a checked jacket and tie and signed with "All My Very Best Wishes". This photo was taken after Eberle had left the Glenn Miller Orchestra and founded his own band.
Inscribed photograph signed "To Frank/All My Very/Best Wishes/Ray Eberle" in blue ink. B/w, 8x10 overall, 7½x8½ image, one surface. Photo by James de Kriegsmann of New York and General Artists Corporation. Captioned: "RAY EBERLE/and his Orchestra". Eberle (1919-1979, born in Mechanicville, New York) was a big band vocalist who sang with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s. His hits with the band include Moonlight Serenade (1939), Stairway to the Stars (1939), It's a Blue World (1940), The Nearness of You (1940), Fools Rush In (1940), A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1940), Imagination (1940) and Skylark (1942). After leaving Glenn Miller's band, he sang with Gene Krupa and appeared in several movies. After serving in the military, he formed his own band in 1945, which specialized in sweet dance material and light pop, especially the tunes of Glenn Miller. After this band folded, he joined Tex Beneke's Glenn Miller Orchestra before organizing a new band, which played the nightclub circuit until 1978. Lightly toned, creased and bowed. Pen skipped while writing signature, which is legible. Otherwise in fine condition.