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JUDY GARLAND SHOW, THE (1963-64)

The Judy Garland Show [Hollywood] CBS, 1963. Vintage original 7 x 9″ (17 x 22 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photo, USA. Judy Garland, dir: George Schlatter, CBS.

With her phenomenal concert success, billboard charted records, Grammys, film work with an Academy Award nomination and TV specials, Judy was ready for her own television series in 1963. There was one season, but to this day it represents the finest of the musical variety television format including iconic moments.

This photo advertised the broadcast of the first show in Sept. 1963, FINE.

JUDY GARLAND | I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963) Set of 2 UK photos

I Could Go On Singing (1963) [England] United Artists (1963) Set of two (2) vintage original 10 1/2 x 13 1/2″ (26 x 34 cm.) single weight glossy silver gelatin print still photos, UK. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, dir: Ronald Neame, United Artists.

Riding the wave of another surge in her success due to epic concert touring, Judy again returned to filmmaking in the early-1960s. Venturing to England to work on this semi-autobiographical film, Judy performed as she did live at the famed Palladium.

In these two images she performs the title song. FINE.

LOU REED (ca. 1970s) Set of 4 UK photos

London: London Features International, [ca. 1973-1978]. Set of four (4) vintage original 8 x 10″ (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white photos, UK. NEAR FINE. Four photos of Lou Reed from the 1970s, all documenting his performances in the U.K. One of them, which is identified by text on verso as from a September 1973 appearance “at the Crystal Palace pop concert”, shows Lou in his glitter persona. Each photo bears the stamp of a different photographer on verso: Chris Walter, Simon Fowler, Elaine Bryant, and Michael Putland.

10 LGBTQ PERFORMERS IN THE 1970’S

Written by Bolen High on . Posted in Featured, LGBTQ Cultural History.

The 1970’s saw a rising tide of LGBTQ performers that “came out” to express their unique take on music, theater and sexual (transgender) identity. Here are 10 of those performers from our LGBTQ Collection and a brief look at what they contributed to the movement and to our culture.

SINCERELY YOURS (1955) Half sheet poster

Vintage original 22 x 28″ (56 x 71 cm.) half sheet poster, USA. Liberace, dir: Gordon Douglas; Warner Brothers. Hollywood: Warner Brothers, 1955. Lightly machine-folded (as issued), JUST ABOUT FINE. Liberace’s one starring movie role as a concert pianist struggling with deafness while pursuing a romantic relationship, but eventually settling on[…]

EVENING WITH CASSELBERRY & DUPREE, AN (May 30, 1980) Poster

(LBGTQ music) “UC Berkeley The Gay People’s Union proudly presents: An Evening with CASSELBERRY & DUPREE plus special guest STEVEN GROSSMAN” (May 30, 1980) Vintage original 17 x 11″ (43 x 27 cm.) musical performance poster. Slight marginal creasing, just about fine.

The text to the right of the photo of Casselberry & DuPreé reads: “Our music comes from the many places we’ve been to as Black women and Lesbians in America. We want to sing, we want to be heard, we want you to listen.”

The two met in high school and had already been performing for a few years when they did this 1980 concert for the Gay People’s Union at UC Berkeley.

Steven Grossman (September 1, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York – June 23, 1991 in San Francisco, California) “was a singer-songwriter from the early 1970s whose debut (and until 2011, only) album Caravan Tonight (1974) is distinguished as being the first album dealing with openly gay themes and subject matter to be released on a major label (Mercury Records). Stephen Holden of Rolling Stone hailed it as ‘one of the most auspicious singer-songwriter debuts of the ’70s.'” (Wikipedia)

LIBERACE / NANUET [NEW YORK] THEATRE-GO-ROUND, JULY 29-AUGUST 3, 1974

Vintage original 22 x 14” window card, poster, USA. Corner pinholes, surface wear to blank corners, barely noticeable diagonal scratch, vg+ or better. Liberace, “Mr. Showmanship,” is, in LGBTQ history, one of the great mid-Century examples of hiding in plain sight. Here is a scarce memento from his concert career, in[…]

AT HOME WITH ETHEL WATERS (1955) Window card theatre poster

Vintage original 22 x 14″ (56 x 36 cm.) window card theater poster, USA. Very minor bumping at extreme edges, near fine.

Bogle, pp. 479 ff.: “Surely one of the great talents in American popular entertainment… [She started singing rowdy songs and became] a sex symbol for much of Black America… Ambitious, tense, driven, she struggled to make it as a musical comedy star on Broadway and finally succeeded in the 1933 As Thousands Cheer… Then in 1939, she turned dramatic with her powerhouse performance in Mamba’s Daughters.” For the rest of her long career, she alternated between film, stage and concert, and between dramas and musicals.

Poster for a one-woman show which Waters first premiered on Broadway on Sept. 22, 1953. She subsequently toured with the show, hence this poster from a one night appearance in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The show featured primarily a series of musical numbers with which Waters was closely associated, such as “Cabin in the Sky” and “Am I Blue?”