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(MUSIC.) SULLIVAN, MAXINE.
Small personal archive of over 50 pho-
tographs, spanning approximately 1900- to 1960 * a certificate from the State of
Pennsylvania, making March 15th as Maxine Sullivan Day * Maxine Sullivan’s
Olds Ambassador trumpet, in its case * a huge “Happy Birthday Maxine” card
from Eddie Condon’s nightclub in Manhattan, signed by dozens of people.
Mostly real photo postcards with some larger and smaller, the birthday card 20 x 16 inches.
SHOULD BE SEEN
Vp, vd, 1900-1970’s
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A collection of family photographs belonging to jazz singer/stylist Maxine Sullivan. Sullivan (1911-
1987) born Marietta Williams, was active for half a century from the mid-1930s to just before her death
in 1987. She is best known for
her 1937 recording of a swing ver-
sion of the Scottish folksong “Loch
Lomond.” Throughout her career,
Sullivan also appeared as a per-
former in films as well as on stage.
Sullivan was born in Homestead,
Pennsylvania, and began her
musical career in her native
Pennsylvania performing in her
uncle’s band, The Red Hot
Peppers—where she occasionally
played the flugelhorn and the valve
trombone in addition to singing. In
the mid-1930s she was “discov-
ered” by Gladys Mosier (then
working in Ina Rae Hutton’s big
band. Mosier introduced her to
Claude Thornhill which led to her
first recordings made in June of
1937. She worked more or less
steadily until quite late in life. The
small photos and real photo post-
cards are unfortunately, like most
family photographs, not identified,
but Sullivan herself appears to be
in several.
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