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A couple of nice Broadway graphic files FYI…

Broadway N. from Worth St. Dec. 1913 (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
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Broadway N. from Worth St. Dec. 1913

1913.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15068

Call Number: LC-B2- 2942-3

Broadway near Broome Street, Manhattan.


Image by New York Public Library
Digital ID: 482846. Abbott, Berenice — Photographer. October 07, 1935

Notes: Code: I.A.2. Looking down Broadway, ornate Bank of Sicily Trust near center of image, sign for vegetarian restaurant, right, cars and trucks.

Source: Changing New York / Berenice Abbott. (more info)

Repository: The New York Public Library. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

See more information about this image and others at NYPL Digital Gallery.
Persistent URL: digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?482846

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On Broadway

The warhorses that have emerged from the Broadway musicals of the 1940s on have become such standards — either in the popular culture at large or at least along the Great White Way — that when cabaret singers and moonlighting stage performers make solo albums, they often shy away from these obvious songs, perhaps feeling they have been too exposed, or that definitive versions of them have been recorded already. Australian singer David Campbell appears to be completely untroubled by any such consideration on his album of theater music, On Broadway. Instead of avoiding the standards, he fills the disc with them, starting (after an overture) with the opening song from Oklahoma!, “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’.” From there, it’s one familiar song after another, including “Hey There” from The Pajama Game, “Hello, Dolly!,” “Being Alive” from Company, and “Bring Him Home” from Les Misérables. As such a selection suggests, Campbell has a tenor voice, and he likes to show it off. He has appeared in Les Misérables in his native country, and Off-Broadway in Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night, and it sounds like he’d like to do more stage work. In fact, On Broadway is, in a sense, an audition tape in which Campbell tries out for the leads in Chicago, Guys and Dolls, and even a show that, as of release date, hadn’t yet opened in New York, the musical adaptation of the film Catch Me If You Can. Typically, he chooses from its score a real “11 o’clock number,” the soaring “Goodbye,” which gives a hint of the show’s classic rock feel. Maybe if he gets some of the stage work he wants, Campbell will get a chance to live with some of this material, and with the characters who sing it, a little more and gain a deeper understanding of both. On this album, he is too in love with his own voice to really get the most out of, for example, “What Kind of Fool Am I?” (He does not sound like a man who thinks he’s any kind of fool). Still, it’s hard to blame him for his self-regard, since he clearly has the talent to back it up. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi

Performers: Amy Wilkins – Harp; Andrew Picken – Viola; Andrew Shulman – Cello; Briana Bandy – Viola; Cameron Stone – Cello; Cindy Bourquin – Vocals (Background); Dan Higgins – Woodwind, Saxophone; Diane Frieman Reynolds – Vocals (
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Broadway

This long-lost session was originally cut for the Progressive label in 1954 and was not released until Prestige put it out in 1970. On it, listeners can hear tenor saxophonist Al Cohn and bassist Red Mitchell in fine form, in a quintet with three lesser known players: altoist Hal Stein, pianist Harvey Leonard, and drummer Christy Febbo. The music (Mitchell’s “Help Keep Your City Clean Blues,” a four-song ballad medley, and two versions apiece of “Broadway” and “Suddenly It’s Spring”) is fine although there are no surprises. The most interesting aspect to this obscure session is how similar the light-toned Cohn and altoist Stein (who tended to emphasize lower notes) sounded to each other. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi

Performers: Al Cohn – Sax (Tenor); Christy Febbo – Drums; Hal Stein – Sax (Alto); Harvey Leonard – Piano; Red Mitchell – Bass

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