Close Farm-ony is a 1932 Paramount black & white movie short starring the Boswell Sisters, in which they try to improve agricultural production on a farm by singing jazz.
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Read more about the Boswell family and the trio's career in "The Boswell Legacy 2nd Edition" by Kyla Titus and Chica Boswell Minnerly, the granddaughter and daughter of Vet Boswell, respectively.
Note: the book received a 2025 award for excellence in recorded sound research from the Association of Recorded Sound Collections. All versions of the book*--signed by Kyla Titus and including a 5x7 photo of the trio--are available here in the Boswell Sisters eBay store.
Proceeds help fund Boswell Sisters recognition projects. Current projects include Boswell artwork, new items in the eBay store, updated Boswell website, and transferring old media from the family collection into digital format.
*The Boswell Legacy, 2014, paperback, B&W, 203 pages.
*The Boswell Legacy 2nd Edition, 2024, hardcover, color, 332 pages.
*The Boswell Legacy 2nd Edition, 2024, paperback, color, 332 pages.
Also available here in the store: Legacy: Images of a Family,2024, by Chica Boswell Minnerly, signed by Kyla Titus, includes a wallet sized photo of the trio.
The Boswell Sisters were a highly influential, close harmony singing trio. Real sisters, they were three gifted musicians who emerged from the jazz movement in New Orleans in the early 1900s and became icons & pioneers in music & early radio & recording with influences that extend far beyond their own time. They took the idea of jazz and did it vocally, and they did it with such blending and precision that it has not been equaled since. Many giants of the swing era worked in their orchestras, and even stood and applauded them in honor of their musicianship at the end of a session--musicians such as Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Mannie Klein, Bunny Berigan, Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang to name a few. This store contains items related to their career & personal lives, including the book "The Boswell Legacy" by Titus & Boswell Minnerly, restored & original seen & never-before-seen images, original artifacts owned by the sisters themselves, and much more.