eBay

This week we have a nice lot of vintage sheet music booklets up for auction.

Being a record store we're no experts on sheet music. But these were too nice to pass up.

Here's a vintage 6 page 1935 US print of the Jazz/Hawaiian guitar solo tune

Black Eyes (Russian Ballad)

English lyrics by: Bernice Manoloff

Hawaiian guitar Arr. by: Nick Manoloff

Conditon: the booklet is in a neat condition for it 's age. tiny pen mark front, a small paper torn spot on front, a

few bends and paper wrinkles. vintage owner label (miss Iva Chloe Isham Morgan 1893-1983)

info:

Bernard Joseph "Bernie" Cummins (March 14, 1900 – September 22, 1986) was an American jazz drummer and

bandleader.

Cummins was born in Akron, Ohio. In his youth, Cummins was a boxer, besides playing drums in local bands in Ohio.

In 1919 he created a small ensemble of his own, which debuted in Indiana and which grew gradually into a larger dance band

after he moved to Cincinnati in 1923. Singers in the band included Dorothy Crane, Jerry Lang, Betty Griffin, Bernie's brother

Walter Cummins and Scottee Marsh, who sang later with Tommy Dorsey.

A female singing trio known as the Sophisticates was hired by Bernie in the mid-1930s out of Minneapolis Marshall High School about the time the Andrews Sisters from Minneapolis North High School became popular. Charlie Callas and Randy Brooks also played with the band, as did Tommy Dorsey for a time. Besides his activities as bandleader, Cummins was briefly also the manager

of The Wolverines.

The Bernie Cummins Orchestra recorded frequently for such labels as Brunswick, Columbia, Victor, Decca, Gennett, Vocalion

and Bluebird.

Cummins' orchestra's theme song was "Dark Eyes".

Nick Manoloff (1898-1969) was: a manufacturer of steels/tone bars for stringed instruments to use for the method of steel guitar;

an arranger and author of instrument method books and sheet music; and distributor of musical supplies and publications.

Shipping costs:

Worldwide shipping: $11.50 - for 1 to maybe 8 booklets (depending on the thickness)

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