Sold Date: June 13, 2023
Start Date: February 2, 2023
Final Price: $75.00 (USD)
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Rare Jazz album.

Cover signed in back Sharpie. The signature is rather light and smudged in places. The album is somewhat glossy and may not have been the best surface for using a Sharpie. There is an unreadable line, then you can read "Sincerely, Alice Darr."

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Custom record supplies used for packaging and shipping.  Vinyl in inner sleeve packaged outside album cover.  Smoke free, pet free home.  

See photo, for reference purposes, of Ms. Darr on a 2019 Magazine cover.  The following are some kind and interesting words from writer Sidney Thomas about Cumberland, Maryland's local treasure, who is 91:  

“In her heyday she was one of the most beautiful and glamorous musical divas in the world. And her penchant for writing and performing torch songs only added to her sultry charm,...In today’s celebrity world Alice Darr’s combination of raw talent and physical attractiveness would make her comparable to a Taylor Swift, Alicia Keys, Diana Krall or Mariah Carey...She is regarded as one of the most underrated and underappreciated jazz musicians of her time.

She has performed in a dizzying array of cosmopolitan cities, exotic locales and first class venues: Las Vegas, Chicago, Hawaii, Miami Beach, Mexico City, Montreal and Toronto, and a two year stint playing at the top jazz clubs in New York City...Dean Martin was so impressed with her show he immediately booked her to perform at the grand opening of the Dino’s Den, his brand new Las Vegas nightclub. But in America, she was emerging as a star during a period of social and civil unrest. While she was performing on shows such as Ed Sullivan, singing on national stages and in front of thousands a night, and briefly dating Nat King Cole, when her shows were over, she was not permitted to join many of her fellow headliners in white hotels and restaurants...She became the first African American woman to appear in a national publication scantily and scandalous clad in a bikini when Jet Magazine published a picture of Alice pool side in 1955."