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Evan, thought for sure you would know that is Sarah Vaughn!

What makes me wonder "why do I gots to be dat way" is how much I dig those early photos of Doris Day, who I really recoil from as the big star she later became. . . .

Yeah I've been obsessive like that. . . One of my best friends here is the jazz buyer at Tower Austin, and I would call and make him call Columbia and. . . well we both would get obsessive about this, and we both almost always bought the first copies in the store, at the same time!

Good catch on that date. . . maybe the date is wrong. Maybe it's not Evans. And hell, that's no porkpie hat!

Portrait of Ray Bauduc, Herschel Evans, Bob Haggart, Eddie Miller, Lester Young, and Matty Matlock, Howard Theater, Washington, D.C., ca. 1941

Caption from Down Beat: Gene Williams and Fran Warren, singers with the Claude Thornhill band, are checked by a Columbia Pictures technician while the band was making a short here.

Charlie Ventura, Dave Tough at the Famous Door

Portrait of Claude Thornhill, Sandy Siegelstien, Willie Wechsler, Micky Folus, Mario Rullo, Danny Polo, Lee Konitz, Bill Bushing, and Joe Shulman, Columbia Pictures studio, the making of Beautiful Doll, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947

Slam Stewart

Portrait of Jack Teagarden, Jack Lesberg, and Max Kaminsky, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1947 Not sure who that drummer is!

Bill Harris, Bassist?, Jack Teagarden, Charlie Ventura

Okay, you mean like Britney Spears?

Doris Day in her Les Brown "Days"

Anything by Nathaniel West.