Photo, Print, Drawing [Portrait of Sam Donahue and Hep, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Dec. 1946] Probably no dance band ever has played to so many empty tables consistently as the Sam Donahue ork during the recent double booking with Lionel Hampton at the Aquarium. The operators decreed that Sam should play afternoons, and the place isn't open in the afternoon! A single customer, John Sorenson, who just got off a boat from Denmark, wandered in by mistake one day and was served by the entire skeleton staff of three waiters, a cashier, head waiter, cook and busboy. In one of these staff photos by got, Sam and the band are seen playing to an attentive audience, consisting of one cat, Hep. In the other Stan Kenton keeps lonely Sam company, while Nick Callonus, a waiter, stands ready to bring another drink
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Title
- [Portrait of Sam Donahue and Hep, Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Dec. 1946]
Other Title
- Probably no dance band ever has played to so many empty tables consistently as the Sam Donahue ork during the recent double booking with Lionel Hampton at the Aquarium. The operators decreed that Sam should play afternoons, and the place isn't open in the afternoon! A single customer, John Sorenson, who just got off a boat from Denmark, wandered in by mistake one day and was served by the entire skeleton staff of three waiters, a cashier, head waiter, cook and busboy. In one of these staff photos by got, Sam and the band are seen playing to an attentive audience, consisting of one cat, Hep. In the other Stan Kenton keeps lonely Sam company, while Nick Callonus, a waiter, stands ready to bring another drink
Alternate Title
- Probably no dance band ever has played to so many empty tables consistently as the Sam Donahue ork during the recent double booking with Lionel Hampton at the Aquarium. The operators decreed that Sam should play afternoons, and the place isn't open in the afternoon! A single customer, John Sorenson, who just got off a boat from Denmark, wandered in by mistake one day and was served by the entire skeleton staff of three waiters, a cashier, head waiter, cook and busboy. In one of these staff photos by got, Sam and the band are seen playing to an attentive audience, consisting of one cat, Hep. In the other Stan Kenton keeps lonely Sam company, while Nick Callonus, a waiter, stands ready to bring another drink
Names
- Gottlieb, William P. -- 1917- (photographer)
Created / Published
- 1946, monographic.
Headings
- - Donahue, Sam
- - Hep
- - Jazz musicians -- 1940-1950
- - Big bands -- 1940-1950
- - Saxophonists -- 1940-1950
- - Aquarium
Genre
- graphic
Notes
- - Purchase William P. Gottlieb
- - Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
- - General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at
- - In: "Empty tables," Down Beat, v. 15, no. 26 (Dec. 16, 1946), p. 5.
- - Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 112 (gottlieb assignment)
- - 112 (assignment)
- - Aquarium (venue)
- - LC-GLB13-1086 DLC (stock number)
- - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.10861 (url)
Form
- electronic resource
- remote
- nonprojected graphic
- photonegative
- graphic
Extent
- 1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Repository
- Music Division
Access Condition
- Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply.
LC Classification
- LC-GLB13- 1086
Online Format
- image