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Title: Sammie Franklin's Orchestra, Los Angeles, 1950s
Alternative Title: Jazz musicians, groups
Contributor: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Date Created and/or Issued: [1950s]
1950/1960
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: Sammy Franklin's Orchestra on stage with Vada Somerville (2nd from right) and an unidentified woman, in front of a glittery curtain.
Sammy (Samuel Henry) Franklin started with the Denver YMCA band (violin, trombone and trumpet) and went onto play with the George Morrison Band in Denver, the Benny Moten Band in Kansas City, and with Andy Kirk, Les Hite, Lionel Hampton and Eddie Barefield. He then formed the Sammy Franklin Orchestra, a society band, that performed in on Central Avenue in Los Angeles during the 1950s.
Written on back of photo: Sammie Franklin's Orchestra, Harry Adams Photo.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b22_f15_003a.tif
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Subject: African American conductors (Music)
African American jazz musicians
Franklin, Sammie, 1903-1979
Somerville, Vada, 1885-1972
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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