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Jazz Appreciation Month: Album Cover Art~ April 3

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Capitol presents The King Cole Trio volume 1 of 4

1944 / Capitol Records BD-8 / 78 RPM 4-record set / Cover: Charles Winfield Meggs

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Nat King Cole’s Album No.1 On The First Ever Billboard Chart~
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/nat-king-coles-album-no-1-on-the-first-ever-billboard-chart/

November 13, 1940~ Walt Disney’s film Fantasia premieres in New York City

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Fantasia Program Cover by Gyo Fujikawa

1940 / 26 pp+cvr / 12 3/4”x9 5/8” / Various collections incl. Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Movie originally released in 13 U.S. cities as road show w/assigned seating, programs, & ushers

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Previous November 13 posts:

November 13~ Artists at their Easels

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/13~

October 10, 1935~ Porgy and Bess opens at the Alvin Theatre in NYC

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Porgy and Bess, Embracing (detail)  by Kara Walker

2013 / Lithograph on Somerset paper / 15”x18” / Various, incl. Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC / Published by The Arion Press, San Francisco, as part of an additional suite of 4 lithographs to accompany the book “Porgy & Bess, The Libretto” by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker

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Previous October 10 posts:

Autumn~ October 10

Artist Birthday Quiz for 10/10~