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This newspaper advertisement for the Championship Classic football game -- Tuskegee vs. Alabama State at Montgomery, Alabama's Cramton Bowl -- features Alabama State's three orchestras, the Bama State Collegians, Revelers, and Cavaliers. All three…

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Newspaper advertisement for the Bama State Collegians at Harrogate Springs, Wetumpka, Alabama.Wetumpka Herald, May 26, 1932.

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Newspaper item: "These college boys from Alabama State will play for the 'Alabama State Night' ... in Chicago.... They consititute one of three musical organizations fromt he State Teachers College being brought North by the Alabama State Alumni…

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LeMeyer Stanfield -- also known as "Lee," "Leemie," and "Gate" Stanfield --longtime bassist for the Bama State Collegians / Erskine Hawkins Orchestra.

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In addition to the Birmingham Heritage Band, Newman Terrell performed with the Bama State Collegians and the Fess Whatley orchestra. In the 1950s -- with Birmingham musicians Walter Miller and Melvin Caswell -- Terrell relocated to Liberia, Monrovia,…

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Best known for his work with the Erskine Hawkins Orchestra, tenor saxophonist Paul Bascomb (1912-1986) performed throughout his career with his own bands as well as with the C. S. Belton Orchestra, a popular southern territory band, and with the…

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Trombonist Richard “Dickie” Harris, undated photo. Harris’s credits include work with the Erskine Hawkins and Lucky Millinder orchestras, Sarah Vaughn, Illinois Jaquet, James Brown, and Sam Cooke.

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J. B. “Jay” Sims. As a student at Alabama State, Sims served as the original singer and emcee of the ‘Bama State Collegians, performing in the frenetic “wildman” style of Cab Calloway; after graduation, he returned to his hometown of Birmingham,…

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Jimmy Mitchell (aka Jimmy Mitchelle), saxophonist and vocalist with with the ‘Bama State Collegians / Erskine Hawkins Orchestra. 1940s Publicity photo.

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Paul Bascomb postcard, stamped 1965. Caption on back of card: “PAUL BASCOMB … Born in Birmingham, Ala. Attended Alabama State College and originated the ‘Bama State Collegians’ Band and the famous Erskine Hawkins Band. His brother, Dud Bascomb, is a…

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