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Newspaper advertisement for the Alabama Theater,Birmingham News, April 27, 1929. The advertised screening ofYes, My Darling Daughter("1939's Most Daring Heart-to-Heart Story of Young Love ... Positively NOT RECOMMENDED For Children!") is accompanied…

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Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck, a member of Birmingham's musical Clarke family, played piano, organ, accordion, and vibraphone; directed music at Birmingham's prestigious Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; and performed for years in Fess Whatley's…

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Funeral program for Mary Alice Clarke Stollenwerck: pianist, organist, accordionist, vibraphonist, choir director, and teacher; Birmingham, Alabama, 1911-1999.

Courtesy Carol Clarke.

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Organ tuner and jack-of-all-trades, Dewey Gibson of Evergreen, Alabama, 1968. Dewey Gibson was an itinerant piano tuner, organist, preacher, poet, typewriter repairman, ironing board manufacturer, and all-purpose mechanic. A husband and father of…

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Frank Adams performs with the Dee Clarke band at a Eutaw, Alabama, juke joint, 1970s. “She doesn’t have to be Lena HorneShe can be from Eutaw, Alabama, and even country born.”     -- Dee Clarke in Eutaw, 1970s “What was it called? The Eutaw club,…

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