Teddy Wilburn and Carl Smith (Jason Wilburn Collection)

American Bandstand

Buddy Holly (Wild Gianca Silano Collection)

Elvis Presley with fans at 1034 Audubon Drive in 1956. Rare picture

Barber Shop

Audrey Hepburn

Jazz singer and piano player Nat King Cole relaxes with wife Maria Hawkins Ellington in his box at the Apollo Theatre, in Harlem, NYC in 1950

Billy Lee Riley

Kim Novak

Vivien Leigh

 

Charlie Parker and Max Roach in L.A., 1953

On the set of King Creole, 1958

Billie Holiday

1950's

Gene Vincent, Al Jones and Gene Summers - March 13, 1958 (Volker Houghton Collection)

Johnny Cash (Kathy Cash Collection)

Roy Orbison

Gene Vincent and Dickie Harrell

1950's

Vernon Presley

Eddie Cochran with relatives (Pat and Frank Cochran), 1955. Rare picture.

Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby

Buddy Holly

Hank Snow (Jason Wilburn Collection)

The Wilburn Brothers (Jason Wilburn Collection)

Cole Porter, Audrey Hepburn and Irving Berlin

1950's

Miles Davis and John Coltrane in NY, 1958

Kirk Douglas and Doris Day

Sleeping Bear

Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996)

Chuck Berry

Roy Orbison

Chrysler

Rock and Roll (Thierry Nicolas Garcia Collection)

Lightnin' Hopkins

Little Richard (André Leroy Collection)

Unpublished picture courtesy of Ronald B. Walker Text by Ronald Boyce Walker "While during in the US 8th Army occupation of Japan, Charlie Walker started a Country-Western band and performed in Yokohama. Japan's entertaiment venues. He and other Country Music fans asked the Armed Forces Radio to play some Country Music favorites and they agreed. Previously, they played patriotic American songs and Pop Music favorite as such artists as Frank Sinatra. Country Music eventually became very popular, not only American G.I.'s but with the Japanese."

1950's

Frankie Jean's teenage wedding. Elmo, Jerry Lee Lewis Jr., Mamie, Linda Gail, Frankie Jean, Johnny Frank, Jean and Jerry Lee Lewis in the 50's. Rare picture

Frank Sinatra - Paramount - NYC

Rita Hayworth, 1947

Patsy Cline

Claude McPhatter

Rita Hayworth, 1947

Frances Ethel Gumm aka Judy Garland (June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969) Judy Garland and Gene Kelly

Ray Charles' audience

Ricky Nelson

Audrey Hepburn

Dean Martin

June 8, 1956 - Elvis Presley - Shrine Auditorium in L.A., CA