Bill Haley holding guitar printed on a postcard
| Description: |
Postcard featuring an image of Bill Haley. Haley is photographed standing up and holding a guitar in a playing position. Haley is wearing a light colored sport jacket with dark slacks and a wider striped tie. On the reverse side, Haley personalized the post card using a pencil. Before Bill Haley started the Comets, he performed with several old-timey music groups including the Down Homers, the Range Drifters, and Bill Haley and Saddlemen (hillbilly-music.com). In 1942 Haley worked for WIBC as on-air talent the “Sunshine Special” and “WIBC Jamboree” (The Radio Annual, 1943). |
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| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll74/id/145 |
| Collection: |
Indiana Entertainment Foundation |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
Haley, Bill, 1925-1981--Autographs Radio stations--Employees WIBC (Radio station : Indianapolis, Ind.) Country musicians Guitar |
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