Vintage Music Posters

Winter Dance Party PosterThe Riverside's Winter Dance Party bill — Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in boxing-style type.Vintage Music Posters · view → 1957 Concert PosterFats Domino and Bill Doggett top a crowded 1957 Bushnell Memorial bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Johnny Rivers Concert PosterJohnny Rivers' Memphis Special hits the Wichita Forum — blue and red concert type.Vintage Music Posters · view → Tiny Hill Concert PosterOne show, one town, one loud sheet of paper. Now steel.Vintage Music Posters · view → Million Dollar Party PosterK-poi's Million Dollar Party at Honolulu — Bobby Rydell, Paul Revere and a two-dollar seat.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterThe Shirelles and The Drifters share the Regal's week — red and blue theatre type.Vintage Music Posters · view → The Amazing Charlatans Concert PosterThe Amazing Charlatans at the Red Dog Saloon — hand-drawn San Francisco psychedelia in blue ink.Vintage Music Posters · view → Rock and Roll Revue PosterAn All Star Rock and Roll Revue for '58 — Paul Anka, Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly on one sheet.Vintage Music Posters · view → Rock and Roll Concert PosterA night you can almost hear.Vintage Music Posters · view → James Brown Concert PosterJames Brown at the Eagle's Ballroom — Mr Dynamite in pink and black with the Famous Flames.Vintage Music Posters · view → The Temptations Concert PosterThe Temptations dance and show at the Continental Club — yellow ground, red letters.Vintage Music Posters · view → Gypsy Rose Lee Desert Inn PosterPrinted fast for a Friday; preserved slow on metal.Vintage Music Posters · view → Chuck Berry & Larry Williams Concert PosterChuck Berry and Larry Williams in person at Chattanooga — a packed rock 'n' roll bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → James Brown Show Concert PosterJames Brown live at the Apollo — show and dance in polka-dot pink.Vintage Music Posters · view → James Brown Show PosterThe James Brown Show hits Chilhowee Park — green and red Saturday-night type.Vintage Music Posters · view → Vintage Music Concert PosterA night you can almost hear.Vintage Music Posters · view → Alan Freed's Big Beat ConcertAlan Freed's Big Beat packs the Orpheum — a wall of fifties names in red and white.Vintage Music Posters · view → Marvin Gaye Motortown RevueMarvin Gaye headlines the Motortown Revue — Martha and the Vandellas and the Four Tops below.Vintage Music Posters · view → John Coltrane Quartet Concert PosterThe John Coltrane Quartet at Falkoner Centret — Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner in plain red type.Vintage Music Posters · view → Ike & Tina Turner Revue Concert PosterThe Ike and Tina Turner Revue at the Cocoanut Grove — kings of rhythm in red and gold.Vintage Music Posters · view → Bobby Rush & Bettye Bibbs Concert PosterThe line-up alone is worth the wall.Vintage Music Posters · view → 1949 International Jazz FestivalParis, 1949: the International Jazz Festival — Charlie Parker and Miles Davis in tricolour type.Vintage Music Posters · view → Moondog Birthday Ball PosterBoxing-style type, gospel-level energy.Vintage Music Posters · view → B.B. King Concert PosterBoxing-style type, gospel-level energy.Vintage Music Posters · view → Miles Davis Concert PosterMiles Davis and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers share Christmas week at the Regal.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theatre Concert PosterSam Cooke, The Drifters and Ben E. King — Recordland's all-stars at the Regal in blue and red.Vintage Music Posters · view → Sam Cooke & Jackie Wilson Concert PosterSam Cooke and Jackie Wilson top a packed yellow handbill at the Richmond Mosque — the greatest show of the year, one Sunday only.Vintage Music Posters · view → Dinah Washington Concert PosterThe Queen of Song in person — Dinah Washington headlines the Regal with Billy Williams' Las Vegas revue for one week.Vintage Music Posters · view → Dusty Springfield Concert PosterDusty Springfield on a green Liverpool Empire pantomime bill — book your coach here, urges the box office.Vintage Music Posters · view → Rock'n Roll Jamboree 1960 PosterAl Benson's 1960 Rock 'n Roll Jamboree crams twelve stars onto one Regal stage — The Spaniels, Big Maybelle and Etta James among them.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterBill Doggett, Bo Diddley and the Isley Brothers share a single January week at the Regal — free lighted parking included.Vintage Music Posters · view → James Brown Concert PosterMr. Dynamite in yellow and black — James Brown and the Famous Flames take the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with an 18-piece orchestra.Vintage Music Posters · view → Clyde McPhatter Concert PosterClyde McPhatter opens the 1959 Rock 'n Roll Jamboree with Erskine Hawkins' orchestra — plus Mickey Rooney up on the screen.Vintage Music Posters · view → Brenda Lee Concert PosterBrenda Lee in person, five shows in one Sunday — a pink ribbon banner unfurls her name across the Rochester Auditorium bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Ray Charles Concert PosterRay Charles and his new big orchestra with the Raelets — Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and The Coasters fill out the Regal bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Grand Ole Opry PosterTwenty of the nation's top-rated Grand Ole Opry stars in one Arcadia Theatre grid — Ernest Tubb's face among the portraits.Vintage Music Posters · view → The Temptations Concert PosterThe Temptations, three days only at the Capitol on Halsted — set in a green so loud it needs no spotlight.Vintage Music Posters · view → Miriam Makeba Concert PosterAfro-American Nite at the Regal — Miriam Makeba headlines with Jack McDuff, and the corner declares Black is Beautiful.Vintage Music Posters · view → Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers Concert PosterFrankie Lymon and the Teenagers hit the Liverpool Empire — America's sensational young stars on a red and blue Monday bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Jackie Wilson Concert PosterJackie Wilson in person at the Regal, singing Night and Doggin' Around — his big stage revue set in tall green woodtype.Vintage Music Posters · view → Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Concert PosterFlatt and Scruggs with the Foggy Mountain Quartet at Loudon's Court Theatre — sponsored, naturally, by Martha White flour.Vintage Music Posters · view → Grand Ole Opry Country Music ShowThe Grand Ole Opry Spectacular rolls into Wichita — 1959's biggest country stars packed into an Arcadia photo montage.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Holiday SpecialEight big days from Christmas to New Year — Gene Chandler and the Staple Singers headline the Regal's holly-trimmed holiday special.Vintage Music Posters · view → Gene Pitney Show Concert PosterThe Gene Pitney Show stacks Len Barry, the McCoys and Chad & Jeremy into a photo-checkerboard Liverpool bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Hot From Harlem Revue PosterHot From Harlem — a crazy-man-crazy rock 'n roll revue in flame orange, dancers kicking across the Gregory Theatre bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Billy J. Kramer Concert PosterBilly J. Kramer with the Dakotas tops an Epstein package bill — the Kinks, Ronettes and Yardbirds crowd in below.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterDella Reese and Al Hibbler in person at the Regal — Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Art Blakey deep on a jazz-stacked bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Capitol Theatre Concert PosterThe Delfonics star in the Capitol's Clean-Up Week Special — Chi-Lites, Detroit Emeralds and Eddie Holman down the bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Stevie Wonder Concert PosterStevie Wonder plays Stockton singing For Once in My Life — the Foundations and Emperor Rosko share the stark ABC bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Tivoli Concert PosterSpin-time, swing-time revue at the Tivoli — Brook Benton and Ruth Brown bracket a blue-inked Cottage Grove bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Morton Theatre Concert PosterThree June nights at Dorchester's New Morton Theatre — The Coasters headline over Elijah and His Prophets.Vintage Music Posters · view → Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs Concert PosterA cartoon banjo picker fronts this Flatt and Scruggs school-night show — St. Joseph, Tennessee, courtesy of Martha White.Vintage Music Posters · view → Country Music Dance ShowCapitol recording stars parade through the Terrytown Arena — a dance and stage show shouted in black woodtype on yellow.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Show PosterMartha Raye, America's queen of comedy, tops a London Palladium variety bill four weeks running.Vintage Music Posters · view → Billy Daniels at The London PalladiumThat old black magic at the Palladium — Billy Daniels headlines over the Wiere Brothers in classic playbill red and blue.Vintage Music Posters · view → Nellie Lutcher Concert PosterNellie Lutcher's name fills half the Prince of Wales bill in fat yellow letters — Bob Hope holds down the bottom line.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Show PosterTed Heath's band, Dick Shawn and Nat King Cole crowd one dense red Palladium variety bill — not an inch of it wasted.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Show PosterCarl Brisson, Frances Langford and Cass Daley stack up a London Palladium holiday bill — every act in a different typeface.Vintage Music Posters · view → Mitchell Torok Concert PosterMitchell Torok headlines the Prince of Wales in regal purple — Shirley Eaton and Dickie Henderson in support.Vintage Music Posters · view → London Palladium Concert PosterLondon, back when the poster did the shouting.Vintage Music Posters · view → Alan Freed's Big Beat ConcertAlan Freed's Big Beat packs the Orpheum — Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry stacked in yellow and red.Vintage Music Posters · view → Motown Revue Concert PosterThe Motortown Revue holds the Fox from Christmas to New Year — Temptations, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder in colour blocks.Vintage Music Posters · view → Met Theatre Concert PosterClean-Up Week at the Met on Martin Luther King Drive — the Delfonics and a young Jackson Five share the green-and-red bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Stevie Wonder Thanksgiving ShowA grinning caricature of Stevie Wonder anchors the Regal's Big Thanksgiving Show — the Jackson 5 further down the bill.Vintage Music Posters · view → Otis Redding Summer Shower of StarsA summer shower of stars rains on the Leroy — Otis Redding, Sam and Dave and Patti LaBelle in an orange photo collage.Vintage Music Posters · view → Regal Theater Concert PosterBoxing-style type, gospel-level energy.Vintage Music Posters · view → 1967 Soul Music Concert PosterLetterpress urgency, metal permanence.Vintage Music Posters · view →