Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals (6)

Borrah Minevitch Band

Borrah Minevitch Rascals - L. to R. Front: Ernie Morris, Leo Diamond, Johnny Puleo, "Fuzzy" Feldman, Abe Diamond. Back: Harry Fenberg, Irwin Crane, ? , Al Furbish  

B. Minevitch Rascals 1942. L. to R. Front: Ernie Morris, Pud McCaskey (Stagg), Carl Ford, Sammy Ross, Bill Mc Bride. Back: Dave Doucette, Ettore Maneri, Pat Marquis, Ben Burley, Frank Marquis.

London Airport 1935 L. to R. "Fuzzy Feldman", Johnny Puleo, Alex Novelle, Leo Diamond, Hal Leighton, Ernie Morris, Al Furbish, ? , Abe Diamond

Film "Love Under Fire"

Film "School of Music" 1938 L. to R. Bill Mc Bride, Ettore Maneri, extra, extra, extra, Pud McCaskey, Borrah Minevitch, extra, Ben Burley, Pat Marquis, extra, extra, Carl Ford, Dave Doucette, extra, Ernie Morris, Sammy Ross in front

Film "The Rascals" 1938

Borrah and Rascals. Entertainer of the year award, early 1930's

L. to R. Harold Leighton, Louis "Fuzzy" Feldman, Phil Solomon, Leo Diamond, ? , ? , Mike Chimes, Ernie Morris. Front: Johnny Puleo, Borrah Minevitch and the Mayor of Boston, Massachussets.

Film "Love Under Fire"

Film "The Rascals" 1938

Borrah Minevitch Harmonica Orchestra

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals (5)

Film Always in my Heart, 1941. Playing "Carioca"

Always in my Heart. Phil Thompson, Richard Hayman, "Fuzzy" Feldman, Ray Tankersley, Borrah Minevitch, Abe Diamond

B.M. "stills"

Borrah's harmonica + Harmonica Rascals window display 1934, for sale by the owner, Mr. Hornberger in 1960

Film "One in a Million", 1936

Back: Don Rips, Alex Novelle, Fuzzy Feldman, Harry Hier, Al Furbish

Front: Abe Diamond, Johnny Puleo, Leo diamond, Ernie Morris

Film "Rascals" 1938

1942, left to right

Back: Eddie Lincoln, Ray Tankersley, Don Quagent (Don Henry)

Front: Hugh Baker, Johnny Puleo, Eddie Sullivan

 

Film "The Rascals", 1938

Film B.M. "School of Music", 1938

 

Film "Rascals", 1938

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals - Finn and Caddie (4)

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals (3)

Borrah Minevitch Rascals - Paramount Studios, Hollywood. 14. 01.1928

Back row left to right: Hat Maggit, Borrah, Irwin Crane, Ernst Lubittsch (Head of Paramount), Emil Jannings (Film Star), Lewis Stone (Film Star), Pat Jones, Dick Riddick.

Front row L. to R. Ernie Morris, Johnny Puleo, Harry Meiselman, Benjamin Bleckerman, Harold Leighton, Louis "Fuzzy" Feldman, Joe Martin, Murray Blinder.

Borrah Minevitch conducting his harmonica band at the Queen's Hall

B.M. Rascals, Sun Display Studios 13, 6 Vine Street Philladelphia, Pa.

L. to R. Mike Chimes, Louis Fuzzy Feldman, Al Brandoff, Ernie Morris, Harold Leighton, ?, Irwin Crane, Johnny Puleo

Les Rascals de Borrah. This is the European group.

With Claude Jourdan, Marius Vial, Johny Puleo, Jean Amata, Vincent Amata

Borrah with film star Wallace Beery

Borrah Minevitch (colorfull computer by René Haboyan, 2002)

Começo hoje a publicação de imagens, daquele que foi talvez o mais célebre grupo de harmónicas - Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals. Independentemente da opinião que se possa ter no que diz respeito ao líder do grupo, ( Borrah era extremamente exigente com os seus harmonicistas, indo ao extremo de ser tremendamente desagradável na forma de os tratar, para alcançar os fins a que se propunha ), aqui o que importa é o grupo em si. Se houver tempo e paciencia falaremos um dia sobre Borrah. Por agora, ficam as imagens.

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals

Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica Rascals - Where's that tiger?  (2)
Velha película de Borrah Minevitch do princípio dos anos 30. 

Borrah Minevitch (sometimes spelled Minnevitch; 5 November 1902, Borovin, Minsk, Belarus, Tsarist Russia – 26 June 1955, Paris, France), born Boruch Minewitz, was a notable harmonica player, actor, and leader of his group The Harmonica Rascals. The Harmonica Rascals, an ensemble of approximately ten pieces, recorded for Brunswick Records in 1933, and later for Decca Records where Minevitch hired Richard Hayman as an arranger for the Rascals. (Hayman later worked as an arranger for MGM and the Boston Pops Orchestra.) In 1923, Minevitch sold the rights to his work on the chromatic harmonica to Hohner for one million dollars and the company subsequently made a successful "Borrah Minevitch" line of harmonicas. He spent the rest of his career as a music hall performer, comedy film actor, impresario, film financier, and film distributor. Minevitch performed in numerous feature length Hollywood movies between 1934 and 1943 including Love Under Fire (20th Century Fox 1937), Always in My Heart (Warner Bros., 1942), Top Man (Universal Pictures 1943), Hit Parade of 1941 (Republic Pictures, 1941), Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (Columbia Pictures, 1941) and One in a Million (20th Century Fox, 1936).[3] He appeared in a short film made by Lee DeForest in the short-lived sound-on-film process Phonofilm, titled A Boston Star: Borrah Minevitch, which premiered at the Rivoli Theater in New York City on 15 April 1923. He and the Rascals appeared in Lazy Bones (1934), which was a part live action, part animated film released by Fleischer Studios as one of their Screen Songs series, the live-action short Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica Rascals (Vitaphone, 1935) and Borrah Minevitch and his Harmonica School (Warner Bros., 1942) directed by Jean Negulesco. In 1947, Minevitch retired from performing and moved to France. While living in Europe he worked as a film producer and distributor and opened a jazz nightclub on the Ile St Louis in Paris which he named "Au Franc Pinot". He helped arrange the United States distribution for his friend Jacques Tati's films Jour de fête (1949) and Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) before his death in Paris in 1955 at age 52.

Harmonicas - Diatónicas

Em 2002, a Hohner fez uma edição limitada deste modelo Marine Band 1896, para comemorar o centésimo aniversário da morte de Matthias Hohner.

Engraçada esta Puck dupla. Uma edição Hohner, já neste novo milénio, dum velho modelo dos anos 1920. Armação em C e G, e produção chinesa.

Outra Puck, com as referencias da anterior, só que modelo simples.

Produção recente dum velho modelo Hohner, esta Seductora tem uma afinação potente em oitavas, fazendo lembrar o som de um bandonéon.

Mais umas "meninas" da minha colecção.