Autographed Harold Arlen Records Harold sings Arlen Great Jazz Artists Play

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Harold sings Arlen with friend, Barbara Streisand.  Columbia OS 2920 33 rpm LP record, Signed by Harold Arlen for Bob Bach husband of Jean Bach 1966.  Stain on the back of the album sleeve, the record appears to be in excellent playable condition.  Great Jazz Artists Play compositions of Harold Arlen, Riverside RM 3518 mono.  Signed to Bob and Jean Bach 1963.  The album sleev is in poor condition but the record appears fine.  From the estate of Jean Bach.  
Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz (lyrics by E.Y. Harburg), including the classic "Over the Rainbow", Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Jean Bach (September 27, 1918 – May 27, 2013) was an American documentary film director, radio producer and jazz aficionado. Bach directed the 1994 documentary, A Great Day in Harlem, based on a 1958 photograph of the same name. [1]

Bach was born Jean Enzinger in Chicago in September 27, 1918, and raised in Milwaukee.[1] She made fredquent trips to Harlem and the Apollo Theater as a student at Vassar College.[1] She became a fixture in New York's jazz scene for the rest of her life.[1]

The black-and-white photograph which formed the basis of A Great Day in Harlem is a portrait of fifty-seven prominent jazz musicians who were photographed in front of a brownstone at 17 East 126th Street in the Harlemneighborhood of upper Manhattan. Bach learned that jazz bassist Milt Hinton had a home movie from the day of photo shoot in 1958.[1] She acquired Minton's home movie and used it or archival footage for her own film, A Great Day in Harlem, an hour-long documentary released in 1994.[1] Her film won the top award from the Chicago International Film Festival and earned an Academy Award for Documentary Feature nomination in 1995.[1][2]

Jean Bach died at her home in Manhattan on May 27, 2013, at the age of 94.[1] Her husband, Bob Bach, a production coordinator on What's My Line?, whom she married in 1948, died in 1985.

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