Karyl Norman (8 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Sheet music. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Insert age toned, minor edgewear, and exterior rubbed, still a complete and very good copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "I'm Through - 4." The back cover features a short sample of "My Buddy" by Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson. The front cover features a picture of the author of this song, the influential drag queen Karyl Norman "The Creole Fashion Plate.".…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated "Operatic Edition". Quarto. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Edgewear including chips and tears, exterior rubbed and lightly soiled, and some toning, complete but just a good or better copy. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "Don't Leave Me Mammy - 4." The back cover features a short sample of "Yoo-Hoo" by B.G. De Sylva and Al Jolson. The front cover has a picture of influential drag queen, Karyl Norman "The Creole Fashion Plate.". …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Illus wraps, 4to, 6p. sheet music, 9x12 inches, with photo of Norman "The Creole Fashion Plate" in drag, wraps, Very Good crease-free, store stamp on btm right of front cover, nice copy see the scan. No names or tares.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original large-format sheet music, complete as issued, with illustrated Art Deco cover featuring Karyl Norman, 'The Creole Fashion Plate.' Rear cover advertises 'California' by Cliff Friend and Con Conrad. Copyright 1922. A visually striking Jazz Age vocal ballad sheet music issue associated with vaudeville female impersonator and recording artist Karyl Norman, one of the best-known stage performers of the early 1920s. The elegant cover illustration depicts Norman in elaborate blue theatrical costume framed within an early Art Deco window motif, reflecting the transition from Edwardian decorative design into modern commercial graphics. Interior music remains clean and highly displayable, with the operatic arrangement intended for stage or parlor performance. Jerome H. Remick & Co. was among the most important American popular-music publishers of the era, and this issue survives as an appealing example of theatrical and LGBTQ-adjacent performance culture from the Prohibition-era entertainment world. Condition: Very Good. Moderate edge wear and corner rubbing with light creasing and mild age toning. Spine fold remains sound and pages securely attached. Interior music pages clean and complete with no major tears or markings. Rear cover lightly soiled from handling, consistent with age. Karyl Norman (1896-1947), billed here as 'The Creole Fashion Plate,' was a celebrated vaudeville female impersonator whose lavish costumes and sophisticated stage persona made him one of the highest-paid nightclub and theater entertainers of the 1920s. Norman became especially associated with lavish costume revues and blues-influenced popular songs during the height of Prohibition-era nightlife culture. Composer Edwin J. Weber was active in Tin Pan Alley during the 1910s and 1920s, contributing sentimental ballads and theatrical songs for popular vocal performance. Lyricists Karyl Norman and Hyatt Berry collaborated on material tailored to stage presentation and personality-driven performance styles common in vaudeville circuits of the period.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. Sheet Music with light blue illustrated covers. Some tears have been carefully repaired with tape. 12 X 9 format with 6 pages. Name in pencil on front.

Sheet_music. [6p] 9x12 inches, sheet music, wraps with photo of Norman garbed as Tom Sawyer (overalls, doffed straw hat) mild wear and marks. Gay female impersonator and singer born in Baltimore in 1897. He billed himself as "The Creole Fashion Plate", and was known for his gowns, mostly made by his mother with whom he traveled.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 14 page souvenir program from the 1950s from the famed Finocchio's in San Francisco, which featured drag performances from 1936 till its closing in 1999. The art deco cover features illustration by Le-Kar, who also designed many of the costumes, and the illustrations on the interior. The program has wear, soiling and tanning. Drag queens featured in the program are: Walter Hart; Nicky Gollucci; Li-Kar; Frank Doran; Niles Marsh; Johnny Mangum; De LeRoy; Freddie Renault; Milton La Maire; Ray Francis; John Lonas; Jackie Maye; Karyl Norman. All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) 'The Creole Fashion Plate' in full drag, pp. 6, owner's name to upper panel, a fine copy. 'Karyl Norman' (1897 - 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast of the United States. He toured Australia and New Zealand in 1917, and was known for his fashion gowns, mostly made by his mother, who toured with him. Norman was a key performer as part of the 'pansy craze' which emerged in New York in the 1930s, where gay subculture emerged as mainstream entertainment during the Prohibition era. He was known for his Southern style songs which he mostly wrote himself, quick change of costume and fine voice.…