Photographic print of a performance by Melvin Harris and the Blue Notes: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A black and white photograph of a performance by Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes on stage at Club Harlem in Atlantic City, with a full band behind them and audience members sitting at tables at the front of the stage. Teddy Pendergrass, the lead vocalist, is pictured in the center of the stage facing the audience while behind him the rest of the group face stage left, with left knees slightly bent. From left to right, the members are Lawerence Lloyd Brown, Bernard Wilson, Jerry Cummings (behind Pendergrass), and Harold Melvin. There are no inscriptons, front or back.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1975
• Photograph by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986
• Subject of: Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, American, founded 1954
• Subject of: Lawrence Llyod Brown Sr., American, 1944 - 2008
• Subject of: Bernard Wilson, American, 1946 - 2010
• Subject of: Teddy Pendergrass, American, 1950 - 2010
• Subject of: Jerry Cummings, American, born 1951
• Subject of: Harold Melvin, American, 1939 - 1997
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 in. (15.6 x 23.5 cm)
• Place depicted: Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Nightlife
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2011.145.7
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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