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Skippy Adelman ( Julius Edelman; 29 March 1924 Manhattan, New York – 1 May 2004 Long Island City, New York) was, among other things, an acclaimed American photographer – notably for his black-and-white photos of jazz musicians exemplified in the 1946 book, Jazzways, and for his contributions to the bygone New York City daily, PM, as a staff photojournalist from 1943 to 1945.[1] He also contributed photos to New York Age around 1950. Adelman stopped photographing jazz musicians in late 1940s, as did Bill Gottlieb, who – according to Nels Nelson of the Philadelphia Daily News – said that he [Gottlieb] stopped it "on a dime" after 1948.[2] Adelman seemlying dissappeared, perhaps because, in 1953, he began using his real name, Julius Edelman. In 1972, Popular Photography columnist Simon Nathan asserted that if he were given one hundred mythical dollars, the 2nd of 26 things he'd do is, "have 1,666 six-cent postcards printed and write the whole world to try to find out whatever became of Skippy Adelman, the great photographer from newspaper PM."[3]

Edelman's post photojournalism career[edit]

Adelman, as Skippy Adelman, from 1948 through 1952, wrote at least 24 short pulp magazine works published by the Chicago-based Popular Publications, Inc.[4] He also, from 1952 through 1953, wrote the music and lyrics for six songs and co-composed five more, all under the pseudonym, Jack Smiles. Adelman had a one-time acting role as a mannequin factory owner in Stanley Kubrick's 1955 film, Killer's Kiss.

In the mid to late 1950s, Adelman (as Julius Edelman), went on to become an executive in various film production and advertising agencies, including,

  1. Executive Vice-President in Charge of Production (promoted from Assistant Film Editor in 1953) of Peter Elgar Productions, Inc. (1953–1960),[5][6]
  2. Production Group Supervisor for Ted Bates & Co. (until about June 1963),
  3. Cowriter with Paul Mazursky of a teleplay episode for the The Rifleman (aired March 12, 1962) – "Tinhorn" (Season 4, Episode 24; Overall Episode No. 134), directed by Lawrence Dobkin.[7][8][9]
  4. Vice-President, Producer, and Director for Mickey Schwartz Productions, Inc., which produced film for TV (beginning around June 1963), and
  5. Vice President & Executive Producer for Allegro Film Productions, Inc. (from as early as 1965 to at least 1986), producer of TV commercials,[10] but also known for its short scholastic-oriented science films, the Science Screen Report (trademarked filed October 20, 1971).[11][a] Allegro Film was a subsidiary of Sterling Communications.[12], a forerunner to HBO.

Growing up[edit]

Julius Edelman's mother, Bessie Cohen (maiden; 1896–1924), died 3 months, 1 week, and 1 day after he was born. His father, Harry Edelman (1892–1992), a Romanian-born furrier in Manhattan, remarried June 29, 1929, in Manhattan, to Mary (née Mera Weinberg; 1900–1993), who was born in Riga, Latvia, immigrated to the United States July 3, 1923, and became a naturalized U.S. citizen November 18, 1935.[13]

Career[edit]

Edelman graduated from Stuyvesant High School (age 17) in June 1941.[14] Stuyvesant (Old Stuyvesant High School at 345 East 15th Street) was about 1.7 miles his family's apartment at 488 East Houston. His family, in 1930 (up until at least 1934, according to Mary Edelman's citizenship application), lived at 152 Goerck Street, Manhattan, which was renamed in 1933 as Baruch Drive.

One might wrongly infer that Adelman was from Pottsville, Pennsylvania do to the mention of his name in a newspaper column of the Pottsville-Republican that was discussing local people.[15]

United States Armed Forces[edit]

Enlist date: 2 Jan 1942
Discharge Date: 2 Jan 1944


"Julius Edelman" → "Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, 1850–2010" (database on-line). Department of Veterans Affairs. 2011 – via Ancestry.com.



During World War II, Edelman served in the United States Armed Forces with the 466th Bombardment Group of the Eighth Air Force. He was stationed in Attlebridge, and, as Navigator, flew gas hauls from France to England. He attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant.

    1. Back Row: 1st Lt. Earl Eugene Wassom (born 1923) (pilot), 1st Lt. John T. Bohan (Bombardier)
    2. Front Row: 1st Lt. Lawrence Dennis Ross (died June 22, 1944) (Copilot), 1st Lt. Julius Edelman (Navigator)
    1. Standing Left to Right: T. Sgt./2G Lewis Joel Venegas, Sr. (1923–2004) (Flight Engineer), Staff Sgt. Francis J. Miller (Tail Gunner), Staff Sgt. Benny Olson (Top Turret Gunner), Stanley Seveay (Waist Gunner), Staff Sgt. Harry Hamilton (Waist Gunner), T. Sgt./2G Billy Wolfe (Radio Operator)
    2. Kneeling Left to Right: 1st Lt. John T. Bohan (Bombardier), 1st Lt. Earl Wassom (Pilot), 1st Lt. Lawrence Ross (Copilot), 1st Lt. Julius Edelman (Navigator)
This Crew completed a 35 mission tour, flying a Consolidated Aircraft B-24 Liberator – theirs nicknamed "Bottle Butt's Buggy" – during the last year of World War II (tail insignia, 2U–B)


10/20/1944
AM
Air Medal (AM)


2LT
GO: 271
New York NY
12/07/1944
AM/OLC
Air Medal (AM) Oak Leaf Cluster (OLC)


2LT
GO: 334
New York NY


Not the same Julius Edelman ?[edit]

Death[edit]

Julius Edelman, who was married to Dorothy R. Langer (maiden; 1925–2021) for 57 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days, is buried next to her in the New Montefiore Cemetery, West Babylon, Long Island, New York.[16]

Career (continued)[edit]

One article, entitled "The Hard Boiled School of Photography," narrates the "Legend of Skippy Adelman, PM's Picture Ace." Described as having a "tough wiry figure" and the “hands of a boxer," Adelman embodies all the ideal traits of the street-smart protagonist. Much is made, for example, of Adelman’s childhood poverty and ironfisted upbringing: "The early years of Skippy Adelman’s life made him sick and unhappy, then coldly, bitterly furious. He started taking pictures simply as a means of earning a living, and then suddenly discovered his camera was a graphic instrument."[17][18]

Career[edit]

In 1916, according to a New York City directory (Ancestry.com), Bessie is listed as being with Weinberg & Adelman; h. 506 West 150th Street



In 1943, according to the draft registration, Harry Edelman was a part owner of Fox, Wolf & Edelman on Delancey Street.
In 1943, according to Frank Edelman's draft registration, Frank worked at F.S. Fur Co., at 307 Seventh Avenue
  • Worked for Culver Pictures

Edelman's addresses[edit]

1941: New YorkAdelman, Julius (September 1941). "Throat Light Handy For 'Flashing-In' Portions of Photo". Popular Mechanics. Free access icon. 76 (3): 133. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
1942: 331 East 12th Street, New York, New York → New York Post (November 28, 1942). "'Fifth Avenue,' Winner ... " (PDF). Adelman's address: 331 East 12 Street. Vol. 142, no. 11 (Week-End ed.). p. 4. Retrieved June 3, 2022 – via Fultonhistory.com.
1945-1949: 205 West 10th, New York, New York, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan (phone: CHelsa 2-0896)

Condon's addressses[edit]

1942: 10 West 15th Street, Manhattan, New York (per WWII Draft registration)

Ad agencies and film production firms[edit]

Peter Elgar Productions, Inc.[edit]

Peter Elgar Productions, Inc.
75 West 45th Street, New York 36. N.Y.
Phone: JUdson 6-1870
Date of Organization: January 1, 1951
Branch: c/o Paramount Sunset Corp., 5842
Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, Cal. Phone:
HOllywood 9-8111.
Peter Fitzgerald Elgar (1905–1968), President
Julius Edelman, Executive Vice-President
Philip Frank, Vice-President
Jessie B. Adamson, Secretary-Treasurer
Services: Industrial, public relations, religious
films: television commercials, television films:
33mm, 16mm, black & white or color.
Facilities: Complete editing and projection facilities
16mm and 35mm. 100 x 75 x 22' sound stage.
"National Survey of Film Production Resources in the U.S. and Canada – Metropolitan New York – Peter Elgar Productions, Inc". Business Screen Magazine – Production Review. 18 (1) (7th Annual ed.): 105. 1957. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive. OCLC 1302745782 (all editions).

Ted Bates & Co., up until about June 1963[edit]

Julius Edelman was Production Group Supervisor at Ted Bates & Co.[22][23]. Ted Bates & Co. was founded in 1940 by Theodore Lewis Bates (1901–1972) and is now part of WPP plc.

Selected projects
Mobil Oil Co. (gas), one 60 for TV. Agency: Ted Bates. Julius Edelman, agency producer[23]

Mickey Schwarz, beginning around June 1963[edit]

"Radio & TV Commercial Producers". Radio Television Daily – Year Book of Radio and Television (27th Annual ed.). New York, New York: Radio Daily Corp.: 759 1964. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive. OCLC 7469377 (all editions).
Schwartz, Mickey, Productions, Inc.
419 E. 54th St., New York, N.Y.
Phone: PL 5-5610
President Mickey Schwarz, President and Producer
Julius Edelman, Executive Vice-President, Producer, and Director[22]
(Additional office in Toronto)
Services Offered – Film commercials.
Schwarz directed the 1934 short film, Broadway Varieties, produced by Trinity Productions, Inc.
Schwarz, among other things, was Associate Producer of the 1950 French documentary film, Savage Africa – directed by Jacques Dupont (director); Edmond Séchan (cinematographer)

Allegro Film Productions, Inc. (1968)[edit]

201 West 52nd St., New York, New York 10019
Phone: (212) JUdson 6-3057
Date of Organization; 1958
Date of Incorporation; 1961
Jerome G. Forman ( Jerome George Forman; 1927–2009), President
Julius Edelman, Vice President & Executive Producer[24]
Hugh King, Producer–Writer
Daniel Ruffini, Production Assistant
Judy Rabitcheff, Production Coordinator, who, later, became staff writer for All My Children
David Sawyer, Writer
Erford Hubert Bedient (1921–1983), Writer
Joseph Butler, Production Supervisor
Hal Persons (née Harold David Schwartz; 1918–19997), Producer
Marie Beynon Ray (née Marie Beynon Lyons; 1886–1969), Treasurer
Services: Motion picture and slide film producers; commercials, public relations, industrial and sponsored films; specialist in news and sports films; special department for foreign language versions and post-production finishing.
Facilities: Recording, screening, editorial rooms and studio. 35mm and 16mm camera and editorial equipment; script and art departments, special print procurement and services department.
Recent Productions and Sponsors
Motion Pictures; Return to LeMans; 1968; New Cars (Ford Motor Co.); Today Series; Expo 67 (U.S. Information Agency); Sun Never Sets (Muscular Dystrophy Association); The Paper War (Oxford Filing Co.); She Shell (Fairfield-Nobel). News Film: for Ford Motor Co., BOAC, GE, Allis-Chalmers, Celanese Corp. of America, Selvase & Lee. TV Commercial: for Doyle Dane-Bernbach, Grey Adv., Ted Bates, Handman & Sklar, Don Greene Associates, Sweet & Co., and Venet Advertising.

Selected credits[edit]

No. 1: "Space Science: A Journey Through Our Solar System" (13 min., 47 seconds). OCLC 18500343 & OCLC 15470751.
No. 1: "Ecology: The Greenhouse Effect" (12 min.). OCLC 42491512 (all editions).
No. 1: "Biology: The Biology of Water" (16 min.). OCLC 18596433.
No. 2: "Geology: Energy From the Sun" (18 min.). OCLC 18827950 (all editions).
No. 3: "Entomology: Insects and Biology" (16 min.). OCLC 18898394.
No. 4: "Entomology: Insects and Chemistry" (16 min.). OCLC 18997996.
No. 5: "Engineering: The Science of Robotics" (15 min.). OCLC 19380929 & OCLC 42490425.
No. 6: "Energy: Nuclear Waste Management" (16 min.). OCLC 19585058.
No. 7/8: "Ecology: Saving America's Wildlife" (26 min.). OCLC 19585063.

Editorial bent[edit]

Stephen W Smith, editor of the Hot Record Society Rag, leaned towards what then was progressive jazz. Eugene Williams (1918–1948), through Jazz Information, leaned towards a New Orleans revivalists bent.[25][26][27][28]

Everlast Process Printing (1942)[edit]

Everlast Process Printing Company, Nat Linzer (1907–1966) and Saul Linzer (1914–2012), co-partners, proprietors, brothers
27 West 24th Street, New York, New York (per WWII draft registration)
Home: 488 East Houston, New York City

Picture News (PM) personnel[edit]

Picture News, Sunday Magazine Section of PM
EDITOR: WilKam T. McClecry.
Managing Editor: Herbert Yahrae*.
Associate Editors:: Lorimer D. Heywood; Kenneth Stewart; David R. Lindsay*; Peggy Wright; Gertrude Saunas
Staff: Raymond Abrashkin**; Skippy Adelman; Holly Beye; W. Russell Bowie. Jr.»; Jean Evans; Robert A. Fuller*; Mary Morris; Charles Norman*; Roger Pippett; Robert Rice*; Selma Robinson; Dale Rooks* Lillian K. Ross.
Art Director: Russell Countryman.
* In the U. S. Armed Forces
** In the U. S. Merchant Marine
Send Local Item contributions to Peggy Wright, 164 Duane Street, New York, 13, N. Y. We will pay a minimum of $2 for each contribution we use.

Adelman's pulp magazine works[edit]

Popular Publications, Inc. and Fictioneers, Inc., a subsidiary of Popular Publications, Inc.

1948
  1. "With Books and Bullets". Fifteen Western Tales (ar). 17 (3). Chicago: Fictioneers: 67. December 1948. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
1949
  1. "Jeffries, The Mighty". New Sports Magazine (ar → James J. Jeffries). 5 (4). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 27 February 1949. OCLC 173768826 (all editions).
  2. "Last Drop". Fifteen Western Tales (ar). 18 (2). Chicago: Fictioneers: 31. March 1949. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  3. "Boothill Backtrail". Fifteen Western Tales (ms). 18 (3). Chicago: Fictioneers. April 1949. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  4. "Fego Baca's Java Jinx". Star Western (ar). 47 (3). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 6 May 1949. OCLC 236104893 (all editions).
  5. "Operation .45". Fifteen Western Tales (ar). 19 (1). Chicago: Fictioneers: 38. June 1949. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  6. "Dead Man's Strike: Corpse in a Hurry". Fifteen Western Tales (ar). 19 (2). Chicago: Fictioneers: 129. July 1949.; OCLC 264703512.
  7. "Homicidal Hook-Up". Detective Tales (ts). 42 (4). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 49 July 1949. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  8. "A Friend of the Grim Reaper". Dime Mystery Magazine (short feature). 38 (4). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 79 August 1949. Retrieved May 11, 2022 – via Internet Archive. OCLC 33157294 (all editions).
  9. "The Crimson Pool". Dime Mystery Magazine (ms). 39 (1). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 90 October 1949. OCLC 33157294 (all editions).
  10. "She Loved Him to Death!". Detective Tales (ts). 43 (4). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 60 November 1949. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  11. "Sure Thing". Detective Tales (ar). 44 (1). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. December 1949. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
1950
  1. "Bloody Count Ivan". Detective Tales (ts). 42 (2). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. January 1950. OCLC 33032404 (all editions) & OCLC 1182549393.
  2. "Bloody 'Robin Hood'". Detective Tales (ar). 44 (3). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. February 1950. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  3. "Blood in His Own Back Yard". Detective Tales (ts). 45 (1). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. April 1950. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).
  4. "Clamor Guy". New Sports Magazine (ar). 8 (3). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 12 December 1950. OCLC 173768826 (all editions).
1951
  1. "Love Killer". 15 Story Detective (ts). 4 (1). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 8 February 1951. OCLC 928959191 (all editions).
  2. "Cure-All". Dime Detective Magazine (vi). 65 (3): 113. April 1951. Retrieved May 25, 2022 – via Internet Archive. OCLC 32990168 (all editions).
  3. "Peter the Confessor". Detective Fiction (ar). 156 (2). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 86 May 1951. OCLC 50563578 (all editions).
  4. "Saved by the Noose". Detective Fiction (ts). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. July 1951. OCLC 50563578 (all editions).
    British edition → "Saved by the Noose". Black Mask Detective. 9 (11): 63–64. October 1952. Retrieved May 11, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  5. "A Dash of Pepper". Dime Detective Magazine (vi). 66 (1): 6. August 1951. Retrieved May 11, 2022 – via Internet Archive. OCLC 32990168 (all editions).
  6. "Behind the Iron Mask". Fifteen Sports Stories (ar). 7 (4). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 6 December 1951. OCLC 33167363 (all editions).
1952
  1. "Winner Take Nothing". Fifteen Sports Stories (ar). 8 (2). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc.: 8 April 1952. OCLC 33167363 (all editions).
  2. "Pity the Poor Penman!". Detective Tales (ar). 50 (2). Chicago: Popular Publications, Inc. December 1952. OCLC 33032404 (all editions).

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ms = miscellaneous
ar   = article
ts   = true story
vi    = vignette

Edelman's songwriting[edit]

Jack Smiles, pseudonym for Julius Edelman
As sole writer, composer
  1. "Will It Ever Stop Rainin'" ("Teardrops in My Heart")
    w&m & © Jack Smiles, pseudonym of Julius Edelman
    26 November 1952: EU295448
    Marlong Music Corp.; 23 November 1953: EU338808
    Library of Congress copyright card
    Renewed January 4, 1980: RE42907
    Copyright claimant: Julius Edelman (A)
  2. "Cherry Pie"
    w&m © Jack Smiles
    29 February 1952: EU266197
    Library of Congress copyright card
    © Cambridge Music Corp.
    2 May 1952: EU273376
    Renewed January 4, 1980: RE42905
    Copyright claimant: Julius Edelman aka Jack Smiles (A)
    Recorded by "Texas" Bill Strength ( William Thomas Strength; 1928–1973) on Coral Records (1952) (Coral – 64117) (matrix 81934)★
    OCLC 732379155 (all editions).
  3. "Heartaches and Heartbreaks"
    w&m Jack Smiles, pseudonym of Julius Edelman
    8 March 1976: EU658420
  4. "Let's Break It Down" ("Before We Break It Up")
    w&m Jack Smiles, pseudonym of Julius Edelman
    26 July 1976: EU98857
  5. "On the Gulf of Mexico"
    w&m Jack Smiles; © Jack Smiles
    11 August 1977: EU812061
  6. "Missing"
    w&m Jack Smiles
    11 August 1977: EU802062
As co-writer, co-composer
  1. "Lost in the Forest of Your Heart"
    w&m Jack Smiles, pseudonym of Dick Young Sanford ( Richard Young Sandford; 1896–1981) and Julius Edelman
    May 25, 1953: EU317655
    Library of Congress copyright card
    Renewed January 5, 1981: RE78526
    Copyright claimant: Dick Sanford, & Julius Edelman aka Jack Smiles (A)
  2. (My) "Sleepless Heart"
    w&m & © James Smiles, pseudonym of Julius Edelman; and Dick Sanford
    December 8, 1952: EU296642
    Library of Congress copyright card
    Renewed January 4, 1980: RE43954
    Copyright claimants: Jack Smiles aka Julius Edelman and Dick Sanford (A)
  3. "Don't Waste Your Tears"
    w&m & © Julius Edelman, pseudonym of Julius Edelman, Norbert Ludwig (1902–1960),[29] and Ted Eddy ( Ted Eddy Simonetti; 1902–1985)
    Goday Music;[b] 10 March 1952: EU267223
    Library of Congress copyright card
    24 March 1952: EU268851
    Library of Congress copyright card
    Renewed January 4, 1980: RE42906
  4. "Meant for Each Other"
    w&m Julius Edelman & Anne Bender
    15 January 1953: EU301734
    Library of Congress copyright card
  5. "Mountain Gold"
    w&m Elaine Rivers, Jack Smiles, and Eve Cohen
    © Goday Music
    4 November 1955: EU415800


→ Cambridge Music Corp.
1962: 565 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
1966: Camalus Productions, a Joint venture between Cambridge Music Corp., Ltd. & Daedalus Productions, Inc., employer for hire

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Copyrights[edit]

Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 6, Part 5B, Number 1, "Unpublished Music" (January–June 1952). Library of Congress, Copyright Office

  1. © Edelman, Julius, w&m (29 February 1952). "Cherry Pie" (EU266197). p. 25. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Smiles, Jack (pseudonym of Julius Edelman), w&m (2 May 1952). "Cherry Pie" (EU273376). © Cambridge Music Corp. p. 25. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Volume 31, Part 5, Number 2, Section 2, "Music – Current and Renewal Registrations" (July–December 1977). Library of Congress, Copyright Office

  1. Smiles, Jack (pseudonym of Julius Edelman), w&m (11 August 1977). "On the Gulf of Mexico" (EU812061). © Jack Smiles. p. 2134. Retrieved May 10, 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Smiles, Jack (pseudonym of Julius Edelman), w&m (11 August 1977). "Missing" (EU802062). © Jack Smiles. p. 2134. Retrieved May 10, 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


  1. Strother, Cynthia (w&m) (12 December 1951). "Bermuda" (EP59328). © Goday Music, Inc. p. 222. Retrieved May 27, 2022 – via Google Books (Stanford Libraries).


Selected photos[edit]


  • Weegee (1945) [1945]. Naked City (abridged edition of work originally published by Essential Books). Cincinatti: Zebra Picture Books. → Inside cover of the abridged paperback of Naked City, photo by Skippy Adelman
About Naked CityLee, Anthony Wallace, PhD; Meyer, Richard Evan, PhD. Weegee and Naked City. University of California Press. Retrieved May 17, 2022 – via Google Books.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) LCCN 2007-33314; ISBN 978-0-5202-5590-6; OCLC 804320886 (all editions).
  • Two photos that captured Bill Keating (né William Emmet Keating; 1886–1964) singing, Arthur Semmig operating the record equipment in the foreground, and George Korson looking on or taking notes in the background, at the Pottsville Public Library, January & February 1946[20][30]



8-page photo-spread by Adelman on Eddie Condon's Sky Riders. Anderson, Condon's publicist, and Esquire, were roundly criticized for releasing what seemed like a publicity piece for Condon. The fallout was so severe that this was Esquire's last annual poll on jazz.[31]
  • "Ewell Blackwell" (photo by Skippy Adelman), The Reds Official Souvenir Book, George Sigmund Rosenthal (1922–1967), editor and publisher (1947); OCLC 38279911, 35240652[32]
  • Jewish Welfare Fund (illustrated brochure), George Sigmund Rosenthal (1922–1967), Chairman, David Ransohoff, Vice Chairman, Julius Adelman and Ben Rothenberg, photography, Noel Martin (1922–2009), design, Jewish Welfare Fund of Cincinnati (1954)[33] (archived at Jewish Federation of Cincinnati records)


ISCM Concert Group
  1. Louis Krasner (violin)
  2. Ralph Hersh (1910–1985) (viola)
  3. Seymour Barab (cello)
  4. Salvatore Picardi (1906–1988) (mandolin)
  5. John Smith (guitar)
  6. Eric Jacob Simon (1907–1994) (bass clarinet)
  7. Clark Louis Brody, Jr. (1914–2012) (clarinet)
  8. Warren Joseph Galjour (1917–2009) (baritone)

During a recording session of Schoenberg's Serenade for Septet and Baritone, op. 24, Esoteric Records, Inc., 75 Greenwich Avenue, New York City. OCLC 81150268.

→ The recording: ES-501A & ES-501B. Released July 6, 1949. OCLC 610623467 (all editions).



Discography photos[edit]

Skippy Adelman – New Orleans Jazz – Bunk Johnson (album includes photos by Adelman, Bill Russell, and others – and notes by Ralph J. Gleason) – Victor (4 shellac 10" discs, 78 rpm) HJ-7. Recorded in New York, December 19, 1945. OCLC 50115851, 1225785538.
    Disc 1: Victor 40-0126
    1. D5VB996-2: "When the Saints Go Marching In"
    2. D5VB888-2: "Snag It."

    Disc 2: Victor 40-0127

    1. D5VB997-1: "High Society."
    2. D5VB887-2: "Just a Closer Walk With Thee."

    Disc 3: Victor 40-0128

    1. D5VB998-2: "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball."
    2. D5VB886-2: "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate."

    Disc 4: Victor 40-0129

    1. D5VB999-2: "Franklin Street Blues."
    2. D5VB889-2: "One Sweet Letter From You."[34]


Skippy Adelman - Pee Wee Russell Jazz Ensemble - Pee Wee Russell ‎(3 shellac 10" discs, 78 rpm) Disc Records 632B. Recorded in New York, September 9, 1946. OCLC 47099086.
    Disc 1
    1. CD415: "Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down"
    2. CD416: "Muskogee Blue"

    Disc 2

    1. CD417: "Rosie" ("Make It Rosy For Me")
    2. CD418: "Take Me to the Land of Jazz"

    Disc 3

    1. CD419: "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain"
    2. CD420 "Red Hot Mama Wells"







Skippy Adelman - The Ragtime Band (album art), Tony Parenti's Ragtimers - The Ragtime Band ‎(3xShellac, 10", album) Circle S-8 (1947)
Skippy Adelman - Jazz A La Creole (album art), Nick and his Creole Serenaders (2xShellac, 10", album) Circle S-13 (1947)
Skippy Adelman - (Vol. 2) (album art) Billie Holiday (10", compilation, mono) Commodore FL 20,006 (1954)
Skippy Adelman - Strange Fruit (album art) Billie Holiday, Atlantic (1972)
Skippy Adelman - The Greatest Interpretations of Billie Holiday - Complete Edition (album art) (2xLP, Comp, Mono) London GSW 3003 (1974)
Skippy Adelman - The Greatest Interpretations of Billie Holiday - Alternate Choices - complete edition (album art) Commodore (1979)
Skippy Adelman - The Greatest Interpretations of Billie Holiday - Complete Edition (album art) Commodore, King (1986)
Skippy Adelman – Original Zenith Brass Band – Eclipse Alley Five & Avery-Tillman Band – New Orleans 1946. American Music Records (back cover photo) – AMCD-75 (CD) Released: 1994 (Discogs release code 16015073); OCLC 48527588.

Selected articles[edit]

  • Rosenthal, George Sigmund (1922–1967); Zachary, Frank (né Frank Zaharija; 1914–2015) (eds.). Jazzways (snippet view only). Cincinnati: © 21 January 1946; Jazzways, Cincinnati.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: editors list (link) Cover design by Paul Rand. More than 100 photos by Skippy Adelman, Bernice Abbott, and Sargent John Marsh; 1916–2003)
Cincinnati: Jazzways (1946); OCLC 10396118, 367353290, 839356128, 979896906
New York: Greenberg (1946, 1947); OCLC 3501413, 21397381, 611017552
London: Musicians Press Ltd. (1947); OCLC 654341520, 28753218, 795465371, 774482619
(Greenberg, Publisher, founded in 1924 by Jacob Walter Greenberg; 1894–1974; & David Benjamin Greenberg; 1892–1968; sold to Chilton Book Company in 1958)
Contributors
Vol. 1
Report From Abroad," by Albert McCarthy
"Jazz begins," by Rudi Blesh
"Three Horns, Four Rhythm," by Dale Curran
"Going Down State Street," by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
"Portrait of a Jazzman," Art Hodes
"Benny Goodman," by Alexander King
"Swing," by Frank Stacy, p. 49
"Lionel Hampton, by Peter Fischer
"New Orleans Today," by Eugene Williams & Julius "Skippy" Adelman (photographer) (note: Adelman, who later gave up photography, is still considered among the finest jazz photographers)
"Discollecting," by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
Vol. 2
"Jazz begins," by Rudi Blesh
"Old Photographs"
"Going Down State Street," by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
"Condon Mob"
"Hot Royalty"
"Benny Goodman," by Alexander King
"Lionel Hampton, by Peter Fischer
"Swing," by Frank Stacy (Stacy was, in the early 1940s, the New York editor for Down Beat)
"New Orleans Today," by Eugene Williams & Julius "Skippy" Adelman (born around 1924) (photographer) (note: Adelman, who later gave up photography, is still considered among the finest jazz photographers)[7] Philadelphia jazz journalist Nels Nelson wrote in 1985 that Adelman was among the greatest jazz photographers in the world.[35][c] In 1990, Nelson wrote that renowned jazz photographer "[Bill] Gottlieb ranks second only to the elusive Skippy Adelman in his capacity for capturing the moment."[2]
"Discollecting," by Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
"Collector's Items"
"One for the Money"
"Two for the Show"
"Concerto for Woody"
"Portrait of a Jazzman," by Art Hodes (Hodes launched The Jazz Record in February 1943, which ran for 60 issues that ended November 1947)
"Three Brass, Four Rhythm," by Dale Curran, p. 24

Selected discography[edit]

Artists re-issued by Jazz Information
Artists produced by Jazz Information

Film[edit]

Selected critical acclaim[edit]

  • In 2021, Alan John Ainsworth wrote, "Few photographers were closer to the world of the 1930s and 1940s jazz than Charles Peterson and Skippy Adelman." "Adelman, a Greenwich Village resident and one of a new generation of hard-bitten photojournalists, was as close as Peterson had been in midtown Manhattan to the swirl of activities around Condon." " ... Adelman belonged chronologically to the new generation cohort but his life and work cautions against pigeonholing all these photographers as young, collegeeducated members of the middle class."[37]
  • "Skippy Adelman's pictures have the spontaneity that is the very soul of jazz."[7]

Cameras[edit]

Super Panchro Press, Type B

For the Jazzways photographs, Adelman used:

Other references[edit]

  • See this: "Skippy Adelman and George Rosenthal, Jr., who teamed up to cover the spring training of the Cincinnati Reds (Minicam, Sept. 1948), found the telephoto lens invaluable for the job. 'We used the telephoto for action shots'.
Minicam Photography (1948). "n.a." 12. Automobile Digest Publishing Company. Retrieved May 13, 2022 – via Google Books. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) ISSN 0096-5863; OCLC 1757544 (all editions).



On the subject of Jim Crow, Adelman shot a photo of a "Colored [sic] Crew Only" painted on the lavatory of the Francis Scott Key, a ferryboat to the Statue of Liberty. The Chicago Defender ran a series following that photo.[38]


  • photo: Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (née Marie Miller, 1866–1958), PM, November 28, 1943 (Photo by Skippy Adelman)
  • Philippa Schuyler portrait collection; OCLC 82986381

References[edit]

Disambiguation[edit]

Not to be confused with Bob Adelman (1930–2016), known for his photos relating to civil rights.[39]

Harvard[edit]

Annotations[edit]

  1. ^ Allegro Film Productions, Inc., of New York and Florida (associated with Edelman) is not to be confused with the Vienna-based Allegro Film (Allegro Filmproduktions GmbH) founded in 1989 by Helmut Grasser (de) → re: Allegro Film (de). The American firm was founded in 1960 in New York by Jerome G. Forman ( Jerome George Forman; 1927–2009). (Broadcasting. August 1, 1960)
  2. ^ Goday Music, Inc., was the music publishing firm of Joe "Happy" Goday.
  3. ^ Nels Nelson (né Nels Robert Nelson; 1923–1996) was a jazz columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News for over 40 years. He retired from the Daily News in 1995 and passed away the following year.
  4. ^ Purist Records were produced by the London-based Bunk Johnson Appreciation Society between 1954 and 1963.
  5. ^ Boots and His Buddies personnel: Billy Douglas (trumpet, vocals); Alvin Alcorn, Hiram Harding (trumpets); James Robinson, Frank Jacquet (trombones); Gus Patterson, Harold "Dink" Taylor (alto saxes); Herb Hall (clarinet, alto sax, bari sax); Louis Cottrell (clarinet, tenor sax); Lloyd Glenn (piano); Ferdinand Dejan (guitar); James Johnson (double bass); Albert Martin (drums); Merle Turner, Don Albert (directors); Lloyd Glenn (arranger); Merle Turner (vocals); Israel Wicks (vocals); unknown vocal trio on "I Like You Best of All."
  6. ^ Carolina Cotton Pickers probable personnel: Cat Anderson (trumpet); 2 of the three mentioned on trumpet, John Williams, Thad Seabrook, Joseph Williams (trumpets); Leroy Hardison, Eugene Earl (trombones); Booker Starks, Lew Williams, Addison White, Aaron Harvey (saxes); Cliff Smalls (piano); W.J. Edwards (guitar); Lew Turman (double bass); Otis Walker (drums) (see Jenkins Orphanage)
  7. ^ Ingo Records was an Italian bootleg label that issued rare jazz broadcasts

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Price, December 30, 1944, p. 30.
  2. ^ a b Philadelphia Daily News, June 22, 1990, p. 50.
  3. ^ Popular Photography, July 1972, p. 64.
  4. ^ Writer's Digest, February 1950, p. 38.
  5. ^ Variety, January 21, 1953, p. 36.
  6. ^ Motion Picture Daily, January 21, 1953, p. 6.
  7. ^ a b c Popular Photography, June 1946, pp. 54–55.
  8. ^ Minicam Photography, April 1945, pp. 30, 33, 80, 82.
  9. ^ Pelizzon & West, 2010.
  10. ^ Journal of the SMPTE, June 1963, p. 83.
  11. ^ "Trademark Registration," December 26, 1972, p. PM 272.
  12. ^ Boxoffice, March 20, 1972, p. E3.
  13. ^ Naturalization, "Mary Edelman," 1935.
  14. ^ Indicator, June 1941, p. 28.
  15. ^ Pottsville-Republican, February 9, 1946, p. 6.
  16. ^ New Montefiore Cemetery, 2004.
  17. ^ Pelizzon & West, & Spring 2004, p. 28.
  18. ^ Minicam Photography, April 1945, pp. 80.
  19. ^ Korson, 1966, p. 10.
  20. ^ a b Nystrom, January 2007, pp. 92–93.
  21. ^ ASMP – "Arthur Leipzig".
  22. ^ a b Broadcasting, July 1, 1963, p. 71.
  23. ^ a b Broadcasting, August 19, 1963, p. 50.
  24. ^ Business Screen, March 1968, p. 139.
  25. ^ Burke, 2008, p. 130.
  26. ^ Williams, November 1941, p. 100.
  27. ^ Record Changer, Finkelstein, March 1949, pp. 11–12.
  28. ^ Record Changer, Delaunay, March 1949, pp. 13–14.
  29. ^ ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 1980, p. 312.
  30. ^ Wilkes-Barre Record, February 1, 1946, p. 24.
  31. ^ Record Changer, March 1947, p. 8–9 & 15.
  32. ^ Daily Sentinel, May 21, 1947, p. 13.
  33. ^ American Israelite, April 8, 1954, p. 1.
  34. ^ Eaterton & Hazeldine, December 2006, p. 40.
  35. ^ a b Philadelphia Daily News, November 22, 1985, p. 70.
  36. ^ Hillman, 1988, p. 80.
  37. ^ Ainsworth, 2021.
  38. ^ Abel, 2010, p. 113.
  39. ^ Cascone, & March 22, 2016.

Books, journals, magazines, and papers[edit]

    Adelman credits:
    1. Page 94: Jack Lesberg
    2. Page 95: Bud Freeman
    3. Page 96: Dizz' (lower right)
    4. Page 97: Sarah Vaughan
    5. Page 99: (upper left)
    6. Page 100: Peanuts Hucko
    7. Page 101: Mary Lou Williams
Broadcasting (August 19, 1963). "Commercials in Production ... " (weekly). 65 (8). Broadcasting Publications, Inc.: 50. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) OCLC 685240087 (all editions).







    1. 1947 – via Google Books (University of Minnesota) (snippet view).
    2. 1948 – via Google Books (University of Minnesota) (snippet view).
    1. Via Penn State. (link). Free access icon.
    2. JSTOR. 20093917.
    1. Delaunay, Charles. "An Attack on Critical Jabberwalky": 13–14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
    2. Finkelstein, Sidney (1909–1974). "Peace in the Ranks": 11–12. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)



Variety (January 21, 1953). "Television Chatter" – "New York" – "Julius Edelman ... ". Free access icon. 189 (7): 36. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)




  • William, Eugene (November 1941). "A History of Jazz Information". Jazz Information (transcript). 2 (16): 93–101. Retrieved May 16, 2022.
    Retrieved May 16, 2022 – via www.swingdjs.com – jazz forum site that was active for 16 years, through January 2019, registered to and maintained by Jesse Miner, a San Francisco area chef and jazz history enthusiast. The forum boards were closed in January 2019, but much of its content, as of May 2022, has been accessible. The 23 links to transcripts of Jazz Information on a former website of the late Joseph Elbert Shepherd (1926–2021) of Sterling, Virginia ([1]), have been archived by Wayback Machine.
News media
Arsene Studios
  • 1943: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York (1585 BroadwayThe Strand Theater Building – between 47th and 48th Streets, in Times Square, is the current site of the Morgan Stanley Building)
  • 1944: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1945: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1946: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1947: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1948: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1949: 1585 C Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1951: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1952: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1953: 1585 D Broadway, New York, New York
  • 1954: 756 7th Avenue, New York, New York (below the Winter Garden Theatre)
  • 1955: 756 7th Avenue, New York, New York
  • 1956: 756 7th Avenue, New York, New York
  • 1957: 756 7th Avenue, New York, New York
  • 1958: 756 7th Avenue, New York, New York
  • 1959: 756 7th Avenue, New York, New York
Leo Arsene, an entertainment photographer, had a shop on Seventh Avenue.
Other big collectors of jazz photos: Frank Driggs (acquired many B&W negatives from Leo Arsene)







Copyrights and trademarks[edit]


Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 2, Pamphlets, Leaflets, Contributions to Newspapers or Periodicals, Etc. – Maps. New Series, Volume 43 (1946). Library of Congress, Copyright Office

    1. © Edelman, Julius, w&m (29 February 1952). Copyrighted work: "Jazzways" (EU266197). p. 468. Retrieved May 10, 2022 – via Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Genealogy[edit]

    1. Certificate of Arrival No. 2–370639
    2. Petition date: July 16, 1935
    3. Petition for Naturalization No. 248125
    4. Petition Granted: List No. 4439; Certificate No. 3949679

External links[edit]

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