Singer, David (Graham, Bill; The Who; Herman, Woody; A.R. Skhy; Santana, Carlos; The Impressions; Turner, Ike; Turner, Tina; Blues Image)

Original Concert Postcard: The Who, Woody Herman, A.R. Skhy, Santana, The Impressions, Ike & Tina Turner, Blues Magic (June 17-22, 1969)

San Francisco, CA: Bill Graham, 1969. First Edition. Single Sheet. This postcard designed by David Singer promotes a concert series which took place on June 17-22, 1969 at Fillmore West featuring The Who, Woody Herman & His Orchestra, A.B. Skhy, The Impressions, Blues Image, Ike & Tina Turner and Santana produced by the legendary impresario Bill Graham (1931-1991). The Who, Woody Herman & His Orchestra, and A.B. Skhy performed on June 17-19; The Impressions, Blues Image, and Santana performed on June 20th; and Ike & Tina Turner took Santana’s spot for June 21 & 22. The Who had just released their fourth studio album, the rock opera Tommy, in May of 1969, featuring the single “Pinball Wizard,” and they would go on to play most of that album at the Woodstock Festival that August. Woody Herman (1913-1987) was a multi-instrumentalist big band leader who came on the scene in the late 1930s and remained active until his death in 1987. The group won three Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Performance - Large Group (Instrumental), and Herman was granted the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987. A.B. Skhy was an electric blues band from Milwaukee, WI formed in 1968 and disbanded after releasing two albums. Santana was formed in 1966 by guitarist Carlos Santana (b. 1947). Now one of the best-selling groups of all time with 25 studio albums, Santana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. The Impressions were an R&B doo-wop group out of Chattanooga, Tennessee made up of Sam Gooden, Curtis Mayfield, and Fred Cash that originally formed in 1958. Blues Image formed in Miami, Florida in 1966 with Mike Pinera, Manny Bertematti, Joe Lala, Skip Konte, and Malcolm Jones. They helped establish a music venue called Thee Image and became the house band until they moved to L.A. to release their debut album in February 1969. Ike (1931-2007) & Tina (1939-2023) Turner were married from 1962 to 1978, and they performed together from 1960 to 1976. Tina would go on to break records as the “Queen of Rock and Roll,” and she was cast as The Acid Queen in the movie adaptation of The Who’s rock opera Tommy (1975) with Elton John, Eric Clapton, & Jack Nicholson. Eric King’s Collector’s Guide described the design of this postcard as follows: “The central image is a collage including the Venus of Milo, a dry plain with two horses on it, an archway and a blue sky with a few white clouds in it. This is the first in the series by David Singer who worked in a style drastically different from any of the artists who preceded him. For the first several months Singer used a deceptively simple, consistent format of a rectangular collage within a frame on which the lettering appeared. This simplicity disguised the fact that Singer’s collages were much more complex, involved far more elements than the collages used previously in this series. It also disguised the fact that Singer had a brilliant sense of design and often spent hours looking at a collage and moving the pieces around in order to get exactly the effect he wanted before gluing the pieces in place. Nothing in Singer’s designs is the product of quick, random, thoughtless assembly,” (pg. 519). The verso of this postcard explains that this week kicks off their “6 Day Summer Series” featuring two line-ups for three days each through the end of August. Single sheet (appx. 4 & 5/8” x 7”): first edition, first-&-only printing, with all points in Eric King’s Collector’s Guide (BG-178-OPC-A, pg. 519). In relatively very fine condition with very mild bumping to the fine edge and corners; mild age-toning; mild scratching to recto. Very Fine. [Item #7792]

Price: $75.00