A blog friend sent this delightful photograph of the Searcy High School swing band playing a symphony. It is from 1949 and lots of the characters are still around Searcy Arkansas. Because the picture was so wide and hard to put on in one picture and have the characters recognizable, I have cut it in half and am putting up both sides PLUS the members of the band.
It is full of humor, in my opinion, starting with the title which says, SEARCY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND PERSONNEL. I believe they were high schoolers. What a subtle insult!! Then we have a yawning guy in the foreground and a wig or two to indicate the long-haired music. I'm going to let one of our readers identify the people if they will. Step up, Anita or Bob! And Bob, remember that I don't know a piano from a flute and give us from left to right, not by instrument!
Bob Collins, who has a delightful sense of humor all the time, wrote, "There are fourteen names under the picture but only eleven people on stage. Considering the theme of the skit, 'symphony music is boring', some of the swing musicians obviously have walked off stage."
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