Showing posts with label Sydney Leff. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sydney Leff. Show all posts

Thursday, February 27, 2014

Carolina Moon



Sydney Leff illustrated this cover, published in 1929. But another homegrown artist "enhanced" this piece by drawing horns on pioneer crooner Gene Austin.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder




Interesting trivia: Sydney Leff, the cover illustrator of this 1928 sheet music, died in 2005 at age 104. Irving Berlin, who published this, died in 1989, age 101.