Sunday, January 07, 2007

Silas Green from New Orleans 1937 #3



Look at the size of that band, I count about 16 musicians. They are assembling for their morning concert. Could you imagine their volume in that small tent? I'll bet it was awesome. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 1/07/2007 06:29:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Let's try at least 19!

07 January, 2007 21:03
Em said...

I have relative with last name Graham and first name Elsie, who was with the Green show. She was from Jacksonville, GA.

15 March, 2014 15:44
Unknown said...

My Dad, John P. Yancey Jr., bought the show around 1946 and kept it on the road for two years. It travelled on 5 or 6 U.S. Army Surplus trucks, which were painted orange with green letters, outlined in silver and black. The manager was Sam Green, and he and his wife lived in a small trailer that they carried with the show. The boss canvas man was John Robinson, and he and my father exchanged Christmas cards for many years. I've often wondered what happened to him. My Dad went broke after the second year on the road. However, he said that owning the show was the foundation for his success later in life in real esate. He said that if you could manage a minstral show, you could manage anything. "Every thirty minutes, there was not a problem, not an emergency, but a life threatening crisis that had to be resolved ASAP!" he added. He said that the overall experience was the equivelent of attending Harvard School of Business twice! By the way, the last Silas Green poster I saw was in Durham, NC in 1962. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone formerly associated with the show. Thanks! - John Yancey III

27 December, 2015 22:08
Mary Stewart Douglas said...

As a little girl I would go to the show with my parents. Today my sister and were talking about the pass and I thought of the show and I remember they called it the Silas Green show I am now 72 but I remember I guess this was back around the Earl 50's or middle.wow

23 December, 2016 02:37
alex albright said...

I would love to know locations of the Silas Green band photos. I interviewed several performers with the show from 1920s & '30s, great folks & stories, too. Thanks for John Yancey details! Mattie Sloan used to talk about a John Robinson, whom she worked with on Winstead's Mighty Minstrels out of Fayetteville.

--alex albright

24 March, 2022 13:29

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