?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
INCLUDES STEVIE WONDER'S THUMBPRINT (MUSICIANS.) Group of 68 uncashed checks, each Signed by a music producer or executive, some signed with an ink stamp, mostly from production companies or recording studios to musicians or their agents. The checks, each including stub with accounting notes in unknown hands. The companies represented include CBS Records, RCA Records, Elektra Asylum, A&M Records, Warner Brothers, Don Cornelius Productions, The Dick Clark Company, Beach Bum Productions, Radio Station KUTE-FM, Motown Record Corporation, Mercury Record Productions, and Paramount Pictures Corporation. The artists to whom the checks were issued include Bill Withers, Glenn Frey, Brian Wilson, Carlos Santana, and Duane Eddy. Each approximately 3 1/2x8 inches; adding machine tape attached with staple to Wonder's check. Vp, 1966-82
Stevie Wonder. Signed with his thumbprint for Taurus Productions, $100.92 to songwriter Richard J. Rudolph. The stub mentions a recording session for the album that Wonder produced for Jermaine Jackson, Let's Get Serious. New York, 17 August 1979 • Suzanne de Passe. Motown Pictures Company, $89.11 to producer Suzanne Coston, issued from Happy Endings production account (1983 movie for television). Hollywood, 13 April 1982 • Steve Gold; and Eric Burdon. Far Out Productions, $111.25 to blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon. Hollywood, 2 September 1975 • Wayne Henderson. At-Home Productions, $61.29 to Dorothy Cooke. The stub mentions a recording session for disco jazz-funk band Side Effect. Beverly Hills, 15 November 1978 • Milton DeLugg. Amy Dee Music, $94.86 to Christopher Roberts. Beverly Hills, 7 May 1980 • David S. Gold; and Stan Ross. Gold Star Recording Studios, $37.26 to band Feather guitarist Roger B. White, Jr. Los Angeles, 8 February 1974 • Gene Norman. GNP Crescendo Record Co., $27.83 to Sky Saxon, leader of the band The Seeds. Hollywood, 28 August 1967 • others.
