Coney Island

For this Musical Monday, we take the train out to Coney Island for a trip down memory lane.

Reginald Marsh  Wonderland Circus, Sideshow Coney Island, 1930 (ARTstor)

From 1926, the Five Harmaniacs with Coney Island Washboard Roundelay, music by Hampton Durand and Jerry Adams, words by Ned Nestor and Aude Shugart: 

Jug band not your style? How about some street corner harmony with the Excellents: 

Amusing the Zillions "fave Coney Island song" is Joe McGinty's Million Dollar Mermaid :


Coney Island Tours Coney Island History Project Coney Island USA The Brooklyn Theatre Index, Volume III, Coney Island Including  Brighton Beach & Manhattan Beach is available online at the Coney Island USA Gift Shop.

Cezar Del Valle is the author of the Brooklyn Theatre Index, a three-volume history of borough showplaces. The first two volumes chosen 2010 OUTSTANDING BOOK OF THE YEAR by the Theatre Historical Society. Final volume published in  September 2014.

He conducts a series of popular theatre talks and walking tours.

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