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The Five Pennies
Fifty years ago, in 1908, his father handed him a silver cornet and said, "Blow boy!" From that day, life took on meaning for Red Nichols and, fifteen years later, the shy redhead from Utah was a familiar sight in New York speakeasies, the flaming-haired symbol of flaming youth, blowing that horn for all he was worth.
Life, then, was all joy and laughter and the heady wine of fame; and a sweet, wonderful marriage to the only girl in the world.
But one day, Red got up from a sickbed to find his band taken over by another. Then there was the terrible descent from the dizzying heights; and, when he had hit bottom and things were blackest, it seemed that God, too, was against him, for his beloved daughter was stricken with paralysis.
This is the Story of a great comeback, a tender and touching story, the story of a fine musician and a fine man.
Life, then, was all joy and laughter and the heady wine of fame; and a sweet, wonderful marriage to the only girl in the world.
But one day, Red got up from a sickbed to find his band taken over by another. Then there was the terrible descent from the dizzying heights; and, when he had hit bottom and things were blackest, it seemed that God, too, was against him, for his beloved daughter was stricken with paralysis.
This is the Story of a great comeback, a tender and touching story, the story of a fine musician and a fine man.
191 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published January 1, 1959
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