Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Menudo Band Calendar Page, 1989 |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Description |
Menudo Band Calendar Page, 1989. Color photograph of the Puerto Rico based five-member boy band Menudo. On the back is a photo of the band sans autographs with an April to June calendar, the band's tour dates printed in red ink. On the front side is another band photograph. Left to right: a band member in a black cowboy hat with a white bandanna around his neck, his autograph in blue in above him; band member wearing a blue jean jacket and black hat with an emblem on the front of the hat, his autograph in blue ink above him; band member wearing an American flag shirt, his autograph above him; a band member also wearing a blue jean jacket, this one in tie-dye, his autograph above him; the last member in the photo is wearing a light colored jean vest and white T-shirt, giving a thumbs up, his autograph is also above him in blue ink. In order, the autographs are "...[illegible]", "ROBERTO", "LOVE ... [illegible]", "ANGELO", and "LOVE RUBEN". On the bottom half of the photo page is an October to December calendar with the band's tour dates printed in red ink. The calendar page had been folded to display the autographed picture without the calendar dates. |
Date |
1989 |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Studio |
Unknown |
Catalog Number |
2018.026.001.10 |
Dimension Details |
12.25 x 9 (opened), 7 x 9 (folded) |
Collection |
Archival - Photographs |
Place |
unknown |
Provenance |
Part of collection related to Circle Star Theater that donor's sister, Carole Selby Bancroft, collected when she was a limo driver that handled Circle Star performers' transportation (her and her husband Mike operated a limo service). |
Notes |
"Menudo (Spanish Synonym for Little-and, in Puerto Rican Spanish, for loose change) was a Puerto Rican based, Latino boy band that was formed in the 1970s by producer Edgardo Díaz. Menudo was also one of the biggest Latin boy bands in history, releasing their first album in 1977. The band achieved much success, especially during the 1980s, becoming the most popular Latin American teen musical group of the era. The group disbanded in 2009. The band had several radio hits during its course. Their success led them to also release two feature films: Una aventura llamada Menudo and Menudo: La Película. The band was a starting point for both Ricky Martin (1984-89) and Draco Rosa (1984-87), who were members around the mid-1980s during their youth. Menudo's original line-up consisted of two sets of brothers: Fernando and Nefty Sallaberry (12 and 13), from Ponce, Puerto Rico (Fernando was born in Spain); and the Melendez brothers, Carlos Meléndez, (12), Óscar Meléndez, (11), and Ricky Meléndez, (9); the latter three are Diaz's cousins." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(band)] |
People |
Avellanet, Robert Blass, Sergio García, Angelo Gómez, Rubén Torres, Rawy |
Search Terms |
Circle Star Theatre |
Subjects |
Calendars Celebrities Entertainers Portrait photographs |
Credit line |
Courtesy of Jim Kelly |