| Vaudeville act Weber and Fields. In 1877 Moses Schoenfeld (Lew Fields) and Morris (Joe) Weber were ten-year-old eastern European Jewish immigrant sons living on New York's Lower East Side. Hoping to escape from their lower-class immigrant origins (Joe's father was a Kosher butcher, Lew's ran a sweatshop), they frequented the working-class Bowery beer dives and dime museums, stealing their earliest material from popular "Irish" dialect and blackface minstrel acts. | ||
| Control Number: | 50.057 |
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| Collection: | LAB | |
| Provenance: | LAB | |
| CD Number: | 8117 3181 4776 | |
| Date: | 06/30/1998 | |
| Keywords: | comedian, microphone, NBC, radio, | |
