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She worked at Fort Holabird during World War II and later she worked briefly at the Regent Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue. In 1943 she married Roy McCoy. She shared her husband's love for music and interest in photography."," Poor audio quality and low levels present on source media."]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["The collection is open for use. 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He was\nplaying in the band. I didn't really meet him -- that's when I first saw him. I\nused to stand there, you know, and watch the band play. But he was so busy\nplaying, and, of course, there wasn't too much else I could do. But then he'd\nalways been in my neighborhood, where he lived. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So we just started dating,\nthat's all. That was in1940s, 1941, something like that. We were married in\n1943. So it was a nice courtship.\n\nOf course we didn't do too much going and all because he was always busy\nplaying, you know, in the band. But we enjoyed each other anyway. And my family\nloved him. You know, he was a good old fellow anyway. [Laughter]\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: You say your family liked him. Where were you living at that time?\n\nREGINA McCOY: We were living right on Lanvale Street in the 500 block. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Right\nnear Pennsylvania Avenue, as a matter of fact, right around from the Royal\nTheater. And we would go there quite frequently. We were all up and down\nPennsylvania Avenue because there was so much to do up there -- up and down the\navenue: Nightclubs and theaters and dance halls. We just went around like that.\nIt was nice living there.\n\nWe stayed there for a while. I was living there with my sister at the time,\nuntil I got married, because my mother had passed away when I was fourteen. I\nstayed there with her. She had two little girls, and we had a good life together.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You said you were going up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, you and\nMr. McCoy. Was there anything specific that you can remember -- like where he\nwould play?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well we used to go to the theaters when the bands would come in,\nthe big bands. They would have big bands come to the Strand Ballroom [1321\nPennsylvania Ave. Baltimore,MD]. They don't mention that too much, but we had a\ngood time at Strand Ballroom.\n\nWe'd have dances there every Wednesday night. And that was up on the second\nfloor. The bottom floor was a bowling alley, and we used to go bowling there. I\nused to go when Roy was working over to Club Orleans, I wasn't old enough to go\nover there, but I went anyway. They never said too much to me. My sister would\ngo with me, and we would sit over there with the band and have a nice time.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was over on the East Side, East Baltimore, over on Gay Street. That was the\nmain thing. Well, we used to go in the evening. We used to go at these\nnightclubs in the evening, and they would have bands in there too and you could dance.\n\nIt's different now, you know. You don't have too much to do now. And if you\nwanted to have a drink or something, they would have that. But we used to like\nto go just for the dancing. And, of course, Roy wasn't a dancer. He never did do\ntoo much dancing. Well, he was busy playing. Wherever he was, we would always\ntry to find a way to get there. So it was nice. We had a nice life.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did you go with a group of friends to go see him play?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh yes. I would very seldom go by myself. I would always have\nsomebody with me, friends or my sister or something like that. I very seldom\nwould go by myself. And we used to go to the theater. I used to like to go to\nthe theater, the Royal. They had big shows there, sometimes Roy would have me to\ncome in. He would want me to come in the back door and I wouldn't have to pay to\ngo in. But I never did feel comfortable about that.\n\nI would do it every once in a while, but I didn't like to do it. I liked to pay\nand go in through the front and have a seat.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I used to love to go to the theater. I used to go to the movies all the\ntime. Sometimes twice in one day. And I would come out with such a bad headache.\n[Laughter] But I would love to go. I just liked the movies anyway.\n\nYou didn't have too much entertainment. It was mostly in the evening he would be\nworking. So I would entertain myself by going to the movies. If there was a\ndance at the Strand Ballroom we'd go. I used to go to night school too. I took\nup dress making, and I went to night school and took up tailoring, but I never\nfinished the tailoring, but I enjoyed it.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Besides the Strand, where else were your favorite places to go?\n\nREGINA McCOY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, there was a place called the Avenue on Pitcher and\nPennsylvania Avenue. There was a place called Gamby's that was further down, in\nthe fifteen hundred block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Then there was a place called\nthe Spot. I didn't go there much, but I went there once in a while. They served\ngood food there. And we'd have dinner there sometime. And real hot chili, which\nI didn't care for. My brother-in-law liked that. I used to give it to him if it\nwas too hot for me.\n\nI don't know of any other place. We didn't go to too many other places. That was\nthe main place we would go to -- ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all up on the Avenue.\n\nAt Easter time we had big parades, and people would dress up in their Easter\nfinery. We had a good time.\n\nAt one time, a long time ago, on Halloween night we used to go all up and down\nthe avenue. People were dressed up in their Halloween costumes. It was nice. But\nthat was before I met Roy.\n\nRoy knew me before I knew him. I had two other sisters I used to go around with\nall the time. And he used to say he always noticed the three of us because we\nwould always be together. But I didn't know him at that time.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where else did you go besides the Royal to watch movies?\n\nREGINA McCOY: I just used to work and come home. I never did a lot. I never was\na person that liked to be doing things. I liked to stay to myself. Just like now.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Where did you work around this time?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh, I used to work at the Elite Laundry. I was working in the dry\ncleaning part. And then, when the war came out, I was working down at Fort\nHolabird. I used to work down there during the war times. I was down there at\nthe time when Roy and I were married. That's the last job that I had, full time\njob. Of course I used to work little jobs after we were married. I used to work\nat the Regent Theater. That's another theater they don't talk about much either.\nI used to sell candy there, at the candy concession. I used to work at night there.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Who played at the Regent, Can you think of some bands?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Who played? They did have bands at one time. When I was there, it\nwas just the movies. They didn't have bands. But they did say that they had\nbands there, they had a great big organ there, bigger than the Royal. But I\ndon't know anything about that. I never saw that. But I used to just go for the\nmovies. I always liked to go the movies. That's all. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No bands that I know of\nwere there.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: So you said during wartime you worked at different places. What\nwas the attitude like on Pennsylvania Avenue around that time?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh it was good. We didn't mind going on the Avenue. Everybody was\nfriendly. It was a good place to go because, later, it got so that you shied\naway from it. But at that time, when we were coming up, that was the place to be\n-- on Pennsylvania Avenue. There was just something going on all the time down\nthere. They had nice places to eat. There was a place; I don't remember what the\nname was. Right across from the Royal. Served good food and most of the band men\nwould go there and eat. And when the big bands came, I imagine they would go\nthere too.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Royal would have good shows there. Every once in a while they'd have a nice\nmidnight show. I don't care how long the line was, you'd stand in that line so\nyou could get into that midnight show. That was a big show and it was nice. We\nenjoyed it.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Who usually played at the midnight show?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh whoever was there -- I don't remember exactly. Whatever band\nwas there at the theater at the time would play. I know they've had a lot of\nbands there. I think Jimmy Lunceford has been there. But a lot of the big bands\nwould come there to play.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Jewel box Review was there. They would all be dressed as ladies except one.\nThe one that was dressed as a man was a lady. You couldn't tell. She looked just\nlike a man. So she was the only one in there that was a lady. But that was nice.\nIt was called the Jewel Box Review.\n\nI think Earl Hines been there, Chick Webb, and, of course, Ella Fitzgerald used\nto come there. I used to like to go when she was at the Strand too, and you'd\ndance to Ella Fitzgerald.\n\nI was thinking about that Strand a lot because, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"like I said, the buildings that\nthey make now are ready to fall to pieces. We used to go to the Strand for these\ndances, it would be packed, and people would be dancing and the floors would be\nrocking, but it never came down. If a big band was there, there would always be\na crowd there. We would have a good time. People would be dancing, jitterbugging\nand things like that.\n\nBut I never was a good dancer. I couldn't dance too well. I would try to dance,\nbut I couldn't do it. My sisters were good at dancing -- all of my family but\nme. I don't know why. Well, I think it's because I had two left feet. But I\nwould dance, I would get kind of frustrated. I'd be dancing and some fellow\nwould ask me to dance. I would come and dance, and he'd never come back.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=900.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I would see other people when these fellows were dancing, they would come back\nto dance with them again. But, you know, I don't think I've ever had the same\none ask me twice. Because I just couldn't dance that's all. It was something.\n\nBut I used to go anyway. I used to like to listen. Even now, I would go to a\ndance. Our church had a dance not too long ago. My minister tried to get me to\ndance. I said I was just there listening. He wanted me to dance with him. I said\nno thanks. I wouldn't dance with him. So it was nice. That's just been not too\nlong ago, about a month ago I guess.\n\nBut I just always wanted to dance, and I knew all my family could dance. And my\nsister, the one I lived with, she was wonderful. She and my brother used to\ndance beautifully together. I used to watch them dance, just glide across the\nwhole floor you know. But I never could do anything like that. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=960.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I just had too\nleft feet I guess, and they didn't work right. And, of course, I didn't have to\nworry about dancing because Roy never danced too much anyway. That was one thing good.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did you have a favorite band?\n\nREGINA McCOY: I just used to like Jimmie Lunceford. I don't know why. I just\nthought he was tops to me. You know, I just liked to hear Jimmie Lunceford play.\nOf course, Roy liked Louis Armstrong. I liked to hear Ella Fitzgerald sing\nbetter than anybody. I just think nobody could sing like Ella Fitzgerald. I just\nloved to hear her sing. She could sing all day and half the night for me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1020.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She\nwas beautiful. She had a wonderful voice. Jimmie Lunceford didn't come too\noften, but when he did come, I made sure I was there to hear him.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Would he play at the Strand?\n\nREGINA McCOY: I don't remember him coming to the Strand. I know he was at the theater.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: The Royal?\n\nREGINA McCOY: He might have come there. A lot of big bands came there.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did you have like a favorite band that Roy played with?\n\nREGINA McCOY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1080.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The one he was playing with most was Tracy [McCleary] . That's the\nmain one for me. Before he went to Tracy's, he played with Bubby Johnson. I\nliked him because I heard him more when he was playing with Tracy than with\nBubby Johnson.\n\nAnd he played with him a long, long time. That's until he went away with Lionel\nHampton. He was playing with him at that time. When he came back [to Baltimore]\nhe went back to playing with him again. Of course had a lot of offers to form\nhis own band, you know, so he did that too.\n\nI listened to him more when he played with Tracy. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1140.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's the main one. He played\nwith him more than anyone else.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did you get to socialize with the other members of the band?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Yes. We used to be around all the time. We'd be around all of\nthem. They used to have a place right on the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and\nLanvale. There was a store. And they were in the basement. They would practice\nthere. We used to go there and listen to them practice. We knew them all. We\njust liked to hang around the band men.\n\nAnd I know one fellow, I used to call him Trummy. He used to play trombone.\nAlways was fascinated with that trombone. I don't see how he could play it. I\ndon't see how you learn it. You know, like a trumpet has keys. And he was so good.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1200.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"A lot of the fellows are gone now. But that was a good band.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did they ever play any of the midnight shows or?\n\nREGINA McCOY: They used to play anything. They didn't mind playing anything.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: How many shows a day would Mr. McCoy do?\n\nREGINA McCOY: How many shows a day would they play? Oh. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1260.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I guess about -- I don't\nreally know. I know they played at least three -- maybe more than that. Like he\nwould stop, relax a bit and go back. I'm not sure how many shows they played a\nday. I never bothered to count the shows. I was just there, you know. And I\ndon't really remember how many.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Would there be a different venue for each show in a day or would\nthey play at multiple shows at the same venue?\n\nREGINA McCOY: The basic shows. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1320.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, they were the house band there. They played\neven sometimes when a show would come in without a band. Tracy would be there.\nHe would play. So he would be playing there a lot. Roy was there with him too.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: When Mr. McCoy was playing with Lionel Hampton they were going\non tour a lot. What was that like?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, I don't remember going to hear Lionel Hampton too much. I\nguess I might have though. But I didn't know, [Roy] was going to go away with\nhim because he didn't know it himself at that time. Lionel Hampton needed a\ntrumpet player, and he was recommended to him so he just went on with him.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1380.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was away in August, 1943. And he stayed until sometime in the end of '44, I\nguess. He might have stayed a little longer than that.\n\nBut when he came back, he mostly played in nightclubs and things around like that.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did he get back to Baltimore a lot?\n\nREGINA McCOY: When he was with Lionel, did he come back and forth? No. He stayed\nwith him because he had so much traveling, to do -- sometimes one nighters. He\ndidn't come home that much when he was with him.\n\nThe last time he was in New York, I went up there with him a while. Probably\nwent up there in November and stayed to the first of the year. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1440.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then I came on\nback, but I don't how much longer he was there after that. But it wasn't too\nmuch longer. He decided to come on home. He never liked to be away from home\nanyway. It was nice.\n\nAfter he left Lionel Hampton, he was sorry he had to leave him just as he was\ngoing overseas. Roy always wanted to go overseas, and when he left Lionel\nHampton, that's when Lionel Hampton went overseas. He didn't get a chance to go.\nBut I think that's the only thing that he regretted -- that he didn't get to\nstay with him long enough to go overseas. Other than that, he was glad to come home.\n\nHe didn't like to be out too much. Both of us liked to stay home, go to church\nwith the children. He played in the band at church. They had a small little\nSunday school band where he would go to play.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1500.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He used to work every night, seven nights a week. But if he did have time off,\nhe would always have someone fill in for him. But he worked every night, every\nnight, seven nights a week.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: When you went to New York to see him, what did you do?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, my mother-in-law went up there with me. I only went to see\nhim at work one time. I just didn't want to go. I didn't like to get in with\nthat. I did go once. But that was all, and I didn't go back anymore. But it was\nnice. We stayed up there. My mother-in-law and my oldest son were with me.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1560.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Just like when we were at home. We'd go to the store and get our groceries. She\nwas a very good cook. I didn't have to do much cooking. I let her do all the\ncooking. Because I never was a person who did cooking. And she loved it.\n\nI just never was a person who wanted to go around too much, you know. I would\njust rather stay in the background, really, to tell you the truth. That was the\nway I was. I wasn't anxious to be there. I did go down to the theater with him\none time, but that was all.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: How old was your oldest son at that time?\n\nREGINA McCOY: He was just a baby. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1620.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He was about, let me see, he was just about a\nmonth old when we went up there.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did he become interested in Mr. McCoy's music?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, he was, he was pretty good as a musician, but as I said,\nsome people they said he was just a natural musician. He used to like to play\nthe drums when he was with the band. He just never followed through. None of my\nchildren really took up music. They all had music lessons and dancing lessons\nbut they just didn't hang in there with it. My daughter, she's the one who plays\nthe trumpet. I used to drag her up to this lady's house with the trumpet, but\nshe never played it.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1680.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And my youngest son, he really wasn't too interested in anything but drums. He\nstill wants to play the drums a little bit. He used to play with the -- I think\nit's called the Whatnauts.\n\nThey made several records. I heard them a couple of time. Most of the time it\nwould come from Washington when I would hear it. But they just weren't\ninterested in music too much. Not that they weren't around it all the time, they\nhad everything here, you know, all kinds of things. They just weren't interested\nin it.\n\nI, of course, don't do any playing. I play the radio and television. Things like\nthat. I would like to play the piano if anything, but I just never did that.\nThat would be the only thing I would want to play if I had to play anything.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1740.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But I don't see how those fellows take those big horns around with them. You\nknow, anytime you drag those big horns around, and whatever else you have to set\nup, the drums and the\n\namplifier. They were ready anytime. I said those fellows were dedicated\nmusicians. They loved their work. I look at them sometime, and I don't know how\nthey did all that. But they liked that. They loved that.\n\nThey never complained. Just as long as they said let's play, they were ready to\nplay. Any of them.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Did Mr. McCoy bring a lot of people from the clubs back to the house?\n\nREGINA McCOY: No -- once in a while he would invite somebody to dinner or\nsomething like that. But not too often. I don't even remember who they were.\nSometimes a big band would come, and he'd get his mother to cook something. She\nwas such a good cook. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1800.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"But not too often, very seldom.\n\nThey didn't have much time to do too much between shows. You know, their time\nwas limited. But they enjoyed what they were doing.\n\nSome people are that way, they like company and friends coming over. But we were\njust quiet. We just never liked that. As I say, once in a while, but very seldom\nhe would invite someone. Not too often.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1860.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did Mr. McCoy teach or take any lessons?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Like private lessons? Well, he used to take his lessons. Yes. A\nlong time ago. He used to take lessons from A. Jack Thomas and Babe Bright. Babe\nBright and A. Jack Thomas are the two that I know he took lessons from, but\nthat's been a long time ago.\n\nA. Jack Thomas opened up a school for the soldiers when they would come back and\nRoy used to help. He would teach trumpet over there. That was in the 900 hundred\nblock of Madison Avenue. It was a big house. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1920.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think he took more lessons from\nBabe Bright than anyone else. Those were the only two that I know he took\nlessons from.\n\nHe just picked it up and started playing. That's all. Cause he liked the\ntrumpet. I guess it was just a natural thing. His grandfather used to be a\nmusician. He used to play one of those big French horns. But his father didn't\nplay. He was in Virginia, Staunton, Virginia. He used to play down there. I\ndon't know anyone else in his family that bothered with music, and nobody in my\nfamily bothers with music.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=1980.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You said they were very accepting of Mr. McCoy, and they loved him.\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh yes. He used to be around us all the time. I had other sisters,\nbut the ones he was with was my sister that I lived with. Because we lived right near.\n\nAs I say, we stayed there until I got married. We moved down to the nine hundred\nblock of Madison Avenue with his mother in an apartment. We stayed there until\nwe moved up here in\n\n1960. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2040.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They were going to tear those places down and put a state office building\ndown there. That's where we were. We had to move, and that's when we bought this house.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Let me backtrack, where did you go to school?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh, I went to Douglass High. I finished there. I went to Booker T.\nand Douglass High. Those were the only two schools. I didn't go to a graduate\nschool. I just finished Douglass and then I started going to work. Of course, I\ndid try to take typing and dressmaking. I used to like to do that. I used to\nlike to sew, the clothes for the children, even the boys. I'd make pants, coats\nand things like that. But I didn't go to any other school after graduating from\nDouglass High. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2100.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was at Calhoun and Baker.\n\nI was glad I could go to school because my sister didn't have to let me go. But\nI was glad that she let me finish high school.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Was there a lot of music at Douglass?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Oh we used to have good times at Douglass. We used to have shows.\nWe used to have operettas and things. Mr. [W. LLewellyn] Wilson was in charge of\nthat. Once a year they would have an operetta and I would always be there. I\nused to like to sing. I mean, I'm not a singer, I can sing with groups. I'm not\na soloist. I could do that even though I couldn't dance. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2160.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I still sing even now\nin our church choir. I just liked music. I just like listening.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: What church choir do you sing in?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, down at Enon Baptist Church that's the choir that I sang in.\nAnd now the church that I go to now is called the Worldwide Church of God. I\nsing in their choir. Because when I left Enon Baptist Church, I went to this\nchurch I'm in now. I've been in this church since about 1970. I haven't been\ndoing too much singing lately because I hadn't felt up to par.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2220.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Would Mr. McCoy sing in the choir as well?\n\nREGINA McCOY: No.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: He just played. He didn't do any singing?\n\nREGINA McCOY: No. We used to give plays for children around Easter and Christmas\ntime. We used to help them out.\n\nI did teach Sunday school down there for a long time until I decided I was going\nsomewhere else. In 1970 I started with this church that I'm in now. Been there a\nlong time.\n\nOf course, Roy liked this church too that I'm in. He liked the church he went\nto. But in later years he would go to my church a lot. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2280.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He liked to go with me to\nchurch. So I'd get up and go, and he didn't say anything, he'd just get up and\ngo with me.\n\nMy church was on Saturday and his was on Sunday so it worked out pretty good.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Why did you leave the Enon Baptist Church?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Why did I leave Enon?\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Yes.\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, I just wasn't satisfied with Enon anymore. You know, it\nlooked like I wasn't really learning anything. Wasn't getting ahead. I was just\nat a standstill. I just wanted to do something else.\n\nSo I didn't know where I was going when I left Enon. I just decided not to go\nanywhere until I found where I wanted to go. And then I found this church and I\nliked it very much.\n\nBut we stayed at Enon for a while. We stayed there until the children grew up,\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2340.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and they were all raised up. But I don't think any of them do too much with\nchurch now.\n\nI think our younger son, he's decided he wants to go to church lately, but at\none time he didn't bother going, you know. But you can't force them to do what\nthey don't want to do. We used to go. Roy and I would go.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: How old is your youngest son now?\n\nREGINA McCOY: He was born in '53. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2400.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So he's about forty-nine. He lives right down\nthe street from here. He's close by so I can call on him. Of course I have a\ngranddaughter who's here in Baltimore and a granddaughter in Hampton, Virginia.\nI only have the two granddaughters. And, of course, I only have the one son now.\nAnd I have two great granddaughters and two great grandsons.\n\nThat's the family right now. But my great granddaughter is in Virginia with\nTracy who is my oldest granddaughter. I call them a lot. The one that's here --\nI know they're working and have things to do taking care of their families. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2460.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If I\nneed them, they're right here for me.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Could you just talk a little bit about Mr. McCoy and his\nattitude towards the children and the family?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, he was a person who liked his family. He just wanted to be\naround them. He'd always take us on a trip to somewhere like Atlantic City or\nWashington. He always wanted to be around the children. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2520.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"If they needed anything,\nor wanted anything, he was just there for them. He just enjoyed his family.\n\nHe was just a good family man. He knew he had to work to take care of them, so\nhe did that. At one time he wasn't working at all in Baltimore. I don't know\nwhat happened then. But he went down on the Eastern Shore just to work, to have\nsomething. And I remember he showed me this picture. He had gone fishing and he\nhad this great long string of fish. He has a picture of himself down on the\nEastern Shore.\n\nBut he always would work and take care of his family. He was very devoted to his family.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2580.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We never took a lot of long trips. We liked short trips around. He would take\nthem to the museums and things like that, but not to go too far. Of course, we\nused to go down to his home once a year in Staunton, Virginia, for weekends. As\nfar as going to a lot of different places, we very seldom did that.\n\nWe just liked to be home. We weren't the type of people that liked to go a lot.\nI guess he went enough so he was ready to stay put.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Now, did he play a lot in Salisbury?\n\nREGINA McCOY: I don't think he was playing, and I don't know exactly what kind\nof work he was doing when he was there, but I don't think he was doing any kind\nof music work at all. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2640.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He used to have some kind of job, but I don't know what it\nwas. It wasn't anything pertaining to the music. But he stayed down there. I\ndon't know how long, but he was down there for maybe six months or so and then\ncame back, because most of the jobs were here in Baltimore. So he didn't have to\nworry about working. Big Bands were everywherew in nightclubs and the Avenues\nand theaters, and they could get plenty of jobs. Of course, they wanted big\nbands -- you know, fifteen, sixteen pieces. But it isn't that way anymore.\nMostly they want these small bands or maybe two or three pieces like that.\n\nHe didn't have any problem working, but I don't really know why he went down on\nthe Eastern Shore at that time. I don't remember him saying why he went there,\nbut he did for a while.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2700.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What year was this when he went down there to the Eastern Shore?\n\nREGINA McCOY: I don't remember that.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Before he moved down to the Eastern Shore for those six months\nto do work, do you remember if he just left a band or?\n\nREGINA McCOY: I don't remember why he went there. I don't know whether it's\nbecause he didn't have anything here or. But I really don't know because he\nalways had, he always had plenty of work for musicians. Everyone seemed to want\nhim to play. I don't know why he went down there at that time. I don't think I\never even asked him why he went there. I don't really know.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Mr. McCoy played with the Rivers Chamber band for a while. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2760.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Do\nyou recall anything about when he played with them?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Rivers Chambers. Yes, he played a little bit with them too, but\nmost of the time they went out in small groups. They would play people's homes,\nthey would have birthday parties, and Christmas parties, Valentine Parties. It\nwould be about four or five at one time. They never went anywhere big that I\nknow of. I don't remember him ever going.\n\nI don't remember the River Chambers big band anyway. I just don't remember it.\nAll I know is he always had plenty of musicians, but they would always be going\nabout four or five going one place or something like that.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2820.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As far as I know, he used to play with them like that, but not any big band. The\nonly big bands I know that he played with here was Tracy and Bubby Johnson.\nOther than that, they're the only two big bands that I know of. He played with\nPurnell Williams. It was the same thing, they would go in small groups. They\nwould play maybe the trumpet, the piano and bass, like that just three or four pieces.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2880.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What kind of people would hold these kind of parties? Who would attend?\n\nREGINA McCOY: A lot of times they were just private.\n\nNow you know he played with the city band and park bands and things like that.\nMost of the time they were just private parties, sometimes in people's homes. I\nnever did go with him on that type of thing.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Is Purnell still alive?\n\nREGINA McCOY: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=2940.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454/transcript/38434/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"No, he's dead, I hadn't heard from him in a long time.\n\n[END PART ONE]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117454#t=3000.0,3060.0"}]}]},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 2 - pims0091_McCoyRegina_02.mp3"]},"duration":940.04245,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/117/455/small/McCoy_Regina_and_Roy_photoshop.jpg?1651088543","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-peabody.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/117/455/original/pims0091_McCoyRegina_02.mp3?1624270911","type":"Audio","format":"audio/mpeg","duration":940.04245,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["McCoyRegina_2_OHMS_20220608 [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ERIC SLEGOWSKI: Where would they play?\n\nREGINA McCOY: On Sunday evenings. It was a nice big band. Most of the time it\nwas at Druid Hill Park that they played. They played all kinds of music. As I\nsaid, Roy, he'd play anything. But they had the city band. Of course, they\nplayed in the evenings around the city. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=0.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They went to different places around the\ncity. I don't think that park band ever went anywhere much that I can remember.\nStayed right up there [Druid Hill Park].\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=60.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Did a lot of the people around the Baltimore jazz community\nbecome actively involved in the church choirs?\n\nREGINA McCOY: No. When he went to church, none of the musicians were there. He\njust went himself. But he used to play, with the fellow that had the band who\nused to play the violin. It wasn't a large band, just a small band, Sunday\nschool band.\n\nThat's where he started, that was down at the Baptist Church. But that's about\nthe only church that I remember him playing in. He didn't play for church\nservices or anything. Just for the Sunday school. They ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=120.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had an organ for that.\nBut that's the only church band that he would play. That was down at Enon\nBaptist Church\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Can you talk a little bit about your childhood, and your growing\nup and where you grew up and where you're from?\n\nREGINA McCOY: Where I grew up?\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Yes.\n\nREGINA McCOY: Well, I grew up here right in Baltimore. I was born in the six\nhundred block of Lanvale Street, 626. My mother and father were from the Eastern\nShore. There were ten of us, seven girls and three boys.\n\nOf course, my mother didn't work hard, but my father used to drive a truck for\nMuhly's Bakery. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=180.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He used to deliver bread or whatever they had to deliver. He used\nto bring the truck home every once in a while. We'd be having a fit to get in\nthat truck because we were small. He'd drive us up about two blocks and then\nwe'd have to walk back. We enjoyed that.\n\nMy mother used to give us dancing lessons, piano lessons. She never did much\nelse. She never showed us how to cook or anything like that. She used to give us\ndancing lessons, and Mr.Hopkins -- that was up on Lafayette Avenue. We used to\ngo there for the dancing lessons.\n\nWell, I first started school on Division Street, 103, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=240.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and graduated there and\nwent to Booker T. Then I went to Douglass High. All in between, I used to have\ngood times. I used to go skating. I used to like to skate more than anything\nelse. I never thought about music at that time. Well, I used to like to listen\nto it a little bit.\n\nMy sisters used to work. When my mother got sick I was about fourteen. Everybody\nwas at work and they couldn't leave work so my sister asked me if I would stay\nwith my mother. I had to get permission from school so that I could stay home to\ntake care of her, and I stayed with her until she died. I was just about\nfourteen years old then. After that I went back to finish school. But I did take\ncare of her. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=300.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Looks like I've been taking care of people for a long time.\n\nAfter mother died, part of our family went to live with my father and my older\nsister, and I went to live with my sister Margaret. That was on Lanvale Street.\nSo that's the way it was with us.\n\nWe didn't go too much. Of course, there wasn't too much for us to do. We just\nstayed right in the neighborhood. Used to go down to the Eastern Shore every\nonce in a while. My mother would go down there for picking crabs every summer\nand she would take us down there. The three youngest, my two sisters and myself,\nwould stay there for the whole summer while she would be working down there. She\nwould bring us back in time to go to school. But that's the main thing.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=360.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We had a good life. Of course, we had some hard times -- it was kind of lean\npickings. My mother always had enough for us, you know. She used to like to go\nto the market. Used to walk, I don't know how far she would walk. I know it was\na good way she walked. She wouldn't go to the market until around ten o'clock at\nnight because people would be trying to get rid of things, and we would get a\ngood supply. We'd get plenty of shopping bags with groceries. I used to like to\ngo to the market with her and all of my sisters. All of us liked to go with her,\nbut she didn't go out too much.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=420.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"What market did you guys used to go to?\n\nREGINA McCOY: It was Hollins Market down on Hollins Street. Well, we walked from\nour house down to the market. She would go from one end -- she wouldn't buy\nanything -- she would go from one end looking and then go to the other end.\nThen she would come back and start her grocery shopping and whatever she had to\nget. So when she would get a full basket or bag and it was too heavy, she would\nsit us on the side of the street (which was good then, you can't do that now).\nWe'd be watching the groceries while she would continue shopping.\n\nShe would always get me a milkshake, strawberry milkshake and pretzels. I loved\nthose. That was my main thing for going. I believe if she stopped getting me the\nmilkshake and pretzels I wouldn't go.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=480.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Then when we would come home, she'd always get these wagons, these young fellows\nto bring us all the way back up to Lanvale Street. That was a good walk. And she\nwould give them, I think, a quarter. And they'd be just as happy. And they would\nhave to go all the way back.\n\nThey were really, fighting to get the chance to get that. It was really nice.\nShe liked Hollins Market. I still go down there, once in a while, not too often.\nI think about her when I go down there.\n\nBut she used to like to sew. She used to make beautiful artificial flowers. I\ndon't know why I didn't learn to do that. She used to make costumes for the\ndance recitals. I don't think she had to pay for our dance lessons because by\nher doing that work for him, he'd let us come and dance. And we used to have\nthese recitals once a year. And my sister would always win the prize, and I\nwould never win. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=540.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I always thought that I would but I never did. All my family\nwere good dancers. Everybody, my brothers, my sisters.\n\nERIC SLEGOWSKI: Where did your mother work?\n\nREGINA McCOY: My mother didn't work out. She stayed home all the time. We used\nto have a little store in the basement. She had a little store. She used to\nalways make pies, and in the summer she'd sell snowballs and candy and things\nlike that. I would love to be down there because I'd be by myself. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=600.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was so glad\nwhen I could down there and be by myself.\n\nBut even with the big family, I just wanted to be alone, you know. All of us --\nthere was ten of us. I stayed by myself a lot, and I enjoyed that better than\nanything else.\n\n[INTERRUPTION]\n\nI used to take a lot of pictures too, but not as many as he [Mr McCoy]. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=660.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We have\nso many cameras now I don't know what to do them. I like my 35 millimeter\ncamera. I used to go with it to church. The church I'm in now, we have\nbasketball games. I used to take pictures of cheerleaders and things like that.\nI don't take many pictures anymore. But one time I liked taking them.\n\nOn Madison Avenue, when we lived there, we had one large bedroom where Roy and\nthe two children and I had that front room. His mother had the kitchen. Just two\nrooms. She was in the\n\nkitchen -- that's where she would sleep. And then we had a little bathroom. At\nnight when Roy would come home at 2:30 in the morning, he'd go in the bathroom\nand set up this darkroom. We'd be in there printing pictures, developing pictures.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=720.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That was interesting too, watching pictures develop. He would do his own\ndeveloping. Of course it was only black and white, no color. I don't think he\never tried color. But we used to stay there early in the morning. He'd come in\nat 2:30. We'd be in the kitchen. I don't know why we didn't wake my\nmother-in-law up, the bathroom was right off the kitchen.\n\nWhatever he did, was all right with her. He was her only child, and I don't\nthink anything he did was wrong. That was her boy. She loved him. We got along\nreal good.\n\nI stayed with her until she died. We were always together. We just got along\ngood. No problems. I said mother-in-law this, I don't have any complaints about\nmy mother-in-law cause she was really ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=780.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"good. We used to sew together. Of course, I\nnever did too much cooking. Had a good time always.\n\nMy mother-in-law couldn't hear too well. I had to laugh at her -- so did the\ndoctor. She was really sick at that time. So the doctors talked to her, and she\ncouldn't hear and this and that and the other. The doctor asked her, how long\nhas it been since you couldn't hear? And you know what she answered him? Ever\nsince the music started.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=840.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455/transcript/38435/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Because they used to practice right there at her house. That's what she said. So\nI had to laugh when she said that. Ever since the music started. I said, oh my\ngoodness. He doesn't even know when the music started.\n\nRoy used to always practice and sit in the big window at the front of the house,\napartment house. And everybody on Madison Avenue knew when he was home. He was\nplaying. They would say, uh oh, he's home. Because he would practice. He\npracticed all the time, and he'd sit right by that window on Madison Avenue and\npractice that horn. We used to have a good time together. Just quiet like. We\njust never did a lot.\n\n[END OF INTERVIEW]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://streaming.peabody.jhu.edu/collections/1178/collection_resources/44153/file/117455#t=900.0,960.0"}]}]}]}