Autographs of Larry Adler
Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player and film composer. Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud and Arthur Benjamin. During his later career, he collaborated with Sting, Elton John and Kate Bush.
Adler was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Sadie Hack and Louis Adler. They were a Jewish family. He graduated from Baltimore City College high school. He taught himself harmonica, which he called a mouth organ. He played professionally at 14. In 1927, he won a contest sponsored by the Baltimore Sun, playing a Beethoven minuet, and a year later he ran away from home to New York. After being referred by Rudy Vallée, Adler got his first theatre work, and caught the attention of orchestra leader Paul Ash, who placed Adler in a vaudeville act as "a ragged urchin, playing for pennies".
From there, he was hired by Florenz Ziegfeld and then by Lew Leslie again as an urchin. He broke the typecasting and appeared in a dinner jacket in the 1934 Paramount film Many Happy Returns, and was hired by theatrical producer C. B. Cochran to perform in London. That same year, he played Rhapsody in Blue for Gershwin who exclaimed "the Goddam thing sounds as if I wrote it for you!" He became a star in the United Kingdom and the Empire, where, it has been written, harmonica sales increased 20-fold and 300,000 people joined fan clubs.
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Current items with a signature of Larry Adler
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Traded items with a signature of Larry Adler
The most expensive item with a signature of Larry Adler (ELSIE MORISON OPERATIC SOPRANO & LARRY ADLER RARE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED PAGE +) was sold in April 2026 for £33.04 while the cheapest item ( LARRY ADLER,HARMONICA PLAYER SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH + 1953 RECITAL PROGRAMME) found a new owner for £0.99 in September 2018. The month with the most items sold (3) was May 2026 with an average selling price of £12.95 for an autographed item of Larry Adler. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2026 with £33.04 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £0.99 was January 2013. In average, an autographed item from Larry Adler is worth £5.51.
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 4.5" x 3.5" WHITE CARD SIGNED BY LARRY ADLER - MUSICIAN & FILM COMPOSER | £14.99 |  |
| 4.5" x 3.5" WHITE CARD SIGNED BY LARRY ADLER - MUSICIAN & FILM COMPOSER | £14.99 | |
| 4.5" x 3.5" WHITE CARD SIGNED BY LARRY ADLER - MUSICIAN & FILM COMPOSER (2) | £14.99 | |
| 4.5" x 3.5" WHITE CARD SIGNED BY LARRY ADLER - MUSICIAN & FILM COMPOSER (2) | £14.99 | |
 | ELSIE MORISON OPERATIC SOPRANO & LARRY ADLER RARE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED PAGE + | £33.04 | |
| ELSIE MORISON OPERATIC SOPRANO & LARRY ADLER RARE ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHED PAGE + | £33.04 | |
 | LARRY ADLER - LATE GREAT AMERICAN HARMONICA PLAYER - SIGNED ALBUM PAGE | £12.95 | |
| LARRY ADLER - LATE GREAT AMERICAN HARMONICA PLAYER - SIGNED ALBUM PAGE | £12.95 | |
| LARRY ADLER - LEGENDARY MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER - SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH | £17.95 | |
 | LARRY ADLER - ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH - SIGNED ALBUM PAGE | £24.22 | |
| LARRY ADLER - ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH - SIGNED ALBUM PAGE | £24.22 | |
| LARRY ADLER - SIGNED 75th Birthday Concert Programme and Ticket | £18.85 | |
| LARRY ADLER - SIGNED 75th Birthday Concert Programme and Ticket | £18.85 | |
 | Larry Adler signed autograph photo 1955 - harmonica player back in the day... | £10.98 | |
| Larry Adler signed autograph photo 1955 - harmonica player back in the day... | £10.98 | |
