Fordham University Masthead Logo DigitalResearch@Fordham Oral Histories Bronx African American History Project 11-11-2005 Himmelstein, Paul Himmelstein, Paul. Bronx African American History Project Fordham University Follow this and additional works at: https://fordham.bepress.com/baahp_oralhist Part of the African American Studies Commons Recommended Citation Himmelstein, Paul. November 11, 2005. Interview with the Bronx African American History Project. BAAHP Digital Archive at Fordham University. This Interview is brought to you for free and open access by the Bronx African American History Project at DigitalResearch@Fordham. It has been accepted for inclusion in Oral Histories by an authorized administrator of DigitalResearch@Fordham. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Interviewee: Paul Himmelstein Interviewer: Dr. Mark Naison and Dr. Brian Purnell Date: November 11, 2005 Mark Naison (MN): Paul Himmelstein a great Doo-Wop singer from the Morrisania neighborhood and it’s November 11th and we are at Fordham University. MN: Paul Tell us a little about your family and how - - were you born in the Bronx? Paul Himmelstein (PH): Yes. I was born at Prospect and Jennings Street I'm one of fourteen children, I'm number eleven as I previously said and it was a family orientated neighborhood. I mean, there were a few big families and we were one of them. Like I said, we were fourteen but the Chandlers, there was a family called the Chandlers, they had seventeen and the Browns had ten. The Elis - - they had nine so I'm just giving names of the top of my head, which of course Eli - one of them sang with me the base, he was he bass and then Bobby Higgs he had ten in his family.