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Doug's musical credits are numerous, and will certainly be familiar to anyone tuned into the American popular culture landscape. Perhaps his most popular credit is that of the baritone sax behind Lisa Simpson and her mentor, "Bleeding Gums" Murphy on the FOX hit series, The Simpsons (The Simpson's Sing The Blues and The Simpson's Yellow Album feature Doug's music). A busy studio musician in Los Angeles for the past twenty-two years, Norwine has been featured on such television shows as Roseanne, Full House, Seinfeld, The Tonight Show and too many others to list.

As a ten-year-old boy, Doug became fascinated with collecting a wide range of autographs and memorabilia. His collection now contains over fifty thousand different autographs and a vast amount of important pieces of music, film, movie, and historical memorabilia. Over the years, Doug has been asked to help authenticate autographs and memorabilia, and he has written articles for magazines including The Autograph Collector and Fangoria. Doug has also been sought after to contribute research materials, information, and personal knowledge by the authors of many film books published by McFarland Press.

In his spare time, Doug enjoys baseball, softball, bass fishing, autograph collecting, and making Tesla Coils and other high voltage creations!

Blending his extensive work experience and more than twenty years of participation in several areas of collecting, most notably in the autograph field, John is contributing to our expansion into new areas and assisting clients with collections of memorabilia in the areas of Sports, Music & Entertainment, and Historical Documents. After more than thirty years in the insurance business, primarily in a senior executive capacity, John decided to inject more fun into his work life and came to Heritage Galleries & Auctioneers as Operations Manager in 2004. He fills a number of roles at Heritage, including Collectibles Expert, Consignment Director and Project Manager.