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Blue Lu Barker
Louisa "Blue Lu" Barker (née Louise Dupont) (November 13, 1913 – May 7, 1998) was an American jazz and blues singer. Her better-known recordings include "Don't You Feel My Leg" (1938), which she wrote with her husband, "Georgia Grind" and "Look What Baby's Got for You." She was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and often sang and performed with her husband, guitarist Danny Barker, a regular of the New Orleans music scene. Barker's recording of " A Little Bird Told Me" was released by Capitol Records as catalogue number 15308 in 1948. It first reached the ''Billboard'' chart on December 18, 1948, and lasted 14 weeks on the chart, peaking at number 4. Barker was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame in 1997, one year before she died in New Orleans, at the age of 84. See also *List of classic female blues singers *List of people from New Orleans, Louisiana This is a list of notable individuals who are or were natives, or notable as residents of, or in association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the twelfth-most populous city in the southeastern United States. Serving as a List of ports in the United States, major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region of the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for its Music of New Orleans, distinctive music, Louisiana Creole cuisine, Creole cuisine, New Orleans English, uniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of People From New Orleans, Louisiana
This is a list of notable individuals who are or were natives, or notable as residents of, or in association with the American city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Academia *Will W. Alexander, first president of Dillard University and head of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation *Stephen Ambrose, historian and University of New Orleans professor *William Balée, anthropologist and Tulane University professor *Charles C. Bass, physician and researcher in tropical medicine and dental health *Elizabeth Bass, physician, educator, and suffragist *Stanhope Bayne-Jones, physician, member of US Surgeon General's Committee linking smoking to cancer * Joan W. Bennett, biologist and former Tulane University professor *Florence Borders, archivist and historian at the Amistad Research Center * Cyril Y. Bowers, physician and endocrinology researcher *Rick Brewer, president of Louisiana College since 2015; born in New Orleans in 1956 *Douglas Brinkley, historian, author and former Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
