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George Williams And Bessie Brown
George W. Williams was a vaudeville performer and recording artist in the United States. He recorded several songs with Bessie Brown his wife. They were one of the comedy duos on the TOBA Toba may refer to: Languages * Toba Sur language, spoken in South America * Batak Toba, spoken in Indonesia People * Toba people, indigenous peoples of the Gran Chaco in South America * Toba Batak people, a sub-ethnic group of Batak people from N ... circuit. At a 1924 performance at the Strand Theater in Jacksonville, Florida, they sang inside a prop graphophone. Discography *"Double Crossin' Daddy" *"She's My Sheba, I'm Her Sheik" *"No Second-Handed Lovin' For Mine" *"If You Hit My Dog I'll Kick Your Cat" *"If Mama Quits Papa, What Will Papa Do?" *"The Gal Ain't Born Who Can Treat Me Like You Do" *"He's Never Gonna Throw Me Down" *"Hoodoo Blues" *"When You Go Huntin', I'm Goin' Fishin'" *"I Can Do What You Do" *"Hard Headed Gal" *"A Woman Gets Tired Of One Man All The Time" *"I'm Goin' Out To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Owners Booking Association
Theatre Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s. The theaters mostly had white owners, though there were exceptions, including the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, and Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia owned and operated by Charles Henry Douglass. Theater owners booked jazz and blues musicians and singers, comedians, and other performers, including the classically trained, such as operatic soprano Sissieretta Jones, known as "The Black Patti", for black audiences. History The association was established following the work of vaudeville performer Sherman H. Dudley. By 1909, Dudley was commonly known as the "Lone Star Comedian" and had begun an attempt to have a black-owned and operated string of venues around the United States. By 1911, Dudley was based in Washington, D.C. as general manager and treasurer of the Colored Actors' Union, and set up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graphophone
The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph. It was invented at the Volta Laboratory established by Alexander Graham Bell in Washington, D.C., United States. Its trademark usage was acquired successively by the Volta Graphophone Company, then the American Graphophone Company, the North American Phonograph Company, and finally by the Columbia Phonograph Company (known today as Columbia Records), all of which either produced or sold Graphophones. Research and development It took five years of research under the directorship of Benjamin Hulme, Harvey Christmas, Charles Sumner Tainter and Chichester Bell at the Volta Laboratory to develop and distinguish their machine from Thomas Edison's Phonograph. Among their innovations, the researchers experimented with lateral recording techniques as early as 1881. Contrary to the vertically-cut grooves of Edison Phonographs, the lateral recording method used a cutting stylus that moved from sid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
