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Plantation Revue
''Plantation Revue'' was a 1922 revue put together by Lew Leslie, featuring some of the more popular musical numbers and comedy acts that he had hired at Harlem's Plantation Club. The original revue underwent other versions, with minor or major changes to the cast: ''Dover Street to Dixie'' (pairing-up with a British production in London); ''Dixie to Broadway'' (pairing-up with a one-act white revue) and ''Dixie to Paris''. ''Plantation Revue'' Performers included Florence Mills, around whom the revue was built, and who would become an even bigger star thanks to this revue, and her husband, U. S. Thompson. Shelton Brooks was hired as the emcee, as well as himself performing in the revue. As well as for its initial Broadway run, Brooks, Mills and Thompson all continued performing in future versions of the show: its pairing-up with a British production, ''Dover Street to Dixie'', in London, and the pairing-up with a one-act white revue, ''Dixie to Broadway'', on Times Square. Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revue
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. Though most famous for their visual spectacle, revues frequently satirized contemporary figures, news or literature. Similar to the related subforms of operetta and musical theatre, the revue art form brings together music, dance and sketches to create a compelling show. In contrast to these, however, revue does not have an overarching storyline. Rather, a general theme serves as the motto for a loosely-related series of acts that alternate between solo performances and dance ensembles. Owing to high ticket prices, ribald publicity campaigns and the occasional use of prurient material, the revue was typically patronized by audience members who earned more and felt even less restricted by middle-class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cora Green
Cora Green (December 10, 1895 – died after 1949) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, billed as "The Famous Creole Singer". Early life Cora Chambers was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1895, the daughter of Alexander Chambers and Elizabeth Sorrell Chambers. Career Chambers began singing professionally by her early teens. Alberta Hunter described her voice as being "between sweet and jazz". In 1931 she was considered "the highest paid colored woman in vaudeville." She sang in Harlem with blueswoman Mattie Hite in 1914. She was part of the Panama Trio with Florence Mills and Ada "Bricktop" Smith at the Panama Club in Chicago, until the club was closed in early 1917. She had vaudeville acts with Hamtree Harrington and Earl Dancer, and appeared in two revues on Broadway, ''Strut, Miss Lizzie'' (1922) and ''Dixie to Broadway'' (1924–1925). Her other stage shows included ''Broadway Rastus'' (1917), ''Put and Take'' (1921), ''Ebony Showboat'' (1929), ''Great Day'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Williams (musician)
Clarence Williams (October 6, 1898 or October 8, 1893 – November 6, 1965) was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher. Biography Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, to Dennis, a bassist, and Sally Williams, and ran away from home at age 12 to join Billy Kersands' Traveling Minstrel Show, then moved to New Orleans. At first, Williams worked shining shoes and doing odd jobs, but soon became known as a singer and master of ceremonies. By the early 1910s, he was a well-regarded local entertainer also playing piano, and was composing new tunes by 1913. Williams was a good businessman and worked arranging and managing entertainment at the local African American vaudeville theater as well as at various saloons and dance halls around Rampart Street, and at clubs and houses in Storyville. Williams started a music publishing business with violinist/bandleader Armand J. Piron in 1915, which by the 1920s was the leading African-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Taylor
Eva Taylor (January 22, 1895 — October 31, 1977) was an American blues singer and stage actress. Life and career Born Irene Joy Gibbons in St. Louis, Missouri, as one of twelve children. On stage from the age of three, Taylor toured New Zealand, Australia and Europe before she was in her teens. She also toured extensively with Josephine Gassman and Her Pickaninnies, a vaudeville act. She settled in New York City by 1920. There she established herself as a performer in Harlem nightspots. Within a year she wed Clarence Williams, a producer (hired by Okeh Records), publisher, and piano player. The newlyweds worked together on radio and recordings. They recorded together through 1930s. Their legacy includes numbers made as the group Blue Five in the mid-1920s, which included the jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Sidney Bechet, trumpet virtuoso Louis Armstrong, and such singers as Sippie Wallace and Bessie Smith. In 1922 Taylor made her first record for the African-American- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Okeh Records
Okeh Records () is an American record label founded by the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, a phonograph supplier established in 1916, which branched out into phonograph records in 1918. The name was spelled "OkeH" from the initials of Otto K. E. Heinemann but later changed to "OKeh". Since 1926, Okeh has been a subsidiary of Columbia Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music. Okeh is a jazz imprint, distributed by Sony Masterworks, a specialty label of Columbia. Early history Okeh was founded by Otto (Jehuda) Karl Erich Heinemann (Lüneburg, Germany, 20 December 1876 - New York, USA, 13 September 1965) a German-American manager for the U.S. branch of Odeon Records, which was owned by Carl Lindstrom. In 1916, Heinemann incorporated the Otto Heinemann Phonograph Corporation, set up a recording studio and pressing plant in New York City, and started the label in 1918. The first discs were vertical cut, but later the more common lateral-cut method was used. The label's parent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Johnston (composer)
Arthur James Johnston (January 10, 1898 – May 1, 1954) was an American composer, conductor, pianist and arranger. Life and career Born in New York City, he began playing piano in movie houses, and went to work for Fred Fisher's music publishing company at the age of 16. He met, and was soon hired by, Irving Berlin, becoming Berlin's personal arranger, and director of early '' Music Box Revues''. His first hit song was "Mandy Make Up Your Mind", co-written with George W. Meyer, Roy Turk and Grant Clarke for Florence Mills to sing in the show ''Dixie to Broadway''. Biography by Jason Ankeny, ''Allmusic.com'' Retrieved 12 January 2021 In 1929, he moved to Hollywood, where he o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George W
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party, Bush family, and son of the 41st president George H. W. Bush, he previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. While in his twenties, Bush flew warplanes in the Texas Air National Guard. After graduating from Harvard Business School in 1975, he worked in the oil industry. In 1978, Bush unsuccessfully ran for the House of Representatives. He later co-owned the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball before he was elected governor of Texas in 1994. As governor, Bush successfully sponsored legislation for tort reform, increased education funding, set higher standards for schools, and reformed the criminal justice system. He also helped make Texas the leading producer of wind powered electricity in the nation. In the 2000 presidential election, Bush defeated Democratic incum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It originally referred to a specific place: West 28th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flower District of Manhattan; a plaque (see below) on the sidewalk on 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth commemorates it. In 2019, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission took up the question of preserving five buildings on the north side of the street as a Tin Pan Alley Historic District. The agency designated five buildings (47–55 West 28th Street) individual landmarks on December 10, 2019, after a concerted effort by the "Save Tin Pan Alley" initiative of the 29th Street Neighborhood Association. Following successful protection of these landmarks, project director George Calderaro and other proponents formed the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project to continue and com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Turk
Roy is a masculine given name and a family surname with varied origin. In Anglo-Norman England, the name derived from the Norman ''roy'', meaning "king", while its Old French cognate, ''rey'' or ''roy'' (modern ''roi''), likewise gave rise to Roy as a variant in the Francophone world. In India, Roy is a variant of the surname ''Rai'',. likewise meaning "king".. It also arose independently in Scotland, an anglicisation from the Scottish Gaelic nickname ''ruadh'', meaning "red". Given name * Roy Acuff (1903–1992), American country music singer and fiddler * Roy Andersen (born 1955), runner * Roy Andersen (South Africa) (born 1948), South African businessman and military officer * Roy Anderson (American football) (born 1980), American football coach * Sir Roy M. Anderson (born 1947), British scientific adviser * Roy Andersson (born 1943), Swedish film director * Roy Andersson (footballer) (born 1949), footballer from Sweden * Roy Chapman Andrews (1884–1960), American natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Clarke
Grant Clarke (May 14, 1891, Akron, Ohio – May 16, 1931, California) was an American songwriter. Clarke moved to New York City early in his career, where he worked as an actor and a staff writer for comedians. He began working on Tin Pan Alley, where he contributed music to films such as ''The Jazz Singer'' (1927), ''Weary River'' (1928), '' On with the Show'' (1929) and '' Is Everybody Happy?'' (1929). He wrote the lyrics to the show '' Dixie to Broadway'', and also contributed to the 1921 ''Ziegfeld Follies'' and ''Bombo''. Later in his career he became a charter member of ASCAP and was successful in the music publishing business. Clarke was the author of the lyrics to many popular songs of the 1910s and 1920s, working with composers such as George W. Meyer, Harry Akst, James V. Monaco, Al Piantadosi, Fred Fisher, Harry Warren, Arthur Johnston, James Hanley, Lewis F. Muir and Milton Ager. Selected songs A list of Clarke's most prominent works: * "Dat's Harmony" (1911) * "Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Rector
Eddie Rector (December 25, 1890 – January 7, 1963) was an American tap dance artist and master of ceremonies. His career spanned the 1920s-40s as he danced in Harlem, across the US, and in Europe. He is known as a “soft shoe expert,” and he invented the Slap Step.Constance Vallis Hill, "Eddie Rector iography" Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media, ''Library of Congress'', accessed May 4, 2022, http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.music.tdabio.158/default.html Rector was the protégé of John Leubrie Hill and later danced as a team with Ralph Cooper. He danced in notable revues including ''Darktown Follies'' (1914), ''Tan Town Topics'' (1926), ''Blackbirds of 1928, Hot Rhythm'' (1930), ''Rhapsody in Black'' (1931), ''Blackberries of 1932,'' and ''Yeah Man'' (1932)''. '' Career Rector was born on Christmas day in 1890 in Orange, New Jersey. According tConstance Vallis Hill's biographyon thdatabase, Recto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aida Ward
Aida Ward (February 11, 1900 – June 23, 1984) was an American jazz singer. Born in Washington, D.C., Ward rose to fame in the 1920s and 1930s in New York, on Broadway and at Harlem's Cotton Club. She appeared alongside Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the hit Broadway musical revue '' Blackbirds of 1928.'' Throughout the 1930s, Ward appeared regularly at the Cotton Club, performing with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. She was associated with the introduction of the songs " Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" and "I've Got the World on a String" at the Cotton Club in 1931-2. She also starred at Harlem's Apollo Theater. See also * Adelaide Hall * Cotton Club The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923–1936), then briefly in the midtown Theater District (1936–1940).Elizabeth Winter"Cotton Club of Harlem (1923- )" Blac ... * Williams, Iain Cameron (2002) Underneath A Har ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
