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A street singer is a street performance artist who performs by singing. Street Singer or The Street Singer may also refer to: Film and theatre * ''The Street Singer'' (1912 film), an American short silent film * ''The Street Singer'' (1937 film), a British musical film * ''Street Singer'' (film), a 1938 Indian Hindi film * ''The Street Singer'' (musical), a 1924 British stage musical by Frederick Lonsdale Other uses * ''Street Singer'' (album), a 1980 album by Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean * "Street Singer" (song), a 1970 song by the Strangers, with Merle Haggard * ''The Street Singer'' (Manet), an 1862 painting by Édouard Manet *"The Street Singer", a story in the 1978 graphic novel ''A Contract with God ''A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories'' is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Will Eisner published in 1978. The book's short story cycle revolves around poor Jewish characters who live in a tenement in New York City. Eisner pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Singer
Street performance or busking is the act of performing in public places for gratuity, gratuities. In many countries, the rewards are generally in the form of money but other gratuities such as food, drink or gifts may be given. Street performance is practiced all over the world and dates back to ancient history, antiquity. People engaging in this practice are called street performers or buskers in the United Kingdom. Outside of New York, ''buskers'' is not a term generally used in American English. Performances are anything that people find entertainment, entertaining, including acrobatics, Animal training, animal tricks, balloon modelling, balloon twisting, caricatures, clowning, comedy, contortions, escapology, dance, singing, Fire performance, fire skills, flea circus, fortune-telling, juggling, magic (illusion), magic, mime artist, mime, living statue, musical performance, one man band, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or reciting poetry or prose, street art such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street Singer (1912 Film)
''The Street Singer'' is a 1912 American short silent drama film. The film starred Earle Foxe and Alice Joyce. It was Foxe's first film, aged seventeen. The film was made into a successful musical in 1924 with a libretto by Frederick Lonsdale and music by Harold Fraser-Simson, starring Phyllis Dare. It played at the Lyric Theatre for 360 performances and enjoyed successful tours. Cast *Alice Joyce as Pepita *Earle Foxe as Karl *Mayme Kelso Mayme Kelso (February 28, 1867 – June 5, 1946) was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1911 and 1927. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, and died in South Pasadena, California from a heart attack ... as Mrs. Burleigh *Adelaide Lawrence External links * 1912 films American silent short films 1912 drama films American black-and-white films Kalem Company films 1912 short films Silent American drama films 1910s American films {{musical-theat-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street Singer (1937 Film)
''The Street Singer'' (aka, ''Interval for Romance'') is a 1937 British musical film directed by Jean de Marguenat and starring Arthur Tracy, Margaret Lockwood and Arthur Riscoe. The screenplay concerns a famous musician who is mistaken for a street singer. It was an early role for Margaret Lockwood. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erwin Scharf. Cast * Arthur Tracy as Richard King * Arthur Riscoe as Sam Green * Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Green * Hugh Wakefield as Hugh Newman * Emile Boreo as Luigi * Ellen Pollock as Gloria Weston * Wally Patch as Policeman * Ian McLean as Police Inspector * John Deverell as James * Rawicz and Landauer as Specialty Act * Lew Stone and His Band References External links *''The Street Singer''at TCMDB Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is an American movie-oriented pay-TV network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in 1994, Turner Classic Movies is headquartered at Turner's Techwood broadcasting campus in the Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Singer (film)
''Street Singer'' is a 1938 Hindi film directed by Phani Majumdar. It was produced by New Theatres Calcutta and was Phani Majumdar's first Hindi film as a director. The film was made in Bengali as '' Sathi'' in the same year. It starred K. L. Saigal, Kanan Devi, Jagdish Sethi and Bikram Kapoor. The music was composed by R. C. Boral with lyrics written by Arzu (Arzoo) Lucknavi. Two street urchins dream of singing and making it big in the glamorous world of theatre in Calcutta. They grow up with the girl being employed while the boy is not. The story follows them through first their enchantment and then the disillusionment with the theatre. Finally both choose to return to their roots in the village. Plot Bhulwa helps Manju escape from a burning orphanage and from the care of the tyrannical manager of the orphanage. The two street urchins go from village to village, singing and making money. Bhulwa’s big dream is to someday sing in a theatre in Calcutta. Several years later both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street Singer (musical)
''The Street Singer'' is a 1924 musical play written by Frederick Lonsdale with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Percy Greenbank. After premiering at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Birmingham it ran for 360 performances at the Lyric Theatre in the West End between 27 June 1924 and the 2 May 1925. The cast included Phyllis Dare, Sylvia Leslie, Dorothy Fane, A.W. Baskcomb and Harry Welchman Harry Welchman (24 February 1886 – 3 January 1966) was an English star of musical theatre. He made several appearances in non-musical plays, but was remembered as, in the words of ''The Times'', "perhaps the most popular musical comedy hero on th ....Wearing p.309 References Bibliography * Wearing, J. P. ''The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 1924 plays Musicals by Frederick Lonsdale British musicals {{1920s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Singer (album)
''Street Singer'' is a hard bop album jointly led by tenor Tina Brooks and alto Jackie McLean. The tracks "Appointment in Ghana", "A Ballad for Doll" and "Isle of Java" were originally released in 1960 on McLean's album '' Jackie's Bag''. The full session, including three previously unreleased tracks, was first released on the Japanese Blue Note label in 1980. Track listing # "Melonae's Dance" (McLean) - 6:50 # "Appointment in Ghana" (McLean) - 6:59 # "Medina" (Brooks) - 6:48 # "Isle of Java" (Brooks) - 7:31 # "Street Singer" (Brooks) - 10:19 # "A Ballad for Doll" (McLean) - 3:19 Personnel * Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone * Jackie McLean - alto saxophone * Blue Mitchell - trumpet * Kenny Drew - piano * Paul Chambers Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop era. ... - bass * Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Singer (song)
"Street Singer" is a song written by Roy Nichols, and performed by American country music band The Strangers. It was released in April 1970 as the first single from their album ''Introducing My Friends The Strangers''. The B-side was "Mexican Rose," written by Roy Nichols and Norm Hamlet. The lineup of The Strangers during this time was Roy Nichols on lead guitar, Norm Hamlet on pedal steel guitar, Bobby Wayne on rhythm guitar, Dennis Hromek on bass, and Biff Adam on drums. "Street Singer" peaked at number nine on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot Country Singles chart and peaked at number twenty four on the Bubbling Under Hot 100. It reached number-one on the Canadian ''RPM'' Country Tracks in June 1970. Personnel The Strangers: *Roy Nichols – lead guitar * Norman Hamlet – steel guitar, dobro *Bobby Wayne - rhythm guitar *Dennis Hromek – bass *Biff Adam – drums with: *Merle Haggard Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street Singer (Manet)
''Street Singer'' is a circa 1862 oil-on-canvas painting by Édouard Manet depicting a female street musician standing near the entrance to a cabaret. The painting was inspired by a meeting between the artist and a street singer. Manet asked her to pose for him but she refused, so Manet asked a favorite model, Victorine Meurent, to pose for the work. It is either the first or second of Manet's several large-scale paintings for which Victorine posed.Mauner, G. L., & Loyrette, H. (2000). Manet: The Still-life Paintings'. New York: H.N. Abrams in association with the American Federation of Arts. p. 17. .Manet, Édouard, Mary Anne Stevens, and Lawrence W. Nichols (2012). ''Manet: Portraying Life''. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art. p. 197. The style of the painting shows the influence of Frans Hals and Spanish masters such as Diego Velázquez. ''Street Singer'' is one of a series of single-figure compositions that Manet painted during the 1860s in which he depicted contemporary "types" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
