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Blackbirds of 1928 was a hit Broadway musical revue [1] that starred Adelaide Hall, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Tim Moore and Aida Ward, with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It contained the hit songs "Diga Diga Do", the duo's first hit, " I Can't Give You Anything But Love ", "Bandanna Babies" and "I Must Have That Man" all ...
At first, these revues were only moderately successful but they paved the way for the sensational hit, Blackbirds of 1928. [13] In January, 1928, Blackbirds opened at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York under the heading Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue, starring Adelaide Hall. On 9 May 1928, the show transferred to the Liberty Theatre, Broadway and ...
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics). The song was introduced by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue, which opened on Broadway later that year as the highly successful Blackbirds of 1928 (518 performances), wherein it was ...
Blackbirds of 1933 is a musical revue with a book by Nat N. Dorfman, Mann Holiner, and Lew Leslie. It is a sequel to Blackbirds of 1928. The original production premiered on December 2, 1933 at the Apollo Theatre in New York. The musical features music and lyrics by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nichols, Ned Washington, Joseph Young and Victor Young.
Blackbirds of 1928 was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York after her success in the hit London show Blackbirds but Mills died of pneumonia in 1927 before rehearsals commenced. Hall was chosen to replace her.
They collaborated on several projects with Lew Leslie, a writer and producer of Broadway shows, starring in his revue Blackbirds of 1928 and touring internationally with Blackbirds of 1929. [7]: 91 They continued to work with Leslie into the 1930s, starring in Blackbirds of 1930 and his 1931 musical Rhapsody in Black.
Louis Armstrong's 1955 version established the song's popularity in the jazz world. [135] It is also known as "The Ballad of Mack the Knife". [135] "Nagasaki" [136] is a jazz song composed by Harry Warren with lyrics by Mort Dixon. The Ipana Troubadors made a hit recording in 1928, and in 1935 it was recorded by the Friar's Society Orchestra. [137]
Blackbirds of 1939 was an African-American musical revue in Lew Leslie's series of Blackbirds productions. It was the last revue, following on from Blackbirds of 1928 ...