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The theater's history was chronicled in the 1976 television special Apollo, [525] the 1980 NBC special Uptown, [526] [527] and the 2019 documentary The Apollo. [528] [529] Lee Daniels also considered directing a documentary called The Apollo Theater Film Project in the mid-2010s. [530] [531] Several books have been written about the theater.
Live at the Apollo is the first live album by James Brown and the Famous Flames, recorded at the Apollo Theater in Harlem in October 1962 and released in May 1963 by King Records. Capturing Brown's popular stage show for the first time on record, the album was a major commercial and critical success and cemented his status as a leading R&B star.
When a 9-year-old Leslie Uggams made her debut at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater in 1952, she instantly won over the notoriously tough crowd as the “extra added attraction” on a bill with ...
Cooper is best known as the original master of ceremonies and founder of amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York City, in 1935. He wrote, produced, directed and acted in ten motion pictures. Titles include The Duke Is Tops, Dark Manhattan, Gangsters on the Loose and Gang War. Because of his debonair good looks, he was known as ...
The Harlem landmark has served as a proving ground for Black performers dating back to Billie Holiday, James Brown and Stevie Wonder and extending into modern performers like Lauryn Hill.
UTA has signed cultural landmark the Apollo Theater in all areas. Located in New York’s Harlem community, the Apollo Theater has been known as the “soul of American culture” for nearly nine ...
James Cavallo (March 14, 1927 – December 2, 2019) [1] [2] was an American musician best known for performing with his band in the 1956 movie, Rock, Rock, Rock, by pioneering music DJ Alan Freed. Jimmy and the Houserockers were the first white band to play at the Apollo Theater in Harlem , where they celebrated the movie's release.
Jonelle Procope’s 20-year tenure as president and CEO of The Apollo Theater evolved into an era of prosperity and expansion, markedly different from the tumultuous, cash-strapped decades that ...