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Some members of the choir also provided voices to these characters as well except Cliff Edwards, who voiced the lead Dandy Crow. In addition to his theatrical work, Johnson wrote the Easter cantata Son of Man, which premiered at New York's City Center in 1946, the same year that the Hall Johnson Choir sang in Disney's Song of the South.
Hall Johnson Negro Choir - Keep Yo' Hand on the Plow, Hold On - 1930; Duke Ellington at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival; The Folksmiths, including Joe Hickerson - We've Got Some Singing To Do 1958; Odetta on Odetta at Carnegie Hall 1961; Clara Ward and Her Singers 1962; Bob Dylan on his self-titled debut album 1962 [5] Peggy Lee - 2 Shows ...
The Green Pastures also featured numerous African-American spirituals arranged by Hall Johnson and performed by The Hall Johnson Choir. The cast also included singer Mabel Ridley .The chorus included torch singer Eva Sylvester and members of the Sylvester family as cherubs.
Run, Little Chillun or Run Little Chillun is a folk opera written by Hall Johnson. According to James Vernon Hatch and Leo Hamalian, it is one of the most successful musical dramas of the Harlem Renaissance. It was the first Broadway show directed by an African-American.
In the film, directed by Dudley Murphy and shot in Astoria, Queens, she sings the title song accompanied by members of Fletcher Henderson's orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, the pianist James P. Johnson and a string section, a musical environment radically different from that of any of her recordings.
The Hall Johnson Choir; ... According to MGM records the film made $1,719,000 in the US and Canada and $234,000 elsewhere, resulting in a profit of $587,000. [1] [17 ...
The Complete Recordings: Robert Johnson: 1936–1937 Interviews conducted by Alan Lomax: Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax: 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert: Benny Goodman: January 16, 1938 (released 1998) Complete day of radio broadcasting, WJSV (Washington, D.C.) WJSV, Washington, D.C. September 21, 1939: original "New San Antonio Rose"
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...