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High Society Blues is a 1930 American pre-Code film starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell.The movie was written by Howard J. Green from the story by Dana Burnett, and directed by David Butler.
Of the film's song, "When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You", becomes a hit. Al Jolson records this song from the picture for Brunswick Records . May 25 – The all Technicolor musical film, Song of the Flame , based on the 1925 Broadway musical of the same name, is released to rave reviews.
Bob Haggart and Yank Lawson organized a band that combined dixieland and swing to try to carry on the legacy of Bob Crosby. From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, the band was known as the World's Greatest Jazz Band, but when both became dissatisfied with the name they changed it to the Lawson-Haggart Jazz Band.
This version was issued on the High Society album. An edited version was issued as a single and appeared briefly in the No. 88 spot in Billboard magazine. The band's personnel included Louis Armstrong, Trummy Young, Edmond Hall, Billy Kyle, Arvell Shaw, and Barrett Deems.
A rent party (sometimes called a house party) is a social occasion where tenants hire a musician or band to play and pass the hat to raise money to pay their rent, originating in Harlem during the 1920s. These parties were a means for Black tenants to eat, dance, and get away from everyday hardship and discrimination.
The Melody Man (1930) High Society Blues (1930) Cheer Up and Smile (1930) On Your Back (1930) Part Time Wife (1930) The Princess and the Plumber (1930) Maker of Men (1931) A Dangerous Affair (1931) The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932) Blessed Event (1932) They Call It Sin (1932) I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Trick for Trick ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... High society is a category of people deemed to have social status or prestige.
When the Cotton Club closed in 1940, Calloway and his band went on a tour of the United States. [2] In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas. Calloway wrongly accused Gillespie of throwing a spitball; in the ensuing altercation Gillespie stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife. [3]