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"Black and Blue" debuted in the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates (1929), sung by Edith Wilson. Razaf biographer Barry Singer recounts that the lyricist was coerced into writing the song (with music by Waller) by the show's financier, New York mobster Dutch Schultz, though Razaf subverted Schultz's directive that it be a comedic number: [4]
"Black and Blue" [152] [153] is a song from the musical Hot Chocolates, composed by Fats Waller with lyrics by Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf. It was introduced by Louis Armstrong. Ethel Waters's 1930 version became a hit. [154] The song is also known as "What Did I Do to Be So Black and Blue". [154]
For the hit Broadway show Hot Chocolates, he and Razaf wrote "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" (1929), which became a hit for Ethel Waters and Louis Armstrong. Waller occasionally performed Bach organ pieces for small groups. He influenced many pre-bebop jazz pianists; Count Basie and Erroll Garner both revived his hit songs. In ...
Louis Armstrong made his Broadway debut as part of the show's ensemble. [5] Cab Calloway later joined the cast as a replacement at Armstrong's recommendation. [6] Calloway later adopted the song "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue," originally sung by Edith Wilson, for his performances decades later. [7]
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What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years. New York: Vintage. ISBN 9780307473295. OCLC 798285020. —— (2020). Heart Full of Rhythm: The Big Band Years of Louis Armstrong. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190914110. OCLC 1137836373. —— (2025). Stomp off, Let's Go: The Early Years of Louis Armstrong. New ...