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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 ...
He became famous for his stage shows at the Cotton Club and later for his Blackbirds revues, which he mounted in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1933 and 1939. Blackbirds of 1928 starring Adelaide Hall, [5] Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Tim Moore and Aida Ward. It was his most successful revue and ran for over one year on Broadway, where it became the hit of ...
The show ran for two years, and was succeeded by a new show called Blackbirds of 1928, a Broadway hit. Leslie mounted a series of Blackbirds revues, which ran in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1933 and 1939. The series were named after Mills' theme song, "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird," a thinly veiled protest against racial injustice, which ...
Leslie mounted a series of Blackbirds revues, which ran in 1926, 1928, 1930, 1933 and 1939. The series were named after Florence Mills theme song, "I'm a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird," a thinly veiled protest against racial injustice, which she first sung in the Dixie to Broadway show in 1924. [9]
"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 ...
Dorothy Fields (July 15, 1904 [1] – March 28, 1974) was an American librettist and lyricist.She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930), "Don't Blame Me" (1948), "Pick Yourself Up" (1936), "I'm in the Mood for Love" (1935), "You Couldn't Be ...
Uggams sang and toured with the Fisk Jubilee Quartet with Henrietta Myers in 1918 and 1919. [2] [4] [5] Broadway appearances by Uggams included roles in Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1928 (1928-1929, 1934), [6] [7] and Rhapsody in Black (1931), [8] The Pirate (1942-1943), Run, Little Chillun (1943), and Porgy and Bess (1943, 1944, and 1953). [9]
Louis I. Isquith leased the theater during mid-1928, presenting a series of plays with low ticket prices. [ 112 ] [ 113 ] Woods subsequently took back the theater's lease and produced the revue Blackbirds of 1928 , [ 32 ] which transferred from the Liberty and ran until June 1929. [ 114 ]