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Rhapsody in Black and Blue is a short ten-minute film that was created and released in 1932, starring Sidney Easton [1] and Fanny Belle DeKnight. [1] It is an early example of a "music video", showcasing the tunes I’ll Be Glad When You Are Dead You Rascal You and Shine, [2] sung and played by well-known jazz artist Louis Armstrong.
Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life is a 9 + 1 ⁄ 2-minute musical short produced in 1935 that features Duke Ellington’s early extended piece, "A Rhapsody of Negro Life". The film, Billie Holiday ’s screen debut, was directed by Fred Waller and distributed by Paramount Pictures .
In 1931, Alberta Nichols wrote the music and Mann Holiner wrote the words for a song titled "Till the Real Thing Comes Along" which was featured in a Broadway revue titled Rhapsody in Black. The review, produced by Lew Leslie , was similar to the famous Blackbirds reviews of the late 1920s and 1930s, and featured Ethel Waters , who introduced ...
Yamekraw, a Negro Rhapsody is a jazz musical composition written by James P. Johnson in 1927 about a neighborhood of Savannah, Georgia. [1] It was a response to George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue . It was initially composed for the piano, but was first performed at Carnegie Hall as a jazz-like orchestral arrangement. [ 2 ]
1931 A Rhapsody in Black and Blue - performed by Louis Armstrong and band; 1941 Birth of the Blues - sung by Bing Crosby; 1942 Casablanca - the song is sung by Sam (Dooley Wilson) and the band at Rick's Café in the movie. 1943 Cabin in the Sky John William Sublett (aka John W. Bubbles) animates "Shine" brilliantly in a song-and-dance number in ...
Dear Friends was a live radio program performed by the Firesign Theatre on KPFK radio in Los Angeles. Twenty-one episodes aired between September 16, 1970 and February 17, 1971. Twenty-one episodes aired between September 16, 1970 and February 17, 1971.
Lew Leslie (born Lewis Lessinsky; April 15, 1888 – March 10, 1963) [1] was a Jewish American writer and producer of Broadway shows. [2] [3] [4] Leslie got his start in show business in vaudeville in his early twenties.
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900 [5] [1] [6]) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962), [1] by 17-year-old John Wesley (or Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), [1] a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background.