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La MaMa also toured Europe with the Cotton Club Gala in 1976. [46] The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz (1985) [47] starring Adelaide Hall, Cab Calloway, Doc Cheatham, The Nicholas Brothers etc. Produced by BBC TV. In the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the fictional Ink and Paint Club is based on the Cotton Club. [48]
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
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]
Maurice Hines, an actor, dancer and choreographer who starred with his brother Gregory Hines in Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club,” died Friday. He was 80. Friends including Debbie ...
Roy Radin (November 13, 1949 – last seen May 13, 1983, remains found June 10, 1983) was an American show business promoter who packaged vaudeville shows and oldies music nostalgia tours in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn [1] to Edwin and Edna Horne on June 30, 1917. [2] Both sides of her family were biracial African Americans. [citation needed] She belonged to the well-educated upper stratum of Black New Yorkers at the time.
24th edition of Cotton Club Parade [9] [10] Opened March 23, 1934; opening night was largest show ever staged there; production ran for nine months, merging into fall edition Produced by Dan Healy (Daniel E. Healy; 1888–1969) [11] Harold Arlen's last show with Cotton Club Parade Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra featuring Adelaide Hall
Jimmy Wayne Jamison (August 23, 1951 – September 1, 2014) [1] was an American singer. Best known as Jimi Jamison, he earned recognition as the frontman for the rock bands Target, Cobra, and Survivor from 1984 to 1989, performing the songs "Burning Heart" from the film Rocky IV, "The Moment of Truth" from The Karate Kid, along with other top-20 Survivor hits "I Can't Hold Back", "High On You ...