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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]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:29, 9 January 2025: 1,418 × 1,843, 6 pages (5.87 MB): SDudley: Uploaded a work by Music: Fats Waller and Harry Brooks Lyrics: Andy Razaf from Courtesy the Sam Carner Sheet Music Collection, The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University with UploadWizard
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 ...
"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]
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