Podcasts about Alberta Hunter

This weekend will see the performance of a play by St. Louisan Mariah Richardson about blues singer Alberta Hunter, and the Rolla High School musical that was nearly canceled by severe weather.

Während die exzentrische Bessie Smith als Sängerin alle Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zog, stand Alberta Hunter mehr im Schatten. Dabei war sie ebenfalls eine charismatische Performerin, war ebenso vernetzt in der Blues- und Jazzszene des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Auch abseits der Bühne leistete die selbstlose Alberta Hunter wertvolle Arbeit, ohne jemals Lorbeeren dafür zu verlangen. Ihre Beiträge zur Gesellschaft verdienen jedoch viel Anerkennung. In dieser Jazz Collection beleuchtet die Sängerin Anne Nang'ole gemeinsam mit Roman Hošek Alberta Hunters zeitlose Musik, ihr erfülltes Leben und ihre bewegte Karriere – die nach einem Comeback in hohem Alter eine zweite Blüte erlebt. - - Die gespielten Titel: Interpret:in: Titel (Album / Label) Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rockin' (Gala-Konzert mit Alberta Hunter / Eigenaufnahme DRS) Alberta Hunter: Down Hearted Blues (Alberta Hunter Vol. 1 (1921-1923) / Document Records) Alberta Hunter: If You Want to Keep Your Daddy Home (Alberta Hunter Vol. 1 (1921-1923) / Document Records) Alberta Hunter: Nobody Knows the Way I Feel Dis Mornin' (Alberta Hunter Vol. 3 (1924-1927) / Document Records) Alberta Hunter: Beale Street Blues (Alberta Hunter Vol. 4 (1927-c.1946) / Document Records) Alberta Hunter: Two Cigarettes in the Dark (The London Session 1934 / DRG Records) Alberta Hunter: Streets Paved With Gold (The Living Legends (Live) / Original Blues Classics) Alberta Hunter: Remember My Name (Remember My Name / Columbia Stereo) Alberta Hunter: My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More (Amtrak Blues / CBS) Alberta Hunter: The Love I Have for You (Downhearted Blues / Rockbeat Records)

Co-host Jeremy takes us into the fascinating life and incredible music of blues singer Alberta Hunter. We look at the various phases of her music career, which spanned most of the 20th century, with some time out for another occupation before returning with a final run of releases in the late Seventies and early Eighties.   If you like us support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

#582 It includes an Alberta Hunter song!

Featuring collaborations with: James P. Johnson, Alberta Hunter, Elizabeth Handy, Herman Autrey, Una Mae Carlisle, The Deep River Boys, Myra Johnson, Lee Wiley, Ada Brown.

Please join me today for this overview of the roller coaster career of Alberta Hunter (01 April 1895 – 17 October 1984), a jazz legend whose surprising and extraordinary life was shaped by a voice that simply personified the Blues. Early in her life, around the time she was 15, she fled her native Memphis for Chicago, where, with tenacity, grit, and ambition, she became the darling of the night club circuit, performing sometimes under tommy-gun-adjacent circumstances. She soon made her way to Broadway and, following the lead of her compatriots, Joséphine Baker, Adelaide Hall, Florence Mills, and Elisabeth Welch, to Paris and London, where she was the toast of the town and appeared as Queenie opposite Paul Robeson in the original London production of Show Boat. Later during and after World War II she became a fixture of the USO circuit. Following the death of her mother, she abandoned her performing career and took up nursing in her sixties. After her enforced retirement twenty years later, through a set of freaky coincidences, she made a miraculous return to live performing at the age of 82 and became an overnight sensation, the toast of three continents. She always returned to her ongoing residency at a club in the Village called The Cookery, the venue where the final chapter of her career began. She continued to perform and record until shortly before her death just before her 90th birthday. Though she lived her life discreetly and never came out overtly, she nevertheless was involved with women throughout her life and formed her strongest emotional and romantic bonds with them. Sassy, raunchy, and gritty on the surface, Hunter possessed a voice and ingratiating style of such honesty, humor, and character, that masked a modesty hidden beneath that brash exterior, and a musical sensibility that dazzles with its ease, subtlety, and complexity. Featured musical excerpts, both studio and live, extend over more than 60 years and include collaborations with such jazz giants as Eubie Blake, Fats Waller, Lovie Austin, Charlie Shavers, and producer John Hammond and includes a clip from her appearance in the British film Radio Parade of 1935. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.  

In this special Pride Month episode, we celebrate the incredible Black queer women who broke barriers and paved the way in the early 1900s. Join me as we delve into the lives of Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” who sang openly about her relationships with women; Bessie Smith, the "Empress of the Blues," who lived her life unapologetically bisexual; and Gladys Bentley, the tuxedo-wearing Harlem Renaissance legend who defied gender norms. We also explore the stories of Josephine Baker, the iconic performer and civil rights activist, and Alberta Hunter, the celebrated blues and jazz singer. These trailblazing women faced double oppression but created their own support networks and left an indelible mark on culture and society. Tune in to hear their powerful stories of resilience, courage, and Black queer magic. #PrideMonth #BlackQueerMagic #Trailblazers #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory #Resilience Love these short history episodes? Leave a review and let me know which historical period or event you'd like me to cover next!

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In 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records. In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, William Grant Still, and Alberta Hunter, artists who transformed American music. But Black Swan's success would be short-lived. Just a couple years after Pace founded the company, larger, wealthier, white competitors started to take an interest in the artists whose careers Pace had propelled. Then, Pace's own life took a mysterious turn. This episode was originally published in 2021.

Bienvenidos amantes de la música, queremos agradecer vuestra compañía durante este 2023, en este episodio vamos a revisar algunos temas de los programas que fueron más importantes para nosotros durante este año. Esperamos que lo disfruten! 1. Dorothy Ashby. 2. Michel Camilo. 3. Dave Grusin. 4. Dave Brubeck Quartet. 5. Alberta Hunter. 6. Lee Ritenour. 7. Roy Haynes. *Suscríbete a nuestro canal. Si ya lo has hecho, considera apoyarnos en Patreon como mecenas para hacer sustentable nuestro programa y mantener nuestro viaje en vuelo. (Podrás acceder a episodios anticipados y exclusivos)patreon.com/ViajeJazz?fan_landing=true *Ayúdanos con un Me gusta, Comparte y Comenta. * En viajealmundodeljazz.com encuentra un reproductor de Jazz Moderno y Jazz Clásico.

All The News & Knowledge You Need To Get You Through Your October 17, 2023. It's Tune Up Tuesday! . On This Day - Samuel Ringgold Ward; Dr. Mae Jemison; Alberta Hunter;( “A Different World” | NBC's "A Different World" Clip Used as per "Fair Use" /Newsworthy History - Copyright Not Owned) . News From UNN - www.myunn.net . All Episodes of This Is The G Podcast Are At: www.castropolis.net . #castropolispodcastnetwork #TuneupTuesday #blackhistory #news #blackpodcast #podcast #DailyPodcast #atlantapodcast #McDonoughGa #SamuelRinggoldWard DrMaeJemison #ADifferentWorld #DebbieAllen #TheCosbyShow #dailypodcast

Bienvenidos amantes de la música, Alberta Hunter fue una cantante de blues y jazz de los primeros días de la era del jazz, nacida en 1895. Considerada una de las mejores representantes del estilo junto a Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith y Ethel Waters. Fue incluida en el “Jazz Hall of Fame”. Fue una prolífica artista que actuó y grabó en los 20's y 30's se acompañó con leyendas de la época como Fats Waller, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong y Duke Ellington. Pero quizá lo que más destaca de ella es el resurgimiento musical que tuvo después de haber dejado el mundo del espectáculo durante 20 años después de la muerte de su madre para convertirse en enfermera. Esto la llevó a grabar 3 álbumes para Columbia, con más de 80 años, incluido el muy popular “Amtrak Blues” que es el disco que visitamos en este episodio. Les invitamos a disfrutar de una voz que envejeció muy bien y de una compositora en toda regla. Los tema son: 1. I'm Having a Good Time 2. Amtrak Blues 3. The Darktown Strutters' Ball 4. Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out 5. Sweet Georgia Brown *Suscríbete a nuestro canal. Si ya lo has hecho, considera apoyarnos en Patreon como mecenas para hacer sustentable nuestro programa y mantener nuestro viaje en vuelo. (Podrás acceder a episodios anticipados y exclusivos)patreon.com/ViajeJazz?fan_landing=true *Ayúdanos con un Me gusta, Comparte y Comenta. * En viajealmundodeljazz.com encuentra un reproductor de Jazz Moderno y Jazz Clásico.

April 1st Birthday celebration. Happy Birthday female Jazz singer Alberta Hunter (1895-1984).   Try the • Those Were The Days • YouTube Channel   Visit the • Those Were The Days • Instagram   Click here for Jim's personal YouTube channel   Those Were The Babes !!! Those Were The Days is a YouTube and podcast show about pop-culture from the 20th century. Recorded in the buzzing metropolis of Tokyo, Japan; Jim McGee from The United Kingdom and Kwesi Parker from the United States are your tour guides in the virtual pop-culture history museum known as ‘Those Were The Days'. This project is a labour of love and is not intended to infringe on copyright but merely a way to curate and promote Pop culture that, perhaps, has been forgotten or needs more promotion in some cases. If you like this songs and shows that you see we encourage you to buy them from any good online stores such as iTunes et cetera. Or even better yeah why not go down to your local record store and support them. they need it more. Don't forget to check out our Instagram the link to which will be at the top of this description. As stated this is a labour of love so if you've enjoyed it please show your love by supporting us. You can do this simply by sharing this on your social medias or reviewing or liking us. It won't take long and it costs nothing but it means the world to us. Thank you for listening/watching and remember that was the conversation and those were the days.    

It was April 1927 when a pair of blues singers from Mississippi named Little Harvey Hull and Long Cleve Reed walked into a Chicago studio to record the first of a half dozen tunes they'd leave there over the next few weeks.Joining them for the session was guitarist Sunny Wilson, whose song "Hey! Lawdy Mama/France Blues" was among their first. The trio was billed on the label as “The Down Home Boys” when the disc was released the following month by Black Patti Records, a new short-lived company created by a fascinating historical character named J. Mayo “Ink” Williams.Ink WilliamsA Brown University graduate, Ink Williams is the only man we know of who was inducted into both the National Football Hall of Fame and the Blues Hall of Fame. Besides being one of the first African American pro-football players (as part of a Chicago team in the first season of the NFL), Williams also is remembered as an important recording industry pioneer.Starting his career producing for the fledgling Paramount Records, Williams earned his nickname because of his persuasive way of inking contracts with a wide range of original talent. Over the years, he was to work with Blind Lemon Jefferson and Ma Rainey, with Tampa Red and Georgia Tom, with Blind Blake and Ida Cox (not to mention Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Roosevelt Sykes, Sleepy John Estes and so many more). In 1924, Williams also earned an early entry in blues annals by producing the legendary Papa Charlie Jackson's “Lawdy, Lawdy Blues,” the first successful blues record made by an African American man.In 1927, Williams left Paramount to go out on his own by starting Black Patti Records, named after the opera singer Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, who was called “Black Patti” because some thought she resembled the Italian opera singer Adelina Patti. While Williams' label lasted only seven months, it produced 55 records in a variety of styles, including blues, jazz and spirituals, as well as hell-fire sermons by “straining preachers” and comedy routines and popular ditties from vaudeville stars. When the enterprise was not immediately profitable, Williams moved on to greener pastures by the end of 1927, but not before discovering a few stand-out blues acts that had moved to Chicago from the South as part of “The Great Migration.”Among his finds in those early days was The Down Home Boys, whose two-guitar accompaniment was a blend of parlor guitar and ragtime. The trio sang blues, but much of its repertoire was from the turn of the century — before blues had become a dominant musical genre — and included ballads and medicine show material.Back to the SongSunny Wilson's “Hey! Mama” tune didn't have the same cachet of some of the group's other numbers — notably the guys' “Original Stack O'Lee Blues,” which probably was a response to Ma Rainey's version of the number, which had the young Louis Armstrong on cornet — but it did have a long shelf life. For instance, right after its Black Patti debut, it was brought out as "France Blues" on Gennett (credited to "Sunny Boy & His Pals") and again on Champion by "The Original Louisiana Entertainers.”Then 40 years later, the song was reborn in the folk revival of the 1960s. The Flood learned the song from the January 1964 album recorded by Stefan Grossman and Peter Siegel's Even Dozen Jug Band. This seminal ‘60s group also featured John Sebastian, Steve Katz, David Grisman and Maria Muldaur, all friends who got to know each other during legendary jam sessions in New York's Washington Square Park.Later that same year, the song made another notable folk revival appearance, this time performed by Mark Spoelstra (with Fritz Richmond on washtub bass and Doug Pomeroy on washboard and kazoo) on a landmark Elektra album called The Blues Project. Our Take on the TuneIf you hang out much with The Flood, it seems like everything we do is carefully planned …. uh, right… but actually, accident and happenstance are a couple of our good friends. Earlier this week, for example, we got together to plan for our show tonight at Sal's Speakeasy. As you'll hear in this track, between songs Charlie starts singing a bit of this old 1920s song. Immediately, Randy jumps in with some great harmony. Then Sam brightens it up with his harmonica and Danny puts a bow on the whole thing with a cookin' guitar part. And just like that the tune has inserted itself into the set list. All that's missing now is you. Come on down to Sal's Italian Eatery & Speakeasy tonight, 1624 Carter Avenue in beautiful downtown Ashland, Ky., and we'll getting you singing along on that hey-lawdy-mama-mama / hey-lawdy-papa-papa part! We play from 6 to 9. Come on out and party with us. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit 1937flood.substack.com

In 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records. In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, William Grant Still, Alberta Hunter, and other influential artists who transformed American music. But Black Swan's success would be short-lived. Just a couple years after Pace founded the company, larger, wealthier, white competitors started to take an interest in the artists whose careers Pace had propelled. Then, Pace's own life took a mysterious turn. This episode originally aired on NPR's All Things Considered in 2021.

The Queens of the Blues podcast celebrates the prolific female blues music from the early 1920's to present times. This show, entitled “Remember My Name” is entirely about Alberta Hunter.#albertahunter

For the last episode of 2022, I begin a series of episodes which was one of the reasons I began Countermelody in the fall of 2019: a celebration of great singing from great singers in the late years of their lives and careers. In the early years of the recording industry, a long-retired artist such as Adelina Patti would consent to leave recorded documents of their voices for future generations to experience. Oftentimes a cherished artist will make a guest cameo appearance at an important event (think of Leontyne Price coming out of retirement at age 74 and singing “God Bless America” at the September 30, 2001 memorial concert at Carnegie Hall). Other times, artists like Johnny Mathis, Regina Resnik, or Helen Donath, simply never retire, but continue to bestow their artistry upon us decade after decade. Sometimes, as is the case of Lotte Lenya, a performer finds herself later in her life on a mission which demands that she resume performing, in Lenya's case, as a means of securing the musical legacy of her late husband Kurt Weill. There is also, in the case of someone like Alberta Hunter or Elisabeth Welch, the thrill of a jazz or pop artist at the end of her life experiencing a career resurgence at the end of a long life. In the classical world, artists late in their lives can still give extraordinary performances of art song, which makes fewer demands on their voices than taxing operatic roles, while allowing full display of their deepened artistry and experience. There are also operatic roles specifically designed for the more mature artist: roles like Schigolch in Lulu, or the Countess in Pique-Dame, among many others, which are sampled here in performances by Hans Hotter and Rita Gorr, respectively. There are also those rare and exceptional artists who are able to perform movingly even into their nineties, like the Ukrainian bass Mark Reizen, or the verismo soprano Magda Olivero; or after having suffered catastrophic physical setbacks, like the German tenor Karl Erb, the African American baritone Robert McFerrin, or the pop icon Joni Mitchell. These artists (along with many others) and this topic seems deeply appropriate as 2022 draws to a close and we look forward to the inevitable challenges, the blank slate, the looming horizon, of the year to come. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Bessie Smith (ca. 1895–1937) was a blues and jazz singer from the Harlem Renaissance who is remembered as the Empress of the Blues. Elizabeth “Bessie” Smith was the youngest child of seven, born to Laura and William Smith in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her father was a Baptist minister and day laborer and her mother a laundress. In 1900, William Smith died in a work accident and his wife and son Bud passed away in 1906. The six remaining Smith children, including Bessie, were orphaned and left to be raised by an aunt. Living in poverty, Smith began singing as a street performer on Ninth Street, Chattanooga's center of music and dance, with her guitar-playing brother Andrew. The first published reference of a performance by Smith—when she was only 14 years old—was in the May 8, 1909, issue of the Indianapolis newspaper The Freedman. According to the review of her performance at Atlanta's 81 Theater, Smith captivated her audience through her contralto voice.Smith refined her vocal style on the Black vaudeville stage. Her brother Clarence was a comedian and dancer in the Moses Stokes Traveling Show. Bessie was hired onto the circuit but shortly after left to join the Mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey, and the Rabbit Foot Minstrels. Smith became a mentee of Ma Rainey, learning how to command an audience and navigate the music business. By the time she was 24 years old, Smith had her own solo acts and was performing throughout the South and East Coast. In 1923, Smith signed with Columbia Records. Her first recording was “Down-hearted Blues,” written by blues singer Alberta Hunter and pianist Lovie Austin. The 1923 song was a major hit and it launched Smith into the national spotlight. Beyond blues, Smith played and recorded with jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. Her incredible talent led her to become the highest paid Black entertainer of her time.The Great Depression cut Smith's recording career short, and her last recording was in 1933. Still, Smith performed across the country. In 1937, enroute to Chattanooga, Smith suffered fatal injuries in a car accident in Mississippi. Smith's funeral was held in Philadelphia, where she had been living since 1923, and was attended by more than 5,000 people.Throughout her career, Smith was unapologetically herself. She drank and was open about her romantic relationships with both men and women. Smith was married to Jack Gee from 1923 to 1929. Gee was unable to adjust to the show business life nor Smith's bisexuality. Their marriage ended in 1929 when Smith learned about an affair between Gee and singer Gertrude Saunders. Smith incorporated the hardships of being Black working class in her lyrics by singing about poverty, racism, and sexism on top of singing about love and female sexuality. While some, such as the Black Swan Records, labeled her as “rough,” Smith's ability to channel her personality and life experience into her voice is what made her stand out.From https://nmaahc.si.edu/lgbtq/bessie-smith. For more information about Bessie Smith:“Reckless Blues”: https://genius.com/Bessie-smith-reckless-blues-lyrics“Bessie Smith & Louis Armstrong - Reckless Blues, 1925”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4_3yJD-Ds“Forebears: Bessie Smith, The Empress of The Blues”: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/05/575422226/forebears-bessie-smith-the-empress-of-the-blues“Life Story: Bessie Smith”: https://wams.nyhistory.org/confidence-and-crises/jazz-age/bessie-smith/“How Bessie Smith Influenced A Century Of Popular Music”: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/747738120/how-bessie-smith-influenced-a-century-of-popular-music

In deze aflevering van de podcast “Into the Soul of the Blues” stel ik jullie voor aan een theekransje van knappe dames, en wees gerust, het zijn vrouwen die op zijn zachts gezegd voor een onvergetelijke avond zullen zorgen. Maak plaats voor Lucille Hegamin, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Gladys Bentley, Victoria Spivey en Sippie Wallace! Nieuwsgierig naar meer? Volg me op Facebook, Instagram of Twitter. Of bezoek www.souloftheblues.be. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bart-massaer/message

Una auténtica salvajada la que van a vivir esta calurosa noche con la La rubia explosiva del ritmo, el Profesor Longhair, Innocentay, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, Augie Goupil, The Boswell Sisters, Cootie Williams, Cortijo y su Combo, Jed Davenport, Hank Penny... A partir de las 23.00 horas en la sintonía de Radio 3.Una auténtica salvajada la que van a vivir esta calurosa noche con la La rubia explosiva del ritmo, el Profesor Longhair, Innocentay, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, Augie Goupil, The Boswell Sisters, Cootie Williams, Cortijo y su Combo, Jed Davenport, Hank Penny... A partir de las 23.00 horas en la sintonía de Radio 3. Escuchar audio

She may be in her eighties, but she's not your average grandma. This jazz record from 1982 shows it's never too late to restart a music career. But is this New York bag lady as glorious as the record title suggests?   Show notes: 1979 interview 1935 recording of "You Can't Tell the Difference After Dark"  

 In this episode we dive into Chapter 8 from Darwin's Descent of Man. James incorrectly attributed this chapter to the end of Volume I of the two volume set but it is actually the first chapter of Volume II, which makes more sense given its dramatic shift in focus and topic. Sarah tried to get us to differentiate between adaptive traits that come about from sexual selection with those that come about from natural selection.  Photo from https://rollingharbour.com/2017/02/14/bluehead-wrasse-private-life-laid-bare/We spent some time discussing the difference between sex-linked traits, like calico cat color,  and sexually selected traits like the giant antlers on the extinct Irish Elk.  James presented just a few hypothesis that have been proposed to explain female choice of traits and why those traits that females seem to prefer are often opposed by natural selection. It is hard to be a red male cardinal in the dead of winter. Sarah suggested interested listeners read The Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum to learn how to differentiate the products of sexual and natural selection. We had a robust discussion about sex and gender and what Darwin knew at the time and what he should have acknowledged about the lack of binary distinction in the sexes. Mark realized he misspoke when he said that the rate of disorders of sexual development are around 10%. Data suggests that it occurs more like  (1:2500–5000 live births) whereas gender dysphoria is reported to occur around 0.002-0.014%. The bluehead wrasse is a wonderful organism that challenges the simple-minded view that your sex is determined at birth. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-northern-ireland-45449128Sarah also encouraged us to watch some Green Porno to learn more details about the sex lives of non-human animals. You can see it hereThe opening theme to Discovering Darwin is "May" by Jared C. Balogh. http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Balogh/Revitalized_Eyes/MAY Interlude music is Alberta Hunter singing My handy man ain't handy no more from her Amtrak Blues album.

**This Playlist is Incomplete. The Computer was Playing Games During The Show**Mavis Staples "Action"boygenius "Souvenir"The Highwomen "Redesigning Women"Memphis Minnie "Me and My Chauffeur Blues"Soccer Mommy "Bones"Maggie Bell "Souvenirs"Valerie June "Use Me"Loretta Lynn "Hanky Panky Woman"Amanda Shires "Take It Like A Man"Gillian Welch "Revelator"Alberta Hunter "You Reap Just What You Sow"Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Strange Things Happening Every Day"Brenda Patterson "Dance With Me Henry"Nicole Atkins "Darkness Falls so Quiet"Yola "Stand For Myself"Connie Smith "You're Getting Heavy On My Mind"Margo Price "All American Made"Nikki Lane "Highway Queen"Jade Bird "Open up the Heavens"Lilly Hiatt "Trinity Lane"Bonnie Raitt "Bye Bye Baby (Remastered Version)"Lucy Dacus "I Don't Wanna Be Funny Anymore"Koko Taylor "Blow Top Blues"Sandy Kelly "Walking After Midnight"Georgia Sea Island Singers "Sheep, Sheep"Sugar Pie De Santo "Soulful Dress"The Marvelettes "Please Mr. Postman"PJ Harvey "You Said Something"Bobbie Gentry "Fancy"Aimee Mann "Freeway"Dolly Parton "Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind"Eilen Jewell "79 Cents (The Meow Song)"Nina Simone "Work Song"Fiona Apple "On The Bound"The Mynabirds "What We Gained In The Fire"Neko Case "Night Still Comes"Nancy Sinatra "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"Lucinda Williams "Car Wheels On A Gravel Road"Tina Turner "Workin' Together"Wanda Jackson "Kansas City"The Detroit Cobras "Bye Bye Baby"

 | Artist  | Title  | Album Name  | Album Copyright  |  | Jim Dan Dee  | Bleed Me Dry  | Real Blues  |   |  | Anthony Geraci  | Corner Of Heartache And Pain  | Blues Called My Name  |  | Ian Siegal  | Psycho  | Stone By Stone  |   |  | Stacy Jones  | We Are Gonna Make It Through  | World On Fire  |   |  | Mudlow  | Crocodile Man  | Bad Turn  |   |   |  | The Lucky Ones  | Kate and Dan  | Slow Dance, Square Dance, Barn Dance | Son Of Dave  | Knock Off  | Call Me KIng  |   |  | Robbin Kapsalis and Vintage#18  | Lost Souls  | Soul Shaker  |   |  | Dion  | I Got My Eyes On You Baby feat. Marcia Ball & Jimmy Vivino  | Stomping Ground  |   |  | Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings  | This Land Is Your Land  | Blues Women Anthology V5  |  | The Rev Jimmie Bratcher  | One Rock  | Gospel Blues Vol 1  | Bongo Boy Records  |  | Alberta Hunter  | Nobody Knows The Way I Feel This Morning  | Blue Ladies  |   |  | Howie Casey & The Seniors  | I Ain't Mad At You (Roberta)  | John, Paul, George, Dave, Brian, Tony & More; The Birth of the  | Michael Rubin  | Kama Sutra Girl  | I'll Worry If I Wanna  |   |  | Danny Thompson; Eric Bibb; Eric Bibb & North Country Far  | 1912 Skiing Disaster [Instrumental]  | The Happiest Man in the World

Edition 539 of Blues Radio International, Chris Duarte performs live in South Florida, with music from John Mayall, Alberta Hunter & Robert Nighthawk.Photography by Jay Skolnick of J Skolnick Photography

Cora “Lovie” Austin was a Chicago-based blues and jazz pianist, composer and bandleader known as one of the best accompanists of her time, and played with singers such as Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter and Ethel Waters.Learn more about the "Down Hearted Blues" composer by streaming or buying her music on Apple Music, Amazon Music, or Spotify, and check out links to more sources below:https://www.encyclopedia.com/education/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/austin-lovie-1887-1972https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/12400/workshttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/lovie-austin-mn0000250355/biographyhttps://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/104856/Austin_Loviehttps://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/104856/Austin_LovieIf you GBN's Daily Drops, follow us on Apple, Google Podcasts, RSS.com, Amazon, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Leave a rating or review, share links to your favorite episodes, or go old school and tell a friend.For more Good Black News, check out goodblacknews.org or search and follow @goodblacknews anywhere on social.

In this episode, music director Sean Mayes and Reader in Musical Theatre Dr. Sarah K. Whitfield discuss the Black history of British musical theater from 1900 to 1950, highlighting performances and looking at how one studies musical theater history itself. We also talk about the song "Memories of You" from Eubie Blake, Noble Sissle, F.E. Miller, and Aubrey Lyles's 1921 musical Shuffle Along. You can write to scenetosong@gmail.com with a comment or question about an episode or about musical theater, or if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Follow on Instagram at @ScenetoSong, on Twitter at @SceneSong, and on Facebook at “Scene to Song with Shoshana Greenberg Podcast.” And be sure to sign up for the new monthly e-newsletter at scenetosong.substack.com The theme music is by Julia Meinwald. Music played in this episode: "Overture" from In Dahomey from "Black Manhattan: Theater and Dance Music of James Reese Europe, Will Marion Cook, and Members of the Legendary Clef Club" "Weeping Mary" from An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre 1900-1950 Live at Wigmore Hall "Memories of You" from An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre 1900-1950 Live at Wigmore Hall "Memories of You" from Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed "Memories of You" sung by Alberta Hunter to Eubie Blake Purchase their book: An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre by Sean Mayes and Sarah K. Whitfield

Willie Nelson "Bloody Mary Morning"Gillian Welch "Silver Dagger"Mamie Perry And The Gus Jenkins Orchestra "Lament"Golden Smog "Looking Forward to Seeing You"Bill Callahan & Bonnie Prince Billy "OD'd in Denver"Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters "Hard Times"Alberta Hunter "I've Got A Mind To Ramble"Cedric Burnside "Give It To You"Cedric Burnside "The World Can Be So Cold"Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm "Stay Here In Your Arms"R.L. Burnside "Snake Drive"Martha & the Vandellas "Nowhere To Run"The B-52's "Rock Lobster"Nina Simone "Be My Husband"Syl Johnson "That's Just My Luck"Johnny "Guitar" Watson "Those Lonely Lonely Nights"The White Stripes "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself"Bruce Springsteen "Because the Night"The Clash "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A."The Hold Steady "Stay Positive"The Replacements "Alex Chilton"Victoria Spivey "Dope Head Blues"Etta James "All I Could Do Was Cry"Lucinda Williams "Lake Charles"R.E.M. "At My Most Beautiful"The Beach Boys "In My Room"Eilen Jewell "Down the Road"Memphis Minnie "I Got to Make a Change Blues"Aimee Mann "Give Me Fifteen"Big Maybelle "Please Stay Away from My Sam"George Jones "Imitation Of Love"Laura Lee "Dirty Old Man"Koko Taylor "Tease Your Man"Alejandro Escovedo "Try, Try, Try"Chuck Berry "No Particular Place To Go"Muddy Waters "Long distance Call"Wilco "Walken"Bob Dylan "Honest With Me"Cat Power "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"My Morning Jacket "I'm Amazed"The Glands "When I Laugh"Marah "Sooner or Later"Arlo McKinley "Gone for Good"James Cotton "Cut You Loose"Buddy Guy & Junior Wells "Catfish Blues"

Alberta Hunter (1895-1984) was a singer with one of the longest, and most unconventional, careers in music. By the time she was in her 30s, she'd played Broadway, toured countless European cabarets, and sold thousands of records. Then, at the age of 62, she took a 20-year-long break before staging a massively successful comeback in her 80s.History classes can get a bad wrap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn't help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we'll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more.  Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures. Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Liz Smith, Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, and Ale Tejeda. Special thanks to Shira Atkins.We are offering free ad space on Wonder Media Network shows to organizations working towards social justice. For more information, please email Jenny at pod@wondermedianetwork.com.Listen to the accompanying playlist for this month here. Follow Wonder Media Network:WebsiteInstagramTwitterTo take the Womanica listener survey, please visit: https://wondermedianetwork.com/survey 

Featuring music from Ladyhawke, Moon Duo, Parquet Courts, Skyway Man, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Strand of Oaks, Torres, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Mega Bog, Tom Waits, Arlo Parks, Camera Obscura, Alberta Hunter, Delaney Davidson and Marlon Williams and Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Songs We Taught Your Mother - Victoria Spivey, Alberta Hunter and Lucille Hegamin in 1960 for Riverside backed by Buster Bailey, J.C. Higginbotham, Sidney DeParis, Cliff Jackson, Willie "The Lion" Smith, Cecil Scott, Herman Autrey, Jimmy Archey, Darnell Howard, Lovie Austin, Pops Foster --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-clark49/support

Songs include: Toot Toot Tootsie, My Buddy, Kitten On the Keys, Who Cares, Downhearted Blues & The World Is Waiting For the Sunrise. Performers include: Al Jolson, Alberta Hunter, Isham Jones, The Empire State Military Band, Paul Whiteman and Jones & Hare.

Part Two of my “Auld Acquaintance” mini-series on Countermelody continues the exploitation of even more artists who have already been featured on the podcast, but in rare recordings that have only recently come into my collection. Today's episode begins with a tribute to the German-based African American mezzo-soprano Gwendolyn Killebrew, who died on Christmas Eve at the age of 80. Featured artists in the main episode include Paul Robeson, Magda Olivero, Edda Moser, Ileana Cotrubas, Carol Brice, Margaret Price, Igor Gorin, Josephine Baker, Eidé Noréna, Alberta Hunter, Thomas Carey, Christa Ludwig, Sylvia Sass, Francisco Araiza, William Warfield, and many, many more singing everything from reggae to Rigoletto. 2021 gets a better send-off than it deserves, what with these singers and this music that will certainly help us all to approach the upcoming New Year “keeping the song in our hearts!” Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.

ALBERTA HUNTER [AKA] – JOSEPHINE BEATTY WITH THE RED ONION JAZZ BABIES – New York, November & December, 1924 Everybody loves my baby, Texas moaner blues, Nobody knows the way I feel Dis morning Alberta Hunter (vcl) acc by : Louis Armstrong (cnt) Aaron Thompson (tb) Buster Bailey (sop) Lil Armstrong (p) Buddy Christian (bj) […]

Sintonía: "Blues for Rex" - Sarah McLawyer "The Black Snake Blues" - Victoria Spivey; "Press My Button (Ring My Bell)" - Lil Johnson; "Don´t You Make Me High" - Merline Johnson; "Strange Things Happening Every Day" - Sister Rosetta Tharpe; "I´m a Woman" - Peggy Lee; "Why Don´t You Do Right" - Lil Green; "Me and My Chauffer Blues" - Memphis Minnie; "Four Women" - Nina Simone; "Please Mr. Jailer" - (Sister) Wynona Carr El primer programa que dedicamos a esta imprescindible enciclopedia de las mujeres en el Blues, con los (también) comentarios de su propio autor, Paco Espínola, se emitió el 23/01/2020. Se escucharon grabaciones restauradas (por el propio autor) y extraídas de los dos CDs que incluye la enciclopedia (amén las 22 nuevas láminas ilustradas con retratos de algunas de las artistas de la recién publicada segunda edición) de las siguientes "Blueswoman": Mamie Smith, Ethel Waters, Alberta Hunter, Trixie Smith, Ida Cox, Arizona Dranes y Katherine Baker El segundo programa se emitió el 6/02/2020: Bertha Chippie Hill, Helen Humes, Lucille Bogan, Cleo Gibson, Memphis Minnie y Bilie Holiday Todas las músicas extraídas de los 2 CDs que incluye el libro "Blues de Gas" (Editorial: Allanamiento de mirada, 2ª edición, 2021) Escuchar audio

Today's show features music performed by Alberta Hunter and Big Bill Broonzy

Songs include: Sweet Georgia Brown, Brown Gal, Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue, I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair and Brown Bee Boogie. Performers include: Glenn Miller, Cab Calloway, Alberta Hunter, the Mills Brothers, Clifford Brown and Nick Lucas.  

For my second Queer Pride episode this month, I offer you a panoply of blues and other popular music sung by women of color over the past 100 years and over a wide range of the LGBTQ spectrum. The focus is on the queer and bisexual women of color who enlivened the Harlem blues scene in the 1920s, including the newly popular and celebrated Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, as well as other vital and iconoclastic singers of that era, including Bricktop, Lucille Bogan, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, Victoria Spivey, Lucille Hegamin, and the fascinating Gladys Bentley. The net is further extended to include jazz (Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Dinah Washington), pop, rock ‘n' roll (Big Mama Thornton), gospel (Sister Rosetta Tharpe), cabaret (Mabel Mercer, Joséphine Baker), soul (Carolyn Franklin) and folk (Joan Armatrading, Meshell Ndegeocello, Toshi Reagon, and Laura Love). Of course in this episode the musical categories are as flexible as are the sexual and gender boundaries, so expect to see a lot of genre-hopping as well among these subversive, innovative, and pathbreaking women of color. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody's core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. At Countermelody's core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.

One hundred years ago, in 1921, a man named Harry Pace started the first major Black-owned record company in the United States. He called it Black Swan Records. In an era when few Black musicians were recorded, the company was revolutionary. It launched the careers of Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, William Grant Still, Alberta Hunter and other influential artists who transformed American music. But Black Swan's success would be short-lived. Just a couple years after Pace founded the company, larger, wealthier, white competitors started to take an interest in the artists whose careers Pace had propelled. Then, Pace's own life took a mysterious turn. **** This episode of Radio Diaries has support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and The Lily Auchincloss Foundation. We are a proud member of Radiotopia, a network of creators who are able to follow their curiosity and tell the stories they care about the most. Show your support for Radiotopia during our Spring Fundraiser. Donate today at https://on.prx.org/3wl9pWn.

Today’s show features music performed by Alberta Hunter and Sterling Magee

Songs include: On the Sunny Side of the Street, 12th Street Rag, Walking the Street, Annie Street Rock, 52nd Street Theme and 42nd Street. Performers include: Hal Kemp, June Christy, Alberta Hunter, Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Richard M. Jones and Bob Crosby.

Irma Thomas "Wish Someone Would Care"R.E.M. "Wanderlust"The Shangri-Las "Sophisticated Boom Boom"John Prine "Spanish Pipedream"John Prine "When I Get to Heaven"Micah Schnabel "Gentle Always"Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Jericho"Bruce Springsteen "Atlantic City"Valerie June "Heart On a String"Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "Angel Dream (No. 4)"Johnny Rivers "La Bamba/Twist And Shout"Eddie Hinton "Uncloudy Days"Valerie June "This World Is Not My Home"Prince "Nothing Compares 2 U"Junior Wells "Little By Little"The White Stripes "St. James Infirmary Blues"Bobbie Gentry "Fancy"Taj Mahal "She Caught The Katy (And Left Me A Mule To Ride)"Connie Smith "You're Getting Heavy On My Mind"Phoebe Bridgers "Kyoto"David Ramirez "People Call Who They Wanna Talk To"Neko Case "This Tornado Loves You"Drive-By Truckers "Sea Island Lonely"Etta James "Security"Jolie Holland "Old Fashioned Morphine"Precious Bryant "Don't Jump My Pony"Hayes Carll "Drunken Poet's Dream"Nancy Sinatra "Jackson"Lucero "Tonight Ain't Gonna Be Good"Matt Woods "Deadman's Blues"Lilly Hiatt "Records"Merry Clayton "Southern Man"Hank Mobley "The Breakdown"Ike & Tina Turner "Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter"Mavis Staples "Down in Mississippi"Betty Davis "If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up"Miles Davis Quintet "Trane's Blues"The Jayhawks "Two Angels"Gillian Welch "Good Baby"Cory Branan "The Corner"Dan Penn "The Dark End of the Street"Kris Kristofferson "Jesus Was a Capricorn"Dolly Parton "Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind"Memphis Minnie "The Saint"Alberta Hunter "Black Man"George Jones "Amazing Grace"Guy Clark "Let Him Roll"

Antes de que los bluemen entraran en los estudios de grabación lo hicieron las blueswomen, y hoy disfrutamos de 15 temas de los 46 incluidos en el libro-disco, "Blues de Gas - Enciclopedia de las Mujeres y el Blues, 1920 - 2020," de Paco Espínola y editado por Allanamiento de Mirada. Playlist: Snatch It Back and Hold It – Junior Wells; Down Hearted Blues – Alberta Hunter; Arkansas Blues – Lucille Hegamin; Crazy Blues – Mamie Smith; Down Home Blues – Ethel Waters; Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do – Sara Martin; Trixie's Blues – Trixie Smith; Bo-Weavil Blues – Ma Rainey; Jailhouse Blues – Bessie Smith; Shorty George Blues – Sippie Wallace; Bumble Bee Blues – Memphis Minnie; This Train – Sister Rosetta Tharpe; See See Rider Blues – Wee Bea Booze; I'm A Woman – Peggy Lee; Women Is Losers – Janis Joplin; Crawlin' King Snake – Etta James. Escuchar audio

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Some of the greatest singers in history are not necessarily the most vocally-gifted. This is the first of what I hope will be a series of episodes devoted to such artists. I consider singers across many genres: recitalists (Pierre Bernac, Madeleine Grey, Povla Frijsh, Jane Bathori), cabaret (Mabel Mercer, Noël Coward, Julie Wilson, Barbara, Lotte Lenya), musicals (Fred and Adele Astaire, Chita Rivera), pop music (Bob Dylan, Lou Reed), jazz (Billie Holiday, Alberta Hunter), actors (Audrey Hepburn, Melina Mercouri, Judi Dench, Hildegard Knef, Divine), and even comedians (Dody Goodman, Bourvil), with special focus on a few of the voiceless tenors who hold a special place in my heart (Hugues Cuenod, Karl Erb, Helmut Krebs, Julius Patzak). At the end, I feature two aging icons (Marlene Dietrich and Joséphine Baker) in unforgettable live performances of two protest songs that are painfully relevant at this moment in time. Composers include Alec Wilder, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Franz Schubert, Stephen Sondheim, Francis Poulenc, Abel Meeropol, Claude Debussy, Kander and Ebb, Pete Seeger, Carl Orff, Manos Hadzidakis, Fats Waller, Maurice Ravel, and Rudolf Sieczyński. Please join me for this very special episode. But prepare yourselves for an emotional wallop. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. And please head to my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available.

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This coming Saturday, December 19, is an important day for my family: it’s my mother Jane’s 85th birthday. To pay tribute to this event, and to this very special woman, I’m presenting a program focusing on the year 1935, and important milestones in film, musicals, and the hit parade. There was such a dizzying variety of musical material in this year that it was challenging to organize, but I focus on young artists who were just entering the scene (Judy Garland, Carmen Miranda, and Édith Piaf) to émigrés to and from America (including Marlene Dietrich, Paul Robeson, Joséphine Baker, Kurt Weill, Elisabeth Welch, and Erich Korngold), to Broadway shows that debuted in that year (in performances by, among others, Ethel Merman, Libby Holman, and Nat King Cole). Along the way I pay particular focus to what was, in retrospect, the most important Broadway event of the year, the premiere of Porgy and Bess. From that show, I present performances by Todd Duncan, Anne Brown, and Ruby Elzy, all of whom created their roles. I also examine the “Latin” influence on US culture from artists like Xavier Cugat, Carlos Gardel, and Miranda, and of the enormous cultural impact (in spite of repression and discrimination) that African American artists were making (Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Alberta Hunter, Fats Wallter, and Adelaide Hall.) Finally I look at musicians who were also born in 1935 who made their mark in subsequent decades in a wide variety of styles (including Johnny Mathis, Julie Andrews, Diahann Carroll, Elvis Presley, Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer, and Jerry Orbach). This is not to forget figures ranging from Ruth Etting to Grace Moore to Fred Astaire to Patsy Montana to Allan Jones to Noël Coward to Benny Goodman to Lucienne Boyer to the Comedian Harmonists to Bette Davis. Please join me in celebrating all these artists, and in wishing my mother a very Happy Birthday! Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel’s lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” Occasional guests from the “business” (singers, conductors, composers, coaches, and teachers) lend their distinctive insights. At Countermelody’s core is the interaction between singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. Please visit the Countermelody website (www.countermelodypodcast.com) for additional content. And please head to our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/countermelody to pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available only to Patreon supporters are currently available, including a new extra episode further exploring today’s topic.

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We're joined by actor, artist, poet, and portrayer of amazing Black historical women, Desiree Rogers. Mario Lopez is looking a little too finger looking good in this new Lifetime movie A Recipe for Seduction as a sexy Colonel Sanders. Is Tara Reid an inspiration or just on drugs in her latest casting attempt? Mo’Nique is resurfacing her pain and hurt with Black Hollywood again, and while we’re rooting for her… she makes it hard sometimes. Letitia Wright is our latest celeb to "step in it' with her tweeting of vaccine conspiracies, and her response to the debate it naturally brought up, was.. not great. In the main Korners, we are in need of some healing and inspired by the “ok” movie Best of Enemies we look at how this inspired by a true story's use of Charattes, could be an effective tool for us to use and learn from in bridging massive divides and create community change. Then it’s storytime with Des! She has played and channeled some of the GOATs and will not only give us insight into her process but provide some great history on Alberta Hunter, Lorraine Hansberry, Mable Hampton  three fabulous black queer artists.HOT TOPICS LINKSMoNique Demands an Apology... Again Letitia Wrights Twitter debacle on the Vaccine Mario Lopez as Hot Sexy Colonel SandersCHARRATTES https://www.newsobserver.com/article228417994.htmlMedium Article from Bill Riddick - https://bit.ly/3gzOtEF https://urban-regeneration.worldbank.org/node/40  Guest Co-Host, Desiree Rogers: Check out Des' Sunday Poems:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPnYicYRso9bJsrjxHbW68gMinority Korner on YouTube:  https://bit.ly/2JsXEuuCONTACT USTwitter: @minoritykornerEmail: minoritykorner@gmail.comIG: @minoritykornerJames Arthur M: TW: @JamesArthur_M, IG: @JamesArthurM  

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En el episodio 19 de Poesía 1110: Nora Perlé, Marcelo Moreno, Fernando del Priore, Ricardo Pedace, Diego Rivarola, y Cacho Lemos nos comparten sus textos elegidos. ¿A qué llamamos indicio? ¿Qué es una cacofonía? ¿Qué opinaba Emily Dickinson de las personas de pocas palabras? Conocemos la vida de Hellen Keller y Gabriela Mistral y descubrimos un error en el obituario de Alfred Nobel Simone de Beauvoir, Frida Calho , Bioy Casares, Robert Stevenson y Jean-Jacques Rousseau nos regalan sus palabras a través de voces que engalanan a la poesía misma. Conocemos el “Poema en línea recta” de Fernando Pessoa y Scott Fitzgerald le escribe una carta a su hija Scottie. Nos detenemos a pensar las letras de Juan Carlos Baglietto, Andrés Calamaro, Alberta Hunter , Maria Bethania y Jaime Ross, entre otros y conocemos el proyecto musical de Federico Pecchia. Poesía 1110: Un espacio para pensar y resonar el acto poético en todas sus formas; La poesía de todas las cosas.

Alberta Hunter went from the bottom to the top. Her legendary career in music took her from recording with Louis Armstrong, to live musical theater on the West End in London, just to name a few. She took a break from performing to become a practical nurse, only to revive her career 20 years later when she was already in her 80s.

Jazz, Blues, Soul,Swing… Sobre todo alma y mucho bagaje musical. Una voz nuestra heredera de las damas más legendarias del género - Alberta Hunter, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan -, pero con una personalidad arrolladora. Ella es Itziar Yagüe. Y, además, cositas nuevas que van apareciendo con Antonio Liana y Becca Stevens,Alma Nuestra, Melody Gardot y Sting, Bow Anderson, un pepinazo en el Reino Unido, y un nuevo talento por descubrir: Víctor Martín. Con Leon Russell avanzamos els segundo capítulo de nuestra serie “50 Años Ha (Norteamérica)”. DISCO 1 JULIO RESENDE Fado Cyborg (4) DISCO 2 ALMA NUESTRA Tú mi delirio (5) DISCO 3 ANTONIO LIZANA & BECCA STEVENS Carry You (2) DISCO 4 MELODY GARDOT & STING Little Something (GARDOT - 1) DISCO 5 VÍCTOR MARTÍN La niña mas bonita del mundo master (GARDOT - 2) DISCO 6 BOW ANDERSON Island (GARDOT - 3) DISCO 7 ITZIAR YAGÜE Daddy’s Gone For Good (Cara A Corte 2) DISCO 8 ITZIAR YAGÜE What If It Were You (Cara B Corte 1) DISCO 9 LEON RUSSELL A Song For You (7) DISCO 10 ITZIAR YAGÜE Not a Doll (Cara B Corte 2) Escuchar audio

National Appreciation for Nurses today! Featured in today's episode: the music, the voice, and the nursing career of international vocal jazz giant Alberta Hunter (1895-1984). Thank you to all of our nurses keeping us healthy across America and around the world. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/chorantine/support

Pipes Plus Name Artist Album Year Comments Mr. Sandman Jelani Eddington, David Harris Perpetual Motion [RJE CD] 2005 4-74 Wurlitzer, J.B. Nethercutt Collection, San Sylmar, CA, plus Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano Hello Bluebird Jim Riggs The Perfect Combination Volume 1 2008 Little River Studio 3 & 4/11 Wurlitzer; Ampico - Vincent Lopez (assisted) Anitra's Dance George Montalba A Stereo Fantasy in Pipe Organ and Percussion [Somerset SF-8400] 1958 aka Bob Hunter The Carousel Waltz Monty Kelly Orchestra, Buddy Cole Pipe Organ Plus: Pops Concert Extravaganza [Audio Spectrum Stereo 4T Reel AST-210] 1964 3-27 Wurlitzer-Morton, Buddy Cole Studio (Wurlitzer Ex United Artists Theatre, Los Angeles & Robert Morton from Capitol Theatre, Marshalltown, Iowa). Buddy's last recordings - died 5 Nov 1964) Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White Lyn Larsen, Jack Bethards and His Orchestra A Salute To The Swinging Years [Beldale CD] 2001 4-37 Wurlitzer, Plummer Auditorium, Fullerton, CA; from a concert co-sponsored by LATOS and OCTOS, January 23, 2000 Singin' In The Rain Scott Harrison, Mark Page Kingston Keys 2010 4-21 Wurlitzer, Kingston City Hall (formerly Moorabbin), Victoria, Australia; ex-State Theatre, Melbourne; Mark Page, piano That Old Feeling Fats Waller, Alberta Hunter In London [Disques Swing CDXP 8442] 1938 3-8 Compton, EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road, London; Alberta Hunter, vocal Show Of Shows Selection, Pt. 1: Singin' In The Bathtub; The Only Song I Know; Your Love Is All That I Crave Quentin Maclean and The Regal Cinema Orchestra Rhapsody in Blue [Sterndale 3-CD] 1930 4-36 Christie, Regal/Odeon Cinema, Marble Arch, London; Regal Cinema Orchestra cond. Emanuel Starkey

Pipes Plus Name Artist Album Year Comments Mr. Sandman Jelani Eddington, David Harris Perpetual Motion [RJE CD] 2005 4-74 Wurlitzer, J.B. Nethercutt Collection, San Sylmar, CA, plus Bösendorfer Imperial Grand Piano Hello Bluebird Jim Riggs The Perfect Combination Volume 1 2008 Little River Studio 3 & 4/11 Wurlitzer; Ampico - Vincent Lopez (assisted) Anitra's Dance George Montalba A Stereo Fantasy in Pipe Organ and Percussion [Somerset SF-8400] 1958 aka Bob Hunter The Carousel Waltz Monty Kelly Orchestra, Buddy Cole Pipe Organ Plus: Pops Concert Extravaganza [Audio Spectrum Stereo 4T Reel AST-210] 1964 3-27 Wurlitzer-Morton, Buddy Cole Studio (Wurlitzer Ex United Artists Theatre, Los Angeles & Robert Morton from Capitol Theatre, Marshalltown, Iowa). Buddy's last recordings - died 5 Nov 1964) Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White Lyn Larsen, Jack Bethards and His Orchestra A Salute To The Swinging Years [Beldale CD] 2001 4-37 Wurlitzer, Plummer Auditorium, Fullerton, CA; from a concert co-sponsored by LATOS and OCTOS, January 23, 2000 Singin' In The Rain Scott Harrison, Mark Page Kingston Keys 2010 4-21 Wurlitzer, Kingston City Hall (formerly Moorabbin), Victoria, Australia; ex-State Theatre, Melbourne; Mark Page, piano That Old Feeling Fats Waller, Alberta Hunter In London [Disques Swing CDXP 8442] 1938 3-8 Compton, EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road, London; Alberta Hunter, vocal Show Of Shows Selection, Pt. 1: Singin' In The Bathtub; The Only Song I Know; Your Love Is All That I Crave Quentin Maclean and The Regal Cinema Orchestra Rhapsody in Blue [Sterndale 3-CD] 1930 4-36 Christie, Regal/Odeon Cinema, Marble Arch, London; Regal Cinema Orchestra cond. Emanuel Starkey

Our second episode brings us to a small town in the Northern part of the U.S. where we, surprisingly, find a deep Blues history. We follow Paramount Records through the peak of success, recording landmark artists that changed Western popular music forever, but this music, at several times, was almost lost forever. We follow the thin thread of events and recent efforts that have gone into preserving this important musical history.   Here’s an external link to every Musical Mention in this episode: 0:50 Muddy Waters 0:51 B.B King 0:54 Blind Lemon Jefferson 0:56 Charley Patton 0:57 Skip James 1:09 Blues 1:12 Africa 1:50 Skip James 2:03 Big Bill Broonzy 2:07 Bill Big Broonzy: The Man That Brought The Blues to Britain 2:14 Paramount Records 3:44 Jazz 3:55 Johann Sebastian Bach 3:55 Ludwig Van Beethoven 3:55 Johannes Brahms 3:59 Franz Joseph Haydn 3:59 Wenzel Müller 3:59 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4:06 Vaudevillan Performers 4:08 Dixieland Jazz 4:10 Creole Music 4:14 Military Bands 4:49 Al Jolson 6:11 Pop music 6:19 Wisconsin Chair Company 6:28 Phonographs 7:21 Alex Van Der Tuuk 7:31 Paramount’s Rise and Fall 7:55 Classical Music (Western) 8:05 Vaudeville 8:10 Country Music 8:37 Mamie Smith 8:38 Crazy Blues 9:09 Race Records 10:10 J. Mayo “Ink” Williams 10:31 Blues Music 11:15 Bessie Smith 11:17 Jelly Roll Morton 12:31 Alberta Hunter 12:32 Monette Moore 12:53 Blind Lemon Jefferson 13:48 Charley Patton 13:52 Dockery Farms 13:57 Robert Johnson 14:29 Pony Blues 14:31 Banty Rooster Blues 15:10 Swanee River 15:21 Juke Joints 15:46 Delta Blues 16:59 Metal Masters 19:25 Grafton House of Blues 19:34 Angie Mack Riley 19:56 Blues 19:56 Jazz 19:56 Country Music 22:43 PBS History Detective: Paramount Records Episode 22:59 Charley Patton 22:59 Skip James 22:59 Blind Lemon Jefferson 23:27 Louis Armstrong 23:27 Ma Rainey 23:27 Son House 24:28 Delta Blues 24:49 Elvis Presley 25:22 Paramount’s Rise and Fall 25:29 Agram Blues 25:41 Jack White Box Set 25:54 Dean Blackwood 25:55 Revenant Records 27:10 Paramount Box Set #1 27:28 Grammy Award 27:57 The World Music Foundation 28:05 World Music 29:10 Folklore Music 29:18 Zydeco 29:22 Cajun Music 29:36 Rolling Stones 29:41 Love in Vain 30:10 Elmore James 30:01 Howlin’ Wolf 30:04 Muddy Waters 30:28 The Country Blues, by Samuel Charters 30:40 Columbia Records 30:42 Okeh Records 30:43 Paramount Records

On this episode of Memphis Musicology, we discuss the legacy of Memphis radio station WHER, which holds the distinction of being America’s first “all-girl” radio station. We also discuss Alberta Hunter’s 1978 comeback album “Remember My Name.”SPONSOR:Today’s episode is brought to you by Ronin Tattoo on 2615 Broad, the only five-star rated tattoo shop in Memphis. Open Tuesday through Saturday 4 to midnight, Ronin is a judgment-free shop with affordable pricing and high-quality tattoo work. Make your appointment Today at roninmemphis@gmail.com or call (901) 371-6923. Mention OAM and get 10% off.

We are back with the second episode of the music series!! Teleporting back to the 1920's, we talk about the women of blues. These brave women freed our souls for rock and roll, and Elvis took all the credit. What a jackass, amirite. We talk about Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Billie Holiday (just because duh), Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Memphis Minnie, Anita O'Day, Big Mama Thornton, and a little bit of Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan just because I couldn't help myself.  Click Here for the link to the playlist on Spotify! Or click here! SPOTIFY PLAYLIST Stay tuned for MANY MORE EPISODES of the music series. We have SO MANY PLANNED. A whole episode dedicated to Dolly Parton, a whole episode dedicated to Tegan and Sara. There will be a Country Queers episode guaranteed. The next episode is going to cover more lady killers who kill me, but from the 1945-1960 time frame.  Here is the link to the Indiegogo page for SLH's new film endeavor, "Chemistry Eases the Pain"!   Like our facebook page, follow us on twitter, follow us on wordpress!  www.maibeckywtgh.com  www.maibeckywtgh.com  www.maibeckywtgh.com  www.maibeckywtgh.com       

Alberta Hunter ORIGINAL blues

In this episode, your hosts Leigh & Gretchen take a stroll down Jungle Alley and bring you stories of the vibrant black lesbian and gay subculture of the Harlem Renaissance and the blues legends who sang of its glory. With wild parties, bathtub gin, clandestine orgies, and crooning bulldaggers, the lesbian and bisexual blues legends of the 1920s and 1930s were definitely not as straight as you think. Outline 0:00 – Introduction3:46 – The Harlem Renaissance, Cultural Context, and the Language We Used10:42 – Bio Time!: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Gladys Bentley, Ethel Waters (& Ethel Williams), Alberta Hunter, & Lucille Bogan39:13  – What Do You Mean They're Not Straight? 39:28  – Evidence from Historical/Cultural Context: Queer subculture & performance in Harlem nightlife44:06  – Word(s) of the Week: Rent Party & Buffet Flat 48:56  – Evidence from Their Personal Lives & Music 1:04:41  – Pop Culture Tie-In: Bessie (2015) 1:05:29  – Takeaways 1:07:55  – How Gay Were They? 1:08:31  – Closing and Where to Find Us Online Find our full list of sources and bonus content at www.historyisgaypodcast.com. Get at us on twitter @historyisgaypod, tumblr at historyisgaypodcast, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts! Don't forget to rate and review so more folks can see the show!

What's happening to America? Millions of people – once financially successful – are falling over the cliff into poverty --extreme poverty. Some point scapegoating fingers. Others figure it out. This week on THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW – author Elizabeth White, talks about her book, FAKING NORMAL. Also on the show: the music of Eubie Blake, Alberta Hunter, and Abbey Lincoln. Hear the show live on WJFF – www.wjffradio.com Saturdays at 4pm. Subscribe to our podcast (uploaded weekly on Mondays) at: soundcloud.com/janusadams/ The Janus Adams Show, a weekly public radio program and podcast, is “a show about race – every race – and courage.”™ To learn more about the show and join the conversation, visit us at: JanusAdams.com.

What's happening to America? Millions of people – once financially successful – are falling over the cliff into poverty --extreme poverty. Some point scapegoating fingers. Others figure it out. This week on THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW – author Elizabeth White, talks about her book, FAKING NORMAL. Also on the show: the music of Eubie Blake, Alberta Hunter, and Abbey Lincoln. Hear the show live on WJFF – www.wjffradio.com Saturdays at 4pm. Subscribe to our podcast (uploaded weekly on Mondays) at: soundcloud.com/janusadams/ The Janus Adams Show, a weekly public radio program and podcast, is “a show about race – every race – and courage.”™ To learn more about the show and join the conversation, visit us at: JanusAdams.com.

On making a life - even when you're barely making a living. Elizabeth White reads "Bruce's story" from her book, "Faking Normal" This week on THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW – author Elizabeth White, talks about her book, FAKING NORMAL. Also on the show: the music of Eubie Blake, Alberta Hunter, and Abbey Lincoln. Hear the show live on WJFF – www.wjffradio.com Saturdays at 4pm. Subscribe to our podcast (uploaded weekly on Mondays) at: soundcloud.com/janusadams/ The Janus Adams Show, a weekly public radio program and podcast, is “a show about race – every race – and courage.”™ To learn more about the show and join the conversation, visit us at: JanusAdams.com.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Today is blues singer, Alberta Hunter's birthday (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984) and closing weekend for Jewelle Gomez's Leaving the Blues at New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, Saturday, April 1, 8 p.m. and Sunday, April 2, 2 p.m. We rebroadcast two shows featuring an interview with Jewelle (3/29) and actors: Desiree Rogers and Leontyne Mbong-Mbele, from Leaving the Blues and Jitney (3/22). August Wilson's Jitney also opens this weekend at African American Shakespeare Company at the Marine's Memorial theatre.  Playwright, Kheven LaGrone's The Legend of Pink, directed by Darryl Jones, is being read Monday, April 3 at the GLBT Museum in San Francisco.  Music: Alberta Hunter (3), Alice Coltrane, Barbara Bolton, and Ben Vereen

The Blues Foundation Podcast - Season 1: Blues Hall of Fame    We continue the series with the world's first international blues superstar, Alberta Hunter.  Alberta Hunter was a singular talent. Born and raised in Memphis, TN, she began her professional singing career at age 11. By her late twenties, she'd fronted orchestras led by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong, and written "Down Hearted Blues", a massive hit for Bessie Smith.  In the height of Jim Crow, and years before women in America had secured the right to vote, Alberta Hunter became the world's first blues superstar by taking her talents to Paris and London, where she was received and revered as nothing less than musical royalty.    Alberta Hunter inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2011. 

Alberta Hunter fue un pionera de la canción African-American cuya ruta cruza los arroyos de jazz, blues y música pop. Si bien hizo importantes contribuciones a todos estos géneros estilísticos, ella no se reivindica exclusivamente por ningún de estos tipos musicales. Hunter registra en seis décadas del siglo XX, y gozo de una carrera en la música de las más largas que se conocen.

Alberta Hunter fue un pionera de la canción African-American cuya ruta cruza los arroyos de jazz, blues y música pop. Si bien hizo importantes contribuciones a todos estos géneros estilísticos, ella no se reivindica exclusivamente por ningún de estos tipos musicales. Hunter registra en seis décadas del siglo XX, y gozo de una carrera en la música de las más largas que se conocen.

Songs include: Sugar, My Sugar Is So Refined, Sugar Daddy, My Brown Skin Sugar Plum, Sugar Baby and Sugar Foot Rag.  Performers include: Harry James, Dock Boggs, Alberta Hunter, Thomas "Fats" Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mercer and the Mills Brothers.

Stephen Grosz waited until he was 60 to publish his first book, 'The Examined Life'. It was a huge overnight success - a bestseller here in Britain and translated into more than 20 languages across the world. It's a distillation of the lifetime he has spent as a psychoanalyst, tens of thousands of hours listening to people in hospitals, forensic clinics and in private practice. It reads like a collection of short stories, full of vignettes of memorable characters: the man who faked his own death, the pathological liar, the lovesick middle-aged woman who meets a man at a party - and turns up at his house the next week with a removals van to move in with him. In Private Passions, in conversation with Michael Berkeley, Stephen Grosz tells his own story: his childhood in Chicago, the son of immigrants who ran a grocery store; student days in radical Berkeley; and now, settled in Britain, how he's facing the challenges of fatherhood and ageing. Music has played an important part right from the beginning, and Grosz admits that his choice of music is very psychologically revealing. His musical choices include Scarlatti, Aaron Copland, Brahms's 3rd Symphony, gospel singer Bessie Jones, Schubert's Piano Sonata no 20, Bob Dylan - and a hilarious Alberta Hunter song about sex, My Handy Man Ain't Handy No More. Produced by Elizabeth Burke. A Loftus production for BBC Radio 3. First broadcast 03/08/2014 To hear previous episodes of Private Passions, please visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/r3pp/all.

Female blues singers from the 1920s, including: Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Eva Taylor, Mamie Smith, Ethyl Waters, Lucille Bogan, Alberta Hunter and Mary Johnson.  Songs include: West End Blues, Careless Love, He's Your Dog, But He's Wearing My Collar, Bring It With You, Payroll Blues and Organ Grinder Blues.

(Re-run: This program originally aired on March 11, 2011) Many of the pop cannon's most treasured vocal music standards were penned by women composers in the first half of the last century. Vocalist and songwriter Pamela Rose joins Chloe Veltman in the studio for a discussion about Peggy Lee, Alberta Hunter and some of the other “wild women of song” whose work has endured over the decades. (Playlist)

Vaudeville entertainment for black audiences began in 1909 with an organization called TOBA. Those four letters stood for Theater Owners Bookers Association. Often called by the black entertainers who worked the TOBA circuit: Tough On Black Artists. For many of the artists, trying times to be sure. However, it was an important cog in the machine which brought black entertainment to the rural areas and large cities in the early part of the century. TOBA had more than 100 theaters operating by the end of the 1920s.Blues and Jazz were an important part of black entertainment in those early years and surely both idioms grew because of the fine caliber of the performers of that era and their ability to reach large audiences throughout most of the country.Actual recordings started being made in 1914 by Victor, Columbia and Edison though the Edison company finally bowed out of the business. In 1918, the Paramount Record Company (a subsidiary of the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington) came into being primarily to make recordings for folks to play on their newly purchased record players which were made by the Chair Company. Paramount is famous today for two things....they were first to record Blind Lemon Jefferson and Ma Rainey and....they made terrible quality pressings of cheap shellac. Were it not for Paramount however, many great artists would never have been heard. Business is business.The Vaudeville Years highlights some of the dynamic female vocalists of that time, women who set the mark for all other female blues shouters to follow.John Rhys/BluePower.comHere's the music:1)...."Hand Clappin' "....Red Prysock....Mercury Records2)...."St. Louis Blues"....Bessie Smith....Columbia Records3)...."Bo Weavil Blues"....Ma Rainey....Paramount Records4)...."I'm A Mighty Tight Woman"....Sippie Wallace....Okeh (Columbia) Records5)...."T.B. Blues"....Victoria Spivey....Victor Records6)...."Coffin Blues"....Ida Cox....Paramount Records7)...."Texas Moaner Blues"....Alberta Hunter....Paramount Records8)...."Hand Clappin' "....Red Prysock....Mercury RecordsClick here to listen to....In The Beginning....The Vaudeville Years!Click here to go to....Red Hot Jazz.com_________________________________________________________________

The story of the first African-American owned record label. Artists include: Ethel Waters, Fletcher henderson, The Four Harmony Kings, Alberta Hunter and Trixie Smith. Songs include: Oh Daddy, They'll be some Changes Made, Farewell Blues and Trixie's Blues.