Tag Archives: Vaudeville Blues

b. USA. Jackson sang comic renditions of opera music in ‘blackface’ at a fresh Orleans snow cream parlour. His middle-20s recordings are flexible and vaudevillian, with solid dance numbers, dual entendres, and funny vignettes of Darktown existence, which range from the chapel to politics as well as the judiciary. He …

Nation blues singer Lillian Glinn was created in the Dallas, TX, region circa 1902, and was discovered by fellow blueswoman Hattie Burleson even though singing spirituals inside a cathedral. Burleson had taken Glinn under her wing, and Glinn became an effective vaudeville performer; she also agreed upon a record cope …

THE TOWN of Brotherly Like claims this early blues artist as you of its, yet birth records for Robert Cooksey certainly are a trifle sketchy. Not his harmonica design, which was just about his very own and a significant contrast to the united states blues norm. Foregoing the wail of …

A violinist, mandolinist, and guitarist in the dark string band design who made several recordings in the ’20s and ’30s, Howard Armstrong aka Louie Bluie was rescued from your obscurity of professional record selections when he was the main topic of the Louie Bluie film documentary in the ’80s, made …

Before Louis Armstrong found its way to NY in 1924, Johnny Dunn was considered the very best cornetist in the town. His staccato design, double-time results and usage of wah-wah mutes provided him notoriety for a while. Dunn acquired attended Fisk School in Nashville and acquired a solo action in …

A favorite hokum blues artist, Washboard Sam recorded a huge selection of information in the past due ’30s and ’40s, generally with singer/guitarist Big Expenses Broonzy. Of the many washboard players from the period, Sam was typically the most popular, which was credited not merely to his to his washboard …

From Fats Waller and “yo’ feet’s too large” to nation blues and you’re “standin’ in the crossroads” wasn’t really such an excellent range, at least if one was to guage from a number of the character types who were area of the inner workings from the engine. Journeyman guitarist Bobby …

The girl who threatened to “Put a spider in her dumplin’, make her crawl all around the floor,” was actually a fairly nice lady, however the consensus on her behalf talent is divided. Probably it had been poor materials she was presented with by people called Williams. There is her …

Helen Gross recorded 27 songs for Ajax Information in NEW YORK between Might 1924 and March 1925, dealing with among the better jazz players of your day. Not really a blues vocalist in the vintage sense, she worked well from even more of a vaudeville perspective, and her recordings feature …

Jodie “Butterbeans” Edwards and Susie Hawthorne were hardly ever household brands — a minimum of not in lots of white households — but from the first ’20s with the ’50s, these were among the best comedic music works over the dark vaudeville circuit, from NY to Chicago to Detroit. Functioning …