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Florence Mills (ca.1926) by British photographer S. Georges of Leicester. 

Florence Mills (ca.1926) by British photographer S. Georges of Leicester. 

#Florence Mills   #1920s   #african-american   #Blackbirds of 1928  
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Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928

Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928

#adelaide hall   #1920s   #Harlem Renaissance   #singer   #Blackbirds of 1928   #walery  
1 year ago · 54 notes
Adelaide Hall 

Adelaide Hall 

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#1920s   #Adelaide Hall   #feather   #Blackbirds of 1928  
1 year ago · 7 notes
Adelaide Hall jazz singer and entertainer, was born in Brooklyn, New York. A self-taught tap dancer, Hall began her long and eventful stage career in Broadway musical ‘Shuffle Along’ (1921). She worked with Duke Ellington recorded one of the first scat vocal in jazz on Ellington’s  ‘Creole Love Call’ in 1927. In 1928 she co-starred with Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson in Blackbirds of 1928, Broadway’s longest-running black-cast revue. In the show Adelaide introduced the classic song ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’. In the 1930s Hall headlined at New York’s famous Cotton Club and opened a nightclubs in Paris and London. She remained in London during WW2, between 1939 and 1945 she made over seventy recordings for Decca. After her nightclub was bombed during the London Blitz, Hall spent the remainder of the war broadcasting for the BBC and entertaining troops.  Adelaide’s 1947 performance in “Variety in Sepia”  is the earliest surviving BBC television recording.

Adelaide Hall jazz singer and entertainer, was born in Brooklyn, New York. A self-taught tap dancer, Hall began her long and eventful stage career in Broadway musical ‘Shuffle Along’ (1921).

She worked with Duke Ellington recorded one of the first scat vocal in jazz on Ellington’s  ‘Creole Love Call’ in 1927. In 1928 she co-starred with Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson in Blackbirds of 1928, Broadway’s longest-running black-cast revue. In the show Adelaide introduced the classic song ‘I Can’t Give You Anything But Love’.

In the 1930s Hall headlined at New York’s famous Cotton Club and opened a nightclubs in Paris and London. She remained in London during WW2, between 1939 and 1945 she made over seventy recordings for Decca. After her nightclub was bombed during the London Blitz, Hall spent the remainder of the war broadcasting for the BBC and entertaining troops. 

Adelaide’s 1947 performance in “Variety in Sepia”  is the earliest surviving BBC television recording.

#Adelaide Hall   #Shuffle Along   #duke ellington   #bbc   #jazz   #Blackbirds of 1928   #Cotton Club  
1 year ago · 13 notes
American-born jazz singer Adelaide Hall was named Britain’s highest paid female entertainer in 1941. (publicity shot for Broadway revue “Blackbirds of 1928”)

American-born jazz singer Adelaide Hall was named Britain’s highest paid female entertainer in 1941.

(publicity shot for Broadway revue “Blackbirds of 1928”)

#adelaide hall   #bbc   #flapper   #harlem   #broadway   #showgirl   #blackbirds of 1928   #Harlem Renaissance   #jazz   #jazz age   #bobbed hair   #african american   #feathers   #walery   #african-american   #Blackbirds of 1928   #1920s  
2 years ago · 7 notes
theharlemrenaissance: Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928

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Adelaide Hall in Blackbirds of 1928

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#feathers   #Adelaide Hall   #Blackbirds of 1928   #walery   #1920s   #african-american  
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