Black History Fact of the Day
Black History Fact of the Day
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Black History Fact of the Day#0
Posted: 2/11/05 at 9:43pm
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Adelaide Hall, entertainer, dancer and vocalist.
She was from Brooklyn and was taught to sing by her father, making her show business debut in a number of black musical shows in Hew York. This included Shuffle Along, Chocolate Kiddies, Desires Of 1927, and Black birds Of 1928. The last of these introduced several songs sung by Hall including I Can’t Give You Anything But Love. Hall went to Paris and was married to a British seaman (Bert Hicks) who opened a club for her called La Grosse Pomme.
Throughout the 1930s she stayed very busy working in America and Europe, recording with Art Tatum, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller and others. During World War II her club was destroyed in a bombing arid, but Hall’s career continued undisrupted. She toured for ENSA, sang in theaters, clubs and on the radio, plus in 1951 she appeared in the London version of Kiss Me Kate. In 1957, Hall went back to Broadway to star in Jamaica with Lena Horne.
During 1960-70 (after her husband’s death) she recorded two jazz albums and in 1974 she sang at the memorial service for Duke Ellington at St. Martin-in-the-fields, London. In 1988, she performed a one-woman show at Carnegie Hall. Adelaide Hall died on November 7th 1992 in London.
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