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In America, the only way the negro could please or bring a smile to the face of the oppressor was, and still is, to entertain them. And there y'all A$$ES go. Always praising our entertaining abilities. Rarely are we praised for the brilliance of our minds. Rarely, if ever, is the freedom fighter praised. Same for the brothers and sisters trying to educate and inform us of what our enemy is planning. Fuc# entertainers, entertaining and being entertained. Some who say they are woke are not. Some of us don't know how to wake up on our own and need those of us who are awake to wake them. But, greater men than myself has tried with our hopeless A$$ES. Go on and proceed with laughing and being entertained... and just wait to be eliminated. That is the enemies plan, after all.
She was beautiful and talented. This particular film was from 1943 (I’ve seen it elsewhere and it said 1943). Black people back then had to break through racial barriers and prejudice to be successful. They had to be twice as good and willing to take lower salaries and income. They were strong and determined and in the end prevailed!
These guys are cooking on gas ! Love Charlie T's trumpet work, he blows me away. I've just watched this 10 times in a row (and I doubt that I'm at the end of this viewing session). A "Billy Eckstine greatest hits mix" brought me here, and I'm mighty glad it did ! 🙂
I met Mr. Gaillard in London, waiting for a bus outside the Selfridges Food Hall, where he had been buying bagels at their Jewish deli. Presumably to dunk when he returned home. He invited me to his performance that night at the Chelsea Arts club where he had a residency. The man was a multi talented genius in several fields, from music to linguistics. A Jazz giant with gigantic charisma.
In my blue heaven: they'll have a big revival when I show up a live orchestra of pure Angels swinging low and hard will produce this one song attributed to the trials and the tribulations that woman put me through the 19 nervous breakdowns the almighty will be chilling tapping his feet to these blues while in the correct tempo and showing rhythm while bestowing pardons left and right without looking back lacking malice the shadows dissolve of themselves finally vanished from memory.
This is not from a feature-length movie, it's a "Soundie" from 1942. Soundies were short film clips played on a loop for ten cents a piece on a video jukebox called a "Panoram." Basically, very early music videos. The dance instructor/choreographer was Leroy Broomfield (1902-1971). He was originally from Omaha, Nebraska, but studied and performed in L.A., China and New York. He produced revues at the Ubangi Club in Harlem in the late 1930s. This routine is likely to be a mix of nightclub acts. According to Mark Cantor's 2023 book on Soundies, the dancers were: Elizabeth Spratley, Arthur Murray, Lester "Sleepy" Williams, Elizabeth "Chinkie" Grimes, Johnny Thomas, Henry Roberts, possibly Leroy Broomfield himself and possibly Lucille Battle.
