Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Hall

born on 20/10/1901 in Brooklin, NY, United States

died on 7/11/1993 in London, England, United Kingdom

Adelaide Hall

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Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) was an American-born U.K.-based jazz singer and entertainer. Her career spanned more than seventy years from 1921 until her death and she was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Adelaide was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Elizabeth and Arthur William Hall and was taught to sing by her father. She began her stage career in 1921 on Broadway in the chorus line of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along[7][8][9][10][11][12] and went on to appear in a number of similar black musical shows including Runnin' Wild[13] on Broadway in 1923, Chocolate Kiddies in 1925 (European tour) that included songs written by Duke Ellington,[14][15] My Magnolia on Broadway in 1926,[16] Tan Town Topics with songs written by Fats Waller[17][18] and in Desires of 1927 (American tour in 1927).[19][20]

Marriage, 1924

In 1924, Hall married a British sailor born in Trinidad, Bertram Errol Hicks. Soon after their marriage he opened a short-lived club in Harlem, New York, called The Big Apple and became her official business manager.[21]

Adelaide Hall and Duke Ellington

In October 1927, Hall recorded her wordless vocals on "Creole Love Call", "The Blues I Love To Sing" and "Chicago Stomp Down" with Duke Ellington and his Orchestra.[22] The recordings were worldwide hits and catapulted both Hall's and Ellington's careers into the mainstream.[23][24] On 4 December 1927, Duke Ellington and his Orchestra commenced their residency at Harlem's Cotton Club in a revue called 'Rhythmania'. The show featured Hall singing 'Creole Love Call'.[25] On January 7, 1933, Hall and Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra recorded "I Must Have That Man" and "Baby".[26]

Blackbirds of 1928

In 1928, Hall starred on Broadway with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson[27] in Blackbirds of 1928.[28][29] The show became the most successful all-black show ever staged on Broadway at that time and made Hall and Bojangles into household names.[30] Blackbirds of 1928 was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York after her success in the hit show Blackbirds in London in 1926, but she died of pneumonia in 1927 before rehearsals started. Hall was chosen to replace her. The revue originally opened at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928, under the title Blackbird Revue, but in May 1928 it transferred to Broadway's Liberty Theatre (New York City)[31] and was re-titled Blackbirds of 1928, where it ran for 518 performances. After a slow start, the show became the hit of the season. Hall's performance of Diga Diga Do, created a sensation. Her mother was so incensed when she went to see the show by her daughter doing what she termed risqué dance moves, she tried to stop the show during Adelaide's performance.[32] It was this musical that secured Hall's success both in the U.S.A. and in Europe when the production was taken to Paris, France, in 1929, where it ran for three months at the Moulin Rouge.[33][34][35] In Europe Adelaide rivalled Josephine Baker for popularity on the European stage.[36] With music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, it included performances by Hall of the hit songs "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby", "Diga Diga Do",[32] and "I Must Have That Man", which continued to be audience favourites throughout her career.

1930 - Brown Buddies

In 1930, Adelaide Hall and Bojangles starred together at New York's Palace Theatre on Broadway for one week.[37][38][39] So successful was Hall's collaboration with Bojangles, in 1930 they were teamed up together again, this time by Marty Forkins (Bojangles manager) to star in another Broadway musical entitled Brown Buddies[40] that opened on Broadway at the Liberty Theatre (New York City),[31] where it ran for four months before commencing a road tour of the States.[41] Dubbed by the press "a musical comedy in sepia", the core of the music was composed by Millard Thomas, but also featured songs composed by Shelton Brooks, Ned Reed, Porter Grainger, J. C. Johnson, J. Rosamund Johnson, George A. Little, Arthur Sizemore and Edward G. Nelson. After an out of town try-out, the musical opened on 7 October at the Liberty Theatre (New York City) and ran a fairly solid run of 111 performances until 10 January 1931.[42]

1931/32 World concert tour

In 1931, Hall embarked on a world concert tour that visited two continents (America and Europe). The tour was estimated to have performed to over one million people. During the tour she appeared four times at New York's Palace Theatre (Broadway).[43] She was accompanied on stage by two pianists who played white grand pianos. It was during this tour that Hall discovered and employed the blind pianist Art Tatum, whom she brought back to New York with her at the end of the tour.[44][45][46][47] In August 1932, Hall recorded "Strange as it Seems", "I'll Never Be The Same", "This Time it's Love" and "You Gave Me Everything but Love" using Art Tatum as one of her pianists on the recordings.[48][49][50]

1933 American tour

ADELAIDE HALL TO TOUR THE COAST (Pittsburgh Courier headline) July 22, 1933

Her itinerary included all the principal cities and lasted thirty weeks[51]

1933 World Fair City, Chicago

Extract from the Pittsburgh Courier, August 19, 1933

Miss Adelaide Hall Captures The World Fair City and They Like It

"Miss Adelaide Hall, the darling girl with the guitar and the mellifluent voice, again stole into the callous hearts of an analytical public at the Regal theater last week. She charmed them with her voice, her poise and beauty. She has a style of singing 'Stormy Weather' all her own. Chicago belonged to Adelaide for one whole week. And her Majesty Feigned supreme, Jules Bledsoe."[52]

1933 Stormy Weather revue

"STORMY WEATHER" REVUE starring ADELAIDE HALL

NEW YORK, November 29, 1933. "Although crippled from a fall into a manhole while appearing in Boston the week previous to her New York engagement, Adelaide Hall, scintillating star of the 'Stormy Weather' revue, limps across the stage ahead of an array of stars, which go far to label this revue, about the finest to grace the boards."[53]

1934 Apollo Theatre, Harlem - Chocolate Soldiers revue

"CHOCOLATE SOLDIERS" opens at the new Apollo Theatre, Harlem, starring ADELAIDE HALL

Harlem, New York, February 14, 1934: Chocolate Soldiers, a production featuring Adelaide Hall and the Sam Wooding Orchestra, opened at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. The show was produced by Clarence Robinson and garnered great attention and acclaim[54] and helped establish the recently opened Apollo as Harlem's premier theatre.

The Cotton Club Parade, 1934

In 1934 Hall starred for nine months in The Cotton Club Parade 24th Edition, at Harlem's Cotton Club (New York City)[55] in the largest grossing show that was ever staged there.[56][57][58] In the show she introduced the songs "Ill Wind"[59] and "As Long As I Live", which Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler wrote especially for her.[60][61][62][63]

European career 1935-38

Hall arrived in Paris, France, in the fall of 1935[64] and remained living there until 1938. Her husband Bert opened a nightclub for her in Paris called "La Grosse Pomme" where she frequently entertained.[65][66] The Quintette du Hot Club de France, starring Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli, were one of the house bands at the club. At the start of 1936, Hall starred in the Black and White Revue. The show of fifty performers opened in Paris, France. In February, 1936, the production travelled to Switzerland for a tour. The revue was produced by Ralph Clayton, staged by Arthur Bradley and choreographed by ballet master Albert Gaubier and the orchestra was directed by Henry Crowder.[67][68]

British career 1938-93

After many years performing in the U.S.A. and Europe, Hall went to the United Kingdom in 1938[69] in order to take a starring role in a musical version of Edgar Wallace's The Sun Never Sets at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.[70][71][72] She was so successful, and became so popular with British audiences, she stayed and made her home there, becoming one of the most popular singers and entertainers of the time. She lived in London from 1938 until her death. On the 28 August 1938, Hall recorded "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" and "That Old Feeling"[73] with Fats Waller at London's Abbey Road Studios released on HMV Records OEA6391 and on September 10, 1938, appeared in Broadcast To America with Fats Waller at London's St George's Hall in a live transatlantic radio broadcast.[74][75][76]

Hall's career was almost an uninterrupted success. She made over seventy records for Decca,[77] had her own radio series (the first black artist to have a long-term contract with the BBC), and appeared on the stage, in films, and in nightclubs (of which she owned her own, in New York, London and Paris).[78] In the 1940s, and especially during World War II, she was hugely popular with both civilian and ENSA audiences[79][80] and became one of the highest paid entertainers in the country (despite the destruction in an air raid of the London nightclub owned by her and her husband, the Florida Club).[81] Hall has a cameo appearance as a singer in the 1940 Oscar-winning movie The Thief of Bagdad.[71][82][83][84][85]

On 6 June 1944, Hall's recording of "There Goes That Song Again" entered the BBC British Record Chart at number 15.[86]

Hall appears in the earliest post-war BBC telerecording; a record of her performance at RadiOlympia in October 1947.[87]

In 1948, Hall appeared in a film called A World is Turning, intended to highlight the contribution of black men and women to British society at a time when they were struggling for visibility on our screens. Filming appears to have been halted due to the director's illness and only six reels of rushes remain, including scenes of Hall rehearsing songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"[88] and "The Gospel Train"[89] (a traditional African-American spiritual first published in 1872 as one of the songs of the Fisk Jubilee Singers).

In 1951, Hall appeared as a guest in the music spot on the first ever British comedy series, entitled How Do You View, starring Terry-Thomas and written by Sid Colin and Talbot Rothwell.[90][91] On 29 October 1951, Hall appeared on the bill of the Royal Variety Performance at London's Victoria Palace Theatre held in the presence of Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret.[92] In the early 1950s, Hall and her husband Bert opened the Calypso Club in Regent Street, London, and Royalty flocked there.[93] It was reported in the press Princess Elizabeth was a frequent visitor and that Adelaide had taught Princess Elizabeth the Charleston (dance).[94]

During an extremely long career spanning eight decades (Hall entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's most enduring recording artist),[95] Hall performed with major artists such as Art Tatum[96] Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, Fela Sowande[97] and Jools Holland, and has recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "Creole Love Call" in 1927)[98] and with Fats Waller.[7][99]

Hall appeared in the 1951 London run of Kiss Me, Kate playing the role of Hattie, singing Cole Porter's "Another Op'nin', Another Show", and in the 1952 London musical Love From Judy playing the role of Butterfly, singing "A Touch of Voodoo", "Kind to Animals" and "Ain't Gonna Marry".[100] In 1957, at the request of Lena Horne, Hall returned to America to appear with Lena in the musical Jamaica. The world premiere of Jamaica took place in Philadelphia in September 1957[101] and transferred to Broadway on 31 October. In 1958, Adelaide was cast as one of the lead characters in Rodgers and Hammerstein's new musical Flower Drum Song,[102] but she left the cast before the musical opened and returned to the U.K.

On 3 March 1965, Hall appeared on BBC2 television in Muses with Milligan with Spike Milligan and John Betjeman in a show devoted to poetry and jazz.[103][104]

In 196970, Hall made two jazz recordings with Humphrey Lyttelton. This was followed by theatre tours and concert appearances; she sang at Duke Ellington's memorial service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1974. On 4 January 1974, she appeared on the British TV shows Looks Familiar[105] and What Is Jazz, with Humphrey Lyttelton.[106] On 15 June 1976, she appeared on British TV in It Don't Mean a Thing.[107] and in 1981 appeared on the Michael Parkinson BBC TV show Parkinson.[108] In 1983, Hall appeared in the TV documentary The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington, a recording of a live concert of sacred music by Duke Ellington held in St. Paul's Cathedral. Artists also taking part included Tony Bennett, Phyllis Hyman, Jacques Loussier and Wayne Sleep with the New Swingle Singers.[109]

In 1985, she appeared on British TV in the cast of, Omnibus: The Cotton Club comes to the Ritz, a TV documentary in which some of the performers from Harlem's Cotton Club perform at the Ritz Hotel in London with contemporary musicians.[110]

In October 1988, Hall presented a one-woman show at Carnegie Hall.[111] She presented the same show in London at the Kings Head (Islington) during December 1988.[112] She is one of the very few performers to have made two guest appearances (2 December 1972[113] and 13 January 1991[114]) on the BBC's radio programme Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4.[115]

In 1990, Hall starred in the movie called Sophisticated Lady, a documentary about the singer with a performance of her in concert recorded live at the Riverside Studios in London.[116] Her final U.S. concert appearances took place in 1992 at Carnegie Hall, in the Cabaret Comes to Carnegie series.

Adelaide Hall died in 1993, aged 92, at London's Charing Cross Hospital.,[1][117][118][119]

Legacy

Adelaide Hall was one of the major entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance.[120] Along with Louis Armstrong, she pioneered scat singing and is widely acknowledged as one of the worlds first jazz singers. Indeed, Ella Fitzgerald regarded her as such.[5] Hall was the first female vocalist to sing and record with Duke Ellington. She holds the accolade of being the twentieth century's most enduring female recording artist, her recording career having spanned eight decades. In 1941, Hall replaced Gracie Fields as Britain's highest paid female entertainer.[5] Hall was loosely portrayed as the nightclub chanteuse in the Francis Ford Coppola 1984 movie The Cotton Club. It was Hall's husband, Bert Hicks, who suggested to Eric Bartholomew's mother that he should change his stage name to Morecambe, after the place of her son's birth, thereby christening the British comic duo Morecambe and Wise.[121]

Underneath a Harlem Moon, 2013

During 2013, British singer Laura Mvula revealed in a Blues and Soul interview with assistant editor Pete Lewis that her song "Sing to the Moon" (from her hit debut album Sing to the Moon, RCA/Sony Music) was inspired by the biography of Adelaide Hall by Iain Cameron Williams entitled Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall (2003):[122]

Well, the actual song 'Sing To The Moon' came from a time when I was reading a book called Underneath a Harlem Moon, which is a biography of a jazz singer called Adelaide Hall, which is basically all about how she kind of was overlooked, or probably didnt get the recognition she perhaps deserved. Plus it also talks about how shed had a hard time growing up, because her sister - who she was very close to - had died tragically of an illness.... So anyway, theres a point in the story where she describes her close relationship with her father, which I think kind of resonated with me - where she talks about the conversations she had with him and how he used to say to her randomly Sing to the moon and the stars will shine, which kind of became her thing really that she just took with her everywhere.... And I dont know why, but for some reason it just struck some kind of chord with me - you know, it was just something I seemed to connect with at that time. And so because of that, it then became a saying that I liked to use myself.... So yeah, because its become something I personally like to express, I just thought 'Sing To The Moon' would also make a good title for the album as a whole.[123]

After Midnight, Broadway musical 2013/14

AFTER MIDNIGHT - Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York, NY.[124][125] A new musical revue After Midnight featuring the classic music of Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields & Jimmy McHugh, and Harold Arlen premiered to much praise at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York on 3 November 2013 and is presently booking through to 31 August 2014[126][127] The show is an idealized fantasy of Harlem in its 1920s/30s heyday and salutes the black musicians and performers such as Ethel Waters, Adelaide Hall, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington and the Nicholas Brothers who became international stars during that era.[128] At least three of the songs that Adelaide Hall introduced to the world are performed in the show including the headliner Fantasia Barrinos rendition of "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" and Carmen Ruby Floyd's performance of Duke Ellingtons and Adelaide Hall's Creole Love Call. The song Diga Diga Do also appears in the show.[129]

A Nite at the Cotton Club, 2014

A new stage show, 'A Nite at the Cotton Club' produced by Lydia Dillingham opened at the Southern Broadway Diner Theatre at The Historic Hildreth Brothers Building in Alabama, USA in February 2014 in which the actress Brandy Davis portrays Adelaide Hall. The entire run sold out. [130][131]

Discography

1927 - 1938

Songs Label & Number Date Artist
"Creole Love Call" / "The Blues I Love to Sing" BVE-39370-1[132]/ BVE-39371-1[133] Victor Records (26 October 1927) (Recorded Victor Studio #1, Camden, NJ )[134] Duke Ellington Orchestra (with vocals by Adelaide Hall)
"I Must Have That Man" / "Baby" BVE-Test-110[135][136] (21 June 1928) (Recorded in New York) Adelaide Hall with piano acc. by George Rickman
"Chicago Stomp Down" W81777-A / W81777-B / W81777-C Columbia Records (3 November 1927) (Recorded OKeh session, Union Square, New York City)[134] Duke Ellington Orchestra (with vocals by Adelaide Hall)
"I Must Have That Man" / "Baby" E-28059 / E-28060 Brunswick 4031 (14 August 1928) (Recorded in New York) Adelaide Hall acc. by Lew Leslies Blackbirds Orchestra
"Rhapsody In Love" / "Minnie The Moocher" R-218 / R-221 Brunswick (October 1931) (Recorded in London, UK) Adelaide Hall with piano acc. by Francis J. Carter and Bennie Paine
"Too Darn Fickle" / "I Got Rhythm" R-225 / R-229 (October 1931) (Recorded in London, UK) Adelaide Hall with piano acc. by Francis J. Carter and Bennie Paine
"Baby Mine" / "I'm Redhot From Harlem" R-230 / R-232 (October 1931) (Recorded in London, UK) Adelaide Hall with piano acc. by Francis J. Carter and Bennie Paine
"Strange As It Seems" / "Ill Never Be The Same" Br 6373 / Br6362 Brunswick (5 August 1932) (Recorded in New York) Adelaide Hall with orchestra acc.
"You Gave Me Everything but Love" / "This Time Its Love" B-12166-A / B-12167-A Brunswick (10 August 1932) (Recorded in New York) Adelaide Hall with piano acc. by Francis J. Carter and Art Tatum
"I Must Have That Man" / "Baby" B-12773-B / B-12774-B CBS (21 December 1932) (Recorded ARC session, New York City) Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"I Must Have That Man" / "Baby" B-12773-C / B-12774-C Brunswick (7 January 1933) (Recorded Arc session, New York City)[137] Adelaide Hall with Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra
"Drop Me Off In Harlem" / "Reaching For The Cotton Moon" BS-78827-1-2 / BS-78828-1-2-3 Victor (4 December 1933) Adelaide Hall with Mills Blue Rhythm Band
"There's a Lull in my Life" / "Medley" K-6001 / K-6001 D-599 Tono (Copenhagen, Denmark) (December 1937) Adelaide Hall with the Kai Ewans Orchestra
"Stormy Weather" / "Where or When" K-6002 / K-6002 Tono (Copenhagen, Denmark) (December 1937) Adelaide Hall with the Kai Ewans Orchestra [138]
"That old Feeling" / "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" HMV (EMI Records) (28 August 1938) (Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, UK) Adelaide Hall with organ acc. by Fats Waller

The Decca Years 1939 - 1945

Songs Label & Number Release Date
I Have Eyes / I Promise You Decca F-7049 (27 April 1939)
Deep Purple / Solitude Decca F-7083 (15 May 1939)
A New Moon and an Old Serenade / Our Love Decca F-7095 (6 June 1939)
Dont Worry Bout Me / Taint What You Do Decca F-7121 (23 June 1939)
Transatlantic Lullaby / I Get Along Without You Very Well Decca F-7132 (26 July 1939)
Moon Love / Yours For a Song Decca F-7272 (17 October 1939)
Day In, Day Out/ I Poured My Heart Into a Song Decca F-7304 (8 Nov.1939)
My Heart Belongs to Daddy / Have You Met Miss Jones? Decca F-7305 (8 November 1939)
Serenade In Love / Fare Thee Well Decca F-7340 (27 December 1939)
Where or When / The Lady is a Tramp Decca F-7345 (19 January 1940)
Careless / Dont Make Me Laugh Decca F-7340 (11 March 1940)
Chloe / Begin the Beguine Decca F-7460 (15 April 1940)
This Cant be Love / No Souvenirs Decca F-7501 (3 May 1940)
Who Told You I Cared? / Shake Down the Stars Decca F-7522 (31 May 1940)
Mist On The River / Fools Rush In Decca F-7583 (15 August 1940)
All The Things You Are / I Wanna Be Loved Decca F-7636 (9 Oct.1940)
Goodnight Again / Trade Winds Decca F-7678 (12 December 1940)
Our Love Affair / And So Do I Decca F-7681 (12 December 1940)
Moon For Sale / Yesterdays Dreams Decca F-7708 (7 February 1941)
Aint it a Shame About Mame? / Room Five Hundred and Four Decca F-7709 (7 February 1941)
Its Always You / How Did He Look? Decca F-7879 (23 May 1941)
Yes, My Darling Daughter / The Things I Love Decca F-7891 (23 May 1941)
I Hear A Rhapsody / Mississippi Mama Decca F-7918 (3 July 1941)
I Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much) / Moonlight in Mexico Decca F-7942 (7 August 1941)
As If You Didnt Know / I Take To You Decca F-8030 (5 November 1941)
Minnie From Trinidad / Sand in my Shoes Decca F-8031 (5 November 1941)
Song of the Islands / Pagan Love Song Decca F-8058 (7 November 1941)
I Dont Want to Set the World on Fire / My Sister and I Decca F-8043 (18 November 1941)
A Sinner Kissed an Angel / Why Dont We Do This More Often? Decca F-8092 (2 February 1942)
Tropical Magic / Intermezzo Decca F-8118 (2 February 1942)
My Devotion / Sharing it all With You Decca F-8263 (January 1943)
Lets Get Lost / As Time Goes By Decca F-8292 (1943)
I Dont Want Anybody at All (If I Cant Have You) / I Heard You Cried Last Night Decca F-8362 (6 September 1943)
Sophisticated Lady / Im getting Sentimental Over You Decca F-8467 (4 August 1944)
There Goes That Song Again / Im Gonna Love That Guy Decca F-8517 (3 March 1945)

Odeon (Argentina) 1943

Songs Label & Number Release Date
Segun Pasan Los Anos (As Time Goes By) / Vamos a Perdernos (Let's Get Lost) Odeon DR-7240/7239 (1943)

Columbia (EMI) - 1951

Songs Label & Number Date Artist
"Can't Help Loving That Man Of Mine" / "Bill" Columbia Gramophone Co. (EMI Records) (11 July 1951) (Recorded in London, UK) Adelaide Hall
"How Many Times" / "Vanity" Columbia Gramophone Co. (EMI Records) (11 July 1951) (Recorded in London, UK) Adelaide Hall

Oriole - 1960

Songs Label & Number Date Artist
"Bluebird on my Shoulder" / "Common Sense" [139] Oriole (CB 1556) (May 1960) (Recorded in London, UK) [140] Adelaide Hall

Albums

Adelaide Hall:[141]

Year Title Label ASIN
1970 Hall of Fame Columbia B00BTZHK44
1976 Hall of Ellington Columbia B00BTZ9RPE
1980 There Goes That Song Again Decca RFL73
1998 As Time Goes By Happy Days B000025W0L
1990 I Touched a Star Toro B0057POL5S
1990 Hall of Memories Conifer Records B003BFC94Q
1992 Hall of Fame (reissue) Living Era B000001HH1
1992 Crooning Blackbird Jazz Archives B000027ZPN
1994 Adelaide Hall - Red Hot from Harlem Flapper B000008B4V
2002 A Centenary Celebration Avid B00005RTCY
2008 Adelaide Hall Live at the Riverside Studios (soundtrack) TER / That's Entertainment B000003QU1
2011 Shooting High Cherished Recordings B006P6I5EQ
2011 The Enduring Charm of Adelaide Hall: Original Recordings 1927-1944 Bygone Days B005T1YAOW
2012 The Adelaide Hall Collection 1927 1960 Acrobat B009H43URU
2013 Best of Adelaide Hall Bringins Music 23 April 2013 [142]

Compilation albums that include Adelaide Hall:[141]

  • Show Boat studio cast album recorded with conductor Philip Green (composer) (1951) (Decca) [143]
  • Jamaica Original Cast Recording (1957)[144]
  • Lew Leslies Blackbirds of 1928 (1968)[145]
  • Duke Ellington 1927 1934 (1987)
  • The Okeh Ellington (1991)
  • Cole Porter Centennial Gala Concert (1991)[146]
  • Fats Waller in London (1991)
  • Prewar Vocal Jazz Story 1923 1945 (1996)[147]
  • Moulin Rouge: Original music and songs (1996)[148]
  • Ladies of Jazz (1997)
  • Duke Ellington 100 Anniversaire (1999)
  • Sentimental Jazz (2000)
  • Ladies of Jazz (volume 3) (2001)
  • Ebony Rhapsody: The Great Ellington Vocalists (2001)
  • Art Tatum Complete American Decca Recordings (2002)[149]
  • Bluebirds Nest: Jazz Caravan (2002) [150]
  • The Duke Steps Out (2004)
  • Love From Judy (original cast recordings) (2004)[151]
  • Mrs. Clinkscales to the Cotton Club (Volume 1) (2005)
  • Jazz in the Charts (Volume 7) 1928 (2006)
  • Harlem Heat Mills Blues Rhythm Band (2006)
  • Cotton Club Stomp (2007)
  • Women With Attitude (2008)
  • Remembering the 40s (2009)
  • Joe Loss and his Band Lets Dance at the Make Believe Ballroom (2010)
  • Hits of the Forties (Volume 3) (2010)
  • Blackbirds of 1928 (2011)
  • Famous Blackbird Revues (2011)
  • Fats Waller Memorial Album (2011)
  • Fats Waller: On-Air Sessions 1938 (2012)

Films

  • Son of Satan (1924)
  • Dancers in the Dark (1932) (role singer, Gloria Bishop singing voice used but uncredited)
  • All-Coloured Vaudeville Show (1935)
  • The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
  • Night and the City (1959) (role singer the scenes were deleted from the final edit)
  • Brown Sugar (American TV mini series) (1986)
  • Sophisticated Lady (1989) (documentary about Adelaide Hall)
  • Adelaide Hall - Live at the Riverside (1989) (Adelaide Hall in concert)

Exhibitions

Exhibitions that have or are presently featuring content relating to Adelaide Hall:
  • Women and War Imperial War Museum, London (2003 2004)[152][153][154]
  • Little Black Dress - Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton (2007)[155][156]
  • Devotional - National Portrait Gallery, London (2007)[157][158]
  • Little Black Dress London Fashion Museum, London (2008)[159]
  • Keep Smiling Through: Black Londoners on the Home Front 1939-1945 - The Cuming Museum, London (2008)[160][161][162][163]
  • Jazzonia and the Harlem Diaspora Chelsea Space, London (2009)[164][165]
  • The Living Archive Exhibition - The London Palladium (opened 2009 - on permanent display) The collection throws a spotlight on 100 years of black performers at the Palladium, such as Adelaide Hall, the Harlem Renaissance star who made her London debut at the venue in 1931.[166]
  • Oh! Adelaide - Art installation - Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon College of Art, London (2010).[167][168][169]
  • There is no Archive in which Nothing Gets Lost - Oh! Adelaide - Art installation - The Museum of Fine Arts, Glassell School of Art, 5101 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, America - September 7, 2012 - November 25, 2012.[170][171]
  • Creole Love Call - Exhibition - VIERTELNEUN Gallery, 1090 Vienna, Hahngasse 14, Austria - Exhibition from January 25 to February 28 (2013) - Catalogue published with the presentation.[172]
  • The Harlem Renaissance - Kurá Hulanda Museum, Curaçao, Willemstad, Caribbean - (2013).[173]
  • Scat: Sound and Collaboration - Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London EC2A 3BA (5 June 27 July 2013).[174][175]

Sources

  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather and Brian Priestley. Jazz: The Rough Guide. ISBN 1-85828-528-3
  • Iain Cameron Williams. Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall. ISBN 0-8264-5893-9

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  15. Adelaide Hall | CHOCOLATE KIDDIES EUROPEAN TOUR 1925 Photo Album on Myspace. Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
  16. Vaudeville, Old and New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America - Frank Cullen, Books.google.co.uk. URL accessed 2012-06-15.
  17. Tan Town Topics review.
  18. Thomas "Fats" Waller: Performances in Transcription, edited by Paul S. Machlin. Areditions.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
  19. Henry Louis Gates, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (eds), Harlem Renaissance Lives from the African American National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. 233.
  20. "'DESIRES OF 1927' A RIOT AT ELMORE...", The Pittsburgh Courier, November 27, 1926.
  21. Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall, pp. 66-67. ISBN 0-8264-5893-9.
  22. Duke Ellington Orch, V=Adelaide Hall - Creole Love Call : Adelaide Hall : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive. Archive.org (2001-03-10). Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
  23. Adelaide Hall talks about the Cotton Club and Duke Ellington - Video Dailymotion. Retrieved on 2012-06-15.
  24. November 08, 1993, Adelaide Hall, 92; Jazz Singer Performed With Duke Ellington - Los Angeles Times, Articles.latimes.com, 2001-05-22. URL accessed on 2012-06-15.
  25. Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath A Harlem Moon, Chapter 8, pp. 122-24.
  26. January 7, 1933. New York. Duke Ellington Panorama.
  27. "Faces of the Harlem Renaissance - Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson", Drop Me Off in Harlem.
  28. "Blackbirds of 1928 Shuffle Along (1921)", Masterworks Broadway.
  29. Adelaide Hall photo at AncientFaces.
  30. The Afro American, May 18, 1929.
  31. 31.0 31.1 Liberty Theatre.
  32. 32.0 32.1 Theophilus Lewis, "THE DANCE THAT DAZED MOTHER - "DIGA DIGA DO"--AS DANCED BY ADELAIDE HALL--CREATES SENSATION. "STOP IT!" CRIES MAMA. "ON WITH THE DANCE" BROADWAY DEMANDS", The Pittsburgh Courier, November 10, 1928.
  33. Paul Colin 1929 poster of Adelaide Hall for Moulin Rouge, Paris
  34. Woman's Hour Music Archive: A Celebration of Adelaide Hall, Wednesday 15 January 2003.
  35. Jean Delaurier 1929 lithograph of Blackbirds at the Moulin Rouge performing 'Porgy' http://www.bridgemanart.com/de/asset/224685/delaurier-jean-fl-1930/the-black-birds-band-in-the-moulin-rouge-revue-porgy-illustration-from-l-art-vivant-1st-august-1929-litho-b-w-photo
  36. "Adelaide Hall Takes Place of 'Jo' Baker", The Afro American, August 3, 1929.
  37. Programme page from the Palace Theatre 1930.
  38. "White Press Acclaims Adelaide Hall As Packed House Gives Her Great Ovation", The Pittsburgh Courier, February 22, 1930.
  39. ""Bojangles" To Be Starred With Adelaide Hall", The Pittsburgh Courier, January 4, 1930.
  40. Bernard L. Peterson, A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, about or Involving African Americans, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1993, pp. 59-60.
  41. "Dancing in 'Brown Buddies'", The Afro American, September 27, 1930.
  42. Brown Buddies playbill.
  43. Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath a Harlem Moon, pp. 389, 390 & 395. Hall appears four times during her 1931/32 world tour - February (with Noble Sissle), April, July & November.
  44. Jazz Profiles from NPR: Art Tatum.
  45. Art Tatum biography, PBS.
  46. Bret Primack, "Art Tatum: No Greater Art Talkin Tatum with Hank Jones, Billy Taylor, Dick Hyman, Adam Makowicz", JazzTimes, January/February 1998.
  47. "Art Tatum".
  48. "Adelaide Hall - You Gave Me Everything But Love (1932)".
  49. "More Than a Handful The Incomparable Art Tatum", 17 July 2011.
  50. "Art Tatum, One of the great jazz pianists of all time", African American Registry.
  51. Chappy Gardner, "ADELAIDE HALL TO TOUR THE COAST", The Pittsburgh Courier, July 22, 1933.
  52. "State Street, Chicago - Miss Adelaide Hall Captures The World Fair City and They Like It", The Pittsburgh Courier, August 19, 1933.
  53. "'STORMY WEATHER' REVUE STARS ADELAIDE HALL", The Pittsburgh Courier, December 2, 1933.
  54. "Silent H. Triumphant T."
  55. The Cotton Club, St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture.
  56. Adelaide Hall talks about 1920's Harlem and Creole Love Call".
  57. Steven Watson, "The Harlen Renaissance".
  58. Kennet B. Hilliard, "The Impact of the Music of the Harlem Renaissance on Society". Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.
  59. "Ill Wind" at JazzStandards.com
  60. The 1934 Cotton Club Parades.
  61. Harold Arlen website.
  62. Gramophone, August 1934, p. 40.
  63. "HARLEM NIGHT CLUBS BRILLIANT AND LIVELY - ADELAIDE HALL, GLADYS BENTLEY FEATURED STARS", The Pittsburgh Courier, August 18, 1934.
  64. "Adelaide Hall And Meeres & Meeres Off For London", The Pittsburgh Courier, November 30, 1935.
  65. "Performer Adelaide Hall and her husband/manager, Bert Hicks, owned a nightclub in Montmartre called La Grosse Pomme...", Midnight in Paris.
  66. "Django's Haunts", Paul Vernon Chester.
  67. Allardyce Barnett.
  68. Dansk filmdatabase.
  69. "Why I Moved to London, How America's Peculiar Brand of Democracy Forced a Brooklyn Girl to Live in Europe" - article by Douglass Hall (with a large photograph of Adelaide Hall) Baltimore Afro-American, p. 5, 9 July 1946.
  70. IMDb.
  71. 71.0 71.1 "Hall, Adelaide (1901-1993), Actor, Singer", BFI ScreenOnline.
  72. Adelaide Hall biography at 100 Great Black Britons.
  73. "That Old Feeling" sung by Adelaide Hall with Fats Waller playing the organ.
  74. Broadcast To America released on CD in 2012.
  75. "On The Air: 1938 Broadcasts", The Jazz Loft.
  76. Thomas Cunniffe, "Fats Waller At The Pipe Organ".
  77. Prestige Records Discography: 1933-1948.
  78. YouTube - Adelaide Hall.
  79. Stephen Bourne, "When Adelaide Hall Went to War", WW2 People's War, BBC.
  80. "Home Front - Songs From World War II".
  81. "Music from The Florida Club".
  82. "Adelaide Hall (1901-1993)", IMDb.
  83. "Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)", Cast and credits, BFI Screenonline.
  84. "The Thief of Bagdad (1940) movie download", Gesualdo.
  85. The Thief of Bagdad (1940), Dramatic Vocalise Database.
  86. WW2 People's War, BBC.
  87. "Adelaide Hall - Variety In Sepia - October 1947".
  88. "Adelaide Hall - "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (1948)", YouTube.
  89. "Adelaide Hall at the Nightingale Club, London (1948)", YouTube.
  90. "British Programmes".
  91. "How Do You View?" at Television Heaven.
  92. The Royal Variety Performance, 29 October 1951, Victoria Palace Theatre, London.
  93. Louis Lautier, "Capital Spotlight", Baltimore Afro-American, 14 October 1952, p. 17.
  94. Jet, 15 May 1952, p.66.
  95. Adelaide Hall enters Guinness Book of World Records as the World's most enduring recording artiste.
  96. "Art Tatum - Strange As It Seems (1933)".
  97. "Fela Sowande", International Opus.
  98. "Duke Ellington & His Orchestra - Creole Love Call - Victor 21137".
  99. Ken Dryden, "Fats Waller: Fats Waller on the Air 1938 Broadcasts (2009)", AllAboutJazz, 7 April 2010.
  100. Love From Judy - The Guide to Musical Theatre.
  101. "Lena Horne and Jamaica in Philly world premiere" (with a large photograph of Lena, Adelaide and Ricardo Montalban), Washington Afro-American newspaper, 3 September 1957, p. 33.
  102. "Adelaide Hall in new musical", Washington Afro-American, August 12, 1958.
  103. William S Peterson, John Betjeman: a bibliography, Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 366.
  104. "Muses With Milligan - BBCtv 1965 - Restoration Split Screen Demo".
  105. Looks Familiar at BFI.
  106. What Is Jazz? at BFI.
  107. It Don't Mean a Thing credits, BFI.
  108. Parkinson: 300 credits, BFI.
  109. The Sacred Music of Duke Ellington credits, BFI.
  110. "Omnibus: The Cotton Club Comes to the Ritz (1985)", BFI.
  111. Wilson, John S., Review/Music; Adelaide Hall Opens Weill Cabaret Bill, The New York Times, 1988-10-14.
  112. Adelaide Hall (King's Head, Islington,) review in The Spectator magazine, page 45, 10 December 1988 http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/10th-december-1988/45/jazz
  113. "Adelaide Hall, Actor, Jazz singer", Desert Island Discs, 2 December 1972.
  114. "Adelaide Hall, jazz singer", Desert Island Discs, 13 January 1991.
  115. Castaway Archives, Desert Island Discs.
  116. "Jazz on a Summer's Night: Sophisticated Lady (1990)", BFI.
  117. "Adelaide Hall ... the real first Lady of Jazz".
  118. Glenn Collins, "Adelaide Hall, 92, International Star of Cabaret", New York Times, November 10, 1993.
  119. Died, Adelaide Hall (brief article), Time, Inc., November 22, 1993.
  120. https://new.myspace.com/adelaidehall
  121. "The Wonderful Girls In Our Lives", 1973, Morecambe & Wise.
  122. Iain Cameron Williams (Author Central at Amazon).
  123. BluesandSoul interview/feature with Laura Mvula.
  124. http://www.cabaretscenes.org/theater/2013/aftermidnight.html
  125. http://www.aftermidnightbroadway.com
  126. http://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/reviews/11-2013/after-midnight_66520.html
  127. http://www.newyorkcitytheatre.com/theaters/brooksatkinsontheater/after-midnight.php
  128. http://variety.com/2013/legit/reviews/broadway-review-after-midnight-1200791616/
  129. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/04/theater/reviews/after-midnight-on-broadway-fetes-the-heyday-of-an-era.html?_r=0
  130. http://www.southernbroadway.com
  131. http://www.southernbroadway.com/#!brandybio/cmc2,
  132. Matrix BVE-39370. Creole love call / Duke Ellington Orchestra.
  133. Matrix BVE-39371. Blues I love to sing / Duke Ellington Orchestra.
  134. 134.0 134.1 Ellington 78 rpm Labels -1927 recordings.
  135. Matrix BVE-Test-110. Must have that man / Adelaide Hall.
  136. Matrix BVE-Test-111. Baby / Adelaide Hall.
  137. Ellington 78 rpm Labels, 1933 1934 recordings.
  138. http://www.docstoc.com/docs/4403744/TONO-The-three-Danish-Tono-labels-Between-and-there
  139. http://www.45cat.com/45_forum_topic_view.php?ps=391&t=2032&h=p65144#p65144
  140. Oriole catalogue.
  141. 141.0 141.1 Adelaide Hall Discography, CD Universe.
  142. iTunes
  143. Show Boat at CastAlbums.
  144. Jamaica at CastAlbums.
  145. Lew Leslies Blackbirds of 1928 at CastAlbums.
  146. Cole Porter Centennial Gala Concert at CastAlbums.
  147. Prewar Vocal Jazz Story 1923 1945 at Allmusic.com
  148. Moulin Rouge: Original music and songs at Allmusic.com.
  149. Complete Original American Decca Recordings at AllMusic.com
  150. CD Universe.
  151. Love From Judy at CastAlbums.
  152. Imperial War Museum.
  153. Helia Ebrahimi, "Women and War exhibition", MailOnline.
  154. The Queen opens the exhibition "Women and War", Imperial War Museum, 14 October 2003.
  155. "Dress is more", Latest 7.
  156. Little Black Dress Exhibition.
  157. "Adelaide Hall (1901-1993)", Devotional.
  158. Devotional, National Portrait Gallery.
  159. "Little Black Dress at the Fashion & Textile Museum", Sunday 22 June 2008. London SE1 Community Website.
  160. "New exhibition", ItzCaribbean.
  161. Previous exhibitions - "Keep smiling through: black londoners on the home front 1939 to 1945", The Cuming Museum.
  162. Angie Macdonald, "Keep Smiling Through", 11 April 2008.
  163. "Keep Smiling Through: Black Londoners on the Home Front 1939-1945", All In London.
  164. "Jazzonia & the Harlem Diaspora, Curated by Diana Rodriguez & Judith Waring", Chelsea Space.
  165. "Art College Hosts Jazzonia And The Harlem Diaspora Exhibition", Jazzwise, 8 July 2009.
  166. Lalayn Baluch, "London Palladium hosts exhibition celebrating black performance history", The Stage, June 19, 2009.
  167. "Fluid Locations: Discussing Archives and Representation with Sonia Boyce Sally Frater".
  168. "Oh Adelaide!" Vimeo
  169. "There is no archive in which nothing gets lost". Art & Education.
  170. "There is no archive in which nothing gets lost". Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
  171. Carrie Marie Schneider, "Inter(re)view with Sally Frater, curator of 'There is no archive in which nothing gets lost'", Glasstire, November 4, 2012.
  172. Marianne Vlaschits, "Creole Love Call", ViertelNeun Gallery.
  173. Museum Kurá Hulanda.
  174. Sonia Boyce, "Scat: Sound and Collaboration", Iniva.
  175. "Scat: Sound and Collaboration", 5 June 27 July 2013, Iniva.

External links

  • Adelaide Hall 100 Great Black Britons
  • Adelaide Hall marked at the Cuming Museum exhibition on black Londoners wartime contributions, April 2008.
  • IMDb entry
  • Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath A Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall, at Amazon.com
  • Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath A Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris years of Adelaide Hall at Bloomsbury Publishing - book content
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