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Ethel Waters:
๐ŸŽต Stormy Weather

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https://rootsbluesrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/stormy-weather

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Stormy Weather, by Ethel Waters

from the album Ladies Sing The Blues

Roots Blues Recordings
"West End Blues" is a multi-strain #twelvebarBlues composition by #JoeKingOliver. It is most commonly performed as an #instrumental, although it has #lyrics added by #ClarenceWilliams. King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators made the first recording for #BrunswickRecords on June 11, 1928. Clarence Williams later added lyrics to the instrumental tune. He recorded the song several times in 1928, first with vocalist #EthelWaters, then with Irene Mims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTxhgmk_ofk
West End Blues

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#WomenMusicWednesday

๐ŸŽถ Ethel Waters was a child of rape and a child bride at 13 to an abusive husband, but rose to star at the Cotton Club, be the highest-paid performer on Broadway, be the first African American to star in her own television show, be nominated for an Academy Award, and, well, there's plenty more.

 She was also reportedly bisexual and had a significant LGBTQ following.

Crystal Waters is her grand niece.

What Goes Up Must Come Down
- Ethel Waters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnT93dVRSOI

#Jazz #Blues #EthelWaters

Ethel Waters What Goes Up Must Come Down

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"West End Blues" is a multi-strain #twelvebarBlues composition by #JoeKingOliver. It is most commonly performed as an #instrumental, although it has #lyrics added by #ClarenceWilliams. King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators made the first recording for #BrunswickRecords on June 11, 1928. Clarence Williams later added lyrics to the instrumental tune. He recorded the song several times in 1928, first with vocalist #EthelWaters, then with Irene Mims.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkOSCQyRJsE
1928 HITS ARCHIVE: West End Blues - Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five

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Portraits by Italian born artist Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988)

The artist was part of a New York art scene that included Paul Cadmus, Jared French and photographer Carl Van Vechten

1) Actress Ethel Waters, 1939
2) Jo, 1931
3) Actress Rose Hobart
4) Elizabeth

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Ethel Waters - Heat Wave (1933)

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"#WestEnd Blues" is a multi-strain #twelvebarBlues composition by #JoeKingOliver. It is most commonly performed as an #instrumental, although it has #lyrics added by #ClarenceWilliams. King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators made the first recording for #BrunswickRecords on June 11, 1928. Clarence Williams later added lyrics to the instrumental tune. He recorded the song several times in 1928, first with vocalist #EthelWaters, then with Irene Mims.
https://youtu.be/pXHdqTVC3cA
West End Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five, 1928

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"#StormyWeather" is a 1933 #torchSong written by #HaroldArlen and #TedKoehler. #EthelWaters first sang it at #TheCottonClub night club in #Harlem in 1933 and recorded it that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by #ElisabethWelch and recorded by #FrancesLangford. Also in 1933, for the first time the entire floor revue from Harlem's Cotton Club went on tour, playing theatres in principal cities.
https://youtu.be/TPgnj5upihQ
Lena Horne - Stormy Weather [1943]

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Both Lena Horne and Ethel Waters all dolled to fight for Little Joe
#MusComEnt #CabinInTheSky #LenaHorne #EthelWaters
Lena Horne, Eddie Anderson, Duke Ellington, Vincente Minnelli, Ethel Waters, Director Vincente Minnelli and Rex Ingram on the set of โ€œCabin in the Skyโ€
#MusComEnt #CabinInTheSky #LenaHorne #EddieAnderson #DukeEllington #EthelWaters #VincenteMinnelli, #RexIngram #BlackHistoryMonth