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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:19:23 -0500
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Subject: 0216 - Today in Black History - February 16
1923 - Bessie Smith makes her first recording for Columbia Records. The
record, "Down Hearted Blues," written by Alberta Hunter and
Lovie Austin, will sell an incredible 800,000 copies and be
Columbia's first popular hit.
1951 - James Ingram is born in Akron, Ohio. He will be raised there on
Kelly Avenue. He will later become a rhythm and blues singer and
will earn at least three Grammy Awards and seventeen Grammy
nominations.
1999 - Mary Elizabeth Roche, best known as Betty Roche, joins the
ancestors at the age of 81 in Pleasantville, New Jersey. She
was a singer who performed with Duke Ellington in the 1940s and
1950s. She sang with the Savoy Sultans from 1941 to 1943, when
she joined Ellington's group. She scored high marks from critics
for the suite "Black, Brown and Beige," at Ellington's first
Carnegie Hall concert. She also performed Ellington's signature
song "Take the A Train" in the 1943 film. "Reveille With Beverly."
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