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* Today in Black History - November 5 *
1901 - Etta Moten (later Barnett) is born in San Antonio, Texas. She
will become an actress starring in "Porgy and Bess" and have
a successful career on Broadway. She will appear in the
movie "Flying Down to Rio"(1933), singing and dancing the
Carioca, and as a singer in "The Gold Diggers of 1933"(1933).
In her later years, she will be active as an Advisory Board
Member of The Black Academy of Arts and Letters.
1931 - Ike Turner is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He will become
a singer, songwriter/pianist and will join forces in 1960 with
his wife, Tina Turner. Without his union with Tina, Ike Turner
would have been a small footnote in rock and roll history.
1956 - Art Tatum, joins the ancestors at age 46 in Los Angeles,
California. Despite impaired vision, he received formal
training in music and developed a unique improvisational style.
He was an accomplished jazz pianist who impressed even classicist
Vladimir Horowitz. Perhaps the most gifted technician of all
jazzmen, Tatum had other assets as well, among them an harmonic
sense so acute as to make him an almost infallible improviser.
This aspect of his style, as well as his great rhythmic freedom,
influenced the young players who became the founders of a new
style called bebop.
1956 - The Nat King Cole Show premiers. The 15-minute show starring
the popular singer will run until June 1957 and reappear in
July in a half-hour format. The first network variety series
hosted by an African American star, it was canceled due to
lack of support by advertisers.
* Today in Black History - November 7 *
1938 - Delecta Clark is born in Blythesville, Arkansas. He will become
a rhythm and blues singer better known as "Dee" Clark. He will
move to Chicago as a child and be in the Hambone Kids with Sammy
McGrier and Ronny Strong. They will recorded for Okeh Records in
1952 - the next year Clark will sing with the Goldentones. This
group will later become the Kool Gents. Clark will go solo in
1957 and in 1958 enjoyed his first smash with "Nobody for You,"
an Abner release that will reach number three Rhythm & Blues and
just miss the Top 20 on the pop charts. He will continue a string
of R&B winners with "Just Keep It Up," "Hey Little Girl," and
"How About That" for Abner in 1959 and 1960. Clark will team with
guitarist Phil Upchurch to write "Raindrops" in 1961, which will
become his signature song. Raindrops will peak at number three
Rhythm & Blues and number two pop, and will be his last major hit.
He will join the ancestors in 1990.
* Today in Black History - November 9 *
1923 - Dorothy Dandridge is born in Cleveland, Ohio. She will try
vaudeville and a stint at the Cotton Club before finding her
most noteworthy success as an actress. She will appear in
such works as "Porgy and Bess" and minor movie roles before
her big break in a series of low-budget movies including
"Tarzan's Perils". While simultaneously maintaining a
singing career, Dandridge will have her greatest success in
"Carmen Jones" opposite Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, Diahann
Carroll, and Brock Peters, which will earn her an Academy
Award nomination, a first for an African American actress.
She will join the ancestors on September 8, 1965.
1925 - Oscar Micheaux's movie "Body and Soul" is released. It marks
the film debut of Paul Robeson.
* Today in Black History - November 10 *
1968 - Ida Cox, blues singer of such songs as "Wild Women Don't Have
the Blues," joins the ancestors in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1989 - The Rhythm and Blues Foundation presents its first lifetime
achievement awards in Washington DC. Among the honorees are
bluesmen Charles Brown, Ruth Brown, Percy Sledge ("When a Man
Loves a Woman"), and Mary Wells ("My Guy").
* Today in Black History - November 11 *
1928 - Ernestine Anderson is born in Houston, Texas. Her introduction
to jazz singing will begin at age 12 at the Eldorado Ballroom
in Houston. She will perform with Russell Jaquet, Johnny Otis,
and Lionel Hampton and be known for her warm, blues-influenced
vocals.
1929 - LaVern Baker is born in Chicago, Illinois. She will become a
rhythm & blues vocalist. She will be known for her recordings
of "Tweedly Dee", "I Cried a Tear", and "Jim Dandy."
1968 - Ronnie Devoe is born. He will become a singer with the groups
"New Edition" and "Bell, Biv, and Devoe."
* Today in Black History - November 12 *
1941 - Opera instructor Mary Cardwell Dawson and coloratura Lillian
Evanti establish the National Negro Opera Company in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, to provide more opportunities for African
Americans to sing and study opera. The company's first opera,
Verdi's "Aida", will be staged the following August at the
annual meeting of the National Association of Negro Musicians.
In its 21-year history, its performers will include Evanti,
Minto Cato, and Robert McFerrin.
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