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* Today in Black History - February 13 *
1892 - The first African American performers, the World's Fair
Colored Opera Company, appear at New York City's Carnegie Hall
less than one year after the hall's opening. In the company
is concert singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones, who will have her
solo debut at Carnegie Hall two years later.
* Today in Black History - February 15 *
1964 - Louis Armstrong's "Hello Dolly," a song the world-renowned
trumpeter recorded and almost forgot, becomes the number-one
record on Billboard's Top 40 charts, replacing The Beatles'
"I Want to Hold Your Hand." It is Armstrong's first and
only number-one record.
1965 - Nat King Cole, singer and pianist, joins the ancestors in Santa
Monica, California at the age of 45. He succumbs to lung
cancer.
1968 - Henry Lewis becomes the first African American to lead a
symphony orchestra in the United States when he is named
director of the New Jersey Symphony.
* 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."
* Today in Black History - February 17 *
1933 - Bobby Lewis is born. He will become a Rhythm and Blues singer,
who will be at his peak in the 1960's, and will be best-known
for his recordings of "Tossin' & Turnin'," and "One Track Mind."
1982 - Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist and composer, joins the ancestors
at the age of 64.
1997 - The Virginia House of Delegates votes unanimously to retire the
state song, "Carry me back to Old Virginny," a tune which
glorifies the institution of slavery.
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