AM I BLUE
| (Harry Akst/Grant Clarke) | ||
| (o): | Ethel Waters (1929) | label: Columbia |
| In film On With The Show, the first one in Technicolor. Backed up by Ben Selvin (violin) and the Dorsey brothers. First black woman to headline at the Palace Theatre in New York, starred at the Plantation Club (where she introduced Dinah) and the Cotton Club before she went to Hollywood. For a time she was the best paid woman in showbizz, black or white. Since Ethel, black performers were not necessarily limited to the blues. | ||
| (c): | Libby Holman (1929) , Annette Hanshaw (1929) , Nat Shilkret (1929) , Irving Mills (1929) , Ben Selvin (1929) , Dorsey Brothers (1929) , Tom Gerun (1929) , Milton Brown & His Brownies (1936) , Bunny Berigan (1937) , Buster Bailey (1940) , Billie Holiday (1941) , Hoagy Carmichael & Lauren Bacall (1944) [in film To Have And To Have Not], Jo Stafford & Her V-Disc Boys (1944) , Eddie Cochran (1957) , Mose Allison (1960) , Dave Brubeck (1960) , Fats Domino (1961) , Ray Charles (1961) , Julie London (1966) , Bette Midler (1972) , Cher (1973) , Barbra Streisand (1975) [in film Funny Lady], Robert Gordon (1979) , Willie Nelson (1979) , Elkie Brooks (1984) , Linda Ronstadt (1986) , John Lone (1987) [in film The Last Emperor], Ruth Brown (1989) , Madeline Bell (1993) , | |
| Composer Harry Akst also wrote Baby Face, coauthor Grant Clarke Second Hand Rose. | ||