HEAT WAVE

Created on 17/09/2002
Latest update on 18/01/2015

Artist: Ethel Waters
Author: Irving Berlin
Label: Columbia
Year: 1933

In Irving Berlin's first integrated Broadway musical As Thousands Cheer. Black Ethel Waters was freshly plucked away from the Cotton Club in Harlem.

Covers:

1948:

Andrews Sisters

1954:

Marilyn Monroe [in film There's No Business Like Show Business]

1958:

Ella Fitzgerald

1979:

James White & The Blacks [laid back avant-garde]

Not to be confused with Martha Reeves' hit ('63), covered by Lulu ('63), The Who ('66), Linda Ronstadt ('75), The Jam ('79) and Phil Collins ('10).

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