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:
Marilyn Monroe [in film There's No Business Like Show Business]
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).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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