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| | Bert Williams : The Early Years 1901-1909 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
 | | This remarkable CD has the first recordings of Bert Williams, the black comedian/actor/singer who was a pioneer in vaudeville and Broadway. | | | The last of three Williams' CDs to be released by Archeophone but chronologically the first, this disc has extremely rare recordings (some taken from cylinders) that feature Williams during two different bursts of recording activity. | | | While the 1901 recordings feature them backed by a piano (which in a couple cases is played by Williams himself), the 1906 performances have Williams accompanied by an orchestra. |
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http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,3098507,00.html
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| | Catalogue » Bert Williams: His Final Releases, 1919-1922 |
| | Lawdy,” from Williams’ earliest sessions in 1919 and ending with “Not Lately”—recorded a mere three days before the star’s collapse on a Detroit stage—no other CD gives you all 24 of Bert’s final releases, sequenced in the order they were recorded. | | | Bert Williams: His Final Releases includes some of Williams’ most famous songs and routines, including both of his “Elder Eatmore” sermons. | | | With Bert Williams: His Final Releases, 1919-1922, these sides are finally available in chrononological order on a commercial reissue. |
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http://www.archeophone.com/product_info.php?products_id=42
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| | Bert Williams |
| | Williams entered show business in the 1890's, began recording in 1901 and died in 1922. | | | He was an actor, mime, dancer, singer and songwriter. | | | His version of "Woodman, Woodman Spare That Tree" (an early Irving Berlin song) turns that lachrymose poem into a domestic complaint from a husband who likes to hide from his wife in that sturdy old oak. |
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http://www.uwm.edu/People/wash/bertwilliams.htm
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| | Bert Williams, The Middle years, 1910-1918 / His Final Releases, 1919-1922 |
| | On most, Williams is billed as "comedian with orchestra accompaniment," although several list him as "baritone with orchestra accompaniment" and a few as solo baritone or solo comedian. | | | Nearly all of the recordings, and indeed all of the two-dozen he cut in 1919-22, are comic pieces of a racial nature. | | | These are as important as anything the label has released to date, in collecting, preserving and bringing to the modern public the work of this all-but-forgotten genius of the American stage, screen and studio. |
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http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/CD_bertwilliams_omni.html
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| | CHW Masonic Research Society |
| | Williams not content with his part in Johnson's minstrel tour left, and joined the show at the San Francisco Museum (music hall). | | | Early summer Williams performed vaudeville as a singles act, doing dialect stories and songs. | | | During the Follies production tours Williams performed a Friars Club benefit, where he shares a dressing room with George M. Cohan. |
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http://www.hariam.org/CHWR/bertw.html
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| | Black Americana Vintage Record Bert Williams (Records & Music Of Black Americana) at An American Antique Adventure by ... |
| | But as long as songs are sung, Bert Williams will be remembered as the humble comedian from the British West Indies who taught millions of Americans to laugh and kings to Cake Walk. | | | These songs have been re-recorded from the original masters were unearthed in the files of the Columbia Recording corporation.The four 78s are in excellent condition. | | | Inside the covet : Collector's Item Famous Songs Of Bert Williams Four records in album set C-25. |
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http://www.tias.com/3073/PictPage/1922464988.html?mall=/stores/mopedd;itemKey=1922464988;store=/stores/mopedd;catId=vinyl;itemNo=504
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| | Bert Williams' Imitators: An introduction to the online discography |
| | Williams is credited as composer of this piece - not to be confused with the later jazz standard of the same title - but he did not record it. | | | Okeh released 27 sides by Brooks from early 1921 through late 1926 that ran the gamut from comic routines to Williams-style recitations of his own songs and included one race-series release (Okeh 8062) with blues singer Sara Martin. | | | Black Williams imitators are rare on record before 1922. |
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http://www.mainspringpress.com/williams.html
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| | The Development of an African-American Musical Theatre 1865-1910 |
| | It featured music by Will Marion Cook and Bert Williams, and the book and lyrics were by Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers, and is another in their series of "African" musicals. | | | The turn of the century saw a new effort from Williams and Walker, with music by Will Marion Cook and lyrics by Alex Rogers, Sons of Ham. | | | One of a number of "back to Africa" musicals, it was another effort of the team of Williams and Walker. |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/rpbhtml/aasmsprs4.html
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| | Bert Williams Early 1900's Minstrel Songs Available on CD and Cassette |
| | Bert Williams Early 1900's Minstrel Songs Available on CD and Cassette | | | All Bert Williams Songs listed below were recorded on 60 minute cassette/CD from a 1918 hand cranked victrola using special equipment to enhance and retain the characteristic victrola sound. | | | Every Bert Williams song on these tapes/CDs may be sampled by clicking on the tunes below. |
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http://www.besmark.com/bertwilliams.html
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| | Bert Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Besides the Biograph shorts, he made a series of audio recordings for Columbia Records, both on phonograph cylinders and disc records. | | | The Archeophone label has collected and released all of Williams' recordings on three CDs. | | | Bert Williams was a key figure in the development of African American music. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_Williams
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| | KnoxNews: Columnists |
| | Between 1902 and 1922, Williams had 33 hit songs. | | | They hooted, howled and demanded that the film be discontinued. | | | He grew up in San Francisco, where he learned to sing and play several musical instruments. |
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http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/opinion_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_364_4327618,00.html
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| | Amazon.com: Dancing in the Dark: Books: Caryl Phillips |
| | But the Williams of Dancing in the Dark is a sad, restrained, bookish man, passionless, tentative and lonely. | | | We know that with the black-face and cakewalk and mumbling English on stage comes a man who needs to break out of his self-constructed cage. | | | A lot of this stuff is close to the fact. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400043964?v=glance
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| | Jass.com: Bert Williams & George Walker |
| | Walker's voice sounded thin on the playback, and he was not pleased. | | | Remembering their job as "Dahomeyans" in San Francisco, they decided to set the scene of their next production in Africa, and in 1902, the duo teamed with Will Marion Cook, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Jesse Shipp to produce In Dahomey, a highly successful musical which allowed them to achieve their dream of performing on Broadway. | | | Williams accepted and commissioned the African-American composer Will Vodery to write his songs, an association which paved the way for Vodery's engagement as arranger for the Follies from 1913 to the late 1920s. |
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http://www.jass.com/w&w.html
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| | Tinfoil.com - 03/2003 Cylinder of the Month |
| | Williams had a great knack for inviting the listener into his songs with his good-natured rambling exposition. | | | One of the most endearing and amusing voices of the early 20th century belonged to composer, comic, and character of the musical stage, Bert A. Williams. | | | This recording, one of Williams' earlier Columbia records, includes several fun quirks – beginning with Williams' unusual articulation of his surname; soon after that, during the first few introductory bars, Williams clears his throat; lastly, there is the odd noise at the end of the song. |
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http://www.tinfoil.com/cm-0303.htm
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| | Program #1027 - Ziegfeld's Follies of 1919 |
| | The first act finale, in fact, was a complete minstrel show for which Irving Berlin wrote one of his most enduring hit songs. | | | Steel was the show’s principal singer, but the ballad was actually introduced by a woman named Delyle Alda who never recorded it. | | | The show opened with a major production number, “The Follies Salad”, sung by actor Eddie Dowling remembered today for his performance in the role of Tom in Tennessee Williams first hit play, The Glass Menagerie. |
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http://www.curtaingoingup.com/Archive/102/1027.htm
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| | Early Recordings of African Americans/Early Ragtime |
| | No record company invited Joplin into a studio to make cylinders or discs, or if he was invited to make recordings, which is unlikely for various reasons, he declined. | | | Next is a detailed index so you can look up specific songs, record companies, and singers. | | | An article on Nathaniel Dett, director of music at Hampton Institute, Virginia ("No people love music as a mere expression of everyday life as does the Negro..."). |
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http://www.garlic.com/~tgracyk/early_ragtime.htm
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| | The New Yorker: The Critics: Books |
| | Both Williams’s reputation and the remaining record of his work—a number of scratchy vocal tracks, some suggestive photographs and reels of film—make one long to ask: What on earth was he thinking? | | | Yet everyone sounds dryly reflective and dully indistinguishable until anger begins to surface, rather late, and the varied voices suddenly become as clear as what they have to say. | | | They feel safe watching a supposedly powerless man playing an even more powerless thing. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/051212crbo_books
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| | Jazz, Dance Bands, Vocalists - Newsletter #126 - Mose Allison -> Bert Williams |
| | This set precedes the first released volume, ("His Final Recordings 1919-1922" on Archeophone 5002, the new label that specializes in making wonderfully sounding copies of acoustic recordings.) One of the first and most important Black performers, Williams was a vaudevillian who performed wry stories in blackface. | | | This set starts off with a few final '42 tracks, the last with Ben Webster and include alts of such great Ellingtunes as Perdido/ Sentimental Lady, and Moon Mist, which features a fine Ray Nance violin solo!. | | | Reissue of 1966 Atlantic album featuring Mose with a small group including Jimmy Knepper on trombone and Jimmy Reider on tenor. |
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http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/NEWSLETTER126/newsletter126_jazz_1.htm
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| | Williams, (Eg)Bert (Austin) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Williams, (Eg)Bert (Austin) |
| | Williams was the first black comic to record with Victor Records (starting in 1901) and was one of those behind the early all-black musical In Dahomey (1902). | | | This made them into a hit team and they appeared in a number of musicals until Walker retired in 1909. | | | Although he had appeared in blackface throughout his career and often played a shuffling fall-guy, he was credited as one of the first black Americans to defy some of the stereotypes of the minstrel-show Negro, especially in his own songs such as ‘Nobody’ and ‘That's a-Plenty’. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Williams,+(Eg)Bert+(Austin)
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| | Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Williams, Walker and Walker |
| | With musicals shows such as "Clorindy, the Origin of the Cakewalk," "Sons of Ham," "Bandana Land," and "In Dahomey," they opened the door for other African-American actors, singers, dancers and musicians and redefined the boundaries of legitimate Negro theater. | | | Will Marion Cook composed the music and Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Alex Roger wrote the lyrics. | | | Bert Williams, comedian, singer, dancer, composer, never reached his full potential on stage. |
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http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/text/williams_walker.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Bert Williams: A Biography of the Pioneer Black Comedian: Books |
| | Williams, a comedian, actor, and songwriter, had a career in show business which spanned the years from 1893 until his death in 1922. | | | Smith traces his life story through a meticulous analysis of the minstrel shows, vaudeville productions, and musical comedies in which Williams appeared--from In Dahomey to the Ziegfeld Follies. | | | Details about such collaborators as longtime partner George Walker, dancer Aida Overton Walker, and composer Will Marion Cook, among others, enhance the book as does a candid and sensitive view of the prejudice that tainted the lives of these talented individuals. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/089950695X
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| | Dancer History Archives by StreetSwing.com - Bert Williams - Main Page |
| | They popularized the "Cakewalk" by including the dance in many Broadway type plays and brought the Cakewalk to it's peak around 1898. | | | With this idea in hand they put together an act titled "The Two Real Coons" which sounded like a normal Minstrel Parody at the time, it was actually based on a real African-Amercan DANCE-COMEDY act. | | | Williams was considered an eccentric dancer who performed a comedy type, catch-all style of dancing, incorporating many of the Vernacular dances together when he danced such as the Mooch, a version of The Georgia Grind, Shuffles, Twists, Hip Pops and Hops, etc. |
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http://www.streetswing.com/histmai2/d2bwlms1.htm
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| | Teaching the Journal of American History |
| | Please note: Listening to audio clips requires the | | | How do you think different audiences understood his signature song, "Nobody"? | | | Bert Williams stood out as a performer who entertained and touched both black and white audiences. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~jah/teaching/2004_03/ex1.shtml
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| | Broadway: The American Musical . Stars Over Broadway . Bert Williams PBS |
| | The twosome debuted in New York's Casino Theatre in 1898 in a short-lived show, "The Gold Bug." Their act consisted of songs, dance, and quick-paced patter that centered on Walker trying to convince the slower Williams to join him in get-rich-quick schemes. | | | Williams was one of, if not the most, famous African-American performers in the 1900s. | | | It emphasized the difference between Williams, his fellow vaudevillians, and his white audiences. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/williams_b.html
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| | Welcome to BlackLiterature.com |
| | They genuinely did attempt to take control of their art, and their business. | | | Early in his career, Bert Williams made the decision to wear cork on his face and play “a shuffling, dull-witted, clumsy, watermelon-eating Negro of questionable intelligence.” (p35) He considers it his stage make-up and what he needs to wear in order to give the white theatre-goers the character they want to see. | | | You quote parts of dialogue from the plays in the book and contemporary newspaper reports — are these from historical records? |
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http://www.blackliterature.com/excerpt/cphillips_guide.cfm
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| | NPR : Retrospective for a Black Vaudeville Star |
| | As Elizabeth Yate McNamee reports, a small record company, Archeophone, has released a collection called Bert Williams: His Final Releases, 1919-1922. | | | Weekend Edition Sunday, September 5, 2004 · W.C. Fields called Bert Williams "the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest I ever knew." | | | Williams had become wealthy and popular at the time of his death in 1922. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3890469
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| | A comic genius lost under his blackface |
| | Caryl Phillip's new novel, "Dancing in the Dark," seeks to animate Williams' remarkable life. | | | When Williams dares to make a movie in which he appeared without his face corked, playing a character other than the pitiable darkie, the audience members at the premiere were so displeased that they rioted in the theater. | | | Accordingly, "Dancing in the Dark's" most affecting passages are those that feature the ever-dignified Bert alone, before his mirror or walking the streets of Harlem late at night, confronting the demons that made him, in W.C. Fields' words, "the funniest man I ever saw, and the saddest man I ever knew." |
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/25/RVGPHEOKMH1.DTL&type=books
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| | PBS VIDEOdatabase of America's History and Culture -- Chapters |
| | In 1902, they create "In Dahomey," the first full-length black musical, and the first black show to play on Broadway. | | | Williams goes on to the Ziegfield Follies, becoming the highest-paid black performer in the US - but losing autonomy and respect offstage. | | | Walker & Williams return from a triumphant tour of Europe and begin a tour of US, amid criticism of their continued use of minstrel stereotypes. |
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http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/programs/all_chapters.asp?item_id=7147
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| | VARIATIONS Sound Recording acr9236 |
| | Bring Back Those Wonderful Days (Bert Williams with Orchestra) | | | You Don't Need the Wine to Have a Wonderful Time (While They Still Make Those Wonderful Girls) (Eddie Cantor with Orchestra) | | | The Moon Shines on the Moonshine (Bert Williams with Orchestra) |
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http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/html/acr9236.html
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| | 94.9 KUOW: Seattle's NPR News and Information Station |
| | His struggles and resilience come through in his music, at once lively and heartbreaking at every turn. | | | At the age of 22, after years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams made the radical decision to do his own "impersonation of a negro": he donned blackface makeup and played the "coon" as a character. | | | Behind this mask, he became a Broadway headliner, starring in the Ziegfeld Follies for eight years and leading his own musical theater company — as influential a comedian as Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and W. Fields. |
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http://www.kuow.org/defaultProgram.asp?ID=9612
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| | Footlight.com > Williams, Bert |
| | The Second Volume in the Bert Wiliams collection featuring 26 classic tracks plus a 24-page booklet with rare photos, an essay on Williams' Ziegfeld years by noted scholar Allen G. Debus, and the complete Williams' 1918 article, "The Comic Side of Trouble | | | All Mail Orders Require a $10.00 PRODUCT Minimum NOT Including Cost of Shipping. |
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http://www.footlight.com/artist.cfm?artist_id=8517
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| | Results in |
| | The Middle Years, 1910-1918 (Sound recording) / Sound recording reviews | | | "Something you don't expect": the recordings of Bert Williams | | | Whether praised as a comic genius or vilified as a burnt cork "darky" stereotype, Williams suffers from a tragic lack of reissue projects that has kept his recorded legacy nearly a secret from current generations. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_29/ai_n6182557
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| | Songwriters Hall of Fame |
| | As a solo act, Williams joined the Ziegfeld Follies, performing with Eddie Cantor and W.C. Fields, however it was in his recordings that Williams’ legacy remains. | | | While Williams and Walker had a couple more hit recordings, Bert Williams' solo performances were soon eclipsing them and by 1910, Williams had become one of the country’s most popular comedians and singers in the country. | | | The show became a great success, not just in New York but on a tour, which took in most of the country as well as England, including a performance at Buckingham Palace. |
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http://www.songwritershalloffame.org/artist_bio.asp?artistId=73
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| | Bert Williams |
| | The two became masters of dance with George to become known as “the greatest of the strutters” and Williams a Master of the “Mooche” or “Grind”, with his eccentric grace and subtleties. | | | After nine years with the Zeigfeld Company, Williams left and starred in two productions two of his own productions. | | | It was during a performance of a show that he collapsed on stage. |
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http://www.caljazzdance.com/bert.htm
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| | Marcus Garvey - Bert Williams - Great People of Color |
| | As for music, he could play almost any instrument by ear, his forte being the banjo. | | | One of his greatest hits was built around a character who was a regular Jonah and would sing, "I'm a Jonah man.. | | | Turning naturally to entertaining, he went from café to café in San Francisco, singing minstrel ditties and passing the hat. |
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http://www.marcusgarvey.com/wmview.php?ArtID=486
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| | Southpinellas: Gulfport to honor mayors with renamed pier |
| | Bert Williams was the catalyst to start the ball rolling on that." | | | Burke remembered he went out to lunch with Williams to see what the mayor was like, and Burke came away with an indelible impression of the mayor's care for the city. | | | Bert Williams, 87, served as mayor from 1987 to 1991 after serving as a Council member for 12 years. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/News/012101/news_pf/SouthPinellas/Gulfport_to_honor_may.shtml
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| | New York State Writers Institute - Caryl Phillips Sunday Gazette Article |
| | Bert Williams also knew that audiences only wanted to see his act. | | | "Dancing in the Dark" is divided into three acts and follows the rise and tragic fall of Bert Williams, a man who at one time was the director of his own performing company and even mounted the first all-black Broadway show. | | | "Williams was a vaudeville performer," said Phillips in a recent phone interview, "and in the early 1900s, right around the turn of the century, he was the most famous black American entertainer." |
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http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gaz_phillips_caryl.html
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| | Southpinellas: Ex-Mayor 'Bert' Williams dies |
| | Williams, who died Sunday (Sept. 1, 2002) at 89, said controlling Gulfport's growth was his top priority during his time in office. | | | He wanted (Gulfport) to remain a single-home, family community and wanted to see that that was carried through." | | | Williams, a retired service manager for Johnstone Bros. Fuel Co., was a member of the Gulfport Historical Society. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2002/09/04/SouthPinellas/Ex_Mayor__Bert__Willi.shtml
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| | African American Registry: Actor and comedic pioneer, Bert Williams... |
| | Williams was an African-American comedian who portrayed the slow-witted, shuffling Black man that was then a standard role in vaudeville. | | | After Walker's death in 1909, Williams became a regular comic in the shows of Florenz Ziegfeld, starring in the Follies from 1910 through 1919 and writing much of his own material. | | | In 1895 his partnership with George W. Walker began. |
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/326/Actor_and_comedic_pioneer_Bert_Williams
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| | CMT.com : Bert Williams : Artist Main |
| | Bert Williams was the recording industry's first important and enduring black artist. | | | Connect with other fans and discuss what's on your mind. | | | Check out the slower side of this duo with their video, "Never Mind Me." |
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http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/williams_bert/artist.jhtml
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| | About Bert Williams & Sons |
| | Herbert (Bert) Williams started a one man machine shop and garage in 1939, in the rear of P.M. Quien Auto Parts. | | | They became incorporated in 1973 and moved from 831 First St. to 525 North Bay Drive (the current location) in 1975. | | | Bert Williams and Sons, Inc. opened their first branch Heavy Duty Parts store in Fairfield in May 1995. |
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http://www.napanet.net/~bwshd/about.html
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| | Advertising, Marketing, and Commercial Imagery Collections |
| | Bert Williams (1876-1922), vaudeville comedian, is credited with breaking the color barrier in both vaudeville and on Broadway. | | | Williams performed not only in minstrel shows, but with the Ziegfeld Follies alongside such stars as W.C. Fields and Will Rogers. | | | Thomas H. Ince (1882-1924), an actor and director, is credited with many modern film industry innovations. |
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/Entertain/e-12.htm
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| | Defending the Option with the 3-5-3 (Video) |
| | Usually leaves the warehouse within 1 - 2 business days. | | | Using consistent, simple rules, Williams diagrams the various fronts, stunts, and blitzes you can use to put your defenders in position to shutdown multiple option looks. | | | Utilizing this defense, Georgia Military set a national junior college record in allowing an unbelievable 67.6 total yards per game. |
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http://www.onlinesports.com/pages/I,CBV-FV-02179B.html
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| | The event will also include a discussion of Williams’ life and work, a screening of a Williams film clip, excerpts from some of his most notable recordings, and a display of artifacts related to his work. Phillips will also sign copies of his novel, made available for purchase by A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books. | | | Although he became a Ziegfeld Follies headliner and the highest paid performer of his time, Williams also faced unending personal humiliation, and died a broken man at age 47. | | | CALENDAR EDITORS — EVENTS Author Caryl Phillips in a Bert Williams Celebration Tuesday, October 18, 2005 - 7:00 pm San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum Author Caryl Phillips reads from his new novel Dancing in the Dark at a special celebration of the legendary black vaudevillian Bert Williams. |
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http://www.sfpalm.org/NEWS/Phillips/PH.doc
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| | Dream Team Goalkeeper Announced Wolves - Unofficial Wolves News and Views |
| | Just the Manager needs to decided upon now and users can vote for their Dream Team manager now. | | | SportNetwork.net is part of the Durham Associates Group of companies. | | | USERS to this website have voted for Bert Williams to become their goalkeeper in the Wolvesfc.co.uk all-time Dream Team. |
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http://www.sportnetwork.net/main/s115/st54372.htm
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| | The Last Darky Bert Williams |
| | While these discourses were engaged with the question of representing the “Negro” in the context of white racism, through black-on-black minstrelsy, they were also deployed against the growing international dominance of African American culture and politics in the twentieth century. | | | Yet his name has faded into near obscurity, his extraordinary accomplishments forgotten largely because he performed in blackface. | | | It deepens our understanding of black modernity and redirects the study of minstrelsy as well. |
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http://www.nathanielturner.com/lastdarkybertwilliams.htm
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