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| | Ethel Waters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | She was later recorded by Columbia Records in 1925; this recording was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1998. | | | Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an African American blues vocalist who frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on Broadway and off. | | | She was posthumously recognized in 1984 by the Gospel Music Association where her name was placed in its Gospel Music Hall of Fame. |
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biograph - Ethel Waters |
| | Later, in the 1930s, Waters found the mainstream of popular music, including jazz and congenial, and brought to it a combination of tragedy (in Harold Arlen's Stormy Weather, 1933) and comedy (in H. Marshall's You Can't Stop Me From Loving You, 1931) which, in its range, was unsurpassed by any other popular singer. | | | From 1960 to 1975, Waters toured with the evangelist Billy Graham, singing with less vocal prowess than before but with an undiminished ability to characterize her material. | | | The early recordings of Mildred Bailey, Lee Wiley, and Connee Boswell clearly reflect a debt to Waters, and most other popular singers of the time came under her influence to some degree. |
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| | Blues Lyrics On Line: ETHEL WATERS |
| | This vaudeville-type song was written by Clarence Williams who accompanied Ethel Waters on the piano when she recorded it in New York in 1928. | | | Ethel Waters recorded this Higgins-Overstreet composition (probably) in August 1921 in New York for the Black Swan label; accompanied by her Jazz Masters. | | | From the CD "the Chronological Ethel Waters 1921-1923" on the Classics label. |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | While many singers of the time were still singing in a quasi-operatic manner conducive to music halls and theaters, Waters had a singing style more suited for the microphone which was more conversational in tone and diction. | | | During the 1920s and 1930s, Waters made definitive recordings of such later standards as "Dinah" and "Stormy Weather," the latter having been composed specially for her by Harold Arlen, and helped introduce blues and jazz to white audiences. | | | When Billie Holiday arrived at Columbia Records in 1933 to make her first commercial recordings, Waters was introduced to the young songstress and took an instant disliking to her, resulting in a life-long and bitter rivalry. |
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| | Ethel Waters: Blackbird of the Blues (RETRO Magazine) |
| | Ethel Waters never learned to read a note of music, yet she could remember a song if someone played it for her a time or two. | | | The same year, Ethel was the first artist to record for Black Swan, W.C. Handy's record label, whose slogan was, "The only genuinely colored record -- others are only passing." In 1925 she moved to Columbia. | | | The audience went wild, and she was subsequently asked to perform it so often that it became her theme song. |
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| | Shake That Thing: The Remarkable Career of Ethel Waters |
| | What the audiences wanted was for Waters to sing the blues and dance her famous shimmy, shaking her hips wildly to the syncopated beat of one of her more provocative numbers. | | | Echoes of Waters' sound and style can be heard in the recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and even Bing Crosby. | | | Waters turned in her chambermaid's uniform and never looked back. |
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| | Extravagant Crowd Ethel Waters |
| | Waters also began to make records around this time; she would record more than two hundred songs during the course of her career. | | | Ethel Waters originated a vocal and performance style that would become the standard among jazz singers. | | | Her work heavily influenced those who followed her, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. |
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| | Ethel Waters MP3 Downloads - Ethel Waters Music Downloads - Ethel Waters Music Videos |
| | This comprehensive 70-and-a-half-minute, 22-track French disc presents the best recordings of Ethel Waters during her most popular and accomplished period as a recording artist, from the start of her recording career in 1921 to her Broadway triumph in the 1940 musical Cabin in the Sky. | | | The tracks sound like they have been mastered from records, and the earliest ones, from the acoustic era of recording, are primitive sounding. | | | An Introduction to Ethel Waters: Her Best Recordings 1921-1940 |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | Ethel moved to New York City and began recording for the Black Swan label in 1921. | | | Ethel also recorded with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. | | | Ethel's autobiography made the best seller list in 1951. |
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| | Songbirds: Ethel Waters |
| | It is mostly the third chapter that we are concerned with here: Waters’ recordings for Victor’s Bluebird label, which some listeners find problematic due the singer’s increasing concision of diction, exemplified by overly trilled R’s. | | | This may account for the shopworn quality of some of the songs contained in this anthology, which collects all 16 of her Bluebird sides, cut in 1939, along with a handful of recordings for other labels. | | | "[Waters’ Down Home Blues] was a ‘race record,’" commented an anonymous writer in 1962’s Esquire’s World of Jazz, "a record you could only find in the shops on the other side of the tracks. |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | | | The Sound and the Fury - (Dilsey / / Released / 20th Century Fox) | | | A spellbinding singer of songs, an actress of magnanimous power, Waters was a force of nature who enthralled audiences and even the stoniest of critics in nightclubs, vaudeville, recordings, Broadway, radio, movies and television. |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | A singer from early childhood, Waters was performing in saloons and vaudeville as a teenager. | | | As an introduction, Ethel Waters and Nat "King" Cole are part of the Popular Singers group, which is a subset of the Legends of American Music series, issued September 1, 1994. | | | In 1919 she began regular appearances at a Harlem nightclub, where her refined voice, polished diction, innovative rhythm and phrasing, sense of intimacy and flair for dramatizing each song created a new style of singing popular music. |
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| | NPR : Grunge, Rap Music Added to U.S. Recording Registry |
| | Also added were Nirvana's seminal grunge rock album, Nevermind, Muddy Waters' blues classic "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" and the satiric Songs by Tom Lehrer. | | | All Things Considered, April 5, 2005 · Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," Edward R. Murrow's wartime broadcasts from London and Public Enemy's influential hip-hop album Fear of a Black Planet are among the recordings added to the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. | | | Following is the complete list of recordings comprising the 2004 National Recording Registry (in chronological order). |
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| | Down Home Blues Lyrics - Ethel Waters |
| | The CopyRight of Ethel Waters - Down Home Blues Lyrics belongs to the writer or performer of Ethel Waters - Down Home Blues Lyrics, If you want to use Ethel Waters - Down Home Blues Lyrics, Please contact the writer or performer of Ethel Waters - Down Home Blues Lyrics. | | | Ethel Waters - That Da Da Strain Lyrics | | | Ethel Waters - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor Lyrics |
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| | Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather Lyrics - GetSomeLyrics.com |
| | Ethel Waters Lyrics are the property of Ethel Waters and/or their respective owner(s). | | | If you own the legal rights to Ethel Waters Lyrics and don't want them on our site, contact us immediately. | | | Ethel Waters CDs -- 5.99 with Free Shipping! |
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| | Waters, Ethel |
| | Ethel Waters, one of the most influential jazz and blues singers of her time, popularised many song classics including "Stormy Weather". | | | In 1961 she gave a memorable performance in a Route 66 episode, "Good Night, Sweet Blues," as a dying blues singer whose last wish is to be reunited with her old jazz band. | | | Waters was also the first African-American woman to be given equal billing with white stars in Broadway shows, and to play leading roles in Hollywood films. |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | Widely imitated during the 30's and 40's, one still hears echoes of Ethel Waters in many singers who came after her. | | | She was the fountainhead of all that is finest and most distinctive in jazz and popular singing. | | | Ethel Waters remains a towering figure in the history of jazz and American music. |
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| | African American Registry: Ethel Waters, the complete entertainer |
| | In 1921 she cut two songs for Cardinal Records and became the first artist to release a blues record on the black-owned Black Swan label, recording "Down Home Blues" and "Oh Daddy.” | | | Her style changed to that of a successful pop singer. | | | She appeared in Pinky in 1949, which won her an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. |
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| | CORRECTION ETHEL WATERS : Dont Blame Me Lyrics |
| | CORRECTION ETHEL WATERS : Dont Blame Me Lyrics | | | Make the corrections to this lyric and then send it in! | | | HotLyrics.net > Ethel Waters - Dont Blame Me Please fill in the fields below in order to correct this lyric: |
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| | Ethel Waters Info - Bored Net - Boredom |
| | Ethel Waters was an African American vocalist who performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on Broadway and off. | | | Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania October 31, 1896; died Los Angeles, California, September 1, 1977. | | | Ethel Waters Info - Bored Net - Boredom |
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| | Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Ethel Waters |
| | She made numerous recordings on labels such as Black Swan, Columbia and Paramount. | | | Irving Berlin wrote four songs for her for his Broadway show As Thousands Cheer. | | | This show toured the south where Waters received star billing with the white players. |
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| | Open Directory - Arts: People: W: Waters, Ethel |
| | Songbirds: Ethel Waters - Detailed review of Waters's CD, "Takin' a Chance on Love," by Bill Reed, with a discussion of the artist's impact on American popular music. | | | Ethel Waters - Blackbird of the Blues - Detailed account of the career of one of the 20th Century's great blues singers, by Retro Magazine. | | | Museum of Broadcast Communications: Waters, Ethel - Profile focusing on her television acting. |
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| | glbtq >> arts >> Waters, Ethel |
| | Like most blues singers of the time, Waters sang her share of raunchy, openly suggestive songs such as "Organ Grinder Blues" and "Do What You Did Last Night." | | | Ethel Waters is perhaps best remembered for the depth and acuity she brought to her fat "mammy" roles in plays and films such as Carson McCullers's Member of the Wedding (1950, 1952) and television shows such as Beulah (1950), in the title role of which she replaced the redoubtable Hattie McDaniel. | | | Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons have had tremendous influence on popular music, though some musical genres have been more receptive to a homosexual presence than others. |
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| | Gracenote: Albums - An Introduction To Ethel Waters |
| | Gracenote: Albums - An Introduction To Ethel Waters | | | Buy and Sell Waters, Ethel discs at SecondSpin | | | Waters, Ethel / An Introduction To Ethel Waters |
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| | Buy.com - Am I Blue: 1921-1947 - Ethel Waters - CD |
| | Buy.com - Am I Blue: 1921-1947 - Ethel Waters - CD My Account | | | For a limited time only, get your hands on the hottest selling new music for as low as $9.99! | | | Personnel include: Ethel Waters; Maceo Jefferson (banjo); Cordy Williams, Charlie Jackson (violin); Don Redman, Garvin Bushell, Edgar Campbell (clarinet); Coleman Hawkins (bass saxophone); Harry Tate, Horace Holmes, Joe Smith (cornet); Chink Johnson (trombone); Ralph Escudero, Bill Benford (tuba); Fletcher Henderson, J.C. Johnson, Maceo Pinkard, Pearl Wright, Lester Armstead (piano); Jesse Baltimore (drums); Reggie Beane. |
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| | Ethel Waters - Last.fm |
| | Listen to music, see charts for Ethel Waters - I Got Rhythm, Ethel Waters - Stormy Weather, Ethel Waters - My Handy Man, Ethel Waters - Am I Blue?, Ethel Waters - Taking A Chance On Love | | | We don't have an image for Ethel Waters yet. | | | You brought a new kind of love to me |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | Ethel loved doing Christian concerts and singing at Billy Graham Crusades, where she was a regular from 1957 until her death in 1976. | | | Ethel Waters, one of the world's most highly acclaimed Christian and secular singers, was born October 31, 1900, in Chester, Pennsylvania. | | | Regardless of her achievements in life and the fame and fortune that very naturally came her way, it was years before Ethel realized her own self-worth. |
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| | MTV.com - Movies - Ethel Waters |
| | The following year, she starred in the musical Cabin in the Sky, in which she introduced "Happiness is a Thing Called Joe" and "Taking a Chance on Love." | | | Her film career, which began with her performance of "Am I Blue?" in the 1929 Warner Bros. musical On With the Show, was jump-started in 1943 with the movie version of Cabin in the Sky, wherein Waters co-starred with Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne and Louis Armstrong. | | | Throughout her singer years, Waters fought against performing "hot" -- i.e. |
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| | Pinky |
| | William Lundigan plays the white man who's her love interest. | | | Ethel Waters is the aunt who raises Pinky, while concealing her true lineage; it's a strong performance with a simmering subtext of anger. | | | The movie has a sad ending, but it's sadder to think of how things were in those days. |
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| | Ethel Waters: Strength and Warmth |
| | Though it is a shame that Waters' rich vocal legacy is not better known, she is rightfully remembered as not only a charismatic musical star, but also a powerful dramatic actress. | | | Though she only made a few films, today she is remembered more for her screen roles than her singing. | | | I saw Member of the Wedding, years ago, and do... |
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| | Old Chester, PA: Famous Personalities |
| | She wrote two autobiographical works, His Eye Is on the Sparrow (1951) and To Me It's Wonderful (1972). | | | She went on to become a noted actress and jazz and blues singer. | | | A true Chester native, Ethel Waters was born in the city on October 31, 1896. |
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| | Brooks Atkinson Quotes |
| | Ethel Waters, the flaming tower of dusky regality, who knows how to make a song stand on tiptoe. | | | A, Dusky, Ethel, Flaming, How, Make, Of, On, Regality, Song, Stand, The, Tiptoe, To, Tower, Who | | | Dusky, Ethel, Flaming, How, Knows, Make, Song, Stand, Tiptoe, Tower, Waters, Who |
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| | Ethel Waters OTR MP3 List |
| | Please note MP3 CDs cannot play on standard CD players! | | | Ethel Waters My Special Friend Is Back In Town | | | In her autobiography, "His Eye is on the Sparrow," she frankly detailed the nastiness of her childhood and early struggles. |
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| | African American Registry: First Black seen on television |
| | Waters, midway in what would be a long, turbulent, and illustrious career, had become at this very early time the first African American to star in her own program on the tube. | | | On The Ethel Waters Show, Waters along with the African American actresses Fredi Washington and Georgette Harvey performed a dramatic sequence from her hit play Mamba's Daughters. | | | Ethel Waters would return to television eleven years later as the star of Beulah. |
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| | Ethel Waters Shine On Harvest Moon Lyric |
| | Correct the lyric text for Shine On Harvest Moon - Ethel Waters | | | Album: Somewhere over the Rainbow: The Golden Age of Hollywood Musicals | | | Print friendly version of Shine On Harvest Moon - Ethel Waters |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | The child of a teenage rape victim, Ethel Waters grew up in the slums... | | | Find where Ethel Waters is credited alongside another name | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. |
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| | Ethel Waters |
| | [goes the water in my sink] (Junior books) | | | His Eye Is on the Sparrow: An Autobiography (Quality Paperbacks Series) | | | Voices of joy, voices of freedom: Ethel Waters, Sammy Davis, Jr., Marian Anderson, Paul Robeson, Lena Horne |
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| | DigiGuide : Ethel Waters |
| | DigiGuide is free for 30 days, so why not give it a go, you will be amazed you did without it. | | | Find out more on Ethel Waters at the Internet Movie Database | | | Download DigiGuide, the best TV guide, and never miss a programme with Ethel Waters in it again |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Ethel Waters |
| | Born in turn-of-the-century Chester, Pennsylvania, black singer-actor-entertainer Ethel Waters presided for nearly fifty years as one of America's most celebrated performers. | | | She began her career as a singer in 1917 at the Lincoln Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland. | | | Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. |
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| | Ethel Waters Posters |
| | Design Copyright 2005 JD Hodges, Poster Images Copyright All Posters. | | | Ethel Waters Art Prints from the place to Buy Art Prints | | | 30-day Return Policy and 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on all Ethel Waters Posters |
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