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"Baby's in Black" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It appears on the United Kingdom album Beatles for Sale [ 4 ] and on the United States album Beatles '65 , both released in 1964.
Billy Ward (born Robert L. Williams, September 19, 1921, Savannah, Georgia, died February 16, 2002, Inglewood, California [2]) grew up in Philadelphia, the second of three sons of Charles Williams and Cora Bates Williams, and was a child musical prodigy, winning an award for a piano composition at the age of 14. [3]
Frank Sinatra Jr. recorded a version of the song, titled "Black Night", on his 1971 album Spice. Dolly Parton's version appears on her 1994 album Heartsongs: Live from Home. [7] Anna Domino (as Snakefarm) recorded a version on the 1999 album Songs From My Funeral. Carl Rutherford recorded a version on his 2001 album, Turn Off the Fear. [26]
Huddie William Ledbetter (/ ˈ h j uː d i / HYOO-dee; January 1888 [1] [2] or 1889 [3] – December 6, 1949), [1] better known by the stage name Lead Belly, was an American folk and blues singer notable for his strong vocals, virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the folk standards he introduced, including his renditions of "In the Pines" (also known as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night ...
"Black Betty" is a 20th-century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources say it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material.
Most Black people I knew had some shift in their skin tone as babies. But as the weeks and then months passed, that didn’t happen. The brown-skinned, kinky-haired Luna of my daydreams didn’t ...
The song is commonly thought to be of African-American origin. [1] An early published version is in "A White Dove", [2] a 1903 story for kindergarteners by Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941), a teacher from Alabama and daughter of Robert B. Lindsay. [3] In the story, "a little girl" sings to "her baby brother" what is footnoted as "an old ...
There's also the high Black maternal and infant mortality (which, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, was at 10.8 percent compared to 4.6 ...