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Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. ... She first recorded for Columbia in 1925, achieving a hit with "Dinah".
"Stormy Weather" is a 1933 torch song written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler. Ethel Waters first sang it at The Cotton Club night club in Harlem in 1933 and recorded it with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra under Brunswick Records that year, and in the same year it was sung in London by Elisabeth Welch and recorded by Frances Langford.
Hit versions in 1926 were by Ethel Waters, The Revelers, Red Pepper Sam, Cliff Edwards, and Fletcher Henderson. [ 2 ] One singer, Fanny Rose Shore , became so identified with the song that DJ Martin Block called her "Dinah Shore", which then stuck as her stage name for the next 50 years.
Singer and actress Ethel Waters was the first woman to sing "Saint Louis Blues" in public. [14] She said she learned it from Charles Anderson and featured it herself during a 1917 engagement in Baltimore. [14] [15] The film St. Louis Blues, from 1929, featured Bessie Smith singing the song. [16]
The debut recording with Ethel Waters was recorded on Black Swan Records (1921) and rapidly became a hit. Her rendition features the rarely-heard 6-bar instrumental intro, [b] followed by her singing the 1st verse (16 bars, plus 1), then her singing the 1st chorus (16 bars, plus 2), then instruments playing 8, plus 2 bars of the chorus, finishing with her singing the 1st chorus (16 bars, plus 2).
Ethel Waters and Irving Berlin in the 1940s " Supper Time " is a popular song written by Irving Berlin for the 1933 musical As Thousands Cheer , where it was introduced by Ethel Waters . The song is about racial violence inspired by a newspaper headline about a lynching .
Rookie Drew Waters belted a three-run homer off Kirk McCarty in the 10th inning, sending the Kansas City Royals to a 5-2 victory over the AL Central champion Cleveland Guardians on Monday night.
It was featured in four films that year, most notably with Ethel Waters in the movie On with the Show. [citation needed] [a] It has appeared in 42 movies, [citation needed] most recently Funny Lady, The Cotton Club and Downton Abbey: A New Era, and has become a standard covered by numerous artists. As a work from 1929 with its copyright renewed ...