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Pages in category "1871 songs" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I. The Internationale; L.
"Black and Blue" debuted in the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates (1929), sung by Edith Wilson. Razaf biographer Barry Singer recounts that the lyricist was coerced into writing the song (with music by Waller) by the show's financier, New York mobster Dutch Schultz, though Razaf subverted Schultz's directive that it be a comedic number: [4]
1871 songs (7 P) V. Music venues completed in 1871 (4 P) Pages in category "1871 in music" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
"The Blue and the Gray" by James W. Long "Good Bye, Liza Jane" (anon) "The Little Church Around The Corner" w.m. Charles A. White "The Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane" w.m. William S. Hays "Mollie Darling" w.m. William S. Hays "Oh aint I got the Blues!" by A.A. Chapman "Onward, Christian Soldiers" w. Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould m.
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]
The 1920s and 30s also saw a marked rise in the number of songs which protested against racial discrimination, such as Fats Waller's "(What Did I Do to Be So) Black and Blue" in 1929, and the anti-lynching song "Strange Fruit" by Lewis Allan and performed and recorded by Billie Holiday, which contains the lyrics "Southern trees bear strange ...
"The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" is a popular song written by Will S. Hays in 1871 for the minstrel trade. Written in dialect, the song tells of an elderly man, presumably a slave or former slave, passing his later years in a broken-down old log cabin. The title is from a refrain: "de little old log cabin in de lane".
Lou Rawls, Black and Blue and Tobacco Road (Capitol, 2006) Nelson Riddle, Contemporary Sound of Nelson Riddle (United Artists, 1968) The Righteous Brothers, Back to Back (Philles, 1965) The Three Sounds, Coldwater Flat (Blue Note, 1968) Mason Williams, The Mason Williams Ear Show (Warner Bros., 1968) Gerald Wilson, Moment of Truth (Pacific Jazz ...