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The Ladies sing the blues / The Minnesota Studio ; producer, Tom Jenz.
LIBRA VHS Music Videorecording 393
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- VIEW Video jazz series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.
- Holiday, Billie.
- Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963.
- Washington, Dinah.
- Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937.
- Smith, Bessie.
- Horne, Lena.
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977.
- Waters, Ethel.
- Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002.
- Lee, Peggy.
- Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990.
- Vaughan, Sarah.
- Blues musicians--United States.
- Blues musicians.
- Women jazz musicians.
- United States.
- Blues musicians--United States--Biography.
- Women singers--United States.
- Women singers.
- Women jazz singers--United States.
- Women jazz singers.
- Women jazz musicians--United States.
- Blues (Music).
- Jazz.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : V.I.E.W. Video, [1988]
- System Details:
- VHS; Hi-fi.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Features an array of the greatest female blues and jazz singers, the "Ladies" who created an art form and sang their way into legend from 1929 through the 1950's. Includes extensive biographical information on each singer and full performances of some of their most famous songs.
- Contents:
- St. Louis blues (Bessie Smith)
- Darkies never dream (Ethel Waters)
- Quicksand (Ethel Waters with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Fine and mellow (Billie Holiday with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, and Gerry Mulligan)
- When you lose your money blues (Ida Cox with Jesse Crump)
- That lonesome road (Sister Rosetta Tharp)
- Nobody's sweetheart now (Connee Boswell)
- Lean baby (Dinah Washington)
- Only a moment ago (Dinah Washington)
- Have a good time (Ruth Brown)
- The man I love (Lena Horne)
- Unlucky woman (Lena Horne with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra)
- You're mine you (Sarah Vaughan)
- I cried for you (Helen Humes with Count Basie & His Orchestra)
- Why don't you do right? (Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman & His Orchestra)
- I cover the waterfront (Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour).
- Participant:
- Participants: Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Bessie Smith, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, et al...
- Credits:
- Editor, Paul Henschel ; script and narrator, Leigh Kamman ; concept, Bob DeFlores, Bill Semans.
- Notes:
- Biographical and performance documentary.
- Originally produced and copyrighted in 1986.
- On container: 1313.
- OCLC:
- 24660394
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