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Indianapolis rhythm and blues / David Leander Williams ; foreword by Richard Pierce.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, David Leander, author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhythm and blues music--Indiana--Indianapolis--Pictorial works.
- Rhythm and blues music.
- Rhythm and blues musicians--Indiana--Indianapolis--Portraits.
- Rhythm and blues musicians.
- Indianapolis (Ind.)--Pictorial works.
- Indianapolis (Ind.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- Indiana Avenue was traditionally the host to some of America's premier, world-renown entertainment icons in various genres. Along this winding, brightly lit thoroughfare were nightclubs, lounges, supper clubs, taverns, juke joints, and holes-in-the-wall that celebrated the best of the best in entertainment that America had to offer, from the 1920s on into the 1970s. On the bandstand at Denver Ferguson's Sunset Terrace Ballroom, the elegantly attired crooner Nat King Cole, in a sparkling blue silk suit, delivered his signature song "Mona Lisa." Nearby, B.B. King sang his 1973 down-home blues classic "To Know You is to Love You." At Tuffy Mitchell's Pink Poodle nightclub, "Moms" Mabley made the audience roar with laughter during her sidesplitting comedy routine. Indiana Avenue truly was the place to be for the best in entertainment.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439666074
- 1439666075
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