Cook and Brown USO Spot Camp Shows
Cook and Brown
performer
Berry Brothers
performer
duo, Covan Dance
performer
Brown, Eddie
performer
Brown, Ralph
performer
Chuck and Chuckles
performer
Radio
1942-11-05
Article in California Eagle reports that Cook and Brown perform, along with Berry brothers dozens of African American musical artists including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, in a USO Spot Camp Shows, War department broadcasts, War Department transcriptions for the men overseas and personal appearance for the Treasury Department. A total of 61 Negroes took part in these activities.
The new winter season for USO-Camp shows performances include Chuck and Chuckles, Ralph Brown on the Red Circuit Unit 54; Cook and Brown in the White Circuit: Unit 73.
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
Sampson, Henry T.: Swingin' On the Etherwaves: A Chronological History of African Americans in Radio and Television Broadcasting, 1925-1955. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press (2005).
Tap Dance America
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html
Chuck and Chuckles (biography)
loc.music.tdabio.53
Ralph Brown (biography)
loc.music.tdabio.39
Eddie Brown (biography)
loc.music.tdabio.28
Berry Brothers (biography)
loc.music.tdabio.23
tda
IHAS
151216
loc.music.tda.1399