- Description
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John Bubbles on American Musical Theatre / John Bubbles [television/video]
- Title
- John Bubbles on American Musical Theatre [Television/Video]
- Performer
- Bubbles, John
- Published/Created
- 1961-02-05
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- The American Musical Theatre.
This edition is the first of a two-part program devoted to the career of veteran song-and-dance man John Bubbles. Bubbles opens by singing and dancing "My Future" in which he chronicles some of his past hits and his hopes for the future. He then recalls his earliest appearance on the stage at age seven and a trio he had with two of his seven sisters, and reviews his varied history working for he circus and setting up pins in a bowling alley, where he met his longtime partner, Ford Lee "Buck" Washington, in 1918. He delights in telling that although Buck could not read music, he would play some classical favorites that he creatively jazzed up in a ragtime style: and that their team was the first black act to play in a number of vaudeville and burlesque theatres. Bubbles then sings "Mammy O' Mine" one of the numbers he performed often as a boy soprano, and "I Got the Blues" a popular song from the many musical revues in which he appeared in the 1920s.
- Source
- Museum of Television and Radio Broadcasing: Museum of Television and Radio Broadcasing. ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015