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BLACKBIRDS OF 1928 [musical show]
- Title
- BLACKBIRDS OF 1928 [musical show]
- Opening Date
- May 09, 1928
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- 1928 medley by Warren Mills' Blue Serenaders. COND: Matt Malneck. VOCALS: Eight singers from Hall Johnson Choir of orig prod. (78/Vic 35962)
- 1932-33 studio prod. MUSIC: Jimmy McHugh. WORDS: Dorothy Fields. Orchestras of Duke Ellington, Don Redman. CAST: Bill Robinson & Adelaide Hall of orig cast; Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Mills Brothers, Cecil Mack Choir. (78/Bruns album 39; Col OL-6770; Sutton 270; ALB-1194. Excerpts: Robinson: "Doin' the New Low-Down" (ALB-19, ALB-518, ALB-758, ALB-1146, ALB-1180, ALB-1487, ALB-1633, ALB-1737, ALB-1825, ALB-1831) Hall: "Baby" (dropped from the show) (ALB-934, ALB-988, ALB-1483, ALB-1588) "I Must Have That Man" (ALB-959, ALB-1146, ALB-1483) Mills Brothers: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (ALB-1527) "Diga Diga Do" (ALB-1588).)
- 1953 album. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Cab Calloway, Thelma Carpenter. "I Can't Give You Anything but Love," "Diga-Diga-Doo," "I Must Have That Man," "Doin' the New Low-Down" (RCA 10" LPM-3154, with Shuffle Along; ALB-774.)
- Records by Jimmy McHugh, composer, and Dorothy Fields, lyricist. McHugh (piano): "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (1940: ALB-869) McHugh (piano) & Fields (vocal): "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (1933 promotional version: 78/Bruns mx B-13099-A, ALB-1093) Fields (vocal): "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (1972: ALB-1838)
- Records by members of orig prod. Lew Leslie's Blackbirds Orch: "Magnolia's Wedding Day," "Bandanna Babies" (1928: 78/Bruns 4030, ALB-903, ALB-1194) Adelaide Hall & Lew Leslie's Blackbirds Orch: "I Must Have That Man" (1928: 78/Bruns 4031, ALB-1366, ALB-1483, ALB-1831, ALB-2124) "Baby" (1928: 78/Bruns 4031, ALB-1366, ALB-1483) Hall: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" (1938, with Fats Waller: 78/HMV(E) B-8849, ALB-582, ALB-1269, ALB-1483) (1970: ALB-484) "I Must Have That Man" (1928, with George Rickson, piano: 78/Vic mx BVE-101) (1970: ALB-484) "Porgy," "Diga Diga Do," "Baby" (1970: ALB-484) Elisabeth Welch: "Diga Diga Do," "Doin' the New Low Down" (1928: 78/Bruns 4014, ALB-1284) Bill Robinson (tap-dancing): "Doin' the New Low Down" (1929: 78/Bruns 4535, ALB-842, ALB-2124) Hall Johnson Choir: "St Louis Blues" (1941: 78/Vic 4553)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.19280509
Last Updated: 08-23-2012