Rocky in Philadelphia - early 20th Century

from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, page 112:

The big menace of my teen age came into my life in Barney Gordon's saloon. I'll call him Rocky, because he's still around. For almost a month he came there three or four times a week to hear me sing. I never saw him because he sat in another room, out of sight. But each time he sent a dollar to me by a waiter with a request that I sing his favorite song, "I Lost You so Why Should I Care?" I had got pretty curious about this man who stayed in the back room while I sang his favorite ballad. And one night he sent the waiter to ask if I'd have a drink with him. "Tell him I don't drink nothing …   more >>

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Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 112. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428235264466 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: Philadelphia

Listeners

Listening to

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I Lost You so Why Should I Care? performed by Ethel Waters

Experience Information

Date/Time early 20th Century
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by Gill on Sun, 05 Apr 2015 13:01:04 +0100
Approved on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 19:17:46 +0100