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 >>
Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 112. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428235264466 accessed: 9 December, 2024
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hide composersI 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 |