nightclub audience in New York City - early 20th Century
from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, page 126:
At Edmond's I sang each night the numbers I'd done at the Lincoln --"Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble," "St. Louis Blues," Minor's Blues," and "I Want to Be Somebody's Baby Doll so I Can Get My Lovin' All the Time." Though I often look back on that time as the happiest in my life, working in that cellar was like my tour. There was no set closing time, and once again I was working until unconscious. We'd report at nine o'clock at night and sometimes not get out of there until eight, or even ten, the next morning. Yet we'd make only three or four appearances a night. We always had to wait for our turn to … more >>
Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 126. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1428236554995 accessed: 14 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersChinese Blues | performed by Ethel Waters |
I Want to Be Somebody's Baby Doll so I Can Get My Lovin' All the Time | performed by Ethel Waters |
Minor's Blues | performed by Ethel Waters |
Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble | performed by Ethel Waters |
St. Louis Blues | performed by Ethel Waters |
Experience Information
Date/Time | early 20th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |