in New York - 1924
from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, page 185:
For our take-off eight of our most attractively stacked girls came out dressed like Tondeleyo, and I came out in the same half-concealing, have-revealing outfit.
The chorus girls shook in competition and showed me all kinds of wriggles. But I had plenty of wriggles left that they didn't know about, and I was Tondeleyo.
For the late show I sang colored songs like "Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night." Such crowds came that Sam Salvin stopped wondering if he could keep open all summer.
cite as
Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 185. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430311241404 accessed: 18 February, 2025
Listening to
hide composers| Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night | performed by Ethel Waters |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1924 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Gill on Wed, 29 Apr 2015 13:40:42 +0100
Approved on Fri, 25 Sep 2015 20:53:08 +0100