in New York

from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, page 193:

I was working at the Everglades Night Club on Broadway when Earl Dancer maneuvered me onto an all-star bill for some big Catholic charity that was being staged at the Palace Theatre. The backstage was jumping with big names, and I had to go on following Will Rogers. Rogers was No. 23 act on that bill, I was No. 24, and Singer's Midgets were coming on after me. That big crowd had sat there for hours listening to the biggest and best entertainers in the whole world--and Will Rogers. Yet they waited to hear this little brown-skinned girl sing. Following the unmatchable Rogers was like going …   more >>
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Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 193. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430387938215 accessed: 28 March, 2024

location of experience: New York

Listening to

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Dinah performed by Ethel Waters
Eli, Eli [Oh, God! Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?] performed by Ethel Waters
Shake That Thing performed by Ethel Waters

Experience Information

Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by Gill on Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:58:58 +0100
Approved on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:37:33 +0100