Mann Holiner et al.
from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, page 216:
Mr. Gumm was not only a smart lawyer who was proving a good investment for me, he knew just where to look in the many cubbyholes and walk-up apartments of New York for song writers. The ones he came up with were a gifted husband-and-wife team, Mann Holiner and Alberta Nichols. They worked with Pearl and me night and day and they wrote, socko songs for me. Even on the train going into Washington they worked with us on the four numbers they had created for me. The numbers were "Washtub Rhapsody," "Dancehall Hostess," "What's Keeping My Prince Charming," and "You Can't Stop Me from Lovin' You."
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Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 216. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1430406247792 accessed: 20 February, 2025
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Dancehall Hostess
written by Alberta Nicols, Mann Holiner |
performed by Ethel Waters |
Washtub Rhapsody
written by Alberta Nicols, Mann Holiner |
performed by Pearl, Ethel Waters |
What's Keeping My Prince Charming
written by Alberta Nicols, Mann Holiner |
performed by Ethel Waters |
You Can't Stop Me from Lovin' You
written by Mann Holiner, Alberta Nicols |
performed by Ethel Waters |
Experience Information
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Notes
Ethel Waters worked on these songs with the song writers on a train bound for Washington.
Originally submitted by Gill on Thu, 30 Apr 2015 16:04:08 +0100
Approved on Sat, 26 Sep 2015 11:52:22 +0100