His Eye Is On the Sparrow
His Eye Is On the Sparrow (written work, Memoir/autobiography)
| Listening experiences | 1427369712730: There was one emotional outlet my people always ha... 1427370583898: My whole family could sing. Vi had a sweet, soft v... 1427382426533: My family and the other families who lived in thos... 1427382844152: I can remember coming home some days when Vi would... 1427455266593: We had one family link...with prostitution. This w... 1427455667151: Mom soon got a place for us in the rear of a Jewis... 1427455978797: I saw my first stage shows when I was eight, and w... 1427457296420: Sick as she was, Mom loved having an organ in the ... 1427544218953: Each day Mom seemed to get a little weaker. I was ... 1427544419223: I found Mom lying on the same kind of broken-down ... 1427544616255: Ching was so drunk she couldn't leave the house. B... 1427545742537: ...[A]t that Halloween party at Jack's [Rathskelle... 1427546072789: I was so frightened the first time I walked out on... 1427889522273: There were no Negro vaudeville circuits then, and ... 1427890062595: There is a type of white Southerner who respects c... 1427890534955: Bessie Smith was booked into 91 Decatur Street whi... 1427890824492: My big thrill in Birmingham was having a chance to... 1428234345070: Many Negro acts considered it a great honor to be ... 1428234759450: Barney Gordon's saloon was on the ground floor. We... 1429105375248: Snow was giving me the right steer. The Shuffle Al... 1429105771782: The same talent scout who dug me up for Cardinal w... 1429194215167: Also before I went on tour, Jack Goldberg, a white... 1429194699555: All during the tour I kept nagging at him. I said ... 1429194873083: There was so much music day and night on that tour... 1429788210513: When I planned my routines for Oh! Joy! I wanted t... 1429789125858: As a headliner I had to buy plenty of expensive cl... 1430307857731: It was the first time I'd worked on the stage of... 1430308315776: Everywhere we played the people seemed to like my ... 1430310734878: In the end I did go down, but only to shut him up.... 1430310981888: After I finished my own songs Harry Akst and Joe H... 1430311241404: For our take-off eight of our most attractively st... 1430386936760: I also did a take-off on Lulu Belle. That was anot... 1430387383732: Africana opened at Daly's Sixty-third Street Theat... 1430387597492: I also sang "I'm Coming Virginia," and the Broadwa... 1430387938215: I was working at the Everglades Night Club on Broa... 1430388474539: Harry Akst, who'd written "Dinah," came to my dres... 1430388706526: I worked my way East after finishing On with the S... 1430389106103: "And now," said the master of ceremonies, "I give ... 1430389616515: The first time I sang after my throat operation wa... 1430406247792: Mr. Gumm was not only a smart lawyer who was provi... 1430406720338: Singing "Stormy Weather" proved a turning point in... 1430406968606: I was worried, a nervous wreck, when Ethel Waters ... 1430407394420: Mr. Harris came over to the theater in Philadelphi... 1430469838927: In 1935 I was co-starred with Beatrice Lillie in a... 1430470768154: While I was in Lexington I went out among the colo... 1430470972406: But it was our turn to be awed afterward, when the... 1430475415514: "Five minutes, Miss Waters." Five minutes more... |
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| published in | 1992 1950 |
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