in USA - 1917
from His Eye Is On the Sparrow, pages 76-77:
There were no Negro vaudeville circuits then, and the Hills took care of all the business details. Whenever we'd get booked into a city they'd write, enclosing photographs, to theaters in nearby places, asking for dates. Sometimes we could get only thirty-five dollars for the act, so the big trick was to avoid long railway jumps between engagements. None of the theaters paid traveling expenses, although they would advance enough for railroad fare.
For our act the Hill Sisters and I did the same numbers that we'd done in Baltimore. I sang, besides "St. Louis Blues," "I'm Going to Shake That… more >>
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Charles Samuels and Ethel Waters, His Eye Is On the Sparrow (1950), p. 76-77. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1427889522273 accessed: 1 September, 2024
Listening to
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Date/Time | 1917 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Gill on Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:58:42 +0100