[Dixielandjazz] Bertha "Chippie" Hill
BOBOBANJOB at aol.com
BOBOBANJOB at aol.com
Mon Mar 8 16:39:04 PST 2010
Hello DJMLers:
I remember hearing Bertha "Chippie" Hill at Jimmy Ryans on 562nd Street,
ca 1948, -9.
In between songs, while onstage talking to the audience, she would
walk around repeating the phrase "Ranga-Danga-Doo."
It puzzled me at the time...but I assumed it had some sexual overtones.
Bob Sann
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To: Harry Callaghan <_meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com_
(mailto:meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com) >
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:17:14 +0100
Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Bertha "Chippie" Hill (was: SPEAKING OF WILD
BILL DAVISON)
Dear Harry,
Here's what I know about "Chippie":
She was born in 1905 in Charleston, S. Carolina and died 1950.05.07.
Her career began in the 1920's in Harlem, and then she toured with Ma
Rainey's Show in the Southern States,
and finally settled down in Chicago where she sang with King Oliver's
Orchestra 1925-26.
In 1925-29 she recorded a seies of blues where the best-known is "Trouble
In Mind" accompanied by
Louis Armstrong and Richard M. Jones. Shirley Clay was also her
accompanist.
She lived in obscurity from 1930-46, but Rudi Blesh gave her a come-back in
1946.
In 1948 she sang at concerts in Paris. She was killed in a car accident in
1950.
Kind Regards
Bob Smith
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