[Dixielandjazz] Bertha "Chippie" Hill

[BOBOBANJOB at aol.com]

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