[Dixielandjazz] "Black and Blue" lyric

Marek Boym marekboym at gmail.com
Mon Oct 6 14:16:31 PDT 2014


Of course not, Bill -
Would it make sense for a white woman to sing it, in particular - in
America?
Cheers

1933 newspaper headline that inspired the Berlin song - "Unknown Negro
Lynched By Frenzied Mob."

> By 17th January 1939, when Helen Forest recorded the song for Bluebird
> with Artie Shaw, it was taken at a medium tempo, but GAVE NO REASON why
> "that man o' mine ain't comin' home no more."
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