[Dixielandjazz] "Black and Blue" lyric

[Ric Giorgi]

Greetings Bill and many thanks for the low-down on Black and Blue. 
Ric

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Sent: October-06-14 6:02 PM
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Subject: [Dixielandjazz] "Black and Blue" lyric

Marek Boym wrote in reply to my:
> 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 [Marek's
caps] why "that man o' mine ain't comin' home no more."

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

Dear Marek,
Perhaps, I should have said "...gave no indication..."
In the post war era, the song was recorded by June Christy, Ethel Waters,
Lee Wiley, Ernestine Anderson, Ruth Olay, Eileen Farrell Ella Fitzgerald,
Judy Holiday, Dakota Statton, Pearl Bailey, Nancy Wilson, Martha Miyake,
Carmen McRae, Barbara Lee Diahann, Joan Morris, Linda Peterson, Carol
Sloane, Martha Lorin, Susannah McCorkle and as an instrumental.
As you would expect, 'mouldy fig' Bill only has the Lee Wiley and Ethel
Waters recordings. Not even the Verve Ella.
So, I can't comment on the interpetations.
Kind regards,
Bill.

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