Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Hall (20 October 1901–7 November 1993 was an American-born British singer and entertainer. Image File history File links Adelaide_Hall_01. ... Image File history File links Adelaide_Hall_01. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... November 7 is the 311th day of the year (312th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 54 days remaining. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... LeAnn Rimes singing in concert For other senses of this word, see singer (disambiguation). ...

Hall was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was taught to sing by her father. She began her career in 1921 in the chorus line of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, and went on to appear in a number of similar black musical shows, until in 1928 she starred (with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson)in Blackbirds of 1928. It was this revue that made her name, both in the U.S. and in Europe when the show was taken to Paris. Her performances in it included the songs "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby", "Diga Diga Doo", and "I Must Have That Man", which continued to be audience favourites throughout her career. A map highlighting Brooklyn and the rest of New York City. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bill Bojangles Robinson ( May 25, 1878 – November 25, 1949) was a pioneer and pre-eminent African-American tap dance performer. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

British career

She married a British sailor, Bert Hicks, and he started a nightclub (La Grosse Pomme) for her. After many years performing in the U.S. and Europe, Hall went to the United Kingdom in 1938 in order to take a starring role in a musical version of Edgar Wallace's The Sun Never Sets at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She was so successful, and became so popular with British audiences, that she stayed, becoming one of the most popular singers and entertainers of the time. She lived in London from 1938 until her death. 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Edgar Wallace pictured on a 1929 cover of Time Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. ... The present-day Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, sketched when it was new, in 1813. ... The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Hall's career was an almost uninterrupted success. She made over seventy records for Decca, had her own radio series (the first black artist to ahve a long-term contract with the BBC), and appeared on the stage, in films, and in nightclubs (of which she owned her own, in London and Paris). In the 1940s, and especially during World War II she was hugely popular with both civilian and ENSA audiences, and became one of the highest paid entertainers in the country (despite the destruction in an air raid of the London nightclub owned by her and her husband, the Florida Club). Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929. ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. ... Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... A nightclub (or a dance club in the UK; usually shortened to club in the US) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. ... // Events and trends The 1940s were dominated by World War II, the most destructive armed conflict in history. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe... ENSA may stand for: Endocrine Nurses Society of Australia Entertainments National Service Association European Neutron Scattering Association This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Hall in Paris

During an extremely long career (since 1991 she has held the world record as the most enduring recording artist)Hall has performed with major artists such as Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Louis Armstrong, Lena Horne, Cab Calloway, and Jools Holland, and has recorded as a jazz singer with Duke Ellington (with whom she made her most famous recording, "Creole Love Call" in 1927), Fats Waller, and Art Tatum. She appeared in the London run of Kiss me Kate, starred with Lena Horne inJamaica on Broadway in 1957, and made two jazz recording with Humphrey Lyttleton in 1969–1970. This was followed by theatre tours and concert appearances; she sang at Duke Ellington's memorial service at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1974, and presented a one-woman show at Carnegie Hall in 1988. Her final U.S. concert appearances took place in 1992 at Carnegie Hall, in the "Cabaret Comes to Carnegie" series. She died in 1993 at the age of ninety-two at London's Charing Cross Hospital. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (567x700, 61 KB) Adelaide Hall File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (567x700, 61 KB) Adelaide Hall File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... 1991 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Ethel Waters, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1938 Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an African American blues vocalist who frequently performed jazz, big band, gospel, and popular music, on Broadway and off. ... Josephine Baker, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Josephine Baker (June 3, 1908 - April 12, 1975), born Freda Josephine McDonald, was an African American dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as The Black Venus. ... Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nicknames Satchmo and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ... Lena Horne photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941 Lena Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American popular singer. ... Cab Calloway, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Cab Calloway (December 25, 1907–November 18, 1994), born Cabell Calloway III, was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. ... Jools Holland at the Tsunami Relief concert in Cardiffs Millennium Stadium, January 22nd 2005 Julian Miles Holland OBE, known as Jools Holland, (born January 24, 1958), is a British pianist, bandleader, television presenter, architectural eccentric and pop music enthusiast. ... Jazz is a musical art form originally characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader. ... 1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an African-American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. ... Art Tatum (October 13, 1909 - November 4, 1956) was a famous American jazz pianist known for his virtuosic playing and creative improvisation. ... Kiss Me, Kate is a stage musical by Samuel and Bella Spewack (book) and Cole Porter (music and lyrics) that ran for 1,077 performances and was first performed in New York on December 30, 1948. ... 1957 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Humphrey Lyttelton (b. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... St Martin-in-the-Fields is a Church of England church just northeast off Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, London. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Manhattan, New York City. ... 1992 was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...

Sources and external links

• Ian Carr, Digby fairweather, & Brian Priestley. Jazz: The Rough Guide. ISBN 1858285283
• Adelaide Hall — 100 Great Black Britons