RARE EVA TAYLOR /CLARENCE WILLIAMS 78 OH DADDY BLUES M
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A NEAR MINT COPY OF THIS ULTRA RARE BLUES 78 FROM EVA TAYLOR WITH CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE
OH! DADDY BLUES
b/w I'VE GOT THE YES! WE HAVE NO BANANAS BLUES
Eva Taylor was a talented entertainer and Blues singer and was one of the first African-American singers to be heard on radio. She started out as child actor in a traveling revue that toured the world visiting Europe, Australia and New Zealand between 1900 and 1920. In 1920 she moved to New York City, where she became a popular singer in the night clubs of Harlem. The following year she married pianist, publisher and producer Clarence Williams. The couple collaborated on many projects, including dozens of songs, a musical revue called "Bottomland", and radio programs. They remained married until Williams' death in 1965. In 1922 Taylor made her first record for the African-American owned Black Swan label, who billed her as "The Dixie Nightingale". She would continue to record dozens of Blues, Jazz and popular sides for Okeh and Columbia thoughout the 1920s and 1930s. She was the lead singer on several of Williams' classic Blue Five recording dates, including the famous sessions that brought Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet together in 1924 and 1925. During the late 1920s Eva had her own radio show on NBC in New York. She retired from show business in the early 1940s, but continued to make occasional concert and night club appearances. The actor Clarence Williams III of Mod Squad fame is Eva and Clarence's grandson.
Clarence Williams' Blue Five were a series of recording sessions that featured some of the best Jazz musicians and Blues singers of the early 1920s. Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins and Bubber Miley all were featured as soloists, and Blues singers such as Sippie Wallace, Margaret Johnson, Virginia Liston and Williams' wife, Eva Taylor all contributed vocals. Louis Armstrong was playing in New York with Fletcher Henderson at the time these recordings were made. Clarence Williams obviously understood Louis' greatness more than Henderson and featured him on 21 of these songs.
DISC DETAILS:-
USA OKEH 4927 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
I've Got The Yes! We Have No Banana Blues
(Lew Brown / James F. Hanley / Robert King) 11th August 1923 New York, New York Okeh
4927 Oh! Daddy Blues (Clarence Williams )
11th August 1923 New York, New York Okeh
4927
CONDITION - NEAR MINT !!! SUPERB STUFF!!
AN ULTRA RARE BLUES 78 FROM EVA TAYLOR w CLARENCE WILLIAMS' BLUE FIVE
IN NEAR MINT CONDITION!!!
SUPERB!
DON'T MISS IT - BID NOW!!
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