Now I’m not bragging, but it’s understood, that everything I do, I sure do good.
The Mills Brothers – How’m I Doin’, Hey, Hey
I love this song, but I’d never seen this clip before.
Women’s History Month: *facepalm*
So you might have noticed a lack of WHM posts lately. Here is my litany of excuses:
- Hayfever has put me down for the last few days. Big time.
- We discovered a leak into the concrete slab of our flat last week, and have spent a week moving our ONE HUNDRED BOXES OF [...]
Sarah wrote this post Dance Teachers Shape the Lindy Hop Community in August last year, and it’s getting quite a bit of linky at the moment (mostly c/o Jerry’s FB page). I can’t believe I missed it when she posted it, but then I’m not really that surprised as I wasn’t exactly in the [...]
Women’s History Month: Maxine Sullivan!
Geez, these posts are becoming a real trial. I am just too busy. No, actually, I’m just too can’t be bothered to do one of these every day. I just feel as though I’m listing all the big name vocalists of the swing era. Boooring. I had intended to do lots of [...]
I’ve been interested in William H Whyte’s ‘The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces for a while, mostly because it provides a nice jumping off place for talking about dancers and DJing, but also because there are some flaws in the work which make it worth revisiting occasionally. But I hadn’t realised there was [...]
Women’s History Month: Mamie Smith!
The first person to record a vocal blues album, Smith was a singer, actor and performer. Her 1920 recording ‘Crazy Blues’ was important for lots of reasons. It sold 75 000 copies in its first week and fueled a popular hunger for black women blues artists, which in turn shook the recording industry [...]
Women’s History Month: Lil Green!
I have to run out the house in a few minutes, so I don’t have time to write anything about Lil Green right now (I’ll try to get back to this later… ahahahhah. Who’m I kidding?).
Lil Green. Singer, songwriter, musician.
I’ve just been reminded of this Shorpy photo (Cafe Society: 1941) by a friend on Faceplant, and it includes a list of black women drummers from this period:
Here’s a list of African American female drummers who may have worked during this time: Henrietta Fontaine, Hetty Smith, Mattie Watson, Helen Cole, Dez Thompson, [...]
Women’s History Month: Sister Rosetta Tharpe!
Oh, argh. My life is making it difficult for me to find time to do proper service to these posts. And I’m a little tired of just defaulting to women singers. I’d really like to post some women record company administrators, or composers or other people in the music industry. But I guess that’s [...]
I’m DJing at the Roxbury tonight. I’m on after Galang who plays OMG ALL THE SONGS AND CRAYZ YAHE!!1 so it’ll be pretty good. She sets ‘em up, I take advantage of all her good work. It’ll be like this:
