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Sophie Tucker, 1930



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creation of a new song at Hollywood Gardens, NY
Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1884--February 9, 1966) was a singer and comedian, one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first third of the 20th century.
She was born Sophia Kalish to a Jewish family in Czarist Russia. Her family emigrated to the United States when she was an infant, and settled in Hartford,


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Nice to listen to ( 8 months ago by checkoutmyprofile)
Nice to listen to
And just for the ... ( 8 months ago by betteroffsingle)
And just for the very real record Cris..
that old story about Bessie Smith IS NOT TRUE!
I hope so, but it ... ( 8 months ago by Cris43130)
I hope so, but it was being taught as fact in public schools in the mid 1970s. Do you have any particulars about the circumstances to offer so I could refute anyone else who was taught the same thing I was?
This was posted as ... ( 8 months ago by Cris43130)
This was posted as a response to the statement that Bessie Smith was NOT denied admittance to an all white hospital the night of her fatal automobile accident.
Are you sure that ... ( 7 months ago by hmengland41)
Are you sure that isn't Paul Shaffer (David Letterman's bandleader) over her right shoulder? Certainly looks like him :-)
In Belgium the same ... ( 7 months ago by jozefsterkens)
In Belgium the same story was told told since I collected records in the 1960's
Who invented it if it is not the trough?
just for the record ... ( 4 months ago by mmbriggs)
just for the record bessie smith was born in 1895 and sophie tucker started so-called "coon" singing before bessie smith was a teen. by the time bessie smith was in her stride, sophie tucker was two decades past her youth and the days when she formed the style of signging we see here. no doubt the music and her style of singing has to be derived from afircam amercian jazz and singers of the turn of the century, ragtime, cakewalk era-- sophie may have influenced bessie, not the other way round
Whether Bessie ... ( 4 months ago by fedtrooper)
Whether Bessie influenced Sophie, or viceversa I seem to hear some Mae West in Sophie's voice in this clip.
All of the old ... ( 3 months ago by BabyJaneHudson)
All of the old Vaudevillians copied different aspects of each other's styles to create their own. Mae West and Sophie had a feud going on for quite a few years when Sophie accused Mae of doing exactly that.
Bessie Smith's arm ... ( 3 months ago by BabyJaneHudson)
Bessie Smith's arm was severed when the accident that claimed her life occurred. There obviously was an extreme loss of blood so whether or not she would have even made it to the hospital is a point worth mentioning. I had read that it was the ambulance drivers who refused to take her to the hospital because of her race not that the hospital was segregated. She died at the scene.
Interesting seeing ... ( 2 months ago by fedtrooper)
Interesting seeing Sophie with a row of mikes in front of her. In his book My Friends, George Burns has a section on how a lot of old stage performers(like Jolson) had trouble mastering using microphones. It looks like Redhotmama got it mastered. And, the first big white lady coon singer was Mae Irwin, who appears in the 1896 Edison movie The Kiss. She was Woodrow Wilson's favorite singer.
I would suggest ... ( 2 months ago by stefakamelpash)
I would suggest that the reason she seems to have mastered the mikes is that she doesn't need them! That is a mighty voice, very reminiscent of Ethel Merman. Those old time vaudevillians--or their Music Hall equivalents in England--could really belt a song and be heard in the very last row. The English Music Hall singer Florrie Forde had a voice like that. No mikes needed. :)
That's a myth. ... ( 2 months ago by waldo2384)
That's a myth. Bessie was taken straight to the black hospital, which was right across the street from the white hospital. There is no evidence that Jim Crow killed her. It was the car accident that killed her.
John Hammond first ... ( 2 months ago by waldo2384)
John Hammond first published the false rumor, but later acknowledged that it had turned out to be false.
There were no black ... ( 2 months ago by BabyJaneHudson)
There were no black and white hospitals in PA at the time of Bessie's death. That was the South you're talkin' about. Bessie Smith's arm was severed at the shoulder when she was struck by a vehicle coming in the opposite direction down a lonely Pa 2 lane road in the dark. The loss of blood HAD to be extreme especially for the time - the 1930's. I doubt she would have made it anywhere beyond the ambulance because of the medical treatments at the time.
why are you so hell ... ( 2 months ago by BabyJaneHudson)
why are you so hell bent on trying to convince people that the white people had nothing to do with poor Bessie's death...?
There were no separate black hospitals in that area at the time.
You don't know what ... ( 2 months ago by waldo2384)
You don't know what you're talking about. Do a little research.
Yeah, she died in ... ( 2 months ago by waldo2384)
Yeah, she died in Mississippi, not PA. Again, you're a fool to be talking about that which you know zilch.
Go ahead and ... ( 3 weeks ago by paul51)
Go ahead and applaud the old girl . . .she's dead but not forgotten . . .
whatever, she's a ... ( 2 weeks ago by OzTerri)
whatever, she's a hot tucker with a hot tucker song.
Someone has been ... ( 21 hours ago by Mazartz)
Someone has been listening to Bette Midler....:o)
Why, my goodness me ... ( 16 hours ago by paul51)
Why, my goodness me . . .
Do you think we can ... ( 11 hours ago by Mazartz)
Do you think we can do it up to Tempo?? Let's do it up to Tempo for the litlle........
A Creploc is a ... ( 7 hours ago by Mazartz)
A Creploc is a person from Creplocia, which is a small fishing nation wedged between Astonia & Latvia. You don't see too many Creploc's since the iron curtain fell...



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