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Ladies Sing the Blues
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Product Details
- Starring: Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9786301267854
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- Format: Black & White, Compilation, HiFi Sound, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6301267850
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- Label: View Video
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- Manufacturer: View Video
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: View Video
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- Release Date: 1991-07-01
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- Studio: View Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1991-07-01
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- Title: Ladies Sing the Blues
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- UPC: 033909131339
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Product Description: WINNER OF:
-The American Video Conference/Billboard Magazine
-The International Film & TV Festival of NY
-The American Film & Video Festival The "Ladies" who created an art form and sang their way into legend… a bygone era is recaptured in this filmed salute to the women who started it all… whose turn of phrase made musical history. Priceless footage of the great American divas (complete songs, not just tantalizing excerpts) Billie Holiday backed by the most extraordinary band ever formed-Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Benny Webster, Roy Eldridge, and Gerry Mulligan. The great Bessie Smith in her only film appearance…Dinah Washington from the stage of The Apollo Theatre…Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, and others, singing their classics. For many of them, this was their only performance on camera…Certainly some of the greatest performances! Performances thought to be lost to time! V.I.E.W. Video is proud to present "THE LADIES SING THE BLUES"…a gallery of those women who were the major force in American musical culture. See these stars like you've never heard them before! An entertaining masterpiece. A classic for your library.
SELECTIONS:
1 St. Louis Blues- Bessie Smith
2 Darkies Never Dream- Ethel Waters
3 Quicksand- Ethel Waters with Count Basie & His Orchestra
4 Fine and Mellow- Billie Holiday with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young,ect...
5 When You Lose Your Money Blues- Ida Cox with Jesse Crump
6 That Lonesome Road Sister- Rosetta Tharp
7 Nobody's Sweetheart Now- Connee Boswell
8 Lean baby- Dinah Washington
9 Only A Moment Ago- Dinah Washington
10 Have A Good Time- Ruth Brown
11 The Man I Love- Lena Horne
12 Unlucky Woman- Lena Horne with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
13 You're Mine You- Sarah Vaughan
14 I Cried For You- Helen Humes with Count Basie & His Orchestra
15 Why Don't You Do Right?- Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
16 I Cover The Waterfront- Peggy Lee with Dave Barbour
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Customer Reviews
Great singers great singing!
I have to address the voice over first. I use this dvd for my class to inform students who never heard of most of these singers. I find the voice over puts the era in perspective. The dvd is a knock out. Beautifully sung throughout. There's style, intimacy and passion. I don't know a better example to show young adults the great and original singers the 30s were turning out.
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Just right for my needs
I used this as resource and display for a workshop on Jazz vocalists for the Sitka Jazz Festival. It worked out just fine-the footage and commentary was first rate.
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Good additional material for class
I have to agree with one of the earlier reviewers: the complete "videos" on this tape are fantastic, but the narrated voice-over (delivered in a near-monotone) during the opening bits isn't of much use. Still, I use portions of this tape in my Jazz History class, and at least the narration backs up the info that students are given in their textbooks. In all, I like certain clips in here better than the Burns "Jazz" anthology simply because they ARE complete.
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Buyer Sings the Blues
The songs may be "complete" as the DVD claims, but what isn't mentioned is the inane narration over the beginning of just about every clip on the disk, which spoiled much of the enjoyment for me. I bought the DVD for the Connee Boswell clip (love those Boswell Sisters), but after the narration there's just eighteen seconds of the song left. By the way, even accounting for the age/rarity of the clips, the quality of them often leaves something to be desired, as well.
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THESE LADIES WERE THE PIONEERS.
They had prepared the way for so many female singers of today. Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Ethel Waters, and many more. With the stars that are jam packed inside this video, makes the video worth seeing. So if blues and the ladies that sing them interests you, then by all means, take advantage of this must see video; you'll be glad you did.
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