Adelaide Hall

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Adelaide Hall on the cover of Vu (1929)

Adelaide Louise Hall (born October 20, 1901 in New York , † November 7, 1993 in London ) was an American jazz singer. In addition, she was occasionally active as an actress.

In 1927 she sang in Eubie Blake's famous Shuffle Along show and in the revue Blackbirds . In the same year Hall became a singer with Duke Ellington . She recorded the most famous version of Ellington's " Creole Love Call " with delicate vocalizations of the response parts of this call-and-response melody. In the revue Blackbirds of 1928 she presented the song Diga Diga Doo ; In 1932 she sang with Art Tatum as an accompanist and later performed in Europe. She married in 1938 and settled in the UK, where she ran her own nightclub. At the age of 82, she gave another performance of her successful piece " Creole Love Call ", accompanied by the Barrelhouse Jazzband . Three years later she worked with companion Mick Pyne in Great Britain.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1924: A Son of Satan
  • 1932: Dancers in the Dark
  • 1940: The Thief of Baghdad (The Thief of Bagdad)
  • 1950: The Rat of Soho (Night and the City)

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SURNAME Hall, Adelaide
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hall, Adelaide Louise (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1993
Place of death London