Sally Gooding

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Sally Gooding (born 1916 in South Carolina , † April 11, 1952 in Brooklyn ) was an American actress , jazz and blues singer .

Life

Gooding appeared in the revue Cotton Club Parade in 1932 , in which Ethel Waters starred, and in 1934 in the revue Keep Moving at the Forrest Theater. She was then in the 1930s band vocalist with Cab Calloway and in 1937 with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at a performance at the Cotton Club . In the Cotton Club she appeared in a revue with the song "Superstition"; 1939 in the Plantation Club with the pianist Kirby Walker . In 1939/40 she had an engagement at the Sheepshead Bay nightclub in Brooklyn, where she was accompanied by Arthur Davey and his Cotton Club Band. In 1942 she appeared in a revue with the "Empty Bed Blues", stylistically based on Mamie Smith .

From 1937 Gooding worked on recordings of Teddy Wilson ("My First Impression of You" / "With a Smile and a Song") and the jive combo The Three Peppers ; With; her best-known track was “It Must Be Love” (Vocalion 4169) from 1937. Between 1937 and 1945 she was involved in eight recording sessions in the jazz field. Gooding starred in the music films Hits of Today (1934, directed by Milton Schwarzwald), Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1934, directed by Roy Mack ) and in the feature film The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940, directed by Oscar Micheaux ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Obscure
  2. ↑ a b Information at Jazz on Film
  3. ^ Dan Dietz: The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals . 2018, p. 331 f.
  4. ^ Billboard, May 9, 1942
  5. ↑ These recordings (among others with Hot Lips Page , Pee Wee Russell , Chu Berry and Allan Reuss ) were only released in the LP era. See review of the album Teddy Wilson 1937-1938 on Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  6. ↑ The Three Peppers consisted of Toy Wilson (p, vcl), Bob Bell (g, vcl) and Walter Williams (kb).
  7. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 12, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Gooding, Sally
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues musician and actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH South carolina
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1952
Place of death Brooklyn