Showtime at the Apollo
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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content: Smith, Ernie
label: Collection Performer
content: Webster, Ben
label: Collection Performer
content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
label: Collection Performer
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
label: Collection Performer
content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
label: Collection Performer
content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
label: Collection Performer
content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
label: Collection Performer
content: Davis, Miles
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection
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content: Ernie Smith Jazz Film Collection / Series 2: Additional Titles
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Motion picture film
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 491.15-1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000033795]
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content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 935f., b&w

Copyright: 1955

Corporate Creator: Studio Films, Inc.

Director: Joseph Kohn

Descriptive Summary: a series of Apollo performances, billed as the "Harlem Variety Review", hosted and introduced by Willie Bryant consisting of:

1. "She's My Ding Dong Baby (And She Knows How to Ring My Bell)", played and sung by Lionel Hampton and orchestra

2. "You're Not the Kind of Boy for a Girl Like Me", sung by Sarah Vaughan

3. "My Love is True", vocals by Jimmy Brown with Paul Williams and his Hucklebuck Band

4. "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye", vocals and piano by Martha Davis

5. A comedy routine with Nippsy Russell and Mantan Moreland

6. "Danny Boy", vocals by The Larks

7. "Route Sixty-Six", vocals by the King Cole Trio

8. "Slide Hamp, Slide", with Lionel Hampton and the orchestra with a trumpet solo by the young Quincy Jones

Digital reference copy in the Smithsonian Institution DIgital Asset Management System (DAMS).