Pie, Pie Blackbird/The Black Network compilation
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
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content: Smith, Ernie
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content: Webster, Ben
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content: Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
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content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Fitzgerald, Ella, 1917-1996
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content: Goodman, Benny (Benjamin David), 1909-1986
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content: Jamal, Ahmad, 1930-
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content: Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
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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
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content: Reel OF 491.139-140
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Moving Images [31983000033324]
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content: Motion picture films
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content: 1. Pie, Pie Blackbird; black and white, 386 feet; excerpt from the motion picture short, missing "Everything I've Got Belongs to You", "Memories of You" and "Black Maria"

Copyright: 1932

Corporate Creator: Vitaphone, Warner Brothers

Director: Roy Mack

Performer(s): Nina Mae McKinney, the Nicholas Brothers, Eubie Blake and His Orchestra

Song Title(s): "Blackbird Pie", vocals by McKinney; "(I'll Be Glad When You're Dead) You Rascal You", Blake and the orchestra; "China Boy", dance by the Nicholas Brothers

2. The Black Network; black and white, 677 feet; an excerpt from the Nicholas Brothers dance routine "Lucky Numbers" is missing from this footage.

Copyright: 1936

Corporate Creator: Vitaphone, Warner Brothers

Director: Roy Mack

Performer(s): Nina Mae McKinney, the Nicholas brothers, the Washboard Serenaders, Emmett "Babe" Wallace, Amanda Randolph, Bill 'Basement' Brown

Song Title(s): "Without a Word of Warning", vocals by Wallace; "Ochi Chornya (Dark Eyes)", Washboard Serenaders; "St. Louis Blues", Washboard Serenaders; "Half of Me Wants to be Good", vocals by McKinney; "Something Must Be Wrong With Me", vocals by Randolph; "Walkin' With My Sugar on Sugar Hill", vocals by Wallace

Video reference copies available.