Showtime at the Apollo
name: label: Collection Performer
content: Basie, Count, 1904-1984
label: Collection Collector
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-
label: Collection Performer
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 491.15-3
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images [31983000033811]
label: Type
content: Motion picture films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Descriptive Summary: 830f., 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. A comedy routine with Nippsy Russell and Mantan Moreland

2. "Caravan", Duke Ellington and the orchestra, solos by Cat Anderson, Juan Tizol, Jimmy Hamilton, Ray Nance (violin)

3. "Shadrack", vocals by The Larks

4. "The Nearness of You", vocals by Sarah Vaughan

5. "It's the Same Old Blues", vocals by Herb Jeffries

6. "VIPs Boogie", Duke Ellington and the orchestra, solos by Carney, Hamilton, Willie Cook, Gonsalves, Woodman, Procope, Anderson, Quentin Jackson and Willie Smith

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