Annette Hanshaw

Annette Hanshaw ( born October 18, 1901 in New York City; † March 13, 1985 ibid ) was an American jazz singer.

Life and work

Annette Hanshaw, who was a contemporary of Mildred Bailey, Ethel Waters, Connee Boswell and Bessie Smith, was one of the most popular singers of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Hanshaw discovered early her love for singing and initially oriented models such as Frank Fay, Sophie Tucker and Marion Harris. Her father, a wealthy hotel owner, you filled the desire to own a music store and gave her appearances in its hotels and at their parties. On such a she heard the A & R man Wally Rose and enabled her to sing from 1926 to 1928 by the record company Pathe Records. Already very quickly they became one of the attractions of the label; their early recordings with ukulele and scat singing made ​​them a kind of female counterpart to the ( also working for Pathe ) Cliff Edwards. When the company was taken over in 1928 by Columbia, Annette Hanshaw appeared on some of its 78s cheap plates. Although most of these plates have appeared under his name, Columbia brought some records under various pseudonyms like Gay Ellis ( for sentimental numbers) and Dot Dare or Patsy Young ( for her Helen Kane impersonations ).

Hanshaw, who was financially independent, could offer to work in the show and movie business, deflect, and was limited to recordings. In only eight years of recording activity Hanshaw produced authoritative plates outside of the blues; they preferred " black " very serious ballads in the medium - slow pace and "white ," rhythmically swinging up-tempo tracks and numbers that are in between, such as "Ready for the River" and " Cause I feel low down " that they " with the morbid passion of the blues and elements of their their specific vocabulary (drained ): a fast pace in order to express the desperate, yet aggressive stance, and especially the straightforward directness of expression ," wrote the author Will Friedwald.

She succeeded, within a few years to produce a radio hit series after another. With a contract, the ARC and its sub-labels they began in 1932 to include the best records of their career. Hanshaw had 1933 one film appearance in the Paramount short film Captain Henry's Radio Show, a cinematic version of their popular radio program, in which they occurred Maxwell House Show Boat, 1932-1934. Hanshaw singing in " We Just Could not Say Goodbye".

Many famous jazz musicians participated on their records, including Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Phil Napoleon, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini, Vic Berton, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey and Jack Teagarden; and also sang in a duet with Frank Ferera. Hanshaws trademark was her - spoken in a childish voice - set "That's all " at the end of their plates.

In 1934 she finished her recording activities with a final session on February 3 for Vocalion and married her agent Wally Rose; a year later she gave up her successful radio show " The Camel Caravan" on, then worked for a while in the studio and wrote press releases for sponsors. In 1938, she finally sat down to rest. In later years, she prepared a comeback by recorded two demo tapes that were never published. She spent her last years in Manhattan and died in 1985 after a long illness with cancer.

Appreciation

The producer John Hammond, one of her admirers, said of the singer, who despised all outward appearances of a star - existence and a very unehrgeizige attitude towards their art was, " I do not think she knows how good she is ." The author Will Friedwald paid tribute to the singer in his work on the Swinging Voices of America as an astonishingly original and modern artist, " the intuitively those rhythmic nuances of jazz mastered that could apply them in popular songs, and brought them to the electrical for the recording technique required sensitivity expressed. Without compromising their abilities to represent the ideas of a sentence saying you serve the sense of jazz as a key to the interpretation, by helping her to get both under the surface of the text and the music. " It was mainly in England heard much; the singer Elsie Carlisle, who sang at Bert Ambrose, was strongly influenced by it.

Her song Daddy will not you please come home from 1929 was used in the video game Bioshock 2 as well as in a commercial for this game.

In the film, Sita sings the blues their songs play a major role.

Known songs

• Black Bottom 1926
• Forgetting You 1928
• My Sin 1929
• I'm a Dreamer, Are not We All 1929
• You Would not Fool Me, Would You? 1929
• Lovable and Sweet 1929
• If I Had a Talking Picture of You 1929
• If You Want the Rainbow 1929
• Mean to Me 1929

• Big City Blues 1929
• Happy Days are Here Again 1930
• I'm Following You 1930
• Body and Soul 1930
• I Hate Myself for Falling in Love with You 1931
• You're too sweet for Words 1931
• Say It Is not So 1932
• Under the Moon 1932
• Love Me Tonight 1932

Disco Graphical Notes

• Sweetheart of the Twenties ( Sounds of Yesteryear, 1926)
• The Girl Next Door 1927-1932 ( Take Two, compilation )
• Annette Hanshaw, Volume 5: 1928-1929 ( Sensation )
• Annette Hanshaw, Volume 6: 1929 ** ( Sensation )
• The Personality Giwl 1932 - '34 ( Sunbeam, compilation )
• Lovable and Sweet - 25 Vintage Hits (ASV, compilation ) with Red Nichols, Miff Mole, Jimmy Lytell, Tommy Dorsey (tp ), Benny Goodman ( cl ), Jimmy Dorsey ( cl, as), Orchestra Will Osborne and Victor Young and Frank Fereras Hawaiian Trio ( sounds of Yesteryear, compilation )