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[[image - Ed Sullivan and W.C. Handy, c. 1950]]

[[image - Duke Ellington, c. 1960]]

At the turn of the century there was Sisterena Jones, the Black Patti, Charles Jonson and Dora Dean who taught the white folks how to do the Cakewalk in the States & Europe.

A stage show "Dahony" music written by Will Marion Cook, was done in England at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1903 for the prince of Wales Birthday.

Bert Willims and his wife Lottie performed in grand opera in 1906–Bob Cole, James Weldon and Rosmand Johnson wrote a lot of music performed by the Black artists, U.S. Thompson, started with the gentry Bus Dog and Poney Show (1911). Thompson was later to become an international dancing comedian and the husband of Florence Mills, the great Negro singer of that day.

Broadway producers of the twenties were Noble of Sissle and Eubie Blake, whose music gave the world "Shuffle Along," from which hits like "I am wild about Harry" and "Love Will find A Way" are still sung today.  Mr. Blake died last year at age 100.

But back to the Howard, Stars like Ethel Waters, Buck and Bubble, Bessie Smith, Butter Beans and Susie, Pigmeat, Dusty Fletcher, Paterson and Jackson, W.C. Handy played the Howard in its early day.

After world War II, I saw Duke Ellington and his orchestra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Cab Calloway, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Chick Webb, Jimmy Lunceford, Earl Hines, Bolly Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Lionel hampton, Chico Hamilton, Count Basie, Billy Holiday, Lena Horn, Bill Bailey, Pearl Bailey, bill Robinson at the Howard theatre

Also the Berry Brothers, the Nicholas Brothers, Monto Cato, Andy Ragof, alberta Hunter, Louis Jordan and his Sympany five; Ivory Joe Hunter, W.C. Handy, Cab Calloway, Whitman Sisters, Mae Johnson, Peg leg Bates, Katherine Dunham, Jospehine Baker, The Ink Spots, The Will Mastin trio featuring Sammy Davis, Jr., Ray Charles, Erroll Garner, Billy Strayhorn, Sye Oliver, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Dick Haynes, Chris Connor, Stan Kenton, Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald.

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