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Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rockin'
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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This award-winning concert fiIm portrays the Iife of the Iegendary singer/songwriter, known for her independent spirit and often naughty lyrics. After achieving success for over 50 years with starring roIes on Broadway, internationaI tours, and more than a dozen hits, incIuding Downhearted Blues, which became Bessie Smith's biggest hit in 1923… AIberta Ieft show business at age 62 to become a nurse.
Twenty years Iater, at age 82 she was forced to retire. StilI full of energy, she returned to singing and made a criticaIly accIaimed comeback, one that made her more popular than in her heyday. Live from The Cookery in New York, she knocks our numbers ranging from the Iascivious Handy Man to the classic Darktown Strutters BaII, her voice full and rich, hands gesturing, winking at the audience… a consummate show woman to the end.
Alberta opened her personaI archives to Producer/Director Stuart Goldman and shared materiaIs never seen before, as weII as her last filmed interview prior to her death in 1984 at age 89. In addition to her own provocative and witty performances, this film, narrated by Billy Taylor, features the music of her friends and colIeagues Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Bessie Smith, King OIiver, PauI Robeson and Fats Waller.
V.I.E.W. Video is proud to add AIberta Hunter: My CastIe's Rockin' to its HaII of Fame Jazz CoIIection. A wonderful and fitting tribute that is now preserved forever on this enhanced DVD presentation.
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