1943
Cabin in the Sky
(performer: "Li'l Black Sheep" 1943, "Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe" 1943, "Cabin in the Sky" 1940 - uncredited, "Taking a Chance on Love" 1940 - uncredited, "Honey in the Honeycomb" 1940 - uncredited)
1942
Cairo
(performer: "Il bacio The Kiss", "Chi mi frena The Sextet" 1835, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" 1912, "There's No Place Like Home Home, Sweet Home" 1823, "Buds Won't Bud" 1937 / "Buds Won't Bud" 1937)
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Other Works:
(1945) Stage: Appeared in "Blue Holiday" on
Broadway. Musical revue (all-black cast).
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Personal Quote:
I just let singing out the way it comes to me. Once the orchestra gets used to letting themselves go, everything works out fine. The song is really the main thing, the song and the way you sing it.
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Trivia:
Waters has had three of her recordings inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame: "Dinah" (Columbia Records, 1925) in 1998; "Stormy Weather" (Brunswick Records, 1933) in 2003; and "Am I Blue?" (Columbia Records, 1929) in 2007. Her "Stormy Weather" recording was also inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry in 2004.
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Nickname:
Sweet Mama Stringbean
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Star Sign:
Scorpio
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