Singer Georgia Carr with Stan Kenton after a Detroit, MI performance of “The Biggest Show of ‘52”. It was Ms. Carr in the picture with Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Monica Lewis and Mr. Kenton, not Thelma Carpenter. Thanks to Derrick Lucas for contacting Mr. Cole’s former manager, Dick LaPalm, but clearly Mr. LaPalm was mistaken. And thank you Toni Callender for your comment and giving me the opportunity to correct the original post - and the excuse to share the lovely Georgia Carr with VBG fans. Photo: University of North Texas Digital Library.
Marvin Gaye was born 74 years ago today in Washington, DC. He is in Detroit in this 1971 photo shooting the cover for his iconic “What’s Going On” album. Photo: Jim Hendin
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“I was a fly chick when I was young.” ~ The artist Ladybird Cleveland (now Strickland) to a reporter in 2012 in a story about an exhibition of her paintings. Ms. Strickland, the mother of legendary fashion model Pat Cleveland, was photographed here by Carl Van Vechten on September 21, 1954. Photo: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Dancers Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder (followed by Ms. de Lavallade’s sister, Elaine de Lavallade and Emery Lewis) on their wedding day, June 26, 1955. The wedding was hosted by theater legend Lucille Lortel at her estate in Westport, Connecticut and notables like Diahann Carroll, Josephine Premice, and Carl Van Vechten. Mr. Van Vechten’s assistant at the time, Saul Mauriber, took this photograph. Via:Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
![Afro-Puerto Rican jazz singer, cabaret performer, and Queen of Filin Lucy Fabery, b. 1931. Although called “La Muñeca de Chocolate” (“The Chocolate Doll”) for her dark-skinned beauty, this label ”is actually the antithesis of Lucy; a doll is something static and inert, and she vibrates even when sitting still.” Luis Rafael Sánchez writes,
The memory of anyone who ever heard Lucy Fabery automatically records the magnetic strangeness of her voice. And then the diffuse spasms of her body; spasms that strip spectators of their serene detachment. Listening to the wonderful sound of Lucy Fabery, seeing the singer Lucy Fabery elevate physical movement to the level of a concert by a full orchestra, we see the truth expressed by [Alejo] Carpentier when he writes, “The Caribbean sounds, resounds.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/a463ad9995eaabb7a48dad209c18cd26/tumblr_miw48hX8So1qjeot1o1_500.jpg)
Afro-Puerto Rican jazz singer, cabaret performer, and Queen of Filin Lucy Fabery, b. 1931. Although called “La Muñeca de Chocolate” (“The Chocolate Doll”) for her dark-skinned beauty, this label ”is actually the antithesis of Lucy; a doll is something static and inert, and she vibrates even when sitting still.” Luis Rafael Sánchez writes,
The memory of anyone who ever heard Lucy Fabery automatically records the magnetic strangeness of her voice. And then the diffuse spasms of her body; spasms that strip spectators of their serene detachment. Listening to the wonderful sound of Lucy Fabery, seeing the singer Lucy Fabery elevate physical movement to the level of a concert by a full orchestra, we see the truth expressed by [Alejo] Carpentier when he writes, “The Caribbean sounds, resounds.”
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