Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLContents: Boogie woogie (I may be wrong) / Count Basie, Jimmy Rushing (3:38) -- See see rider / Ma Rainey (5:08) -- Sent for you yesterday and here you come today / Count Basie, Ed Durham (3:42) -- How long how long blues / Leroy Carr (4:52) -- How you want lovin' done / Jimmy Rushing, Sam Price (4:18) -- I can't understand / Rose Marie McCoy, Connie Ingram, Robert Mellin (4:34) -- My friend Mr. Blues /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES RUSContents: Special stream line (Bukka White) (2:53) -- Railroadin' some (Henry Thomas) (3:15) -- How long has that evening train been gone (Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell) (2:50) -- Riding the blinds (Eddie Mapp) (2:45) -- Midnight special (Leadbelly) (2:02) -- I hate that train called the M & O (Lucille Bogan) (3:07) -- That lonesome train took my baby away (Charlie McCoy) (2:59) -- Spike driver blues...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023