"Sweethearts of Rhythm"

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"Sweethearts of Rhythm"

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Post by South » 18 Apr 2019, 10:32

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/17/71440510 ... rld-war-ii


Good morning all,

Above about an obscure aspect of American home-front social history during WWII.

Fully aware that this is an article from NPR, ... it wasn't only the "Deep South". It was the rest of "the South" also.


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Post by R Leonard » 19 Apr 2019, 01:17

You are a day behind NPR broadcasts.


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Post by South » 19 Apr 2019, 12:04

Good morning R. Leonard,

Understand; well received.

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Post by Carl Schwamberger » 28 Apr 2019, 01:09

Not the first or second NPR music story on the Sweethearts. IIRC they originated a decade before WWII as a college band. Some of the members went 'pro' under the name & continued it into the 1940s. They were well established on the dance hall circuit and radio during the 1930s. While unique as a all woman band, female musicians and band leaders were not a complete rarity in the era. Blanche Calloway is largely forgotten now but was as well known as her younger brother in the 1930s.

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Post by South » 29 Apr 2019, 10:45

Good morning Carl,

Must admit I had forgotten the name Blanche Calloway.

She was a national personality for ages and was a national political activist into the 1960s.

She was involved in causes like nuclear disarmament and Vietnam led by Bella Abzug, the flamboyant "hat lady" of Congress.

Blanche Calloway was definitely a woman of US history.

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