Herb Jeffries
Known best among African-American audiences early in his career, Herb Jeffries
was a singer and actor who starred as a singing cowboy in a series of Western
movies in the 1930s and performed with major jazz artists in the 1940s. Lauded
for clearing a path against segregation in Hollywood, he received a Golden Boot
award from the Motion Picture & Television Fund in 1996 and a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2004.
Born in Detroit, he sang locally and as a teenager moved to Chicago where he
sang in clubs until he signed on with the Earl Hines Orchestra in 1933. He
toured ...
If You Could See Me NowHerb Jeffries
It's the Talk of the TownHerb Jeffries
Pennies From HeavenHerb Jeffries
Mona LisaHerb Jeffries
Basin Street BluesHerb Jeffries
Sweet LorraineHerb Jeffries
If You Could See Me NowHerb Jeffries
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It's the Talk of the TownHerb Jeffries
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Pennies From HeavenHerb Jeffries
I Remember the Bing
Mona LisaHerb Jeffries
If I Were King
Basin Street BluesHerb Jeffries
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Sweet LorraineHerb Jeffries
If I Were King
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