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Hadda Brooks

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Aliases
Hadda Brooks Trio
Real name
Hattie L. Hapgood
Born
October 29, 1916
Died
November 21, 2002
Country
United States
IPI
00243697053 2 works
Affiliation
BMI
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Pianist and singer active in boogie-woogie, blues, jazz and R&B. Brooks was also a composer. In 1957, Brooks was the first African American to host her own television show, which ran on KCOP in Los Angeles. She took a hiatus of some 30 years from recording, resuming her recording career in 1994.
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Title Performer Release date Originally by
  September 26, 1994 Fred Astaire BRD, Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus Bob Lytell REC
April 19, 2005 Campbell and Burr
listen on Internet Archive April 1951 Vaughn Monroe and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Marilyn Duke
September 26, 1994 Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Mildred Bailey
listen on Internet Archive   1948 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians REL, Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra REC
listen on Internet Archive January 1947 Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
1949 Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Jack Leonard
  September 26, 1994 Eddie Quillan and Arline Judge REC,BRD, Ginger Rogers and Willie Howard PRF
  April 19, 2005 Red Nichols and His Five Pennies REC,REL, Libby Holman PRF
  September 1950 The Velvetones [US1] REL, The King Cole Trio REC
September 26, 1994 The Orioles - Sid Bass Orch.
listen on Internet Archive August 1947 Mildred Bailey
September 1947 Bill Johnson and His Musical Notes
1957 The Pied Pipers - With Paul Weston and His Orchestra
September 26, 1994 Wade Ray and The Ozark Mountain Boys
1948 Viviane Greene and her Trio - Nick Esposito
  1957 John Howard [US1] PRF, Bill Hayes - Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Joe Lipman REL
listen on Internet Archive i August 1947 (unknown)
  April 19, 2005 Bob Hope PRF, Hal Kemp and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Skinny Ennis REC
February 20, 1996 Big Bill
1951 Big Bill
February 1954 Edith Piaf - Orchestre dir. Robert Chauvigny avec les chœurs R. Saint-Paul, Vera Lynn with Orchestra and Chorus directed by Roland Shaw - Charles Smart at the Organ
listen on Internet Archive May 1950 Ray Noble and His Orchestra featuring Tony Martin
1995 Bing Crosby
April 19, 2005 Ted Wallace & His Orchestra – Vocal Chorus by The Radio Imps
February 20, 1996 Billy Eckstine - Orchestra conducted by Russ Case
April 19, 2005 Bea Wain with Orchestra
February 20, 1996 Adelaide Hall
listen on Internet Archive 1950 Una Mae Carlisle
listen on Internet Archive October 1947 Al Jolson
listen on Internet Archive February 1949 Dick Powell & Alice Faye
September 1952 Steve Gibson and The Original Red Caps featuring Damita Jo
March 1951 Lil Green
February 20, 1996 Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus Billie Holiday
  1957 Maurice Chevalier REC,BRD
1957 Gloria Grafton & Donald Novis
September 1952 Johnny Ace with The Beale Streeters
  December 1956 Jules Bledsoe PRF, "Kenn" Sisson and His Orchestra REC
1957 (unknown)
September 26, 1994 (unknown), Ethel Waters BRD,REC,REL
September 26, 1994 Nancy Wilson [US1]
  June 1952 Isham Jones Orchestra REL, Franklyn Baur REC
listen on Internet Archive June 1947 Lil Green
listen on Internet Archive i 1948 Hubert Eisdell
1948 Ted Lewis and His Band
November 1950 Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber, Haydn Quartet
1988 Bessie Smith, Nina Simone
1957 Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
May 1947 Russell Wooding and His Grand Central Red Caps
September 1947 (unknown)
  1948 George Olsen and His Music - Vocal Refrain by Bob Borger REC, Mary Lawlor and John Price Jones PRF
The Man I Love Hadda Brooks 1945 Unverified
listen on Internet Archive April 1951 Boyd Raeburn and His Orchestra
1957 Isham Jones' Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by Woody Herman
  1957 Rudy Vallee & Everett Marshall PRF, Rudy Vallée and His Connecticut Yankees REC
April 19, 2005 King Cole Trio
April 19, 2005 Henry Russell and His Romancers
listen on Internet Archive June 1947 Wayne King and His Orchestra
February 1953 Sam Ash
  November 1950 Bing Crosby & Marjorie Reynolds [dubbed by Martha Mears] BRD, Bing Crosby with Ken Darby Singers and John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra REC,REL
  April 19, 2005 Helen Morgan REC,REL,PRF
listen on Internet Archive January 1947 Buddy Johnson and His Band