• Connie's Inn was a Harlem, New York City, black and tan nightclub established in 1923 by Connie Immerman (né Conrad Immerman; 1893–1967) in partnership...
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  • Beatrice Inn (2006–2009) Bungalow 8 (2001–2009) Café Society (1938–1948) CBGB (1973–2006) Chateau Moderne (1930s) Club Cumming Connie's Inn Copacabana...
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  • Starting in 1932, singing in the Don Redman Orchestra, Harlem nightclub Connie's Inn marketed Lattimore as the "colored Bing Crosby" [sic]. Lattimore was...
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    It was introduced in the 1929 Off-Broadway revue "Load of Coal" at Connie's Inn as a soft-shoe dance number. Waller's 1934 recording was inducted into...
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  • 1930s, the Shim Sham was performed on stage in Harlem at places like Connie's Inn, Dickie Wells's Shim Sham Club, the 101 Ranch, the LaFayette Theatre...
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    The song was first performed at the premiere of Connie's Hot Chocolates in Harlem at Connie's Inn as an opening song by Paul Bass and Margaret Simms...
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    other large and successful night clubs in Harlem, the Cotton Club and Connie's Inn, Smalls regularly showcased revues which featured the club's permanent...
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    Gull and Victor. He frequently played at the well known Harlem club Connie's Inn. He continued playing in New York through the 1940s and early 1950s,...
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    his calling card. He became popular enough to eventually perform at Connie's Inn and the Cotton Club. The snakehips dates back to southern plantations...
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    black woman, her wages were meager. She made her New York City debut at Connie's Inn in Harlem. She came out as a lesbian in 1921 at the age of twenty-seven...
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  • auditioned but was not hired at Harlem nightclubs such as the Cotton Club, Connie’s Inn, and the Nest because of their preference for light-skinned chorus girls...
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    never recorded as a session leader. The Modern Jazz Quartet at the Music Inn Volume 1 (3D, 1956) One Never Knows (Atlantic, 1957) Patterns (United Artists...
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    Memories of France (1928), Columbia Claude Jones, Harlan Lattimore, & Connie's Inn Orchestra- Reefer Man (1932), Columbia Benny Goodman Orchestra- Margie...
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    the morning. During the 1930s, he recorded for Columbia, Crown (as "Connie's Inn Orchestra"), ARC (Melotone, Perfect, Oriole, Vocalion), Bluebird, Victor...
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    became his biggest-selling record yet. Armstrong started to work at Connie's Inn in Harlem, chief rival to the Cotton Club, a venue for elaborately staged...
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    Even the Queen and Other Short Stories and The Best of Connie Willis: Award-Winning Stories "Inn" (1993) – Collected in Miracle and Other Christmas Stories...
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    Moreland gained an opportunity in 1927 when he was hired as a comedian in Connie's Inn Frolics in Harlem. He next worked in the musical revue Blackbirds of...
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  • support of their civil rights. Other Harlem black and tans included Connie's Inn, Small's Paradise, Connor's Club, Edmund's Cellar, and Barron Wilkin's...
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    Harlem jazz venues in the 1920s. Others included the Uptown Cotton Club, Connie's Inn, and the Savoy Ballroom. The "Rennie" was open to African Americans,...
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    records as he played them and took the stage-name DJ Heinrich. In the US, Connie's Inn and the Cotton Club in Harlem, NY were popular venues for white audiences...
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    his own band in 1931, gaining a residency at the Manhattan jazz club Connie's Inn. Redman signed with Brunswick Records and undertook a series of radio...
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    Goldberg. In 1923, the Shuffle Inn moved to basement next door to the Lafayette Theatre and was renamed Connie's Inn. Roberts 1920s hit "Railroad Blues"...
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    New York City, New York Ubangi Club, Harlem, New York City, New York Connie's Inn ("Jungle Alley"), 2221 Seventh Street, Harlem, New York City, New York...
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    venues, including the Cotton Club, where Duke Ellington played, and Connie's Inn, were restricted to whites only. Others were integrated, including the...
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    Duke Ellington Orchestra the house band position at the speakeasies Connie's Inn in Harlem and the Kentucky Club in Times Square. He was producing shows...
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  • been titled "Magic Motor Inn" and would have starred Preity Zinta and Vir Das, who appeared in the episode "The Magic Motor Inn" during the show's final...
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  • partner Ralph Cooper. The Rector-Cooper act played at Connie's Inn. It was at New York's Connie's Inn that he developed his own military precision drill-routine...
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  • Congressional Black Caucus Congress of Racial Equality The Conjure Woman Conk Connie's Inn Consolidation Coal Company (Iowa) Constellation (film) Constitution of...
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    1936 she was the headline cabaret act at the famous Harlem nightclub Connie's Inn. In New York she was photographed by the celebrated photographer Carl...
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  • The group tours the club scene, visiting locations like the 101 Ranch, Connie's Inn, Dickie Wells, and Saratoga. Sage and Checkers appear as "Rusty" and...
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