VALAIDA SNOW Porgy 1950 Canada APOLLO MAPLE LEAF 101 ?

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VALAIDA SNOW with BOBBY SMITH & ORCH.

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Porgy  /  The More I Know About Love
Canada  APOLLO / MAPLE LEAF 10-101 10-inch 78 rpm (1950)

Extremely Rare Canadian Pressing on the Apollo Series for Maple Leaf Records! Valaida Snow (June 2, 1903 in Chattanooga, Tennessee – May 30, 1956, New York City) was an African American jazz musician and entertainer. Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play many instruments at professional levels by the time she was 15. She also sang and danced. After focusing on the trumpet, she quickly became so famous at the instrument that she was named "Little Louis" after Louis Armstrong, who used to call her the world's second best jazz trumpet player besides himself. She played concerts throughout the USA, Europe and China. Her most successful period was in the 1930s when she became the toast of London and Paris. Around this time she recorded her hit song, "High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm." She performed in the Ethel Waters show, "Rhapsody In Black", in New York. In the mid-30s she made films with her husband, Ananias Berry, of the Berry Brothers dancing troupe. After playing New York's Apollo Theater, she revisited Europe and the Far East for more shows and films. Later she became addicted to morphine. While touring through Denmark in 1941, she was arrested by the Nazis and kept in a Danish prison run by the Nazis, before being released on a prisoner exchange in May 1942. She never emotionally recovered from the experience and was unable to regain her former success. Valaida Snow died of a brain hemorrhage on May 30, 1956 in New York City, backstage during a performance at the Palace Theater.

CONSERVATIVE GRADING. Disc  NM  The record is in great shape with only minor scuffing. A/B labels are perfect. Learn how I grade HERE

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