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Blues In The Night
6 July 2001
Steve,
For your information. Jean DuShon, who starred in "Blues in the
Night", is a nightclub performer who has enjoyed many of Johnny Mercer's
tunes throughout the years. Not only did she star in "Blues" on
Broadway, but in "Bubbling Brown Sugar" with Cab Calloway and in
"What the Wine Sellers Buy" with Glynn Turman and Dick Anthony
Williams (Tony nominated, Best Actor).
Miss DuShon also starred as Bessie Smith in Chicago's
long-running hit, "Little Dreamer - A Nite in the Life of Bessie
Smith" and off-Broadway in "The Crystal Tree" and "Helen of
Troy". She recorded three albums for Chess Records and was brought to
Atlantic Records by Ahmet Ertegun after he saw her perform at NY's Roundtable.
He assigned the young Phil Spector to record her. Miss DuShon has worked with
Count Basie, Miles Davis, George Shearing, Wes Montgomery, Jack McDuff (with
whom she recorded the album, "The Fifth Dimension") and with many R
& B stars like Etta James, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, B.B. King and Smokey
Robinson.
Of Johnny Mercer, she told me, "Johnny Mercer is one of
the great composers. He ranks with the best of them. I have enjoyed listening to
and singing his music over the years. He is also a great singer."
Jean DuShon lives in New York and has plans to return to
Broadway and recording. Still a fabulous singer, she wants to record the great
composers, like Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington, Richard Rogers and Gus Kahn.
Here are a couple of pictures of the great Jean DuShon.
The first picture is of Alberta Hunter, visiting left to
right, Debbie Shapiro, Jean DuShon and Leslie Uggams backstage during Broadway's
"Blues in the Night". The other picture is a publicity shot of Jean
DuShon during "Bessie Smith".
Ralph McKnight
New York City
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From: aordfrancis@cwix.com
Date: 2/12/99
Time: 9:08:16 PM
Remote Name: 166.55.60.27
Comments
Was "Blues in the Night" a musical first, or a musical
ever?
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Re: Blues in the Night
From:
Date: 12/1/99
Time: 10:10:55 AM
Remote Name: 128.146.234.70
Comments
BROADWAY: Conceived and directed Blues in the Night (Tony nomination,
best musical), featuring Leslie Uggams; also the London production
(Olivier Award nomination, best musical), national tours (with Della
Reese and Eartha Kitt), and tours of Japan. Also on Broadway, Scenes and
Revelations. OLD GLOBE THEATRE: Private Lives, Hedda Gabler, Someone
Who'll Watch Over Me, Blues in the Night, All's Well That Ends Well, Mr.
Ricky Calls a Meeting. OFF-BROADWAY: Bring in the Morning, And I Ain't
Finished Yet, Ebony, Under Heaven's Eye, Splitsville, Juba (Richard
Rogers Development Award winner); co-founder/associate director of The
Production Company where he directed A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Incandescent Tones, Disgustingly Rich (which he conceived), and
Somewhere on the Border. REGIONAL THEATRE: Credits at leading resident
theatres include: Death of a Salesman, Tamer of Horses, Frankie and
Johnny..., Dusky Sally, The Voice of the Prairie, Rashomon, Bravo: A
Musical Portrait of Edith Piaf, Disgustingly Rich, On Borrowed Time, The
Philadelphia Story. TELEVISION: Co-director, Blues in the Night for
Thames Television, Evening Shade. Two-time recipient of the Theatre
Communications Group/Pew Charitable Trust National Theatre Artists
Residency Grant.
Blues In the Night
From: goodepeople@fix.com
Date: 2/4/99
Time: 5:30:31 PM
Remote Name: 207.114.193.220
Comments
My 80 year old aunt requested that I go on the internet and try and
find the words to the song.
Re: Blues In the Night
From: webmaster@johnnymercer.com
Date: 2/5/99
Time: 12:02:32 PM
Remote Name: 24.2.83.46
Comments
BLUES IN THE NIGHT. from the Warner Bros film of the same
name. 1942.Pricilla Lane,Betty Field,Richard Whorf,Lloyd
Nolan,Jack Carson,Wally Ford, Elia Kazan, Peter Whitiney,Billy
Halop,with Jimmy Lunceford/Will Osborne and their Bands.
For research and educational use
My mama done tol' me When I was in knee pants (pigtails)
My mama done tol' me-(son (hon') A woman'll sweet talk, (A man's
gonna sweet talk,) And give ya the big eye, But when the sweet
talkin's done A woman's a two-face (A man is a two-face) A
worrisome thing who'll leave ya t'sing The blues in the night,
Now the rain's a-failin', Hear the train a-callin', Whooee,(My
mama done tol' me) Hear that lonesome whistle Blowin' 'cross the
trestle, Whooee,(My mama done tol' me) A whooee-duh-whooee, O'l
clickety clack's A-echoin' back The blues in the night, The
evenin' breeze'll start The trees to cryin' And the moon'll hide
its light, When you get the blues in the night.
Take my word, the mocking bird'll Sing the saddest kind of
song, He knows things are wrong And he's right. [whistle]
From Natchez to Mobile, From Memphis to St. JO, Where ever
the four winds blow; I been in some big towns An' heard me some
big talk, But there is one thing I know, A woman's a two-face,
(A man is a two-face), A worrisome thing Who'll leave ya t'sing
The blues in the night. [hum] My mama was right, There's blues
in the night.
click here for color sheet music cover
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Re: Blues In the Night
From: Bernsteinfliege@t-online.de
Date: 2/8/99
Time: 1:45:19 PM
Remote Name: 134.95.185.241
Comments
Thanks for the lyrics! The original title of that jazzy WB-movie was
HOT NOCTURNE, but later changed into the title of the Oscar-nominated
smash hit by the successful team Arlen und Mercer. Excellent
conversions, that became blockbusters as well, are by Glenn Miller and
Ray Charles. Musical critics and jazz musicians (especially the blacks)
praised this song for its true blues feeling. Greetings from Cologne,
Thomas
From: webmaster@johnnymercer.com
Date: 3/18/99
Time: 7:35:20 PM
Remote Name: 24.2.83.46
Comments
Blues In The Night was a film with Priscilla Lane,Betty Field, and
Richard Whorf...The song became famous, the film almost forgotten!
Steve
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