Word: pigfoot
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...danced: Gregory Hines tapped in tribute to Teddy Hale, then Sammy Davis Jr. introduced seven old masters who demonstrated they could still glide and stomp. And it chuckled: M.C. Bill Cosby quipped and jived and, when Singer Jennifer Holliday was delayed, improvised his own burlesqued version of Gimme a Pigfoot. It also cried a river. The emotional climax came when Patti LaBelle sang You'll Never Walk Alone to Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow Coretta, who sat in a box with tears streaming down her cheeks...
...penchant for wearing flowing gowns unbuttoned to the waist. There is the emotional intensity that glints inside every wave of her finely controlled vibrato on a ballad like Night and Day. Then there is the quicksilver sensitivity to shifting harmonies on a snaky blues like Gimme a Pigfoot...
Collectors' Note: Okeh has reissued some famous oldtimers: I'm Confessin' (Louis Armstrong); Willow Weep for Me (Cab Galloway); Wiggle Woogie (Count Basic); Gimme a Pigfoot (Bessie Smith...
...some of the best jazz of her day, features such instrumentalists as Armstrong, James P. Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, Benny Goodman, Frankie Newton, Jack Teagarden. Some of the titles: St. Louis Blues, Careless Love Blues, Empty Bed Blues, Yellow Dog Blues, Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair, Gimme a Pigfoot...
...still be found in the record shops. "The World Is Waiting" is a marvelous example of Newton's modesty and simplicity, and "Blues My Baby Gave To Me" is among the finest blues solos ever recorded. Frank's solo on the remaining record, Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pigfoot," on UHCA, is already legendary...