Fact #109069
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Short story:
Johnny Otis And His Orchestra, with vocalist Linda Hopkins, record Doggin' Blues, Chitlin Switch, Warning Blues and Living And Loving You, for Savoy Records in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Full article:
Duke Jethro (organist for B.B.King) : We used to play The Chitlin Circuit. It was a circuit of theatres, all in the black neighbourhoods, and you had to do well in those theatres to be stamped as a professional musician, if you will. One of them was The Howard Theatre in Washington D.C.; and of course there was The Apollo in New York; in Philadelphia there was The Uptown Theatre. In Baltimore there was The Royal Theatre, there was also a black theatre in Detroit, and if you were booked in one you were booked in them all. In Chicago there was The Regal Theatre, and that was where you got stamped as a professional entertainer in the black field.
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