This sailor is really handsome! Wait for the kiss!
MUAH!
Love always, Annette, "That's All!"
Annette Hanshaw was a popular singer and radio star of the 1920s and
early Thirties who had many Jazz overtones in her singing style. She
stepped out of her role of a torch singer and improvised and had a great
deal of swing that harkened to the Big Band singers of the 1930s. She
was viewed by the public as the epitome of a flapper. Many of her early
records feature many of the hot White players of the day like Red
Nichols, Miff Mole, Phil Napoleon, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian
Rollini, Vic Berton, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey and Jack
Teagarden. Hanshaw was billed as "The Personality Girl," and her
trademark was girlishly saying "That's all" at the end of a lot of her
records. Hanshaw recorded under a number of pseudonyms which included
Ethel Bingham, Dot Dare, Gay Ellis, Marion Lee, Janet Shaw, Lelia
Sandford and Patsy Young. Annette never thought much of her abilities as
a singer and retired from showbiz in 1935.
Annette Hanshaw sings Am I Blue from the from the motion picture On With
The Show which featured Ethel Waters, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown and
Arthur Lake. The film was the first sound motion picture filmed in
color although only black and white copies survive. The film had been
adapted from the musical The Broadway Melody. Annette recorded her
version May 31, 1929 in New York on the Harmony, Diva, Puritone and
Velvetone labels.
Charted at #11 in 1929. One of Annette's best! With the New Englanders.
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