Ethel Waters Stormy Weather - All The Hits And More 1921-47 CD New 824046913229

Ethel Waters was a singer and actress from Pennsylvania whose music ranged across jazz, stage musicals, movies and pure pop in a career that spanned more than three decades. Raised in poverty by her grandmother, she performed as a child in vaudeville before joining a carnival. However, she did not last long with them and headed to Atlanta, where she worked in the same club as Bessie Smith. Around 1919, Waters moved to Harlem and it was here she built her reputation as a premier performer.\n\nShe started her recording career at the dawn of the jazz age around the time she became a huge attraction on Broadway. During the 1920s and \u201830s she recorded what were among the original versions of some of the most memorable standards of the era.\n\nThis 70-track collection includes recordings from across her active career as a hit-focused recording artist before she turned her attention to TV. It comprises selected releases during this era on the labels, and features all her twenty-six cars