“We were a funny, vulgar, drunken vaudeville blues band…playing music as much to amuse ourselves as please an audience and make money” – Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood MacRead more
Pigmeat Markham, a Black comedian and vaudeville star who performed in blackface, recorded the 1968 single “Here Comes the Judge,” which is often cited as the earliest hip-hop record.Read more
It was 1933 & Bill Basie was stranded in KC when his vaudeville touring group disbanded, so he took a job playing organ for silent movies before joining, then swiftly leading, his own big band into music history as “Count” Basie (and his Cherry Blossom Orchestra)Read more
