Eubie Blake Memories of You with Alberta Hunter

[ESPNRG1]

..and then suddenly hip hop was born..

[leoncoda]

En el minuto 1:50 empieza el tema MEMORIES OF YOU tocado magníficamente al piano por EUBIE BLAKE a sus 98 años.

[jetherocardoso]

Great! The very music, in this time of "bands"...

[KickazzRedhead]

Every time I watch this clip I cry a bit because I love their music so much! :)

[Gmancrap]

Wow, this sure if incredible.

[honeybee7700]

wow i love alberta she became a RN. great lady

[denisethepainter]

FANTASTIC. Thanks for shaing this video.

[XicoFlavio]

Albert and Eubie are two icons of the best jazz all the time.

[cruisinjude]

Simply beautiful! Look at those wonderful long fingers! My short little hands are so envious! Thank you Eubie, for sharing your talent.

[goodymfla]

Beatiful!

[eyecmypets]

Thanks for posting this brilliant musical interlude of the genius of Eubie Blake and Alberta Hunter. They were stars that will never fade with the passage of time, because of their indelible contributions to music .

[bluesjaye]

Hi Folks, Wonderful! Thanks, Jay

[treemonisha2006]

I am proud of them and the fact that they are part of the Roots of Modern American Music!  Rest In Peace my Elders!!!

[terrybaritone]

What a lovely posting! That famous comment was made on an ITV documentary series screened in the late 60's / early 70's, called "All You Need Is Love", which traced the development of popular music from blues to, well, the late 60's or early 70's. I remember watching it with fascination. Wonder if it's available on archive?

[eruptionista]

When Eubie Blake was in his nineties, he said: "If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have looked after myself better."

[MookRyan]

thank you so much for posting this - it's beautiful.

[jazzgirl1920s]

I am glad you enjoyed this. Eubie Blake was a wonderful piano player and composer. Thankfully he lived so long to be able to introduce many generations to ragtime and his great songs like Memories of You.

[jazzgirl1920s]

Yes, definitely viva Alberta Hunter. She was around a long time like Eubie Blake and was able to make records in the 1920's and appear on Tv shows in the 1980's.

[mewe65]

I love you jazzgirl 1920's..

Viva Alberta !!

[jazzgirl1920s]

I was lucky my husband taped this off TV on his old beta machine. Don't know if you knew this or have heard it but a collector told me a guy named Tom Stewart recorded hundreds of hours of jazz live at clubs and off the radio on a wire recorder and his kids threw them all out after he died because they had no way to play them. The guys wire recorder had broken and he he threw it out years ago but he kept all the wire spools. He had live recordings of Louis, Duke, Basie no one else had.