Victoria Spivey - Any Kind A Man (1934)

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Victoria Spivey (1908 - 1976)
got her start in music at age twelve when she began playing piano in a movie theatre in Houston, Texas. From there she expanded her musical career to playing in saloons and whorehouses. She was was a big fan of the Blues singer Ida Cox and modeled her own career after Cox's. In 1926 at the the age of twenty she travelled to St. Louis where Okeh records was on a field trip looking for new acts to record.

In 1929 she played a small role in King Vidor's early film musical "Hallelujah". As the Blues craze and the record industry in general hit the skids in the early 1930s, Spivey somehow managed to keep recording and performing unlike almost all of the other Classic Blues singers. She expanded into playing in vaudeville musical revues, including the acclaimed Hellzapoppin' Revue in New York City and recorded and toured with Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra. Spivey was constantly working, playing countless one-night stands throughout the 1930s and 1940s, but by the l950s, Spivey had left show business, but continued singing in the church choir in her home in Brooklyn. Victoria returned to show business in 1962 when she formed her own record company, Spivey Records. Her first record on the label featured Bob Dylan as an accompanist. So, Spivey's career began again in the early 1960s; she began performing in folk and blues festivals and in nightclubs in and around New York City and continued to record for the rest of her life.

Victoria Spivey and her Chicago Four - Any Kind A Man (1934)

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  • I thank God that im open to listening to all kinds of music even though im 12 i listen to enough music to be 100, some people pick on me for it but i dont care, it's really good music i fell in love with this song the first time i heard it.

  • Victoria is the truth!

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  • This is superb!Thank you for this gem.

  • Tell it, Spivey! =)

  • @tlex96 honey there is nothin' wrong with you :D lovin you from Canada baby xx

  • Hi I love this song. I can't find the lyric. Someone can help me?

    Thanks, Florencia (from Argentina)

  • Just love Victoria Spivey, thank you!

  • @Necromortis61 yh...that has to be one of my favorite song quotes of all time

  • Meravigliosa!

  • gotta love spivey. my favourite blues singer ever.

  • She sooo cute. Sang that music Victoria...

  • can someone please post the lyrics

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