Aunt Jemima (Tess Gardella)- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, 1928

Thérèse Gardella ("Aunt Jemima") (1897 - 1950) better known as Tess Gardella, was an Italian-American actress who played the character of Aunt Jemima in the original 1927 Broadway production of "Show Boat."
Ms. Gardella played the role of Aunt Jemima in blackface. Though her marker has the name "Aunt Jemima" on it, Tess Gardella is not the real Aunt Jemima. According to the African American Registry, Nancy Green, born in 1834, is the original "Aunt Jemima".

Recording:
Aunt Jemima (Tess Gardella) acc. by Hymie Farberman (tr.), Jimmy Cassidy (tromb.), Sam Feinsmith (cl., alt sax), Rube Bloom (piano), Tony Colucci (banjo) -- Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Kern /Hammerstein) (from "Show Boat"), Columbia 1928

Category:

Music

Tags:

• American
• black
• singers
• 1920s
• Jazz
• Age
• 78s
• shellack

[IDMTOYP]

i don't think people who disapprove of racism should use racist terms to describe those whom they deem to be racist..

[madamerotten]

@fihaprincess You're right-- colour and race has NOTHING to do with it. But people with no understanding of art or music or theater will pin the race tag on anything to make their pointless argument, and in the process politicize it to the point where no one can enjoy it any more.

[lazercannoncheck]

wheres unkle ben?

[torry7]

Actually, Aunt Jemima is a depiction of racial sterotyping.

She wears a handkerchief around her head and maid clothing to further the belief that black women are not sexual beings and that they are inferior to white people not only in beauty but also in social standing. Search photos of Aunt Jemima in the 1910s, 1940s, and now and you will see that todays Aunt Jemima is sending the exact same image but altered slightly.

[JxT1957]

i would like a blow job from aunt jemima and tuck me in to sleep

[lere99]

O_O

[DreamsCumTrue469]

@Tonyho0124 did you read what you wrote? "ARE" PRESIDENT IS BLACK. The word is "our" President. Please learn how to speak and write proper english before you write something on the internet that makes you and by implication, all other black people look stupid. You can't tell people how far we've come when you show people you don't even know the difference between the 1st grade words "are" and "our."

[CarlitosDJmx]

we have a different presentation and song in Mexico for the Aun Jemima hot cakes..a lovely black woman too but singing a song in spanish ...miss her much

[markbender49]

@TheLadyjazzy1 Bravo! Progress.

[mazzata66]

I like the old Aunt Jemima pancake box...bring it back!!

[dyllman5]

mmmm aunt jemima and waffels:P

[princeandrey]

Actually Show Boat was an anti-racist musical play (ca 1929), WRITTEN TO SHOWCASE the brilliant talents of Paul Robeson. It's theme was inter-racial love. This in a heavily racist epoch!