My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
From Cab Calloway
We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.
You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough.
At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
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