EVEN GREEN PEOPLE GET THE BLUES
May. 11th, 2010 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogBy now you know that Lena Horne has passed away. And I’m embarrassed to say that I’m not all that familiar with her music, apart from “Stormy Weather” and, well, her Sesame Street gigs.
On the other hand, listen to her give some class to “Bein’ Green”, one of the best songs ever to originate from a kids show.
Anyway, I know Horne more for her role in tearing down racial barriers in Hollywood. This paragraph from the Washington Post obit is worth passing around:
It takes courage to stand up to a system like that. Respect.
Fight the power,
This is dF
On the other hand, listen to her give some class to “Bein’ Green”, one of the best songs ever to originate from a kids show.
Anyway, I know Horne more for her role in tearing down racial barriers in Hollywood. This paragraph from the Washington Post obit is worth passing around:
In other films, she shared billing with white entertainers such as Gene Kelly, Lucille Ball, Mickey Rooney and Red Skelton but was segregated onscreen so producers could clip out her singing when the movies ran in the South.
"Mississippi wanted its movies without me," she told the New York Times in 1957. "So no one bothered to put me in a movie where I talked to anybody, where some thread of the story might be broken if I were cut."
"Mississippi wanted its movies without me," she told the New York Times in 1957. "So no one bothered to put me in a movie where I talked to anybody, where some thread of the story might be broken if I were cut."
It takes courage to stand up to a system like that. Respect.
Fight the power,
This is dF
