VERY RARE ... INCREDIBLE RETURN OF

JOSEPHINE BAKER LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL 

VINYL LP

RECORDED LIVE AT CARNEGIE HALL JUNE 5, 1973

50 YEARS IN SHOW BUSINESS GOLDEN JUBILEE

RECORDED BY TELE GENERAL STUDIOS

THIS RARE REISSUE IS AS DIFFICULT TO FIND AS THE ORIGINAL PRIVATE PRESSINGS.  ORIGINALLY ISSUED ON TWO LP's, HOWEVER THIS REISSUE HAS THE ENTIRE CONCERT AND DIALOGUE ALL ON THE ONE LP.

MUSIC DIRECTED BY KARL HAMPTON PORTER

COVER DESIGN BY DAMON COUNCIL

Introduction by Bricktop

Josephine sings and reminisces:

People

Sourire, Toujours Sourire

It's Impossible

Avec Mes Croyens

Josephine Biographical Narration by Bricktop

On the Street Where You Live

I Could Have Danced All Night

Demain

Josephine Reminisces

Hello Young Lovers

Medley of Memories - Memory Lane: When You're Smiling, I'm Just Wild About Harry, Stormy Weather, Love Will Find a Way, There's an Island in the West Indies, Begin the Beguine, Tea for Two, Honeysuckle Rose, I'm a Little Blackbird, California Here I Come, Someday My Prince Will Come, Bill, When You're Smiling

The Times  They Are A Changing

La Vie en Rose

My Sweet Lord

My Way

VINYL = MINT-  

LABEL: EXCELLENT  

 COVER =  VERY GOOD WITH MINOR WEAR ALONG THE EDGE WHERE THE RECORD SLIPS OUT AND THE CORNER TIPS. HAS A COUPLE OF SPPOTS ON THE BACK SIDE.  SEE PHOTOS.

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MINT .. Literally Perfect Record, Shiny Gloss, No Marks, Beautiful Condition.

MINT- .. Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... A Great Record for Most Any Collector.

VG++ (EX) ... Very Clean, Light Paper Marks... Plays Well with Seldom, but Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise

VG+ .. Light Scratches Only, Should Play Well with Only Occasional and Minimal Surface Noise at Times.

VG .. A Nice Record, Looks Used with Some Scratches. Plays with Some Surface Noise.

VG- .. Rough with Scratches and has Some Surface Noise , but Will Play without skips.

G .. Plays Quite Rough, Has Multiple Scratches, Very Noisy.

P .. Poor Condition. Good only for those who will accept any copy to fill in their collection.

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Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her husband, Willie Baker, whom she married at age 15. Surviving the 1917 riots in East St. Louis, where the family was living, Josephine ran away when she was thirteen and began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway. In 1925. Josephine then went to Paris where, after the jazz revue La Revue Nègre failed, however her comic ability and jazz dancing drew attention of the director of the Folies Bergère. Virtually an instant hit, Josephine Baker became one of the best-known entertainers in both France and much of Europe. Her exotic, sensual act reinforced the creative images coming out of the Harlem Renaissance in America. During World War II Josephine Baker worked with the Red Cross, gathered intelligence for the French Resistance and entertained troops in Africa and the Middle East. After the war, Josephine Baker adopted, with her second husband, twelve children from around the world, making her home a World Village, a "showplace for brotherhood." She returned to the stage in the 1950s to finance this project. In 1951 in the United States, Josephine Baker was refused service at the famous Stork Club in New York City. Yelling at columnist Walter Winchell, another patron of the club, for not coming to her assistance, she was accused by Winchell of communist and fascist sympathies. Never as popular in the US as in Europe, she found herself fighting the rumors begun by Winchell as well. Josephine Baker responded by crusading for racial equality, refusing to entertain in any club or theater that was not integrated, and thereby breaking the color bar at many establishments. In 1963, she spoke at the March on Washington at the side of Martin Luther King, jr. Josephine Baker's World Village fell apart in the 1950s and in 1969 she was evicted from her chateau which was then auctioned off to pay debts. In response,Princess Grace of Monaco, who wupposedly at the Stork Club during the incident, gave her a villa. In 1973 Baker married an American, Robert Brady, and began her stage comeback.  Josephine Baker's June 5, 1973 Carnegie Hall comeback performance was a success, as was her subsequent Paris performances, but the second evening of her triumphant Paris performance at Bobinos, was her last, as she died of a stroke in the middle of the night. Josephine has been deeply missed.