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Alice Barker in 'Sugar Hill Masquerade' (Whitey's Lindy Hoppers 1942)

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A new soundie with Alice in it has come to our attention! Thanks to Susan Delson for pointing her out!

Alice appears at: 0:18 (far right), and 1:11 (front and center, then moving to the right)

Notes by jazz historian Mark Cantor:

This soundie is titled 'Sugar Hill Masquerade', although it is actually the standard 'After You've Gone'. It was recorded on December 18, 1941 by Gene Krupa and his orchestra, the familiar arrangement from the period featuring trumpet star Roy Eldridge.

The soundtrack was put on the shelf, and the "action" was not filmed until September 18, 1942 — not an altogether rare soundie practice. The small band you see on screen at the beginning, led by trumpet Walter Fuller, has nothing to do with the music we hear on screen.

The sideline performers include the following; note the way Alice's name appears on the sideline contract:
Edna Mae Harris, Slim Thomas, Ray Harris, Carrie Frederick, Charlie Morrison, Frances Urline Jackson, Dorothy Moses, Thelma Hereford, Estella Marrino, Alyce Barker [chorus girl to far right], Florence Alexander.

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