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White singer and recording artist Edna Lewis Thomas
She performed "Negro" spirituals and Creole songs at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York in 1923.[1]
Edna Thomas (March 13, 1888 – ?) was a singer and recording artist who performed "Negro" spirituals. She was white. She recorded "Were You There" and "Little wheel a turning in my heart" / "Keep inching along" on Columbia Records. She was a soprano.[2]
She was born in New Orleans. She married Albert George Thomas. Warner Dare Huntington was her second husband, they married in 1933.
In 1924 she was scheduled to perform in Sydney, Australia.[3]
Discography
[edit]- "Were You There" (Were You Dere)[4], Columbia Records
- "Little Wheel a Turning in My Heart" / "Keep Inching Along", Columbia Records
- "I'se Been Buked"
- "Go Down Moses"
- "Carry me back to old Virginie"
- "I Wanna be ready"
- "Tone de bell" with Colin Campbell at the piano, Columbia Records[2]
- "Gwine-a lay down mah burden"
- "Somebody's knockin' at your door!"
- "Ai Suzette"
- "My old Kentucky home"
- "Mamzelle Zizi"
- "Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
- "Run, Mary, Run"
- "I Got Shoes"
- "Nobody knows de trouble I sees"
- "Carry me back to old Virginny"
- "Old Folks At Home"[5]
Edna Thomas (November 1, 1885 - July 22, 1974) was an actress.
Edna Lewis was born in 1886 in Lawrenceville, Virginia. She toured with the Lafayette Players. She married Lloyd Carter Thomas. She died of heart disease in New York City.[6]
She portrayed Lady Macbeth in a 1936 production directed by Orson Welles for the Work Projects Administration.
Theater
[edit]Filmography
[edit]- Streetcar Names Desire
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "CHARMS IN NEGRO SONGS.; Edna Thomas Gives a Recital of "Spirituals" at Broadhurst". The New York Times. January 8, 1923 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b "Disc Recording - Columbia - Edna Thomas, 'Negro Spirituals'". Museums Victoria Collections.
- ^ "EDNA THOMAS". Sydney Morning Herald. October 28, 1924 – via Trove.
- ^ "Columbia matrix W145890. Were you dere? / Edna Thomas". Discography of American Historical Recordings.
- ^ "Edna Thomas". Discography of American Historical Recordings.
- ^ "Thomas, Edna (1886–1974) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.