#ida james

[uptownlowdown]

singer ida james, 1940s.

source: rmyauctions

[uptownlowdown]

singer ida james, 1945.

"laura - my very good friend, may we always be just that - stay wonderful. ida james."

source: NMAAHC

[higherentity]

It's black week!

[agmarie23]

Ida James - photographed by Murray Korman (1945)

Some of James' vocal performances are featured in this week's episode of "Wine-Down Sundays", titled, "The Girls with the Band". You can listen/watch it over at AG Marie TV LIVE TONIGHT at 9PM EST: https://www.youtube.com/@agmarieTV/videos

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Who's Beatin' My Time With You (1941) — Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra. Vocal: Ida James. Lyrics: Mack David & Fred E. Ahlert

[detroitlib]

Portrait of singer and actress Ida James. Handwritten on back: "Ida James, songstress at Flame Show Bar, [undecipherable] with Earl Hines, Columbia Records."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

[classicladiesofcolor]

King Cole Trio & Ida James

Ida James appears in a 1944 soundie with the King Cole Trio performing “Who’s Been Eating My Porridge?”

[classicladiesofcolor]

Ida James had one of the most frequently-heard and unique singing voices of the 1930s and 40s, but she’d been mostly forgotten by the 1960s. Writer and music historian, Marv Goldberg, posted a detailed biography of the singer on his website, using articles he’d compiled from newspaper archives. The link is above.