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	Hadda Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hadda Brooks (October 29, 1916 - November 21, 2002) was a noted African American pianist, vocalist and composer.
		A versatile performer whose career spanned almost six decades and whose repertoire included boogiefied classics, blues, ballads and torch songs, Brooks became known as "the Queen of Boogie Woogie" right after the release, in 1945, of her first single, "Swingin' the Boogie".
		Born into a prominent African American family from Georgia, she was taught to play the piano from the age of four and later studied classical music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hadda_Brooks (230 words)

	Hadda
		Brooks actually preferred ballads to the uptempo tunes even though it was the boogie woogie that gave her the first sign of fame with the 1945 recording of "Swingin' The Boogie" for Modern Music (as the label was called in the early years).
		However by this time Hadda realized that her time as a top R and B attraction had passed and the stage now belonged to the new young performers and their music aimed at the teenaged population.
		Hadda Brooks has remained a living testament to the enduring nature of the music she helped create and has been a part of for more than a half century.
	home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/Hadda.html (1263 words)

	Hadda Brooks -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hadda Brooks (October 29, 1916 - November 21, 2002) was a noted (Click link for more info and facts about African American) African American pianist, vocalist and composer.
		She was born Hadda Hopgood in (Click link for more info and facts about Boyle Heights) Boyle Heights, (Click link for more info and facts about Los Angeles, California) Los Angeles, California.
		Born into a prominent African American family from (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia, she was taught to play the piano from the age of four and later studied classical music.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/H/Ha/Hadda_Brooks.htm (214 words)

	CMT.com : Hadda Brooks : Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hadda Brooks was one of the many figures who was significant in aiding that transition, although she's largely forgotten today.
		Brooks got a recording deal through a chance meeting with jukebox operator Jules Bihari, who was looking to record some boogie-woogie.
		Brooks' first records were instrumental, but by 1946 she was singing as well.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/brooks_hadda/bio.jhtml (387 words)

	Articles - Hadda Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A decade ago, Hadda's old albums on the Crown label, not to mention her 45s and 78s, would be routinely stepped on by jazz and RandB collectors in old record stores and juke box warehouses as these vinyl fiends made their frenzied searches for the more "respectable" artists they favoured.
		You see, Hadda Brooks was neither fish nor fowl, not primitive enough for blues and boogie fans, nor did she have the improvisational skills valued by jazzers.
		Hadda was born Hadda Hopgood in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles County, on October 29, 1916, to a prominent family.
	trash.candysweet.com /fibbers/articles/hadda.html (1267 words)

	Hadda Brooks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		She was born Hadda Hopgood in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California [1] (http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/pase/bhproject/index06.htm).
		In the course of her career, Brooks also appeared in films, mainly as a pianist and/or lounge singer (, 1947; In a Lonely Place, 1950, performing "I Hadn't Anyone 'Til You").
		An interview with Hadda Brooks (http://www.umich.edu/~afroammu/standifer/brooks.html) from the African American Music Collection at the University of Michigan
	pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Hadda_Brooks (269 words)

	Senior Women Web > News & Issues
		Hadda Brooks received a review of her songs at the JVC Jazz Festival that spoke of lovesickness and heartache, revealing 'the peaks of melodrama.' Not bad for a lady of 84, born in 1916.
		Brooks and she was enjoyed a new popularity with younger celebrities.
		Another article said that "Hadda Brooks was neither fish nor fowl, not primitive enough for blues and boogie fans, nor did she have the improvisational skills valued by jazzers.
	www.seniorwomen.com /ni/ni_womenofnote1.html (334 words)

	RollingStone.com: Time Was When : Hadda Brooks : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Straddling both camps was Hadda Brooks, a classically trained pianist and drop-dead gorgeous crooner.
		Brooks' arthritic hands can no longer replicate the keyboard pyrotechnics of her youth, nor can her voice recapture its lustrous sensuality.
		On the title track, Brooks sings, "Time was when you said lots of silly things to please me," with the older but wiser air of a woman who won't get fooled again.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/111385/haddabrooks?pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1 (375 words)

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		Hadda Brooks, the smoky-voiced torch singer and pianist who was known in the 1940's as the Queen of the Boogie and came out of retirement in the late 1980's to gain new popularity with younger audiences, died on Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 86.
		Hadda Brooks, who first rose to fame on the piano in the mid-1940s as "Queen of the Boogie" and became a popular torch singer with hits such as "That's My Desire," has died.
		Brooks, who underwent a career renaissance a decade ago and drew enthusiastic crowds with her repertoire of ballads and boogies, died Thursday at White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles.
	www.waxmuseum.net /HaddaBrooks.html (1479 words)

	Deaths elsewhere
		LOS ANGELES -- Hadda Brooks, a pianist known in the mid-1940s as Queen of the Boogie and later as a torch singer with hits such as "That's My Desire," died Thursday.
		Brooks' first single, the 1945 hit "Swingin' The Boogie," launched her career and helped establish the Los Angeles-based Modern Records, which became the West Coast's premier postwar R&B label.
		Brooks scored hits such as "Trust in Me," "Don't Take Your Love From Me" and "Dream." She also sang in several films and, in the early 1950s, became the first African-American entertainer to host a TV variety show.
	www.freep.com /news/obituaries/dead25_20021125.htm (530 words)

	Blues Reviews 2
		The music of Hadda Brooks comes from an era in the mid-to-late 40's when jazz and big band music was evolving into RandB.
		Brooks' singing lies in the classic torch song style while her boogie-woogie piano playing was the sound that laid the foundation for rock and roll.
		Brooks got her start in the mid 40's hooking up with Modern records who were looking to record some boogie-woogie to cash in the music's popularity.
	www.baddogblues.com /archives/9.99/reviews2.htm (1282 words)

	African American Registry: An entertainment pioneer, Hadda Brooks!
		Hadda Brooks* was born on this date in 1916.
		As a singer and pianist Brooks was one of the many figures who was noteworthy in aiding that transition, although she's largely forgotten today.
		She had a fair amount of success in the late '40s, reaching the R&B Top Ten with "Out of the Blue" and her most famous song, "That's My Desire." Her success on record led to some roles in films, most notably in a scene from In a Lonely Place, which starred Humphrey Bogart.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2050/An_entertainment_pioneer_Hadda_Brooks (332 words)

	The Doo Wop Cafe and Doo Wop Cafe Radio site
		Hadda Brooks, the smoky-voiced torch singer and pianist who was known in the 1940s as the Queen of the Boogie and came out of retirement in the late 1980s to gain new popularity with younger audiences, died on Thursday (11-21-2002) at 86.
		Born Hadda Hapgood in Los Angeles in 1916, she begged her father for piano lessons at the age of 4, and stretched her tiny hands on a board for a week until they could reach across an octave.
		Brooks' big break came when a jukebox repairman named Jules Bihari overheard her playing a piano in a Los Angeles record store in the mid-1940s.
	www.doowopcafe.net /MissHaddaBrooks.html (1901 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Hadda Brooks
		Brooks gave a confident performance of material from her new DRG release "Anytime Anyplace Anywhere," starting with the title track and working her way through songs long associated with her: "That's My Desire,""Ol' Man River,""You Won't Let Me Go,""Don't Go to Strangers."
		Backed by guitar and bass, Brooks, who started as a boogie-woogie pianist and became a torch singer after band leader Charlie Barnet suggested she "do something to break up the monotony," works in the standard format of '40s singers such as Nat Cole and Charles Brown.
		Brooks breaks up that monotony by walking into the crowd and singing sans microphone, as well as telling the occasional old Hollywood story.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117903930?categoryid=34&cs=1 (347 words)

	Hadda Brooks, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Singer and pianist Hadda Brooks was one of the many figures who was significant in aiding that transition, although she's largely forgotten today.
		Her first record, the pounding "Swingin' the Boogie," was a sizable regional hit in 1945.
		After a similarly unrewarding return to Modern in the early '50s, and a brief stay at Okeh, she largely withdrew from recording into the nightclub circuit.
	www.emusic.com /artist/10557/10557024.html (446 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Hadda Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		For over 60 years, Hadda Brooks has been singing the blues, jazz and torch in taverns, cabarets and restaurants.
		Brooks is doing a month of Wednesdays at the boite, accompanied by former Brubeck bassist Senator Eugene Wright.
		No longer a blues belter and thus off that circuit of clubs, Brooks plays a handful of jazz festivals and cabarets and has been looking for a gig closer to home (which for the singer is in East Hollywood).
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117917685?categoryid=34&cs=1 (304 words)

	Hadda Brooks Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	African American Music Collection: the interviews
		The advantage of it and I'll talk to you about it more off camera, is the fact that we're able to preserve it in a way that three hundred years it will be as fresh and beautiful as ever and your around now to direct what happens to it.
		To make it come out in Hadda, how ever they do it I don't know, she said it four or five times...
		Hadda would you please play it again, and which ever one they it was in the picture.
	www.umich.edu /~afroammu/standifer/brooks.html (6131 words)

	Los Angeles Magazine: Blues Traveler - Hadda Brooks - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hadda Brooks counts Uma Thurman and Jack Nicholson among her fans, along with Sean Penn, who reportedly fell for the saucy octogenarian when they worked together on The Crossing Guard.
		Among the classic instrumentals ("Hadda Swings") and vocal numbers ("Hadda Sings") are new duets with veteran blues crooner Charles Brown and Carla Bozulich of the avant-alternative Geraldine Fibbers.
		Charming today's fans of pre-rock raucousness brings things full circle for Brooks who recalls over lunch at Musso & Frank that rock `n' roll prompted her to leave the country in the `50s.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1346/is_12_43/ai_57564121 (537 words)

	village voice > music > Creative Time's avant-electronica at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage; Clem Snide at Mercury ...
		Eighty-four-year-old singer-pianist Hadda Brooks betrayed one minor concern during her Joe's Pub show on Friday, her first New York performance in seven years and first ever for the JVC Jazz Festival.
		Despite her look of angst, Brooks and her decades of seismic activity outrumble any earthquake.
		Although she became known in the 1940s as "Queen of the Boogie," arthritis tends to limit her to one example per set—on Friday, the thundering "Hadda's Boogie." Her vocals, which bear a resemblance to Nat King Cole's, retain some but not all of their delicious, velvety warmth.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0127,sotc,26088,22.html (833 words)

	Los Angeles Magazine: Blues Traveler - blues singer Hadda Brooks - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		FROM BOYLE HEIGHTS TO THE VIPER ROOM, BLUES LEGEND HADDA BROOKS CASTS HER SPELL ON L.A. In the grand tradition of Tony Bennett, L.A.'s queen of boogie (that's piano, not disco) is catching the eyes and ears of the Hollywood hiperati.
		She met legendary transsexual Billy Tipton ("I was as surprised as anyone when they found out he was a woman") and befriended Billie Holiday, whom she first encountered in a hotel powder room, where Lady Day banged open the door on the stall Brooks occupied and offered her a drag off a joint.
		The younger singer was so delighted to croon Brooks s signature hit, "That's My Desire," she was nearly paralyzed.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1346/is_1998_Nov/ai_53281793 (543 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hadda Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Updated 260 days 18 hours 50 minutes ago.
		An interview with Hadda Brooks (http://www.umich.edu/~afroammu/standifer/brooks.html) from the African American Music Collection at the University of Michigan
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hadda-Brooks (258 words)

	Hadda Brooks Music CDs at Songsearch.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hadda Brooks Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles
		Hadda Brooks - Blues and Boogie: Empress Of The Torch Blues
		Hadda Brooks - That's Where I Came In
	www.songsearch.com /catalog/h/hadda_brooks.html (235 words)

	eBay - hadda brooks, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	DECEMBER 16, 2001 Meeting
		The Annual Holiday party is always so much fun as it is the one time out of the year all the Marilyn Remembered Members are able to attend.
		Hadda honored us with her piano playing and singing when she performed three wonderful songs.
		She was such a delight to listen to that the audience had her do an encore before she left.
	www.angelfire.com /nj4/mmremembered/DecMeeting2001.html (471 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: Center Stage: Hadda Brooks, Linda Hopkins: Tribute to Nellie Lutcher
		Santa Monica Mirror: Center Stage: Hadda Brooks, Linda Hopkins: Tribute to Nellie Lutcher
		Hadda Brooks, Linda Hopkins: Tribute to Nellie Lutcher
		Smooth, smoky voiced Hadda Brooks teams up with powerful gospel and blues belter Linda Hopkins in a rare show.
	www.smmirror.com /volume4/issue1/center_stage.asp (72 words)

	ModRecords
		This giant of independent Los Angeles based R and B record labels was started by Joe and Jules Bihari during the waning days of World War II in 1945.
		It was originally called Modern Music Records and saw its first success with the piano boogie rhythms of Hadda Brooks especially "Swinging The Boogie".
		By the late 1940s the newly renamed Modern Records was a major player in the spread of R and B music across the country.
	home.earthlink.net /~jaymar41/ModRecords.html (3481 words)

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