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		Herb Jeffries When Herb Jeffries walked into the RCA Victor Studio in Chicago on December 28,1940 for a Duke Ellington recording session, he had no idea that his future was predestined.
		Herb had never sang or even heard the song before, yet he felt such a personal relationship with the lyrics and melody that he recorded it in one take.
		I sat and listened and marveled at Herb Jeffries through this record session at Park Hill Music Recording Studios in Hemet, California and came away mesmerized that this was the same Herb Jeffries I'd listened to as the boy singer with Duke Ellington's big band in the early forties.
	www.parkhillmusic.com /herbpage.htm (630 words)

	Senior World Online - Articles
		Long-time actor and singer Herb Jeffries was the first fl man to star as a cowboy hero in American movies, and continues entertaining audiences with his powerful singing style.
		Herb is part Ethiopian, part French, and part this and that; but most important to him, is he is all American!
		Herb is not afraid to express his opinion, nor should he be, because a gestation period of 86 years is pretty impressive!
	www.seniorworld.com /articles/a19990331214317.html (962 words)

	Herb Jeffries - 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herb was born in Detroit and performed in a combo locally and on radio.
		Jeffries starred in them, chose the actors, wrote most of the music and did all his own riding and stunts.
		Herb attributes his longevity and good health to a lifelong study of Eastern religion, meditation, and yoga; most importantly, he says, he never took his voice for granted.
	www.westernmusic.org /HallOfFamefiles/HerbJeffries.html (433 words)

	Herb Jeffries - NBHF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1939, Herb joined the Duke Ellington Orchestra as the first male vocalist and became a major singing star.
		Today Herb continues to perform about six months of the year and is busier than ever with a new CD "The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again)" recently released on Warner Records and several other exciting projects.
		Herb Jeffries, always looking for the next adventure, the "new kid in western music", resides in Toluca Lake with his wife Regina.
	www.infoage.org /NBHF-HerbJeffries.html (327 words)

	North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jeffries was born Sept. 24, 1911, in Detroit.
		Jeffries began singing with a trio as a teen in Detroit, where he caught the attention of Louis Armstrong in a speakeasy.
		Jeffries in a sense chose to be fl in his musical career, and that decision soon would influence his choice to expand into film.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2003/09/20/special_reports/life_times/9_20_0322_03_11.txt (1756 words)

	Hats off to a Happy Cowboy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While Herb Jeffries was undoubtedly the first fl singing cowboy, he was not the first fl actor to be in a western.
		Herb’s mother Millie supported her children by operating a rooming house, and her work ethic was an inspiration to him.
		Herb fell in love with music at a young age, and sang in a church choir.
	www.bjmjr.com /jeffries/salute1.htm (2161 words)

	Reviews of Herb Jeffries \| The Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again, and Donna Reed's Dinner Party (Nick at Nite Records)
		Herb Jeffries is not part of the regular Warner Western crowd, which embraces such cowboy artists as local favorites Sons of the San Joaquin and Waddie Mitchell.
		Adds Jeffries, "Well, he said they were all good pals, but they had started playing cowboys, and since no one had ever seen a fl cowboy at any of the Saturday matinees, they just didn't see any way he could fit in with their cowboy bunch.
		Jeffries continues: "Maybe one of the most important outgrows of the civil rights struggle was that our history became as important to us as other people's histories were to them.
	www.cdshakedown.com /082395.htm (868 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- Event honors veteran singer
		OCEANSIDE – Herb Jeffries, a vocalist with the legendary Duke Ellington orchestra, remembers performing in Oceanside once before – in a downtown nightclub in 1948.
		Jeffries was a big part of the entertainment world during that period.
		Jeffries, who sang with the Ellington band from 1939 to 1941, doesn't think much of the modern generation of vocalists.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/education/20030911-9999_1mi11music.html (983 words)

	Time proves kind to Herb Jeffries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jeffries is navigating a plane he’s borrowed from Mickey Rooney to commute from his Las Vegas gig to the San Fernando Valley to see his baby daughter.
		Jeffries: ‘Well, if I took you down to Central Avenue right now, if you weren’t so well recognized as John Garfield and I told people you were my brother and were fl, they wouldn’t question it.
		Jeffries, his fiancé and the reporter are talking about Jeffries’ "back nine" at lunch at an Italian restaurant in Palm Springs.
	www.yoganandaafrican-american.com /html/d_herb_jeff_timekind.html (2181 words)

	black history month
		Herbert Jeffries was born in Detroit in 1911.
		Jeffries is still writing and recording songs and in 1996 he received the Golden Boot Award from the Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation for his contribution to the Western film genre.
		Herb Jeffries was more than an on-screen idol.
	alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/00/02/actors.htm (1186 words)

	Herb Jeffrey The Bronze Buckaroo Biography
		Herb Jeffries is no ordinary man. Lean and not so mean, he wore two guns, wore a white Stetson hat and rode a white horse named "StarDusk" Sounds like a cowboy hero doesn't it?
		Herb was too light-skinned to be taken for a fl man. They feared that audiences would not accept him.
		Herb is in his 80's and still performs as a singer and writes music.
	www.cowboypal.com /cwpherbj.html (553 words)

	The Herb Jeffries Tribute Revolver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born and raised in Detroit, Herb Jeffries became America's first fl singing cowboy - overturning the prevailing attitudes of his day about race, capturing the hearts of youngsters across the country, and becoming an American legend.
		In 1936, the handsome, athletic Jeffries trained for his future roles at a ranch, learning to round up, brand and rope cattle.
		This is the classic pistol used in Herb's movies and in the Old West.
	www.americaremembers.com /products/HJP/HJP.asp (291 words)

	American Visions: The Bronze Buckaroo rides again; Herb Jeffries is still keepin' on - star of all-black cowboy movies
		Jeffries decided that America's movie audiences needed a history lesson, so in 1936 he took off for California, determined to make the first all-fl cowboy movie.
		Jeffries then convinced Spencer Williams, who later portrayed Andy in television's Amos `n' Andy, to write a script and sign on as the film's co-star.
		And he had no illusions about the quality of the movies; today he affectionately refers to them as "the first bunch of C-minus westerns," while noting that he worked with a budget that was just a fraction of those assigned to the B westerns of Autry and Rogers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1546/is_n4_v12/ai_19666534 (1476 words)

	National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
		Jeffries was nearly always a jazz singer, but he was also the only fl, singing movie cowboy in history.
		Jeffries was in the first class to be inducted into the National Cowboys of Color Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas, in August of 2003.
		On August 24, 2003, Jeffries performed a concert in the Red Room of the White House for nearly 300 guests which included President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush; Secretary of State Colin Powell; Secretary of Education Rod Paige; National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice; the President of Panama; and the President of Pakistan.
	www.nationalcowboymuseum.org /presrel/2_20_04.html (603 words)

	Herb Jeffries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Among the singers often referred to as "big band baritone" are most notably: Dick Haymes (by far the most famous exponent of this), Joe Williams, Johnny Hartman, Vic Damone (who never really sang with a big band, but definitely deserves the title), David Allyn (another great forgotten singer), Johnny Desmond and a few others.
		Herb started singing more than 50 years ago and had formal vocal training.
		Plainly he has great soul and empathy for what he sings, and his heart is not in his head but deep within the core of the song he delivers.
	www.lentriola.com /legends/jeffries.htm (229 words)

	Herb Jeffries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herb Jeffries’ next film, from Merit Pictures, was “Two Gun Man from Harlem,” which was originally entitled “New Trail Ahead.” It featured many of the same cast-members as his first one, including music by the Four Tones (who were compared by several critics to a fl version of the Sons of the Pioneers).
		After his roles in the Herb Jeffries movies, Spencer Williams starred in and directed a number of low-budget films during the 40s.
		Herb would win millions of fans during the years that he was Ellington’s vocalist; and if you are a record collector, perhaps you have the original of his biggest hit, “Flamingo”, which was released in late December of 1940 on the Victor label.
	www.bjmjr.com /jeffries/salute2.htm (1474 words)

	Herb Jeffries, The Bronze Buckaroo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1946, Herb Jeffrey was in convalescence in Detroit, Michigan after incurring severe back injuries received in an airplane crash.
		After several sessions with him, Herb was able to eventually control the pain and rid himself of his back problems.
		Astonished by Yogananda's intuitive knowledge to cure him, Herb decided to become a follower of Master's teachings and took Kriya Yoga initiation from Reverend Walters (Swami Kriyananda, the founder of Ananda) in Yogananda's name.
	www.yoganandaafrican-american.com /html/d_herb_jeff_1.html (544 words)

	The Amazing Talented Herb Jeffries by John DiMezzes
		It is the late 1930's, and up on the theater screen, Herb Jeffries stars as the first b-western fl cowboy, the Bronze Buckaroo, in a series of oaters made specifically for the Afro-American audience.
		It is the 1940's, and out of radios and record players, the melodious voice of Herb Jeffries flows, singing his renditions of "Flamingo" and "Satin Doll," songs he made famous while performing with Duke Ellington's band.
		The long and continuing career of Herb Jeffries is a phenomenon of American culture.
	thenostalgialeague.com /olmag/jeffries.html (458 words)

	WIC Biography - Herb Jeffries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herb Jeffries, at 92, is the sole surviving member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
		Herb gave up his film career to perform with the Duke Ellington band during WW II.
		Herb Jeffries is a remarkable man. He is filled with unbound enthusiasm about life and music.
	www.wic.org /bio/hjeffries.htm (364 words)

	PE.com \| Inland Southern California \| Hemet-San Jacinto
		Jeffries drove up in his flashy Cadillac with the steer horns on the hood, dressed in his cowboy finery, "sticking out like a fly in the buttermilk." When Ellington spotted him, he announced that the Bronze Buckaroo was in the audience and asked him to sing a song.
		Jeffries laments that we're becoming a nation of economic extremes, driven by greed and plagued by "cultural anemia." He blames consumers obsessed with foreign products and a weak educational system taught by underpaid teachers.
		Jeffries works six months a year and is putting the finishing touches on "The Singing Prophet," a new CD due out next year.
	www.pe.com /localnews/hemet/stories/PE_NEWS_nhherb28.fdc1.html (1296 words)

	Murray's Ranch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One of the special attractions of Herb Jeffries' movies was his songs.
		Jeffries sings his theme song, "I'm a Happy Cowboy," which is a traditional Western tune and could have been sung by Gene Autry or Roy Rogers.
		Jeffries was an excellent Western vocalist, and he eventually attained popularity as a singer with both fl and white audiences.
	www.empirenet.com /richkat/murray6.html (690 words)

	Herb Jeffries - Jamaica: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jeffries wrote all 12 of the songs on this CD, which is weighted decidedly toward the most popular side of calypso music.
		His voice is in fine shape on "White Sails," a romantic ballad on which his crooning is backed by strings and harp -- the richness of his tone overcomes the limitations of a conventional lyric.
		He lightens up his approach considerably for "Fly Joe Fly," a playful, romantic number with harps added to a conventional small band, and his work on "Adam and Evil Blues" is almost an acting performance, with a declamatory singing style that is almost operatic despite the piece's blues origins.
	www.music.com /release/jamaica/3 (343 words)

	twogunmanfromharlem
		Jeffries sang his own I'm a Happy Cowboy accompanied by The Cats and the Fiddle, an African-American hillbilly group.
		Bob Blake (Herb Jeffries) is a ranch foreman out West who gets framed for the murder of his boss John Steele (Tom Southern).
		The film was entertaining but had very limited production values, the acting was stiff, Jeffries' visit to Harlem made no sense, the fighting scenes were just awful and the plotline involving a deacon's disguise was very amateurishly accomplished.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/twogunmanfromharlem.htm (394 words)

	Herb Jeffrey/Jeffries - Western Movie Hero (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Above is a February 6, 1999 photo of singin' cowboys Eddie Dean and Herb Jeffries at a fund raiser at the Iverson Movie Ranch to raise money for Dean's star in Palm Springs.
		Herb Jeffries' first oater was HARLEM ON THE PRAIRIE (1937), and the producer was none other than Jed Buell.
		Jeffries was a recipient of a Golden Boot award in 1996.
	www.surfnetinc.com /chuck/herbj.htm (792 words)

	Amazon.ca: Say It Isn't So [Import]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jeffries sounds fine on such tunes as "Say It Isn't So," "When Your Lover Has Gone," "Angel Eyes" and "The End of a Love Affair," although the overall results are rather predictable.
		Jeffries sings with a passion(h e must have been thinking of his then wife stripper/pin up model Temptest storm, wonder why she didn't pose for the cover?) It's definately not the hip swinging Jeffries who sang "Flamingo" with Ellington, it's more of a hip cool Jaffries!
		But Jeffries' rich, mellow and confident baritone takes us back to an era when popular vocalists, like their classical counterparts, actually tried to produce a lovely sound.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000058985 (695 words)

	www.TIX.com - It's the Ticket!
		Herb Jeffries, lead singer for the Duke Ellington Band, will be the subject of an "On Stage" interview.
		Herb Jeffries is the last surviving member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
		At age 92, he is a highly in-demand singer with a schedule that is booked for almost two years solid.
	www.tix.com /Event.asp?Event=5032 (146 words)

	JazzTimes: The Bronze Buckeroo Rides Again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the late '30s-that's right, I said '30s - he found a niche as sort of a sepia Gene Autry in a series of cowboy movies aimed at the "race" audience.
		These were C movies according to Jeffries' recent accounts, however they gave him a certain cachet, and now nearly 50 years later some quirky exec at Warners has shown fit to resurrect this cornerstone of Jeffries' career on disc.
		Herb Jeffries' rich, clear baritone pipes belie the fact that he is...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_kmjat/is_199702/ai_kepm287435 (239 words)

	Herb Jeffries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One day you will realize that our inner spirit has become void and the only think that can save it from its doom is art through all its expressions, whether we talk about sculpture or cinema.
		It is an uplifting situation that those who smarten up the spirits are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their endless masterpieces.
		It is an uplifting situation that those who adorn the mind are continuously challenging our immagination and our wits with their endless masterpieces.
	www.wonderful-people.com /Actors/Actor_western/index5/West20077.htm (192 words)

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