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30 de may. de 2014 · Herb Jeffries was born Herbert Jeffrey in Detroit, Michigan in 1913. His father, Umberto Balentino, was a pianist of African-American and Sicilian descent. Jeffries’s mother was of Irish descent. And somewhere in his heritage, there are said to be links to Ethiopian and French Canadian forebears.
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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 CD release of "A Brief History Of Herb Jeffries (The Bronze Buckaroo)" on Discogs.
1 de may. de 2023 · Share. Tools. Herb Jeffries was the Bronze Buckaroo, star of five all-Black-cast singing-cowboy movies in the 1930s and ’40s. His sweet, rich baritone fronted Duke Ellington’s orchestra in the 1941 megahit “Flamingo” and countless other tunes and set women’s hearts a-fluttering.
A Brief History of Herb Jeffries (The Bronze Buckaroo) by Herb Jeffries released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
The Bronze Buckaroo is a 1939 American Western race film directed by Richard C. Kahn. [1] The Bronze Buckaroo stars Black cowboy singer Herb Jeffries, [2] [3] here billed as Herbert Jeffrey. [4] Plot. Cowboy Bob Blake receives a letter from his friend Joe Jackson, asking for help.
- Hollywood Productions
- Lew Porter
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- Richard C. Kahn, Jed Buell
11 de nov. de 2014 · Jeffries’s first film, Harlem on the Prairie, appeared in 1937, followed by Two-Gun Man from Harlem, The Bronze Buckaroo, and Harlem Rides the Range. Jeffries sang and performed his own stunts as “Bob Blake” in these low-budget movies with an all-black cast.
In 1995, at age 81, he recorded The Bronze Buckaroo (Rides Again), a Nashville album of songs on the Warner Western label. Film career. Touring the Deep South with Hines, Jeffries was struck by the realities of segregation, as the Orchestra's playing was restricted to tobacco warehouses and black-only movie theatres.
