The Ponce Sisters - Black Bottom ~1926
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I'd like to start off with a note about the subject of the song which I find just as interesting as the singers. The "Black Bottom" was a dance that originated among African Americans in New Orleans and the rural south in the 1900's, and like most similar things, worked its way into mainstream popular culture, blossoming into a national craze by the 1920's Jazz age. It's believe that at least one of the early creators, credited in a piece of early sheet music, was African American dancer and choreographer Billy Pierce. The dance soon wound up in tent shows, in the Harlem show "Dinah" in 1924, and most famously in the musical comedy revue "George White's Scandals of 1926" on Broadway. It even overtook the Charleston (although both are similar in rhythm) becoming the number one social dance in the country. Per that early sheet music, these are the steps as follows:
"Hop down front then doodle back [doodle means "slide"]
Mooch to your left then mooch to the right
Hands on your hips and do the mess around,
Break a leg until you're near the ground [break a leg is a hobbling step]
Now that's the old black bottom dance
Instructions for the mooch are "Shuffle forward with both feet. Hips go first, then feet."
And now for the artists: Ethel (August 4, 1907) and Dorothea (aka Dobbie, December 30, 1909) were born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughters of composer, author, publisher and radio executive Phil Ponce (Fat's Waller's first manager). The duo got their start on radio programs including the "Old Gold Paul Whiteman Hour", sometimes performing with acts like Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians and Bing Crosby. They would end up performing in Manhattan theaters, touring the vaudeville circuit, and even appeared in three short films produced by MGM studios.
On the recording side, they cut their first sides in 1925 and would continue to do so until 1932, recording for Columbia, Gennett, Cameo, Perfect and Edison labels. Usually just offering their voices, there are a few recordings with Ethel playing the piano accompaniment (she was also a respected composer, going by the name Ethel Ponce Fenley). Although not jazz singers by nature, they did record with jazz greats such as Eddie Lang, Jimmy Dorsey, and Joe Venuti. This song, "Black Bottom", was originally written by Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva and composed by Ray Henderson, and was recorded in October 1926
The duo broke up in 1935 after Ethel's marriage, with Dorothea continuing on as a soloist on radio until 1937 and HER marriage. Ethel popped up again in the 1950's, performing a few of her songs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as well as continued writing jingles for such products as Bavarian Beer and the Yellow Pages.
I'd like to start off with a note about the subject of the song which I find just as interesting as the singers. The "Black Bottom" was a dance that originated among African Americans in New Orleans and the rural south in the 1900's, and like most similar things, worked its way into mainstream popular culture, blossoming into a national craze by the 1920's Jazz age. It's believe that at least one of the early creators, credited in a piece of early sheet music, was African American dancer and choreographer Billy Pierce. The dance soon wound up in tent shows, in the Harlem show "Dinah" in 1924, and most famously in the musical comedy revue "George White's Scandals of 1926" on Broadway. It even overtook the Charleston (although both are similar in rhythm) becoming the number one social dance in the country. Per that early sheet music, these are the steps as follows:
"Hop down front then doodle back [doodle means "slide"]
Mooch to your left then mooch to the right
Hands on your hips and do the mess around,
Break a leg until you're near the ground [break a leg is a hobbling step]
Now that's the old black bottom dance
Instructions for the mooch are "Shuffle forward with both feet. Hips go first, then feet."
And now for the artists: Ethel (August 4, 1907) and Dorothea (aka Dobbie, December 30, 1909) were born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughters of composer, author, publisher and radio executive Phil Ponce (Fat's Waller's first manager). The duo got their start on radio programs including the "Old Gold Paul Whiteman Hour", sometimes performing with acts like Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians and Bing Crosby. They would end up performing in Manhattan theaters, touring the vaudeville circuit, and even appeared in three short films produced by MGM studios.
On the recording side, they cut their first sides in 1925 and would continue to do so until 1932, recording for Columbia, Gennett, Cameo, Perfect and Edison labels. Usually just offering their voices, there are a few recordings with Ethel playing the piano accompaniment (she was also a respected composer, going by the name Ethel Ponce Fenley). Although not jazz singers by nature, they did record with jazz greats such as Eddie Lang, Jimmy Dorsey, and Joe Venuti. This song, "Black Bottom", was originally written by Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva and composed by Ray Henderson, and was recorded in October 1926
The duo broke up in 1935 after Ethel's marriage, with Dorothea continuing on as a soloist on radio until 1937 and HER marriage. Ethel popped up again in the 1950's, performing a few of her songs with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as well as continued writing jingles for such products as Bavarian Beer and the Yellow Pages.
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