Re: RIP - Betty Carter


Carole Fabricant (bi853@lafn.org)
Sun, 11 Oct 1998 06:04:11 -0700



In a previous article, mleftwich@my-dejanews.com () says:

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>From: mleftwich@my-dejanews.com
>Newsgroups: rec.music.bluenote
>Subject: Re: RIP - Betty Carter
>Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 15:29:42

>> >
>> >RIP - Betty Carter
>> >
>> >
>>
>> In '75, I saw her (with John Hicks and Walter Booker) at a Gilly's in
>> Dayton, a few weeks after she was on Saturday Night Live. She was great.
>> During a break, when I told her how much I had liked her for so long, she
>> gave me a kiss on the cheek. I was in heaven.
>
>I never really heard of Betty Carter until about two weeks before her. She
>performed at the Keswick Theatre in Abington, PA. She was well known by my
>husband who lived in in New York. He said she was know as the beep bop lady.
>Betty, rest in peace.
>>

does anybody have anymore info on this?

btw, miles davis said she was the best musician he'd ever heard...

-t



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