Belle Baker~There Must Be A Silver Lining~1928
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Belle Baker, one of the Red Hot Mammas, recorded "There Must Be A Silver Lining" in February 1928 for Brunswick Records, label 3815.
Belle was a torch singer, vaudeville star, and Yiddish, Broadway, and motion picture actress. Her signature song was the Yiddish Eli Eli and My Yiddishe Mama.
Belle was born in New York City in 1893. She started in the entertainment business by singing in the streets for pennies while also selling flowers and newspapers. Her first real job paid $3 per week at People's Music Hall in NY. Yiddish actor Jacob Adler heard her and hired her to play in "The Homeless", a theater drama. Her stardom was set while barely aged 20 when she shared a program with Sarah Bernhardt at The Palace in New York.
Baker had a deep resonant voice and was one of vaudeville's Red Hot Mammas along with Sophie Tucker and Fanny Brice (and some would add Ethel Merman). She introduced over 160 songs including Blue Skies, All of Me and Alexanders Ragtime Band. She was married 3 times, one of the marriages to Lew Leslie of "Blackbirds" fame. Although she lived most of her life in New York City, she retired in Beverly Hills where she died at 62 in 1957.
Belle was a torch singer, vaudeville star, and Yiddish, Broadway, and motion picture actress. Her signature song was the Yiddish Eli Eli and My Yiddishe Mama.
Belle was born in New York City in 1893. She started in the entertainment business by singing in the streets for pennies while also selling flowers and newspapers. Her first real job paid $3 per week at People's Music Hall in NY. Yiddish actor Jacob Adler heard her and hired her to play in "The Homeless", a theater drama. Her stardom was set while barely aged 20 when she shared a program with Sarah Bernhardt at The Palace in New York.
Baker had a deep resonant voice and was one of vaudeville's Red Hot Mammas along with Sophie Tucker and Fanny Brice (and some would add Ethel Merman). She introduced over 160 songs including Blue Skies, All of Me and Alexanders Ragtime Band. She was married 3 times, one of the marriages to Lew Leslie of "Blackbirds" fame. Although she lived most of her life in New York City, she retired in Beverly Hills where she died at 62 in 1957.