Alberta Hunter: My Castle's Rockin' | movie | 1992 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

This music biography portrays the life of the legendary blues singer and songwriter Alberta Hunter. After 40 years of sh | dG1fakwwaEl4NV9pQ3c

Transcript

00:00If somebody had walked in here and said to you, I know a woman that can sing, you'd say, well, what does she look like?

00:09I'd say, well, maybe you wouldn't tell them exactly what I look like because I'm kind of ugly, you know.

00:15But you'd say, well, she's all right.

00:18How old is she? 82.

00:20Man, you must be crazy.

00:30Come on up some night, my cat's rocking.

00:36You can blow your top cause everything's free.

00:41On the top floor, the third door to the rear, that's where you'll always find me.

00:47Stuff is there, the chick's fairly wrong with glee.

00:52Don't worry about a thing cause I'm laying it on the line for protection.

00:56Tell them cats downtown to let their conscience be.

01:01She was an overnight sensation, a performer who touched old and young minds.

01:07Girl, you can blow your top cause everything's free.

01:11Everybody loved her.

01:13Yet, most people had never heard of Alberta Hunter before she triumphantly returned to singing in 1977.

01:20In fact, she had already enjoyed a 40-year career that had brought her international fame.

01:28Then she disappeared from public life, only to stage one of the most spectacular comebacks in show business history, all at age 82.

01:37And we start that ball rolling, my cats is rocking, my joint is jumping, my pad is popping, come on by and see.

01:51Yeah!

01:52Born in Memphis, Tennessee.

01:56April 1st, 1895.

01:591895.

02:00Well, I went to Auction Street School, what school I went to.

02:05It wasn't the time I went to school, I used to sing at school.

02:08And they told me I could sing, you know.

02:12Her childhood was like many others in the poor black neighborhoods of Memphis around the turn of the century.

02:19Fatherless before her fifth birthday, Alberta was raised in a crowded household dominated by women,

02:24especially her grandmother, from whom she inherited a feisty spirit.

02:29To make the story of her Chicago trip even more interesting,

02:33Alberta would later tell the press she was only eight years old.

02:37And I had on some red shoes and a blue dress.

02:40And the man hollered all out for the northbound trains.

02:45Well, I didn't know where I was going, but I knew it was Chicago.

02:48And we start that ball rolling, my cats are rocking, my joint is jumping, my pad is popping, come on by and see.

03:02Yeah!

03:03Yeah!