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''Blackbirds of 1928'' was a hit Broadway musical revue〔IBDB - ''Blackbirds of 1928'' Broadway Database: http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=10390〕 that starred Adelaide Hall, Bill Bojangles Robinson and Tim Moore, with music by Jimmy McHugh and lyrics by Dorothy Fields. It contained the hit songs "Diga Diga Do", the duo's first hit, "I Can't Give You Anything But Love", "Bandanna Babies" and "I Must Have That Man" all sung by Adelaide Hall. ==History== ''Blackbirds of 1928'' was the idea of impresario Lew Leslie, who planned to build the show around Florence Mills in New York after her success in the hit 1926 show ''Blackbirds'' in London. Mills died of pneumonia in 1927 before rehearsals for the new show had started and Adelaide Hall was enlisted to replace her. ''Blackbirds of 1928'' started its life as a floorshow at Les Ambassadeurs Club on 57th Street, New York with songs written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields. Fields recalled,〔''Pick Yourself Up: Dorothy Fields and the American Musical'' by Charlotte Greenspan, ISBN 9780199779796, page 62 & 63: http://www.amazon.com/Pick-Yourself-Up-American-Broadway/dp/B008SLIH76〕 ‘''Lew Leslie (the producer) hired us to do a show called Blackbirds of 1928. First, we’d written songs for a show of his in a club called Les Ambassadeurs, where we had Roger Wolfe Kahn (Otto Kahn’s son) and his orchestra, and a lovely lady named Adelaide Hall, who sang''.’ Jimmy McHugh recalled, ‘''I knew about Roger Wolfe Kahn wanting to close the club, and I told Lew Leslie, and Lew went up and made arrangements to take it over. This was the start of the show called Blackbirds of 1928. Leslie opened Les Ambassadeurs with the first half of the show''.’ The show was a great hit. McHugh continued, ‘''From there we wrote a second half and we took the show to Atlantic City''.’ After the tryout in Atlantic City the show opened on Broadway. It was the first Broadway show for which Fields and McHugh had written the entire score and turned out to be a milestone in their respective careers and was one of the most successful shows they were ever connected with. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blackbirds of 1928」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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