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Bibb, Leon, 1922-2015


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    • Charles Leon Aurthello
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    • Bibb, Charles Leon, 1922-2015
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    • found: All star hootenanny [SR] 1964?:label (Leon Bibb)
    • found: Southern, E. Bio. dict. of Afro-Amer. and African musicians(Bibb, Charles Leon; b. ca. 1924, Louisville, Ky.; folksinger)
    • found: African American National Biography, accessed November 26, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Bibb, Leon; Charles Leon Arthello Bibb; actor, singer; born 07 February 1922 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States; attended Louisville Municipal College and was a soloist with the college glee club; joined the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots in the U.S. military who served with great distinction in World War I; after the war took a variety of jobs to support himself in New York City while searching for a way into music; was chosen to appear in the original cast of Annie Get Your Gun, which starred Ethel Merman and opened on Broadway in 1946; also took roles in Off-Broadway projects; the spirituals and prison songs Bibb recorded came into sharper focus as he lent his voice and presence to civil rights actions during the 1960s; moved to Vancouver (1971); in addition to recording and performing, he founded Step Ahead, a program designed to start students and teachers talking about racism and bullying)
    • found: New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 27, 2015(in obituary published Oct. 26: Leon Bibb; b. Charles Leon Aurthello Bibb, Feb. 7, 1922, Louisville; d. Friday [Oct. 23, 2015], Vancouver, B.C., aged 93; actor turned folk singer whose powerful, elegant baritone voice made him a prominent figure in the folk-music revival and a stirring performer at the landmark civil rights demonstrations of the 1960s, including the third march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965; under the name Lee Charles, recorded an album with the folk quartet the Skifflers and a solo album of spirituals for Riverside Records, Swing low, sweet chariot, before recording under his own name for Vanguard and other labels)
    • notfound: Stambler, I. Enc. of folk, country & western music, 2nd ed.;Gaylord Library on WWW;Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed.;New Grove dict. of Amer. mus.;Baker, 8th ed.
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    • 1997-12-02: new
    • 2019-03-22: revised
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