A "classic" blues singer with a vaudeville background, Alberta Hunter began
recording in the 1920s with some of the most famous jazzmen of her day (Louis
Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Fats Waller...). Her success took her to London, where
she sang in chic salons and theaters, and even made films (Radio Parade Of, in
1935). Alberta recorded extensively in the '40s ("My Castle's Rockin'" , "The
Love I Have For You"), continued her theatrical career after the war in England,
and sang in Korea for American troops. Just when she was thinking of retiring,
her "Remember My Name", sung in th...