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Chapters: Todd Rundgren, Adam Carolla, Bill Haley, Tina Fey, Danny Bonaduce, Ethel Waters, William H. Milliken, Jr., Frank Furness, Joe Sestak, Harry Kalas, Lenora Fulani, Larry Mendte, Kurupt, Jamie Wyeth, Joe Pyne, Jameer Nelson, Jean B. Cryor, Brendan Hansen, John Rauch, Phil Martelli, Richard M. Atwater, Mickey Vernon, Matthew Ryan, Anna Moffo, Jamie Kennedy, Vince Papale, Thomas N. Barnes, Dominic F. Pileggi, Horace Howard Furness, Henry Willson, Kevin Jones, Dan Connor, Tyreke Evans, Mark Jones, Anthony Becht, Nicholas Miccarelli Iii, Derek Walker, William E. Simkin, Rick Vito, Barbara Ann Radnofsky, Cheri Oteri, Jim Goad, John Billingsley, Lena Blackburne, Robert J. Sinclair, Mark Herzlich, Deron Miller, Ed Dougherty, John Morton, Vinnie Paz, Matt Blundin, Geoff Petrie, Ron Bloom, Fairman Rogers, Marc Verica, Richard Hack, Robin Toner, Victor Delcampo, Art Raimo, Tom Killion, John C. Kelton, Larri Thomas, Bill Maas, Ted Meredith, Dave Kern, John Mobley, James Hepburn Campbell, John Martin Broomall, Bill Adolph, John Kincade, Pia Reyes, Mary Ellen Clark, Ulysses Mercur, Bertice Reading, Joshua Humphreys, Thomas Smith, Samuel Edwards, Shaheer Mcbride, Tim Murtaugh, Annis Boudinot Stockton, H. Beatty Chadwick, Bob Kuberski, Bob Lamey, Heather Donahue, Dick Curl, Will Hunter, Brian Smrz, Fred Draper, William H. Berry, Sean Scott, Ava Lustra, Ed Yarnall, William L. Mathues, Henry Clay Vedder, Frank Gallagher, Edward Potts Cheyney, Stacy Barcroft Lloyd Jr, Emma Vyssotsky, Lamar Campbell, Franny Murray, William Clothier, Sam Venuto. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 445. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (pronounced ; born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Award...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=102685 ... Read more

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Chapters: Billie Holiday, Ma Rainey, Ethel Waters, Lizzie Miles, Alberta Hunter, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sippie Wallace, Lucille Bogan, Victoria Spivey, Mildred Bailey, Classic Female Blues, Maggie Jones, Trixie Smith, Helen Humes, Ida Cox, Virginia Liston, Mamie Smith, Eva Taylor, Bertha "Chippie" Hill, Ida Goodson, Martha Copeland, Lucille Hegamin, Lil Green, Viola Mccoy, Clara Smith, Sara Martin, Josie Miles, List of Classic Female Blues Singers, Maxine Sullivan, Blue Lu Barker, Lil Johnson, Georgia White, Hannah Sylvester, Rosetta Howard, Esther Bigeou, Merline Johnson, Lena Wilson, Edna Hicks, Ella Johnson. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 154. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Billie Holiday (born Elinore Harris; April 7, 1915 July 17, 1959) was an American jazz singer and songwriter. Nicknamed Lady Day by her friend and musical partner Lester Young, Holiday was a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. Above all, she was admired all over the world for her deeply personal and intimate approach to singing. Critic John Bush wrote that she "changed the art of American pop vocals forever." She co-wrote only a few songs, but several of them have become jazz standards, notably "God Bless the Child", "Don't Explain", "Fine and Mellow", and "Lady Sings the Blues". She also became famous for singing jazz standards including "Easy Living" and "Strange Fruit". Billie Holiday had a difficult childhood. Much information once not considered true was confirmed in the book Billie Holiday by Stuart Nicholson in 1995. Holiday's autobiography, Lady Sings the Blues, which was first published in 1956, is sketchy when it comes to details about her early life but has been confirmed ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=50420 ... Read more

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Customer Reviews (10)

His eye is on the sparrow
Extremely good book. Read it in small paperback about 30 years ago, and I was pleased to see that is still regarded as marketablr enough to have been rewritten in this high quality paperback. Delivery from Amazon was expedient and the price is certainly good,

Great Book
Anyone who grew up in the 60's-70's should read this book ... it is very inspiring!

His Eye Is On The Sparrow
Whew, what an upbringing, what a life.Waters goes into great detail about her rearing in the slums of Philadelphia, her life as vaudevillian Sweet Mama Stringbean and finally the Ethel Waters of stage, screen, and records.I didn't really know much about Miss Waters other than her role in the movie Pinky, so this book provided great insight into her life.Pretty good.The conversational tone makes it easy to read.

Wonderful
One need not be African-American to love this book.It is a deep insight into a tough time.She talks of things usual life
does not include, as the powerlessness of women doing full nude strip dancing when one or a few refused to have customers give them money in a particularly intrusive way--what awaited such women and what choices did they really have.Neitzsche called Evil, "All that which proceeds out of weakness."He could have had this book in mind.Yet Ethel Water's life has more than defeat.

If you are not moved by this book, you must have a large problem.

His Eye Was on Ethel/Ethel's Eye on Him
I've had the hardback 1951 copy of this book for some time, just picked it up to read last week. It is an astounding story of faith, determination, and strength;It is also an excellent insight into Black History pre-Martin Luther King. I hope the paperback version of this is being read. (and I wish Nikki Giovanni would read it as well).
Highly recommended. ... Read more