About: Southernaires

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Southernaires, organized in 1929, were an American popular vocal group, popular in radio broadcasting of the 1930s and 1940s. They were known for their renditions of spirituals and work songs. In 1942, they won a widely publicized case of hotel discrimination. Their best known recording, "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen", was released by Decca (2859-B) in 1939. Pianist-arranger Spencer Odom replaced their previous accompanist, Clarence M. Jones, the same year.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Southernaires, organized in 1929, were an American popular vocal group, popular in radio broadcasting of the 1930s and 1940s. They were known for their renditions of spirituals and work songs. In 1942, they won a widely publicized case of hotel discrimination. Their best known recording, "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen", was released by Decca (2859-B) in 1939. Pianist-arranger Spencer Odom replaced their previous accompanist, Clarence M. Jones, the same year. In 1948–49, they hosted a 30-minute show, The Southernaires Quartet, on Sundays on the American Broadcasting Company television network. (en)
dbo:activeYearsEndYear
  • 1950-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 1929-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 29692243 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3015 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1076305269 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:caption
  • Ray Yeates , Lowell Peters , Jay Stone Toney , William W. Edmunson , and Spencer Odom . (en)
dbp:name
  • The Southernaires (en)
dbp:origin
  • United States (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:yearsActive
  • -1950.0
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Southernaires, organized in 1929, were an American popular vocal group, popular in radio broadcasting of the 1930s and 1940s. They were known for their renditions of spirituals and work songs. In 1942, they won a widely publicized case of hotel discrimination. Their best known recording, "Nobody Knows De Trouble I've Seen", was released by Decca (2859-B) in 1939. Pianist-arranger Spencer Odom replaced their previous accompanist, Clarence M. Jones, the same year. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Southernaires (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • The Southernaires (en)
is dbo:knownFor of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License