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Aug 15, 2002 · Herb Jeffries' latest musical triumph! is now available. Order your copy of this soon-to-be-classic recording today. please visit our Webrings. To fully enjoy to the audio features on this website, you should have either Real Player 7 or Windows Media Player 6.4. They are both !
May 26, 2014 · Herb Jeffries was the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies in the late 1930s, which garnered him the nickname the "Bronze Buckeroo." He died Sunday in California, at age 100.
May 27, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the jazz singer and actor who performed in a series of all-black Western movies in the 1930s, has died at the age of 100. Known to cinema audiences as the Bronze Buckaroo, he ...
Nov 11, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, baritone jazz balladeer and first black singing cowboy in the movies, was born Umberto Alexander Valentino on September 24, 1913 in Detroit, Michigan, to a mixed-race father and an Irish -born mother. His mother operated a boarding house and raised her son alone. His grandfather had a small dairy farm in Port Huron, Michigan ...
May 25, 2014 · Herb Jeffries, the first black singing cowboy of the movies, who starred in such 1930s films as Harlem on the Prairie and The Bronze Buckaroo, has died, the Los Angeles Times reported. He was 100. ...
Mar 23, 2016 · Herb Jeffries was not the best-loved nor most well-known of the singing cowboys. He never had the name recognition of Gene Autry or the adoration of Roy Rogers. Some people consider him a master marketer. Others view him as a victim — he was a shade too dark for the whites with no other options.
May 26, 2014 · But the strangest thing about Herb Jeffries is that he passed for black. He also recorded a standard with Duke Ellington, married the stripper Tempest Storm and lived to be 100, more or less.
