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   Shelton Brooks (May 4, 1886 – September 6, 1975) was a Canadian-born American composer and performer of popular music and jazz. He was known for his ragtime and vaudeville style, and wrote some of the biggest hits of the first third of the 20th century; including "Some of These Days" and "At the Darktown Strutters' Ball".

2. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › en › articleShelton Brooks | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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   Jul 8, 2007 · Learn about Shelton Brooks, a Canadian-born songwriter, pianist, comedian, and actor who composed jazz standards such as 'Some of These Days' and 'Darktown Strutters' Ball'. Find out his biography, career highlights, and awards.

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4. www.cshf.ca › songwriter › shelton-brooksShelton Brooks | Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Inductee

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   Learn about Shelton Brooks, a Canadian vaudeville entertainer and songwriter who composed Some of These Days and The Darktown Strutters' Ball. Watch performances of his songs by Jackie Richardson and Joe Sealy at the CSHF Induction Gala.

5. www.youtube.com › watchShelton Brooks and Shelton Brooks, Jr. ("Where It Was ...

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   Shelton Brooks (1886-1975), the famed African-American songwriter from the ragtime era, performs at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, January 31, 19...

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     Ian Whitcomb Interviews Shelton Brooks (1972)

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7. www.youtube.com › watchShelton Brooks - Hole in the Wall - YouTube

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   Nov 26, 2009 · Shelton Brooks, composer of "Some of These Days" and "Darktown Strutters' Ball," sings "Hole in the Wall." From a 1939 all-black film, Double Deal. The credits state Brooks also...

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8. www.youtube.com › watchDarktown Strutters Ball (1917) - YouTube

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   [Disclaimer: This song was written by a black man named Shelton Brooks, based on real-life events that took place in Chicago. Read further down in the descri...

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   Who was Shelton Brooks?

   • Shelton L. Brooks. Songwriter, pianist, comedian, actor, b Amherstburg, near Windsor, Ont, 4 May 1886, d Los Angeles, California, 6 Sep 1975. Brooks played organ and piano at home as a boy, and attended his preacher father's Nazery African Methodist Episcopal Church. The family moved to the USA in 1901.

   Shelton Brooks | The Canadian Encyclopedia

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   Why did Shelton Brooks get a big break?

   • Good things happen when talent meets fateful opportunity, and that’s the happenstance that led to the big break for Shelton Brooks. A ragtime piano player, Brooks was already an accomplished vaudeville entertainer based in the Detroit-Chicago. Her warning was like a prayer answered for Brooks.

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   Who was Bill Brooks?

   • As an actor, Brooks was known for his impersonations of the West Indian comedian Bert Williams; he also appeared in films 1939-45. He joined Ken Murray's Blackouts (1949), and continued to perform occasionally until the 1970s. Brooks was honoured by ASCAP in 1940, and inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005.

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   Where did John Brooks Live?

   • Brooks was honoured by ASCAP in 1940, and inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005. In his later years, he lived in Fontana, California. Moogk, Edward.

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10. www.allmusic.com › artist › shelton-brooks-mn0000024890Shelton Brooks Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & M... | AllMusic

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