Nights When I Am Lonely
CD Nostalgia Arts NOCD 3008
When Victor made a field trip to New Orleans to record, they found, among others, three young, musically very skilled sisters that sang in close harmony. If they had lived in New York, their career might have been set off from then, but as it was, it had to wait some years until their next recording in 1930, after which The Boswell Sisters got the success that they deserved. Martha, Connie, and Vet were tutored as children to play piano, cello, and violin, respectively.
Their interest in jazz changed their musical direction, and influences came from their friend, the cornet player Emmet Hardy, as well as from the city’s overwhelming music scene at large.
Their premature recording debut happened on March 25, 1925, just about a hundred years ago.