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Baby Won't You Please Come Home by Eva Taylor

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Eva Taylor January 22 1895 — October 31 1977 Was An American Blues Singer And Stage Actress. Born Irene Joy Gibbons In St. Louis Missouri On Stage From The Age Of Three Taylor Toured New Zealand Australia And Europe Before Her Teens. She Also Toured Extensively With The "Josephine Gassman And Her Pickaninnies" Vaudeville Act. She Settled In New York By 1920. There She Established Herself As A Performer In Harlem Nightspots. Within A Year She Wed Clarence Williams A Producer Hired By Okeh Records Publisher And Piano Player. The Newlyweds Worked Together On Radio And Recordings. The Couple Recorded Together Through 1930s. Their Legacy Includes Numbers Made As The Group Blue Five In The Mid-1920s Which Included Jazz Clarinetist/saxophonist Sidney Bechet Trumpet Virtuoso Louis Armstrong And Such Singers As Sippie Wallace And Bessie Smith.
In 1922 Taylor Made Her First Record For The African-American Owned Black Swan Records Who Billed Her As "The Dixie Nightingale." She Would Continue To Record Dozens Of Blues Jazz And Popular Sides For Okeh And Columbia Throughout The 1920s And 1930s. Although She Adopted The Stage Name Of Eva Taylor She Also Worked Under Her Birth Name In 'Irene Gibbons And Her Jazz Band'.
She Was Part Of The Charleston Chasers The Name Given To A Few All-Star Studio Ensembles Who Recorded Between 1925 And 1930. In 1927 Eva Taylor Appeared On Broadway In Bottomland A Musical Written And Produced By Her Husband Lasted For Twenty-One Performances. During 1929 Eva Had Her Own Radio Show On NBC's Cavalcade Then Worked For Many Years On Radio WOR New York Guesting On Paul Whiteman's Radio Show In 1932 . Taylor Stopped Performing During The 1940s But Returned In The Mid-1960s Following Her Husband's Death Touring Throughout Europe.
Eva Taylor Died From Cancer In 1977 In Mineola New York. She Was Interred Next To Her Husband Clarence Williams Under The Name Of Irene Joy Williams In Saint Charles Cemetery Farmingdale New York. Her Son Clarence Williams Jr. 1923–1976 Who Predeceased His Mother By One Year Was The Father Of Actor Clarence Williams III.

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