Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, swing, and pop music on the Broadway stage and in concerts. She began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her notable recordings include "Dinah", "Stormy Weather", "Taking a Chance on Love", "Chlo-e (Song of the Swamp), "Heat Wave", "Supper Time", "Am I Blue?", "Birmingham Bertha", "Cabin in the Sky", "I'm Coming Virginia", and her version of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award, the first African American to star on her own television show, and the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.
Genre: vocal-jazz, ragtime, classic-blues
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Top Tracks
- Don't Blame Me
- Do What You Did Last Night (with James P. Johnson)
- My Handy Man
- Guess Who's In Town (with James P. Johnson)
- Lonesome Swallow (with James P. Johnson)
- My Handy Man
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love (with Ethel Waters) - Take A
- Porgy (with Ethel Waters) - Take A
- Porgy (with Ethel Waters) - Take B
- Porgy (with Ethel Waters) - Take C
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love (with Ethel Waters) - Take A
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love (with Ethel Waters) - Take B
- Dat Suits Me - Remastered
- You're Mine - Remastered
- The Crucifixion - Remastered
- Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Remastered
- Am I Blue? (Alternate Take) - Remastered
- Blues In My Heart - Remastered
- Taking a Chance On Love - Remastered
- Heat Wave - Remastered
Albums (40)
- Essential Classics, Vol. 764: Ethel Waters (2025)
- Memories of You (2024)
- Brown Baby: Ethel's Early Twenties Recordings (2024)
- Am I Blue (2023)
- Love Turned the Light Out (2023)
- Stormy Weather: All The Hits And More 1921-47 (2023)
- When It's Sleepy Time Down South (2023)
- My Tiger Rag - The Early Years (2021)
- Harlem on My Mind! - The Blues of Ethel Waters (2020)
- Golden Selection (Remastered) (2019)
- Waiting At the End of the Road (2019)
- 100 Super Best (2018)
- Milestones of Legends: Female Blues Singers, Vol. 3 (2018)
- Stormy Weather (2017)
- They Say (2015)
- Sweet Thing (2015)
- Break City (2015)
- Work from Nine (2015)
- Cabin in the Sky & More Classic Hits (1970)
- Queens of Music, Vol.4 (2014)
- The One and Only: Ethel Waters (2014)
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow (2014)
- When Your Lover Has Gone (Original Recordings 1921 - 22) (2014)
- Sweet Man Blues (Original Recordings 1921 - 22) (2014)
- Sweet Georgia Brown (Original Recordings 1923 - 25) (2014)
- Some of These Days (Original Recordings 1929 -1930) (2014)
- Moonglow (Original Recordings 1934) (2014)
- Jeepers Creepers (Original Recordings 1935 - 1936) (2014)
- I've Found a New Baby (Original Recordings 1925 -1926) (2014)
- Down Home Blues (Original Recordings 1920 - 1921) (2014)
- Cabin in the Sky (Original Recordings 1938 - 1940) (2014)
- Am I Blue? (Original Recodings from Her Movies 1928 - 1929) (2014)
- Black and Blue (2013)
- The Collection 1938-1946 (2013)
- The Great (2013)
- Ladies First ! Jazz Collection - All of them Queens of Jazz, Vol. 6 (2013)
- Down in My Soul (2012)
- Georgia On My Mind (2012)
- Supper Time (2012)
- Man Wanted (2012)
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