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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Tyrone Davis.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Tyrone Davis.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Davis, Tyrone
  • Kent, Herb
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 38 min., 24 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
R&B singer Tyrone Davis was born on May 4, 1938, in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1952, Davis left the Jim Crow South to join his father in Detroit, Michigan. By 1957, he had settled in Chicago, Illinois and became immersed in the local blues scene. In the late 1960s, having performed in small clubs on Chicago's South Side, Davis began recording original blues tracks for the Four Brothers label. One of those tracks, "Can I Change My Mind?" catapulted him onto the Billboard charts. The song eventually sold more than a million copies and thrust Davis into the limelight. Davis enjoyed a long and successful career as a musician. His work contains more than fifty hit songs including: "Turn Back the Hands of Time", "Turning Pointe", "Give It Up (Turn It Loose)", "Can I Change My Mind?", "In the Mood," "Close to You", and "Heart Failure". Davis passed away on February 9, 2005 at age 67.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Tyrone Davis
  • Tyrone Davis
Subject
  • Davis, Tyrone > Interviews
  • Davis, Tyrone
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • R & B Singer
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
1003150018
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Tyrone Davis.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
013824
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Herb Kent, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 June 15.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
R & B Singer.
Added Author
Davis, Tyrone, interviewee.
Kent, Herb, interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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