#hugh singleton

[raynbowclown]

Blondie in the Dough

Blondie in the Dough – Blondie helps out the family finances by baking and selling cookies, but the cookie business crumbles. Continue reading Blondie in the Dough

[rogerdeakinsdp]

🌸 FAVORITE FIRST WATCHES OF APRIL 🌸 tagged by @turturros and @anyataylorjoys to share my favorite first watches of april (thank you as always 💙)

The First Wives Club (1996) dir. Hugh Wilson

Challengers (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

2046 (2004) dir. Wong Kar-wai

Lars and the Real Girl (2007) dir. Craig Gillespie

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

Ghost in the Shell (1995) dir. Mamoru Oshii

Poetic Justice (1993) dir. John Singleton

Thesis / Tesis (1996) dir. Alejandro Amenábar

A League of Their Own (1992) dir. Penny Marshall

tagging: @foxantoine, @madeline-kahn, @anthonysperkins, @isabelladjanis, @harddaysnite, @rhaenyratargeryen <3

[thebonesofhoudini]

Big Brother - Number Two (1998)

Featuring: Clyde Singleton, Bill Pepper, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Tim O'Connor, Chris Pontius, Kareem Campbell, Kenny Hughes, Gino Ianucci, Daewon Song, Mike Vallely, Andy Roy, Diego Buccheri, Ed Templeton, Johnny Lee Countee, Gershon Mosely, Donny Barley, Jason "Wee Man" Acuna, Heath Kirchart, Jeremy Klein, John Lee, and many more...

[twistingtreeancestry]

Fallen Branches

Image Description: A flat pink granite gravemarker that reads, "CLIFTON Hugh D. 1919-1974 and Ruby Hughen 1920-2007".

Image by Jill Wave, Find A Grave member ID 48865354.

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Ruby Jewell Hughen is my maternal great-grandmother. She was the second child born to Sadie Thornton and James Hughen in Alabama, USA in 1920. She was 24 years old in 1944 when she married 25-year-old Hugh Clifton in Bay St. Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi, USA.

Hugh Clifton was the second child of Maggie Hobbs and Hilton Clifton Sr. in Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida, USA. He was a "semi-skilled chauffeur and driver, bus, taxi, truck, and tractor" and "worked as an Automotive Mechanic in Air Transportation". A U.S. WW2 Army Enlistment record from 1941 states he was a Private. In 1942 in Walton County, Florida, USA, Hugh married Annie Sowell. Annie then divorced him in 1944 on the grounds of desertion exactly 2 months and 18 days before he married Ruth.

Ruth's oldest two children—daughters—were born in 1940 in Roanoke, Randolph County, Alabama, USA, and in 1942 in Alabama, USA respectively. Her youngest two children—sons—were born in 1947 and 1951 (likely in Alabama, USA) respectively. Perhaps if I had paid attention to the dates a recent reveal by my mother wouldn't have been so shocking (or too late to save me from a countless amount of time researching in the wrong direction).

About 3 weeks ago I learned that Hugh was Ruby's second husband. I can't even find the words to describe the whirlwind that consumed me in the following moments. Lightning quick, I began interrogating my mother for more information to fill in this sudden void in my ancestry. All she could remember was that her mother told her that her real surname was Singleton.

The name plucked familiarly at my brain, yet I couldn't think why. It was only later that night when I sat down to figure this all out that I realized why the name was so familiar. Tucked into the ignored hints on my Ancestry account under Ruth's profile was a U.S. WW2 Draft Card which listed a Ruby Jewel Singleton and her spouse Joseph David Singleton.

Following that vein, I discovered a Mississippi, USA marriage record between a Joseph D. Singleton and a Ruby J. Hughen in 1938. The discrepancy with this record is that it lists both parties as being of color. My mother and other documents can verify that Ruby and my grandfather were white, and the draft card indicated that Joseph was white as well. While I've learned that this can be a frequent issue with historical records, I can't definitively verify the couple listed on the record as my ancestors despite the dates and locations matching up.

Without knowing who Joseph really is and whether or not he's actually my great-grandfather, this branch of my tree is stumped. I'm hoping to discover more information regarding this little twist in my family history. Perhaps it will soften the blow of losing 50+ "direct" relatives through Hugh.

Until then, I'll keep trying to build up my ever-twisting tree and keep y'all updated on the interesting stuff that I find along the way.

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[tomorrowedblog]

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy premieres today

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, the new movie from Michael Morris, is out today.

Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f—wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.

But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).

Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

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[twistingtreeancestry]

Fallen Branches: An Update!

In my post, Fallen Branches, I talk about how I discovered the man I've always believed to be my great-grandfather—Hugh Dorsey Clifton Sr.—wasn't my ancestor after all. Instead, my great-grandfather was a man named Joseph David Singleton.

Thankfully, I had forceful determination and a draft card to lead the way down this unknown trail. From there, I found a 1940 census record that verified Joseph Singleton was my great-grandfather! Next, I found an obituary that sadly didn't list any known relatives (my great-grandmother or their children together).

Among many other things, one of my research methods has been to seek out DNA relatives that have "Singleton" as one of their listed names. I made a hit on GEDmatch and even made contact with a cousin! I couldn't believe it!

So imagine my surprise when I recently made contact with another Singleto-related cousin on 23andMe! Bless them with the greatest luck, because they just helped me to confirm not only that the man in the obituary is my great-grandfather, but gave me knowledge about Joseph's relatives as well!!

To say I'm excited is a drastic understatement! I've gone full genealogical geek mode!!

As much as it pains me to say it, though, I'm still nowhere near ready to do anything with this information. While my new tree is coming along nicely, I'm not even on my family yet! I've been filling out my partner's family info first since fewer individuals on his side have been added.

I'm still taking notes for when I'm finally prepared to venture down this new avenue of my family history. Until then, I won't forget that I promised some interesting peeks into my partner's familial history!

As they stay, stay tuned for more!

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

MEZZ MEZZROW, DE L’ÉCOLE DE RÉFORME AU SWING

Né le 9 novembre 1899 à Chicago, en Illinois, Milton Mesirow, dit Mezz Mezzrow, était issu d’une famille d’immigrants russes d’origine juive. Mezzrow a appris à jouer du saxophone à la Potomac Reformatory School où il a été incarcéré à partir de l’âge de seize ans pour avoir volé une automobile. Selon un de ses biographes, Mezzrow, avait fait de nombreux séjours dans les écoles de réforme et les prisons avant de découvrir le jazz et le blues à la fin de son adolescence. Trouvant une sorte de rédemption dans la musique, Mezzrow avait alors tenté d’imiter ses idoles Freddie Keppard, Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong et Jimmy Noone.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

À la fois clarinettiste et saxophoniste ténor, Mezzrow avait enregistré à la fin des années 1920 avec les Jungle Kings, les Chicago Rhythm Kings et le groupe d’Eddie Condon. Il avait aussi joué avec un groupe appelé le Austin High Gang. En compagnie d’autres musiciens blancs comme Eddie Condon et Frank Teschemacher, Mezzrow s’était rendu au Sunset Café de Chicago où il avait pu entendre Louis Armstrong et son célèbre Hot Five. Mezzrow admirait tellement Armstrong qu’après la publication du classique "Heebie Jeebies", il avait parcouru la distance de 53 miles jusqu’en Indiana avec Teschemacher pour pouvoir jouer la pièce devant Bix Beiderbecke.

C’est en 1927 que Mezzrow s’était installé à New York et avait commencé à jouer avec Eddie Condon.

Dans les années 1930, Mezzrow avait joué avec différents groupes de swing aux côtés de grands noms du jazz comme Benny Carter et Teddy Wilson. Durant la même décennie, Mezzrow, qui avait contribué à briser la barrière raciale, avait également dirigé un groupe multi-ethnique appelé les The Disciples of Swing. Le groupe était notamment composé d’Eugene Cedric au saxophone ténor, de Mezzrow à la clarinette, de Frank Newton, Sydney De Paris, Max Kaminsky et Dolly Armendra à la trompette, de George Lugg et Vernon Brown au trombone, d’Elmer James au tuba, de John Nicolini au piano et de Zutty Singleton à la batterie. Durant une brève période, Mezzrow avait aussi été le gérant de Louis Armstrong.

Avec l’orchestre de Tommy Ladnier, Mezzrow avait aussi enregistré le thème musical qui l’avait fait connaître et intitulé “Really The Blues”.

Mezzrow a fait ses débuts sur disque en 1933 avec un groupe appelé Mezz Mezzrow And His Orchestra. La formation, qui était surtout composée de musiciens de couleur, comptait dans son alignement des grands noms du jazz comme Benny Carter, Teddy Wilson, Pops Foster et Willie "The Lion" Smith, mais comprenait également le trompettiste d’origine juive Max Kaminsky. Mezzrow a également participé à six enregistrements de Fats Waller en 1934.

Un des grands moments de la carrière de Mezzrow à cette époque avait été un enregistrement en 1938 organisé par le producteur français Hugh Panassie, qui était devenu un de ses grands amis et qui l’avait réuni à son idole Sidney Bechet. Tommy Ladnier participait également à l’enregistrement.

Grand admirateur de Bechet, Mezzrow avait fondé sa propre maison de disques appelée King Jazz, qui avait été en activité de 1945 à 1947 et qui lui avait permis d’enregistrer fréquemment avec Bechet au milieu des années 1940 ainsi qu’avec le trompettiste Oran "Hot Lips" Page. Même si Mezzrow était loin d’arriver à la cheville de Bechet, on doit lui accorder le mérite de s’être trouvé au bon endroit au bon moment, ce qui lui avait permis de participer à plusieurs enregistrements avec Bechet et d’autres grands noms du jazz, tant à New York qu’à Chicago de 1945 à 1947. Ces enregistrements, qui mettaient en vedette le Mezzrow-Bechet Quintet et le Mezzrow-Bechet Septet, mettaient à contribution des musiciens de couleur comme  Frankie Newton, Sammy Price, Tommy Ladnier, Sid Catlett, ‘’Pleasant'' Joe ainsi qu’Art Hodes, un musicien blanc né en Ukraine.

DERNIÈRES ANNÉES

Après avoir participé en 1948 au Festival de Jazz de Nice, Mezzrow s’est installé en France, où il s’était rapidement acquis le respect des musiciens de jazz locaux. Durant son séjour en France, Mezzrow avait fondé plusieurs groupes composés à la fois de musiciens français comme Claude Luter et de musiciens américains de passage comme Buck Clayton, Peanuts Holland, Jimmy Archey, Kansas Fields, Lee Collins et Lionel Hampton. Avec Clayton, un ancien trompettiste de l’orchestre de Count Basie, Mezzrow avait enregistré une version du classique "West End Blues" de Louis Armstrong en 1953.

Dans les années 1950, Mezzrow a continué d’enregistrer pour plusieurs compagnies de disques françaises.

Mezzrow est demeuré en France jusqu’à sa mort dans un hôpital américain de Paris le 2 août 1972. Il était âgé de soixante-treize ans. Le décès de Mezzrow a été attribué à une crise d’arthrite qui avait atteint sa moelle épinière. Mezzrow a été inhumé au cimetière du Père-Lachaise. À l’époque, l’épouse de Mezzrow, Johnnie Mae Mezzrow, était déjà décédée. On survécu à Mezzrow son fils Milton H. Mesirow, ainsi que ses deux frères domiciliés en Illinois.

Même si Mezzrow  était d’origine et de religion juive, il avait épousé une afro-américaine, Johnnie Mae, qui était de religion baptiste. Le couple a eu un fils, Milton H. Mesirow, Jr. Au cours d’une entrevue qu’il avait accordée au New York Times en 2015, "Mezz Jr.", comme il était surnommé, avait déclaré qu’il avait toujours vécu entre deux cultures. Comme il l’avait souligné, "My father put me in a shul, and my mother's side tried to make me a Baptist. So when I'm asked what my religion is, I just say 'jazz.'"

Même si Mezzrow était un saxophoniste et un clarinettiste compétent, Mezzrow était surtout connu pour son autographie intitulée We Called It Music, qui avait été publiée à Londres en 1948. Même s’il était blanc, Mezzrow  avait toujours admiré la culture afro-américaine. Dans son autobiographie, Mezzrow avait même catégoriquement rejeté la société blanche et revendiqué la culture afro-américaine. Dans son ouvrage, Mezzrow  avait écrit qu’à partir du moment où il avait été mis en contact avec le jazz, il était devenu a ‘’Negro musician, hipping [telling] the world about the blues the way only Negroes can." Eddie Condon avait confirmé: "When he fell through the Mason–Dixon line he just kept going". Avec sa famille, Mezzrow  vivait à Harlem. Se définissant lui-même comme ‘’Negro’’, Mezzrow était d’ailleurs décrit comme tel sur sa carte de mobilisation émise durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L’autobiographie de Mezzrow, qui se concentre principalement sur les décennies de 1920 et 1930, malgré certaines inexactitudes historiques, constitue une des rares autobiographies écrites par un des premiers musiciens de jazz, tout en étant aussi une des mieux documentées et des plus divertissantes.

Grand consommateur de marijuana dont il faisait la promotion dans sa musique, Mezzrow était également reconnu comme ‘’dealer.’’ Surnommé ‘’Muggles King’’ (le mot Muggles étant un terme de slang désignant la marijuana), Mezzrow fournissait également de la marijuana à Louis Armstrong qui était un de ses meilleurs clients. La chanson de 1928 d’Armstrong intitulée "Muggles" fait d’ailleurs explicitement référence à Mezzrow. Dans une de ses lettres écrite en 1932, Armstrong précisait d’ailleurs comment et à quel endroit Mezzrow vendait de la marijuana.

En 1940, Mezzrow a été arrêté sous l’inculpation d’avoir été en possession de soixante joints de marijuana alors qu’il tentait d’entrer dans un club de jazz afin d’en faire le trafic. Au moment d’entrer dans sa cellule, Mezzrow  avait informé les gardiens qu’il était noir et qu’il devait être envoyé dans la section réservée aux prisonniers de couleur. Dans son ouvrage Really the Blues, Mezzrow  écrivait:

‘’Just as we were having our pictures taken for the rogues' gallery, along came Mr. Slattery the deputy and I nailed him and began to talk fast. 'Mr. Slattery,' I said, 'I'm colored, even if I don't look it, and I don't think I'd get along in the white blocks, and besides, there might be some friends of mine in Block Six and they'd keep me out of trouble'. Mr. Slattery jumped back, astounded, and studied my features real hard. He seemed a little relieved when he saw my nappy head. 'I guess we can arrange that,' he said. 'Well, well, so you're Mezzrow. I read about you in the papers long ago and I've been wondering when you'd get here. We need a good leader for our band and I think you're just the man for the job'. He slipped me a card with 'Block Six' written on it. I felt like I'd got a reprieve.’’

En 2015, un club de jazz a été nommé en l’honneur de Mezzrow à Greenwich Village. Le club était simplement baptisé ‘’Mezzrow.’’

Au cours de sa carrière, Mezzrow  a enregistré environ 150 pièces et s’est produit vec les plus grands noms du jazz, de Sidney Bechet à Django Reinhardt, en passant par Frank Teschemacher, Eddie Condon, Tommy Ladnier, Max Kaminski, ‘’Hot Lips’’ Page, Buck Clayton, Lionel Hampton, Sid Catlett, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller, Pops Foster, Benny Carter, Zutty Singleton, Jack Teagarden, Willie "The Lion" Smith et Memphis Slim.

Malgré le succès remporté par Mezzrow au cours de sa longue carrière, le producteur de disques Al Rose s’était montré plutôt sceptique face à son talent de clarinettiste. Rose avait cependant reconnu à Mezzrow  le soutien qu’il avait accordé aux musiciens dans le besoin et avait souligné "his generosity and his total devotion to the music we call jazz." Dans son autobiographie, Mezzrow avait d’ailleurs admis avoir ‘’définitivement traversé la ligne qui séparait les identités blanches et de couleur.’’ Qualifiant Mezzrow  de “Baron Munchausen du jazz”, le critique Nat Hentoff avait déclaré à son sujet qu’il avait joué “so consistently out of tune that he may have invented a new scale system.”

©-2024, tous droits réservés, Les Productions de l’Imaginaire historique

SOURCES:

‘’Mezz Mezzrow.’’ Wikipedia, 2024.

‘’Mezz Mezzrow.’’ All About Jazz, 2024.

‘’Mezz Mezzrow, 73, Clarinetist Who Was a Titan of Jazz, Dead.’’ New York Times, 9 août 1972.

‘’Milton ‘’Mezz’’ Mezzrow.’’ The Syncopated Times, 2024.

‘’Mezz Mezzrow, 73, Clarinetist Who Was a Titan of Jazz, Dead.’’ New York Times, 9 août 1972.

[tomorrowedblog]

First look at Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy

A new trailer has been released for Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, which is set to release February 13, 2025.

Bridget Jones first blasted onto bookshelves in Helen Fielding’s literary phenomenon Bridget Jones’s Diary, which became a global bestseller and a blockbuster film. As a single career woman living in London, Bridget Jones not only introduced the world to her romantic adventures, but added “Singletons,” “Smug-Marrieds” and “f---wittage” into the global lexicon. Bridget’s ability to triumph despite adversity led her to finally marry top lawyer Mark Darcy and to become the mother of their baby boy. Happiness at last.

But in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark (Colin Firth) was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9-year-old Billy and 4-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant).

Pressured by her Urban Family —Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) — to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

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