A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS GREAT 78 FEATURING TWO REALLY GREAT SIDES FROM THE SULTRY MISS EARTHA KITT

MONOTONOUS  

B/W   AFRICAN LULLABY

Eartha Kitt was spotted in a revue show by Leonard Stillman who put her in the Broadway musical, New Faces of 1952. Her performance of “Monotonous” became legendary for stopping the show. 

New Faces ran for a year on Broadway, followed by a national tour and a film of the same name from 20th Century Fox from which this recording was taken....

Born in the South and raised in Harlem, sultry black actress/singer Eartha Kitt attended New York's High School of Performing Arts. After touring with Katherine Dunham's dance troupe, Kitt headlined at choice nightclubs in both Paris and the U.S. She made her acting debut as Helen of Troy in Orson Welle's 1951 staging of Faust. The following year, she came to Broadway in the musical revue New Faces of 1952 in which she stopped the show on a nightly basis with her sensuous rendition of "Monotonous" and "C'est Si Bon."

Cest Si Bon was the first of many US top-ten hits for Kitt, who was one of a handful of black performers of the 1950s to receive regular air play on "white" radio stations. Subsequent Broadway appearances included the role of Mehitabel the alley cat in the 1958 musical Shinbone Alley. 

Though considered a "crossover" performer, Kitt's movie appearances were often confined to films with predominantly African American casts. She made several well-received TV guest appearances in the 1950s and 1960s, unexpectedly gaining a flock of preteen fans for her portrayal of The Catwoman on a 1967 installment of Batman.

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