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View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 CD release of "A Brief History Of Herb Jeffries (The Bronze Buckaroo)" on Discogs.
- US
- Warner Western-PRO-CD-7621
- CD, Compilation, Promo
- 1995
30 mag 2014 · Herb Jeffries was born Herbert Jeffrey in Detroit, Michigan in 1913. His father, Umberto Balentino, was a pianist of African-American and Sicilian descent. Jeffries’s mother was of Irish descent. And somewhere in his heritage, there are said to be links to Ethiopian and French Canadian forebears.
- Bob Perkins
Playing a singing cowboy in low-budget films, Jeffries became known as the "Bronze Buckaroo" by his fans. In a time of American racial segregation, such "race movies" played mostly in theaters catering to African-American audiences. The films include Harlem on the Prairie, The Bronze Buckaroo, Harlem Rides the Range and Two-Gun Man ...
A Brief History of Herb Jeffries (The Bronze Buckaroo) by Herb Jeffries released in 1995. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more...
The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) Calypso Joe (1957) Chrome and Hot Leather (1971) Portrait of a Hitman (1977) Awake: The Life of Yogananda (2014) Discografia. Magenta Moods (esclusivo, 1950) Just Jeffries (Mercury, 1951) Flamingo (Coral, 1952) The Singing Prophet (Olympic, 1954) Giamaica (RKO, 1956) Say It Is't So (Betlemme, 1957)
1 mag 2023 · Herb Jeffries was the Bronze Buckaroo, star of five all-Black-cast singing-cowboy movies in the 1930s and ’40s. His sweet, rich baritone fronted Duke Ellington’s orchestra in the 1941 megahit “Flamingo” and countless other tunes and set women’s hearts a-fluttering. He crooned with every major orchestra in the big-band era ...
11 nov 2014 · Jeffries’s first film, Harlem on the Prairie, appeared in 1937, followed by Two-Gun Man from Harlem, The Bronze Buckaroo, and Harlem Rides the Range. Jeffries sang and performed his own stunts as “Bob Blake” in these low-budget movies with an all-black cast.
