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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.
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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
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 at AllMusic.
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.
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 ...
31 mag 2014 · William Yardley. May 31, 2014 — 4.21pm. Normal text size. Larger text size. Very large text size. HERB JEFFRIES, 1913-2014. Herb Jeffries sang with Duke Ellington and starred in early black westerns as a singing cowboy known as "the Bronze Buckaroo" - a nickname that evoked his malleable racial identity.
