[Ticket] Gale Agency, Inc., Presents Lil Green and Tiny Bradshaw with their Famous Orchestra

Chattanooga, TN: Gale Agency, Inc, 1943. Very Good. Chattanooga, TN: Gale Agency, Inc., [1943]. Printed ticket to see jazz and blues singer Lil Green with bandleader "Tiny" Bradshaw at Chattanooga's Memorial Auditorium in 1943. Ticket features a photograph of Green and is issued for a "White Spectator." At verso in pencil is written a schedule (possibly for the tour?) of stops in Alabama including Montgomery, Union Spring, Demopolis, and two stops in Selma. Light rubbing; Very Good.

A Mississippi-born popular blues singer in the 40s, Green was best known for "Romance in the Dark" and her version of Kansas Joe McCoy's "Why Don't You Do Right?" She got her start in Mississippi juke joints in the 1930s and by the 40s was traveling to larger venues throughout the South, often, as here, with Jitterbug King Tiny Bradshaw, who remarked on the craze just prior to this show, "This world of jam, jive, and jitterbug has definitely proved its power of survival over much ephemeralities as mah-jong, the shingle bob, the ouija board, peace treaties and even bingo."

Reference: "Lil Green with Tiny Bradshaw Acclaimed Jitterbug Queen," The Weekly Review (Birmingham, AL), Saturday, January 16th, 1943, page 5.