Harry Belafonte
Singer
1927–2023, born in Harlem
Born and raised in NYC Wikipedia
See Harry Belafonte on the map
Neighborhoods
Wikipedia ties Harry Belafonte to East Elmhurst in Queens and Washington Heights, the Upper West Side and Harlem in Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 300 West End Avenue
300 West End Avenue, Manhattan: In fall 1958 he had his white publicist rent an apartment here after other buildings turned him away, then bought the building and made it a co-op. He lived in the apartment for 48 years.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Places
- The Copacabana
- Birdland
- Webster Hall
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- Forest Hills Stadium
- George Washington Educational Campus, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
The Copacabana (first club)
1940–1992Opened in 1940 on East 60th Street, it at first barred black customers: Harry Belafonte, then in the Navy, was refused entry in 1944, and returned in the 1950s as a headliner. Sammy Davis Jr. broke attendance records here in May 1964, and Barry Manilow’s 1978 song “Copacabana” is named after the club, per Wikipedia.
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Birdland (the first club)
1949–1965Named for Charlie Parker, it opened just north of West 52nd Street in December 1949 with Harry Belafonte and Lennie Tristano on the bill. The Count Basie Orchestra was a regular booking and recorded Basie at Birdland here, and Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis appeared. It closed in 1965; today’s Birdland is on West 44th Street, per Wikipedia.
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Webster Hall
1953–1968Built in 1886 as a hall for hire. In the 1950s Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Pete Seeger played here, and from 1953 to 1968 RCA ran it as a recording studio, where Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett recorded. On 2 February 1962 Bob Dylan played harmonica here on the title track of Belafonte’s Midnight Special, per Wikipedia.
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Forest Hills Stadium
1964The West Side Tennis Club’s 14,000-seat stadium, built in 1923, is also a concert venue. A poster for its 1964 concerts billed Barbra Streisand, Count Basie and Harry Belafonte, and in the 1960s and 1970s it hosted Simon & Garfunkel among others. It reopened for concerts in 2013, per Wikipedia.
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