| LC control no. | n 95091877 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Black Boy Shine |
| Variant(s) | Holiday, Harold Shine, Black Boy |
| Associated country | Texas |
| Located | Houston (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Blues (Music) |
| Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Singers Pianists |
| Found in | Black Boy Shine & Black Ivory King: label (Black Boy Shine) notes p. 1, etc. ("The two artists on this disc both preferred being known by nicknames, their given names appearing only in composer credits."; Black Boy Shine (Harold Holiday), vocals, piano) allmusic.com, December 19, 2018 (Black Boy Shine, aka Harold Holiday; little known of him, except that he was based in a section of Houston, TX (which may have been his home) called West Dallas; 1936-37, recorded 18 sides for Vocalion; vocalist and pianist; by 1948, he was said to have been near death from tuberculosis) Leroy Carr & Black Boy Shine, ℗1996: label (Black Boy Shine) insert (real name: Harold Holiday; based in Houston's "West Dallas" entertainment district; according to fellow Texas pianist Robert Shaw, Black Boy Shine died in the 1930s, but other accounts indicate that he lived at least until 1948; blues pianist) Oxford reference online, viewed December 19, 2018: Encyclopedia of popular music, 4th edition (Black Boy Shine; born Harold Holiday; one of what has come to be known as the "Santa Fe" school of pianists, a loose group of blues artists who played the barrel-houses of south-east Texas in the pre-World War II years; recorded in the mid-1930s for Vocalion Records; vocalist and pianist) |
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