My main focus was on the cotton club and then I decided to do a little more research on Adelaide Hall who performed there. She lived to be to be 92 years old and was born in New York and died in London. At the age of 20 she became a part of the professional Shuffle along group. At the age of 27 she starred on Broadway in "Blackbirds of 1928". She performed for 8 months at the Cotton Club, during the time that they had a lot of revenue coming into the business, in 1934.
The song that i listened to was "You Gave Me Everything but Love" which was performed in 1932. She has sort of an opera voice and she also sounds like a soprano because she hits a few high notes. There is only a piano and her voice throughout the whole song. The piano is playing very soft. The song is talking about how this man gave her everything like the stars, his lips, the summer and anything that she wanted except for love. Therefore she was a fool for love. It is very hard to get tell if the song is aba because the piano goes a long with her voice or it sort of does its own thing, there also are not a lot of repeating phrases. There is an intro for about the first minute of the song. It then goes into the chorus then into a verse.
http://www.biography.com/people/adelaide-hall-38526
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Hall
