Billy Banks

Billy Banks (b. c. 1908; d. October 19, 1967, Tokyo, Japan) was an American jazz singer. Banks is most prominently remembered for being a successful female impersonator on record. Banks recorded in 1932 with an all-star, multi-racial jazz lineup made up of Red Allen on trumpet, Pee Wee Russell on clarinet, Tommy Dorsey on trombone, Jess Stacy on piano, Zutty Singleton on drums, and Fats Waller, also on piano; most of the black musicians were from Luis Russell's retinue Read more on Last.fm

Billy Banks was featured in the movie Swing Kids.

Songs from Billy Banks

IT DON'T MEAN A THING (IF IT AIN'T GOT THAT SWING)

Other Soundtracks

Shadow Company
Street Fighter
Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Deadly Little Secrets
Twelve and Holding
Ratchakan
We Own the Night
It's Never Too Late to Be What U Might Have Been: The Making of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds (V)
Four Rooms
Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan

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