Harlem
About Harlem
East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem or El Barrio, and formerly Italian Harlem, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East Side and bounded by 96th Street to the south, Fifth Avenue to the west, and the East and Harlem Rivers to the east and north. Despite its name, it is generally not considered to be a part of Harlem proper, but it is one of the neighborhoods included in Greater Harlem.
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There was a regiment called the Harlem Hellfighters. That was their nickname and they were the 369th U.S. infantry, largely recruited from Harlem. So it had a lot of musicians in it, the regiment.
from 374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 at 00:19:49 · read transcript
Other times Harlem came up
People noticed how good he was at whistling and he would also play his shoeshine instruments like uh you know spoons like the spoons you might do and he became really famous and his uh whistling became the theme song of the Harlem globe trotters there was sybil sanderson fagin who was one of the most famous whistlers in america in the 1920s and she would do whistling of bird song so you'd buy a vinyl and it would just be her pretending to be.
No Such Thing As Julius Caesar's Dad Jokes, 2024-02-08 · listen
Powell IV, currently runs a company that's trying to find greener ways to find rare earth metals for electric cars. We've come a full circle to the electric car stuff. This is the Powell family podcast. There was a thing in the First World War called this was, I guess, this was not jazz diplomacy. In fact, it was the opposite. It was jazz war because there was a regiment called the Harlem Hellfighters.
374: No Such Thing As Tarzan In A Waterpark, 2021-05-21 · listen
That's how many different kinds of mood shopkeepers might want to evoke in their shops. If you run a small Christian bookshop, you might not want to have the raunchy Lady Gaga Christmas songs. Oh, yeah, okay. If you're selling, if you've got a cool shop for young people, then you might want to play a song called Christmas in Harlem by someone called Kanye West. Yeah. Although some of the classic Christmas songs are raunchier than you might think.
No Such Thing As The Queen's Christmas Burlesque, 2019-12-25 · listen
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