Evelyn Preer

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Aliases: Eva Knox
Evelyn Preer & Her Gang
Evelyn Thompson
Real name: Evelyn Jarvis
Born: July 16, 1896
Died: November 27, 1932
Country: United States
Comments: Stage and screen actress and blues singer from the 1910s until the time of her death. Preer was the first African American actress to become a celebrity and was known within the black community as "The Fist Lady of the Screen". Born Evelyn Jarvis, she initially used "Preer" as a stage name, and began using "Thompson" after her marriage to Edward Thompson, another African American actor.

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(Cock-a Doodle, I'm Off My Noodle) My Baby's Back REC

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Released on I Can't Get Over a Girl Like You - (Cock-a Doodle - I'm Off My Noodle) My Baby's Back (1927)

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Popular Covers by Evelyn Preer

Some of These Days

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Originally by Sophie Tucker

Released on Baby Won't You Please Come Home (1927)

Baby, Won't You Please Come Home

Originally by Eva Taylor - Piano Accomp. by Clarence Williams

Released on Baby Won't You Please Come Home (1927)

It Takes a Good Woman (To Keep a Good Man at Home)

It Takes a Good Woman (To Keep a Good Man at Home)

Originally by Dolly Kay

Released on It Takes a Good Woman (To Keep a Good Man at Home) (1927)

One Sweet Letter from You

Originally by Annette Hanshaw

Released on Looking for the Sunshine, Walking Around in the Rain (1927)