Cotton Club Cotton Club The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940. The club operated most notably during the United States' era of Prohibition. The club was a whites-only establishment, but featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, including musicians Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant; vocalists Adelaide Hall, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Aida Ward, Avon Long, the Dandridge Sisters, the
Morning Star (Nat King Cole song) SATB quartet as a four voice spiritual. Morning Star (Nat King Cole song) Morning Star is a song and single by Nat King Cole from the 1958 album St. Louis Blues. "Morning Star", taken from the Paramount picture St. Louis Blues, with new lyrics by Mack David, was based on W. C. Handy's spiritual "Shine like a morning star". The song tells of a mother's love for her son. The lyrics commence "I asked my mother / Is there a morning star? / I was answered by my mother / Yes, there's a morning star". Handy's original song, "Shine Like