{"id":38,"date":"2008-11-15T10:57:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2008-11-15T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T16:06:30","slug":"rosetta-reitz-1924-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Rosetta Reitz (1924-2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Louis Armstrong was a sideman on records in the &#8217;20&#8217;s with singers like Sippie Wallace, Eva Taylor, Hociel Thomas, Virginia Liston and Margaret Johnson. These women&#8217;s records were made as <em>their<\/em> records. But when they come out now, they&#8217;re reissued as Louis Armstrong records, when actually he was not that important on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what feminist Rosetta Reitz told the New York Times in 1980 about a group of forgotten women, some of whom hired their own musicians, wrote their own songs, and produced their own shows. So, borrowing $10,000 from friends, Reitz resurrected these gals&#8217; music and re-released it on a record label she called Rosetta Records.<\/p>\n<p>Reitz passed away in New York City on Nov. 1. Her last name, wonderfully, is pronounced &#8220;rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thevillager.com\/villager_289\/rosettareitz.html\">The Villager<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Louis Armstrong was a sideman on records in the &#8217;20&#8217;s with singers like Sippie Wallace, Eva Taylor, Hociel Thomas, Virginia Liston and Margaret Johnson. These women&#8217;s records were made as their records. But when they come out now, they&#8217;re reissued as Louis Armstrong records, when actually he was not that important on them.&#8221; That&#8217;s what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}