" Suppertime" Irving Berlin wrote a song in 1933. Introduced by Ethel Waters, it's about a wife's reaction to news that her husband has been lynched and how she has to tell her children that father will " Not becoming home no more !' The current social unrest around systemic racism is a reminder of the long and sad history of racism in America. You can hear the anguish in Ethel Waters voice because she had experienced the virulent racism in the South.
Earlier on, Waters introduced Harold Arlen's Stormy Weather at the Cotton Club. She had 12 encores of that song.

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