One of his songs was to be the "Roseland Shuffle". The appearance by Count Basie was a turning point in his career and a break though in the all-white atmosphere of the club. Orchestras that played the venue included Vincent Lopez, Harry James, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, and Glenn Miller. The Fletcher Henderson Band played at the Roseland throughout the 19's. Couples danced the jitterbug, Lindy Hop, and Charleston under the Roseland's famed star-studded ceiling.
It was a "whites only" dance club called the "home of refined dancing", famed for the big band groups that played there, starting with Sam Lanin and his Ipana Troubadours. Yuengling & Son beer family, but in 1919, moved to 1658 Broadway at 51st Street in New York City. Roseland was founded initially in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1917 by Louis Brecker with financing by Frank Yuengling of the D. resulted in stores on Blue Hill Avenue being looted and eventually burned down, leaving a desolate and abandoned landscape which discouraged commerce and business development. In particular, a riot in response to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The center of African American residential and social activities in Boston had formerly been on the north slope of Beacon Hill and the South End. Following a massive migration from the South to northern cities in the 1940s and 1950s, Roxbury became the center of the African-American community in Boston. In the early 20th century, Roxbury became home to recent immigrants - A thriving Jewish community.
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