Otros trabajos

He sang the role of Sportin' Life in Columbia Masterworks 1951 3-LP recording of the so-called "complete" version of "Porgy and Bess". (Actually, forty-five minutes were cut from the opera, as this was the standard edition used then.)

(1977) He acted in Loften Mitchell's musical, "Bubbling Brown Sugar," at the Anta Theatre on Broadway in New York City with Josephine Premice in the cast.

(9 de febrero de 1956) Long copyrights the text of "Forty Acres and a Mule," "an original all Negro musical play in two acts."

(22 de abril de 1944) Long and Lena Horne are at MGM filming the Gershwins & Gus Kahn song "Liza" for the film "Ziegfeld Follies." The pre-recording was made April 17, 1944. The number, which featured Long singing to Horne (including a group eight female dancers on a set by Oliver Smith made from sculpted paper painted white), was rehearsed for five days and filmed in four days at a cost of $46,106.80, according to the Hugh Fordin book on the Freed Unit at MGM. Eugene Loring was the choreographer and Irene designed the costumes. The first preview of the film ran nearly three hours and the "Liza" number was an early casualty. Fordin notes in his book that the audience was left "puzzling over a silent Lena Horne." Although the film of the song was lost in a MGM film storage vault fire (either 1965 or 1967), the Long pre-recording survives, along with many still photos of the number, and was included on the soundtrack released by Rhino Records in 1995.