In October 2010, it was listed in the book, "100 Best Australian Albums". // Click on Link above, left, to view the original single, with a _color_ picture sleeve
Song was named for Ada "Bricktop" Smith, an American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub "Chez Bricktop" in Paris from 1924 to 1961. // Recorded in Paris, November 25, 1937.
This album was originally scheduled to become the soundtrack for the blaxploitation film "Hell Up in Harlem", but was rejected by the film's producers, who dismissed it as "the same old James Brown stuff." :((
..This was Newman's first solo album since 'Land of Dreams' in 1988, and it followed an 11-year hiatus during which which he had focused on film soundtracks. / It placed 11th in the 1999 "Pazz & Jop Critics Poll."
