with tambourine and the Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams sextet in 1954
(on a live stage in Manhattan, not at Harlem's Apollo Theater as
suggested below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnmbJruEkKw

"this telescription got sewn into Showtime at the Apollo: Basin Street
Revue (1955) sharing the half-hour program with 1951's Snaders by Cab
Calloway & Herb Jeffries, and other Studio Films Inc telescriptions of
Amos Milburne, Faye Adams, Sarah Vaughn, & the Clovers"

Ruth's slower paced recording of (Mama)... on Atlantic was released in
Jan 1953

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