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Smith, Bessie, 1898?-1937
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Smith, Bessie, 1898?-1937
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The essential Bessie Smith [sound recording] / Bessie Smith.
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Smith, Bessie, 1898?-1937
Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., p1997.
Call #:
COMPACT DISC
BLUES
Series
Roots
n'
blues
.
Alternate title:
Bessie Smith [sound recording]
Format:
[sound recording] /
Description:
2 CDs (113 min., 42 sec.) : digital, mono. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Biographical notes on Smith, by Chris Albertson, in booklet.
Recorded on various dates between April 11, 1923 and November 24, 1933 in New York City.
Contents:
Disc one: Aggravatin' papa (3:16) -- Baby won't you please come home (2:55) -- 'Taint nobody's bizness if I do (3:26) -- Jail-house
blues
(3:13) -- Graveyard dream
blues
(2:43) -- Ticket agent, ease your window down (3:17) -- Boweavil
blues
(2:51) -- Weeping willow
blues
(3:09) -- Dying gambler's
blues
(2:57) -- St. Louis
blues
(3:10) -- You've been a good ole wagon (3:28) -- Cake walkin' babies from home (3:09) -- Careless love
blues
(3:25) -- I ain't goin' to play second fiddle (3:21) -- At the Christmas ball (3:24) -- Jazzbo Brown from Memphis town (3:19) -- Backwater
blues
(3:17) -- After you've gone (2:56).
Disc two: Alexander's ragtime band (2:58) -- There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (3:18) -- Trombone Cholly (3:09) -- Send me to the 'lectric chair (3:29) -- A good man is hard to find (2:58) -- Dyin' by the hour (2:58) -- Me and my gin (2:49) -- Kitchen man (2:55) -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out (2:56) -- On revival day (a rhythmic spiritual) (2:54) -- Moan, you moaners (3:11) -- Black mountain
blues
(3:07) -- Shipwreck
blues
(3:19) -- Need a little sugar in my bowl (2:47) -- Do your duty (3:23) -- Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer (3:28) -- Take me for a buggy ride (2:35) -- Down in the dumps (3:09).
Production:
Roots
n'
blues
series producer: Lawrence Cohn.
Performers:
Bessie Smith, vocals ; with various instrumental accompaniment.
Summary:
Bessie Smith was a famous
blues
singer during the 1920's and 30's. All of these recordings were made during a 10 year period from 1923-1933. Includes 36 tracks on 2 discs that feature performances with Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman.
Genre:
Blues
(Music)
Jazz.
Jazz vocals.
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