Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Smith in 1936. The 1900 census indicates that her family reported that Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in July 1892. [2] [3] [4] The 1910 census gives her age as 16, [5] and a birth date of April 15, 1894, which appears on subsequent documents and was observed as her birthday by the Smith family.
Bessie Smith recorded the song on May 15, 1929, [8] in New York City. She recorded the song with instrumental accompaniment, including a small trumpet section. When Smith's record was released on Friday, September 13, 1929, the lyrics turned out to be oddly prophetic.
Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" is a late-1920s blues song written by composer George Brooks and made famous by Bessie Smith. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the song, a female narrator confesses the murder of a deceitful lover [ 3 ] and expresses her willingness to accept her punishment .
Blues singer Bessie Smith recorded the song with piano accompaniment by Clarence Williams. [2] It was released as her first single (backed with "Gulf Coast Blues") and 780,000 copies were sold in the first six months. [3] One historian noted that "sales through the years plus the bootlegging of her discs must have made it a million seller". [4]
1-19 Bessie Smith - "Gimme a Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)" ... The Jazz Singers" - Discogs.com album information. This page was last edited on 2 June 2024 ...
Some album covers prove controversial due to their titles alone. When the Sex Pistols released Never Mind The Bollocks… in 1977, a record shop owner in Nottingham named Chris Searle was arrested ...
[14] [15] The film St. Louis Blues, from 1929, featured Bessie Smith singing the song. [16] In 1998, "St. Louis Blues" was included on the album Gershwin's World by Herbie Hancock which featured Stevie Wonder on vocals. In 1999 at the 41st Annual Grammy Awards, this recording won two Grammys.
According to the jazz historian Dan Morgenstern, "Bessie Smith (and all the others who followed in time) learned their art and craft from Ma, directly or indirectly." [16] Other classic blues singers who recorded extensively until the end of the 1920s were Ida Cox, Clara Smith, Sara Martin and Victoria Spivey and her cousin Sippie Wallace ...