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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.
The Death of Bessie Smith is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee, written in 1959 and premiered in West Berlin the following year. The play consists of a series of conversations between Bernie and his friend Jack, Jack and an off-stage Bessie, and black and white staff of a whites-only hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on the death ...
Bessie is a 2015 HBO TV film about the American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues". The film is directed by Dee Rees , [ 1 ] with a screenplay by Rees, Christopher Cleveland and Bettina Gilois .
Riverside Hotel Blues Trail marker. Riverside Hotel was a hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in operation since 1944.The fourth marker location on the Mississippi Blues Trail, famed for providing lodging for such blues artists as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Ike Turner, and Robert Nighthawk, it was previously the G.T. Thomas Hospital, in which Bessie Smith died in 1937.
Here are 10 fabulous facts about the classic candy. #10 --The world's largest lollipop was made in 2012. The confectioner behind the job was See's Candies of California, and their creation weighed ...
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 .
The delicious, light green Granny Smith apple was named after Maria Ann Smith, who, in 1868, found an apple tree seedling growing in her backyard garden. Granny Smith, who lived in New South Wales ...