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Edith Wilson (née Goodall; September 2, 1896 – March 31, 1981) was an American blues singer, vaudeville performer, and actress from Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.An African-American who performed and recorded in the classic female blues style in the 1920s, Wilson worked in vaudeville and stage productions, first in Louisville and later throughout the U.S. and abroad.
Classic female blues. Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded.
Lena Wilson. Lena Wilson (c. 1898 – c. 1939) was an American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style. [1] An African-American, Wilson performed in vaudeville with her brother Danny and his wife, Edith Wilson in the late 1910s and 1920s. Wilson made numerous recordings in the 1920s as a solo artist, for labels such as ...
Harrison, Daphne Duval (1990). Black Pearls: Blues Queens of the 1920s. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers. ISBN 0-8135-1280-8. Russell, Tony (1997). The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray. Dubai: Carlton Books, ISBN 1-85868-255-X. Stewart-Baxter, Derrick (1970). Ma Rainey and the Classic Blues Singers.
"Black and Blue" debuted in the Broadway musical Hot Chocolates (1929), sung by Edith Wilson. Razaf biographer Barry Singer recounts that the lyricist was coerced into writing the song (with music by Waller) by the show's financier, New York mobster Dutch Schultz, though Razaf subverted Schultz's directive that it be a comedic number: [4]
Performers included Florence Mills, around whom the revue was built, and who would become an even bigger star thanks to this revue, her husband, U. S. Thompson, and blues star Edith Wilson. Shelton Brooks was hired as the emcee, as well as himself performing in the revue.
This is a list of songs written about the city of Birmingham, Alabama: "Birmingham, Alabama" by Harry Belafonte and R. B. Greaves. "Birmingham Bertha" by Ethel Waters (1929) (from On with the Show!) "Birmingham Black Bottom" by Charlie Johnson (1927) "Birmingham Blues" by Edith Wilson, Fats Waller (and many others) (1921) "Birmingham Blues" by ...
W. Vann "Piano Man" Walls. Sylvester Weaver (musician) J. D. Wilkes. Edith Wilson (singer) Categories: American blues musicians by state. Musicians from Kentucky.