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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.
Nearly two decades later, singer Bessie Smith recorded a 1927 cover which became one of the hit songs of that year. [14] The song's popularity re-surged in 1934 with the release of a close harmony cover by the Boswell Sisters, [15] and a 1938 musical film of the same name starring Tyrone Power and Alice Faye. [16]
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 ...
Four days later, influential boogie-woogie pianist Pinetop Smith recorded "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" in Chicago, [6] crediting himself as the author. In it, lyrics (again quite different from either Bobby Leecan's or Bessie Smith's) are spoken rather than sung, by Pinetop Smith and Alberta Reynolds, to Pinetop's piano ...
Me and Bessie is a musical revue about the life and career of blues singer Bessie Smith.The basically one-woman show, conceived and written by Will Holt and Linda Hopkins and performed by Hopkins, features songs by Lil Green, Clarence Williams, Henry Creamer, Andy Razaf, and Jimmy Cox, among others.
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 .
The story was inspired by the life of Bessie Smith and was originally titled "Needle on a Scratchy Phonograph Record". [1] [2] [3] Cosmopolitan changed the title to "Blue Melody" without Salinger's consent, a "slick" magazine tactic that was one of the reasons the author decided, in the late forties, that "he wanted to publish only in The New ...
Bessie Smith recorded the song in New York on November 24, 1933, with a band led by pianist Buck Washington. The musicians were Washington (piano), Benny Goodman (clarinet), Frankie Newton (trumpet), Jack Teagarden (trombone), Chu Berry (tenor saxophone), Bobby Johnson (guitar), and Billy Taylor (bass).