Bessie Smith - I'm Wild About That Thing (1929)

[3Glimpse3]

I'm always wondering how they knew abot "those things" without internet and tv

[GeistFright]

@3Glimpse3 Erotic playing cards...no, just kidding...

[diegocostarica21]

wait a minute is she a blues singer or a jazz singer?

[3Glimpse3]

@diegocostarica21 she was the pioneer of the blues female singers

[diegocostarica21]

@3Glimpse3 yes but she had a huge impact in jazz female singers too :)

[roselenecandida]

She remembers another greatest singer in this song, Janis Joplin.

[InjuryDuty]

@duncantrussell sent me here! Long Live The Lavender Hour! 

[MrAlfre1979]

this lady its my kind of lady ..oh yeahh :)

[notthenutter]

What a rude young lady!

[mariaperiwinkle]

@VickiByrne1 I'm in my 20s and love this stuff too. Maybe we're old souls :)

[Traphouse3519]

I dont care what nobody say dis some good ass music real talk

[alezander666]

A TRUE STORYback in the twenties,she held a concert in the south,outdoors,and many came,the KKK got wind,and the bastards rode in,she directed the audience,hundreds,to push back those shits,and they ran with their tails between their legs,gutless bastards

[carrotjuse]

@alezander666 The KKK were cowards, plain and simple. They operated in armed groups, in disguise and late at night. They beat and killed men, women and children.

[sunshinedaydream424]

@frogisis are you sure its cock and not pot?

[PurpleCorcra]

@VickiByrne1 its so cool!! im 12 and i love these kinf of songs too!! there th best! :) x

[MsDbeltran]

WOW the sound quality has gotten so much better than they use to be!  Love Bessie!!

[PunkRockFreak09]

Hahahaha! I'm Wild About Bessie Smith..she was so courageous and honest. This song was amazing..she had guts to say "I love your ding-a-ling" especially back then.

I wish people my age knew about Bessie.

[TalisAden]

If you want to satisfy my soul

Come on and rock me with a steady roll...

Go on Miss Bessie. Break those blues down.

[Mithra3712]

I have read a lot about Bessie Smith in biographies written about Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, but this is the very first time that I have the oportunity to listen to her. So thanks edmundusrex, and thanks Youtube! ;)

[dancefeva1]

omg these dirty old ppl!!

[MalcMalc19]

@dancefeva1 lmaoo

[koalman]

@VickiByrne1 It is so incredibly cool that you are a teenager in these years and you love these type of songs.

[Sydsz19]

"just give my bell a ring" ;) aww yeah bessie

[eurotrash12003]

WOW SOME HOT LYRICS.! Love Bessie a true talent xx

[rychousmama]

Proof that people back in the day didn't have any better "morals" than we do now ;)

[crab5mt]

@rychousmama Yeah... So how else do you suppose you and I got here??

[MattiaMarzapane]

Rock 'n Roll.

[royradin]

Imagine if she'd been alive today, how she might have sounded and what she might have sung. What a voice.

[royradin]

Imagine had she been alive today how she might have sounded with better technology and what she might have sung. What a voice.

[Thesoulcoffee]

@royradin What a voice...I think the same

[shoegazer74]

liberation on many fronts, a damn fine tune as well

[allieddrsc1]

Never in my life I thought that there was someone so good as this singer.

She sings her guts out of her soul.

[tammydebarros]

♥ ♥ ♥ it ....wild @ this song !! ... :)

[dojaguy]

SHE WAS A POT SMOKER MORONS.. MOST OF HER SONGS ARE ABOUT HERB... LOOK IT UP

[meeblitz]

@dojaguy It's pretty obvious what this is about.

[1982Breezy]

Omg,such risque lyrics!! "Gimme every bit of it or else I'll die" Dont sing it,girl,SANG it!! <3 Bessie,A real jazz legend!

[fishpast6]

we listened to jelly roll in class and our teacher told us it was about sex..but at least back in the day they used symbols instead of saying it straight up

[sagelastos]

well actually she was a lesbian. so probably she is not singing about the dick ;)

[nubiansista4life]

@sagelastos Bessie Smith was bisexual.

[oetzikiller]

@nubiansista4life

and who cares?

[nubiansista4life]

@oetzikiller obviously not jerks!

[Ubendorf]

Ms. bessie we still listenin to you eighty years later....

[Ballerfella2007]

Sassy Frassy 

[lemontaster0]

No one was wild about 3 ppls THING

[mattratt512]

i'm sorry if i brought up lil kim here. i wasn't thinking.

[MsTWEEKIE]

@mattratt512 You are entitled to your opinion,do not apologize.

[oside66]

There were a lot of those songs back in the day. Clyde McFadder's "60 Minute Man" and a bunch of Sophie Tucker Songs like "It's Never Too Late (to have a little fun).

[willethaneden]

It is so good it make you.

[sharonanony]

Now Bessy Stop getting these Women Horney. They may go grab some nut off the Street. who will beat them upside the hide

[mattratt512]

she was the lil kim of her time.

[sharonanony]

@mattratt512 nada, No Comparisons at all.

[panicxitsxbrea]

@mattratt512 lol, Lil Kim wishes she was comparable to this. I mean by that logic any talentless whore is as good as Bessie Smith.

[newnewicecoconut]

@mattratt512 no, no... lil kim is the wannabe ms smith of our time.! she don't even compare haha!.

[lindan96]

Bessie was Janis Joplin's influence and we can see why.... what a gal....

[hotdogman67]

Damn, this song is hot as hell!

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[JosieCinnabun]

Haha, I love your ding-a-ling.. Rihanna could learn some from this woman! ;D

[KuttyJoe]

LOL I didn't know they made music like this in 1929.

[jazzyjewboy]

Died in the street! What a fucked up country...another unforgivable sin against humanity and genius!

[greengringo2003]

@jazzyjewboy Your comment is an unforgiveable over-generalization, but you're no doubt a pimply teenager who hasn't come close to learning moderation. Good luck.

[scemat]

As hot as it can get!

[novocain13]

Griskjerring.. :))

[Frisbieinstein]

It's true! Playing the mandolin will increase the size of your erection.

[frogisis]

I dare anyone to try to sing a classier song about wanting cock.

[MsTWEEKIE]

@frogisis I agree with you a trillion percent. LOL.

[alest5erc2012]

@frogisis I never found a woman to be quite this honest about wanting it this much, either! "It makes me laugh and sing" lol

[3909clancy]

its the same thing

[starletdempsy]

love making music from the past.

[RevSyd]

For every piece of classical music, there's 500 great folk songs about sex and genitals that historians didn't bother transcribing because they "weren't art".

[impCaesarAvg]

"Rock me with a steady roll." So that's what rock and roll means! Who knew?

[lcozzarelli]

@impCaesarAvg Alan Freed did

[impCaesarAvg]

@lcozzarelli She always says, "You can press my button." Whatever could she be referring to?

[lcozzarelli]

@impCaesarAvg Why, her clitoris, of course! My original comment was referring to the time when Alan Freed had the contest to name the genre of music, and the name "rock and roll" won, the connotation/origins of it was not a secret.

[funkateerkitty]

My grandmother livin in St. Louis...

probably her Dad selling bootleg whiskey...Irish and VERY wealthy:)

I love the mood this puts me in,

I don't drink, but a Martini wud go well w/this toooone :)

[nirvgardengod]

Me too,,

[surprisevisitor2000]

You think that's graphic? Search out this one in youtube - you'll recognize some lyrics used later by the rolling stones, something about a dead man:

lucille bogan - shave 'em dry (1935)

Holy crap, it leaves absolutely zero for the imagination.

[MedusaParanormal]

yeah I love that one,

Super graphic...and shocking for its time

[kharib76]

Wow! That's pretty graphic. It's like Lil' Kim of the early 20th century!

[lalaa9000]

@kharib76 Exactly what I was thinking! I have read things about Ms. Smith, they said she was violent and vulger. Lil Kim all the way!

[apolloniasixer]

@lalaa9000 No quite..Lil Kim couldn't shine Bessie's shoes

[Corrie121]

Great post.

Thanks for sharing.

[chkjns]

added this to my 1929 playlist, one of 110 that will take you back in time to the music of any year back to 1900.

From Sousa marches & Joplin rags, jazz and the blues, foxtrots, big bands, swing, rock and roll, motown, disco and new age, 110 years of music is there . . . .

[aardvaark069]

She was soooo STRONG!!  It's a miracle how they can clean these old recordings up. 1929! unbelievable.

[triptoheaveandho]

@aardvaark069 I HAD THE ORIGIBALS AND THEY WERRE PRETTY GOOD RECORDINGS BESSIE WAS A BIG STAR AND THEY TRIED TO GET IT RIGHT

[avchavis]

Wow - It's almost 100 years later and folks are still wild about that thang! LMAO!

[09AKREZ]

I think the song's about chocolate....X)

[Squarerig]

Does anyone know the name of the Radio Station-in Texas?-which broadcasts jazz around the clock?Another wonderful number by the supreme songstress of the blue thank you for this clip.

[Gracie528]

Glad I'm doing my research paper on her :)

[Jonnyfaster]

... a simple ackowledgement of pleasure.

[MsTWEEKIE]

I,M WILD ABOUT YOU SINGING THIS MISS.BESSIE. WISH I COULD HAVE MEET YOU. Maybe not. I,d be dead too.

[MsTWEEKIE]

D.A.M.N.

[luvebug21]

@Necromortis61 :P XD hahah O papa im wild about that thing

[apolloniasixer]

@Necromortis61 That's what makes sex so irresistible is the innuendo!

[kepler98]

@Necromortis61 who sings this man ? xD

[bhamplayboy04]

@Necromortis61 ...oh but she does have a song that says she want a big dick up in her and that her nipples on her titties are as big as thumbs and that her pussy can make a dead man cum! Music aint never changed!

[search9286]

@bhamplayboy04I think your talking about Lucille Bogan's "Shave It Dry". Did Bessie do the same song?

[mrstanbmw]

@bhamplayboy Lucille Bogans would make little Kim and all these new jack honey blush, Lucille was the rawest of the raw.

[JamesPriceJohnson]

@Necromortis61 HAHAHA I JUST LMFAO

[Mrsjessywessybessy]

These gals were rudies!! Teehehe, check out Memphis Minnie too.

[Bonitaymorena]

@Mrsjessywessybessy Rude gal for real!!! Tell em Bessy!!!

[darrellriv]

lil kim of the era!!!!!!!

[09AKREZ]

Wow and I thought folks in my grandma's era were angels! He,he.

[djboony]

ha she means COCK!

[celticghirlxxx]

oh I'm wild about that thing! oh bessie ya old dear ya lol. If you go onto spotify, download it and you can listen to free music! No downloads, no virus and 100% free and there is a fair bit of Bessie Smith on there!

[cdadave83814]

Rock Me With A Steady Roll...that's what she's talking about. The lady has soul!

[gigimc]

that's hot... lol

[patjames123]

sex!

[brennaboo]

Love this so much!!! Thank you Bessie. RIP

[brennaboo]

clueless much? :)

[shaswords]

This is hott yo!!

[VintagePulp]

This is sooooo hot!

[TimeSovereign]

Excellent, thanks for sharing.

[royhaworth]

Sounds an awful lot like Gimme Some

[ThatsABiggon]

LOL. I was thinking the exact same thing!

[bennbug]

Bessie was wild about that thing back in those days, I hear that shit!!

[Peach0]

Cool song. Bessie Smith is really wild about that 'thing.' hehe

[pax41]

Great song! I don't have any Bessie Smith in my collection so thank you for posting.

[heinbanjo12]

Never heard before. Bessie with Eddie Lang.