Sara Martin with King Olivers Orchestra ~Death Sting Me Blues ~ 1928

Sara Martin with King Olivers Orchestra ~Death Sting Me Blues ~ 1928~

Sara Martin recorded "Death Sting Me Blues" and three others with Clarence Williams that included King Oliver on cornet in Chicago in 1928. This song is one of her better records from these sessions and shows Oliver to be a true blues master.

While primarily a popular singer Martin could get low down on the blues and was billed as the "famous moanin' mama" as well as "the colored Sophie Tucker" reflecting her dual roles as a Blues and vaudeville performer. She toured the country until the early 1930s and recorded with Okeh until 1928. In 1929 she appeared in the film "Hello, Bill" with tap dance icon Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The following year she appeared in the first all African-American sound film "Darktown Revue".

When the blues fad died out in the early 1930s Sarah retired from show business, but continued to sing gospel. She returned to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky during the Depression where she ran a nursing home. She died of a stroke in 1955.

Sara Martin also recorded under the names of Margaret Johnson and Sally Roberts.

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• ~Death
• Sting
• Me
• Blues
• 1928

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