Uploaded by cdbpdx on Mar 4, 2009
This was originally issued on OKEH label and recorded in 1933 by the great blues singer Bessie Smith. This is Side 1 from a 4 record Columbia label album re-issue from 1947, Album C142.
With Jack Teagarden on trombone, Benny Goodman on clarinet, Chu Berry on sax, Bobby Johnson on guitar. Enjoy!
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About this "rough and tumble" and "low-class" nonsense I keep reading: Bessie Smith is stereotyped because she was a queer working-class Black woman who lived life on her own terms long before it was the norm. Instead of shucking and jiving for the powers that be, she demanded to be treated as their equal. I believe that those of us who today fight the power are better for her example.
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If only Bessie had lived until the days of more advanced recording technology. What would her voice be like? What music or film projects would she have done? What if she had lived into the fifties and sixties? The world will never know.
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nice!!
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I know that vinyl has got to be worth a fortune! I know many people are looking for her original recordings on a record, which is why they are so rare.
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@bessieSmith and who is doing that? nobody! shhh. And she really wasn't that poor either or uneducated. And I think she had a lot of class too in her own way
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@bessieSmith oh lawd......my comment was a response to somebody who asked who Hanna Brown was. I love Bessie Smith, and yes she was a little rough around the edges, just bc she was a real f'in woman in the midst of a lot of craziness she always held her own. Don't just draw conclusions with no background info it makes you look silly
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She was a rough tuff poor woman, but that is not the point of appreciating her musicianship, she was a genious, and everyone who was ever great from billie holiday on up learned from Bessie Smith. Don't be dismissing Bessie for her class or education.
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@XxXmizzshottaXxX What are you saying? Bessie Smith Changed the way vocalists sang, she was a movement. More spactacular to vocals than anyone in the 20th century.
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@lavishstyle yes i remember hearin that a long time ago ... goes 2 show how much she respected and looked up to bessie
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great tune ;) thank u
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Did you know that Janis Joplin bought Bessie Smith's gravestone in 1970? Her grave was unmarked from 1937 until then. Remarkable!
lavishstyle 2 years ago 26
i highly doubt anybody knows, but it dont matter either....she is just a representation of a rough tough poor woman from da wrong part of town goin to da rent parties gettin drunk and actin all wild nd crazy basically.
XxXmizzshottaXxX 1 year ago 4