Dorothy Dodd I've Got The Blues But I'm Just Too Mean To Cry

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When OKeh Records kicked open the race record market doors in 1920 with Mamie Smith's recording of "Crazy Blues", a lot of major and minor record labels scrambled to find the next big female blues singer. Most any African-American female singer in vaudeville or theater that sang blues numbers were given a shot in the recording studio. Dorothy Dodd had a better chance at it than most, recording five songs in 1921. Some singers never made it past one or two recorded songs. What probably sent Dodd to the realms of obscurity was that her last recording "All By Myself", an Irving Berlin number was backed by what is believed to have been a white orchestra and the blues-buying public at the time, was not keen to that at all.

Dorothy Dodd:Vocals

Musicians unknown

Recorded in New York City, NY. c. October, 1921

Originally issued on Arto 9110, Bell P-110, Globe 7110, & Hy-Tone K110 (78 RPM)

This recording taken from the 1996 CD "Female Blues Singers Volume 5:C/D/E (1921-1928)"

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[JSLLH]

great singing and band ! thank you for this recording of dorothy dodd ! the trumpet player is shading the whole way through very nicely ! he is having a lot of fun it sounds like to me !