BACK AGAIN: THE ESSENTIAL BESSIE SMITH.(Show)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | June 9, 1991 | Copyright

Byline: Owen McNally Hartford Courant

Bessie Smith's historic debut recording, "Down Hearted Blues," sold almost 800,000 copies the first six months it was out in 1923 - an astonishing figure at a time when the white-dominated recording industry was leery of marketing black music.

It was not until 1920, in fact, that Mamie Smith, a vaudeville singer who was no relation to Bessie, became the first black singer to record a solo performance. Her "Crazy Blues" started the blues recording boom of the 1920s.

But it was Bessie Smith, the future Empress of ...

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