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Bessie Smith is today’s featured artist. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April
15, 1894, Smit is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and remains
a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists. Known as the “Empress of the Blues,” she was the first to record or make popular numerous songs
that remained popular through the jump blues era and beyond.
BESSIE SMITH RESOURCES
Biography @ wikipedia.org
Discography @ discogs.com
National Women’s Hall of Fame
Bessie Smith Cultural Center in Chattanooga
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
WRFG ROUTE 66 PLAYLIST FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2024
Song
Artist
Original Album or Label & Date
Wooden Soldiers Swing Eddie Chamblee Coral Records 1952
Whiskey Women & Loaded Dice Stick McGhee King Records 1953
Oh Babe Louis Prima & Keely Smith Robin Hood Records 1950
Let Me Go Home Whiskey Amos Milburn Aladdin Records 1952
The Fat Man Fats Domino Imperial Records 1949
How High The Moon Slim Gaillard …Rides Again 1959
Hot House Dizzy Gillespie Guild Records 1945
Aggravatin’ Papa
Bessie Smith
Columbia Records 1923
Long Old Road
Queen Latifah
Bessie – Music from the HBO Film 2015
Shake Rattle And Roll Van Morrison Accentuate The Positive 2023
Long John Blues Dinah Washington Mercury Records 1949
Caravan Duke Ellington & His Orchestra The Popular… 1967
Too Many Men Ruth Brown Atlantic Records 1953
Big Jay’s Hop Big Jay McNeely Vee Jay Records 1955
Nobody Loves Me (Every Day I Have The Blues)
Memphis Slim
Miracle Records 1948
It Ain’t Necessarily So
Cab Calloway
Porgy and Bess (Original Soundtrack) 1959
Jumpin’ in the Morning
Deacon John’s Jump Blues
Music From the Film 2002
Do Your Duty
Bessie Smith
Okah Records 1934
Empty Bed Blues
Mitch Woods w/ Maria Muldaur
Friends Along The Way 2017
Good Ol’ Wagon
Jennifer Porter
Yes, I Do 2024
You’re Driving Me Crazy Lester Young Aladdin Records 1946
I’m Yours Billie Holiday Commodore Records 1947
It Should’ve Been Me Ray Charles Atlantic Records 1954
Old Mother Hubbard Ella Fitzgerald Decca Records 1949
Fare Thee Well, Deacon Jones, Fare Thee Well
Bull Moose Jackson
King Records 1948
Cadillac Baby Roy Brown De Luxe Records 1950
Double Crossing Blues
The Johnny Otis Quintette w/ The Robins & Little Esther
Savoy Records 1950
Rock Candy
Count Basie Orchestra w/ George Benson
Basie Swings the Blues 2023
Into: I’m Not Bessie; Give Me a Pigfoot
Linda Hopkins
Me and Bessie 1976
It Makes My Love Come Down
Bessie Smith
Columbia Records 1929
Send Me To The ‘Lectric Chair
Bessie Smith & Her Blue Boys
Columbia Records 1927
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Tag (You’re It) Little Charlie & The Nightcats Nine Lives 2005