Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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1570445 | Play | Crazy Blues | 03:29 Tools | |
1570446 | Play | That Da Da Strain | 00:00 Tools | |
47411055 | Play | Goin' Crazy with the Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570450 | Play | My Sportin' Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570449 | Play | That Thing Called Love (7275) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570448 | Play | Jenny's Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570457 | Play | Golfing Papa | 00:00 Tools | |
1570518 | Play | You Can't Do What My Last Man Did | 00:00 Tools | |
1570452 | Play | Kansas City Man Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570451 | Play | You Can't Keep a Good Man Down | 00:00 Tools | |
1570550 | Play | The Darktown Flappers Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570456 | Play | It's Right Here For You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570472 | Play | Mean Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570552 | Play | Miss Jenny's Ball (aka There'll Be No Freebies At Miss Jenny's Ball) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570481 | Play | Keep A Song In Your Soul | 00:00 Tools | |
1570459 | Play | Fare Thee Honey Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570460 | Play | Frankie Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570453 | Play | Don't Care Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570455 | Play | Lady Luck Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570463 | Play | Dangerous Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570454 | Play | Lovin' Sam From Alabam | 00:00 Tools | |
1570474 | Play | Mem'ries Of You Mammy | 00:00 Tools | |
1570468 | Play | Sweet Man O' Mine | 00:00 Tools | |
1570473 | Play | The Road Is Rocky | 00:00 Tools | |
1570465 | Play | Mamie Smith Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570461 | Play | If You Don't Want Me Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570464 | Play | Don't You Advertise Your Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570467 | Play | Jazzbo Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570498 | Play | "U" Need Some Lovin' Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570466 | Play | I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll | 00:00 Tools | |
1570497 | Play | What Have I Done? | 00:00 Tools | |
1570471 | Play | I Want A Jazzy Kiss | 00:00 Tools | |
1570477 | Play | That Da Da Strain (From "Beginners") | 00:00 Tools | |
1570462 | Play | New Orleans | 00:00 Tools | |
1570489 | Play | Royal Garden Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570480 | Play | Daddy, Your Mama Is Lonesome For You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570484 | Play | Sax-O-Phoney Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570486 | Play | Baby, You Made Me Fall For You (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570487 | Play | Lonesome Mama Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47411056 | Play | Stuttering (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570500 | Play | Shim-Me-King's Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570516 | Play | Old Time Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570517 | Play | The Wang, Wang Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570470 | Play | Alabama Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570508 | Play | Mean Daddy Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570499 | Play | Down Home Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570585 | Play | Royal Garden Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570458 | Play | Harlem Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570469 | Play | The Lure Of The South | 00:00 Tools | |
1570488 | Play | You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him, Didn't Love Him Anyhow Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570483 | Play | I'm Gonna Get You | 00:00 Tools | |
1570610 | Play | Wabash Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570603 | Play | That Old Thing Called Love (7790) (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570594 | Play | You Can'y Keep A Good Man Down (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570558 | Play | Got To Cool My Doggies Now | 00:00 Tools | |
1570512 | Play | Sighin' Around With The Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570482 | Play | My Mammy's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570502 | Play | I'm Free, Single, Disengaged, Looking For Someone To Love | 00:00 Tools | |
1570528 | Play | You've Got To See Mamma Ev'ry Night | 00:00 Tools | |
1570543 | Play | Wish That I Could But I Can't Forgive You Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86824486 | Play | A-Wearin' Away the Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570475 | Play | Sweet Virginia Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570501 | Play | Good Looking Papa | 00:00 Tools | |
1570513 | Play | Plain Old Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570491 | Play | Don't Mess With Me | 00:00 Tools | |
47411058 | Play | The Decatur Street Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570523 | Play | Mistreatin' Daddy Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570609 | Play | Let's Agree To Disagree | 00:00 Tools | |
47411059 | Play | Old Time Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47411073 | Play | Crazy Blues (78rpm Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570520 | Play | Goin' Crazy With The Blues (Take 1) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570506 | Play | Get Hot | 00:00 Tools | |
1570534 | Play | Arkansas Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570503 | Play | Sweet Cookie | 00:00 Tools | |
1570555 | Play | Stop! Rest A While | 00:00 Tools | |
1570587 | Play | Dem Knock-Out Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570476 | Play | Lost Opportunity Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570539 | Play | Arkansas Blues (A Down Home Chant) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570492 | Play | Railroad Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570495 | Play | Lord! Lord! | 00:00 Tools | |
1570509 | Play | Wonderful Mammy | 00:00 Tools | |
1570574 | Play | Weepin' | 00:00 Tools | |
1570522 | Play | Doo-Dah Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570511 | Play | Mame Whip! Mama Spank! | 00:00 Tools | |
1570479 | Play | Remorseful Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570567 | Play | Do It Mr. So-And-So | 00:00 Tools | |
1570532 | Play | Oh, Joe (Please Don't Go) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570553 | Play | A Little Kind Treatment | 00:00 Tools | |
1570568 | Play | A Wearin' Away The Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570526 | Play | Do It, Mr So-And-So | 00:00 Tools | |
47411060 | Play | Those Longing For You Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411061 | Play | Don’t Mess With Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570519 | Play | The Jail House Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570524 | Play | The Road Is Rocky (But I'm Gonna Find My Way) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570575 | Play | Strut Your Material (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570496 | Play | What You Need Is Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570494 | Play | My Sweet Man | 00:00 Tools | |
1570493 | Play | Good Time Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570510 | Play | Just Like You Took My Man Away From Me | 00:00 Tools | |
1570505 | Play | The Darktown Flapper's Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570535 | Play | Mama Whip! Mama Spank! | 00:00 Tools | |
1570538 | Play | Do It, Mr. So-And-So | 00:00 Tools | |
1570530 | Play | Dem Knock-Out-Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570521 | Play | 'U' Need Some Lovin' Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47411063 | Play | CRAZY BLUES | 00:00 Tools | |
47411062 | Play | Crazy Blues (1920s) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570514 | Play | I Once Was Yours I'm Somebody Else's Now | 00:00 Tools | |
47411070 | Play | There's Only One Man (That Satisfies Me) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411095 | Play | One Train He'll Come | 00:00 Tools | |
47411068 | Play | Crazy Blues - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
47411065 | Play | What Have You Done To Make Me Feel This Way (Take 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411064 | Play | The Lure Of The South (Live) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411067 | Play | The Decatur Street Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411066 | Play | The Darktown Flappers' Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570563 | Play | Carolina Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570507 | Play | What You Need Is Me (And What I Need Is You) | 00:00 Tools | |
86824488 | Play | You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night - Or You Can't See Mama At All | 00:00 Tools | |
1570548 | Play | Stuttering | 00:00 Tools | |
1570531 | Play | Those Longing For You Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570564 | Play | Rambling Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570588 | Play | Goin' Crazy With The Blues (Take 2) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411069 | Play | Crazy Blues [78rpm Version] | 00:00 Tools | |
1570490 | Play | Crazy Blues [1920] | 00:00 Tools | |
1570592 | Play | Strut Your Material | 00:00 Tools | |
1570566 | Play | The Road Is Rocky (But I Am Gonna Find My Way) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570525 | Play | You Can't Keep a Good Man Down (instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570554 | Play | It's Right Here For Your (If You Don't Get It-'Tain't No Fault O'Mine) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570515 | Play | You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night | 00:00 Tools | |
47411084 | Play | Party Games | 00:00 Tools | |
1570571 | Play | What Have You Done to Make Me Feel This Way (Take 3) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411078 | Play | You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama at All) - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
1570570 | Play | That Thing called Love (instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411072 | Play | Baby, You Made Me Fall For You | 00:00 Tools | |
86824489 | Play | Kansas City Man Blues (78rpm Version) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411086 | Play | Dangerous Blues - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
1570580 | Play | Cubanita (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570529 | Play | Rambling blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86824487 | Play | Carolina Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570573 | Play | That Da Da Stain | 00:00 Tools | |
1570577 | Play | I Once Was Yours, I'm Somebody Else's Now | 00:00 Tools | |
47411082 | Play | Fare Thee Honey Blues - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
47411087 | Play | Lonesome Mama Blues - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
47411083 | Play | You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him Blues - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
47411079 | Play | You Can't Keep a Good Man Down - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
1570545 | Play | Cubanita | 00:00 Tools | |
1570556 | Play | What Have You Done To Make Me Feel This Way? | 00:00 Tools | |
47411081 | Play | Shim-Me-King's Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47411074 | Play | Lovin' Sam From Alabama | 00:00 Tools | |
47411071 | Play | Mama Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570504 | Play | Lady Luck Blues - Mamie Smith | 00:00 Tools | |
47411076 | Play | 100 Needles For Zil | 00:00 Tools | |
88923213 | Play | It's Right Here for You (If You Don't Get It - 'Taint No Fault O' Mine) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570542 | Play | What Have I Done | 00:00 Tools | |
47411075 | Play | Shakespeare : Twelfth Night - Part 1 | 00:00 Tools | |
1570611 | Play | You Can Have Him, I Don't Want Him Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570593 | Play | Sweet man o` mine | 00:00 Tools | |
47411102 | Play | The Lure Of The South - Live | 00:00 Tools | |
1570557 | Play | Darktown Flappers Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
1570562 | Play | Oh, Joe (please don`t go) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411077 | Play | Mamie Smith - Crazy Blues (1920s) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411080 | Play | What Have You Done to Make Me Feel This Way | 00:00 Tools | |
47411108 | Play | Goin' Crazy With The Blues [Take 1] | 00:00 Tools | |
47411085 | Play | U Need Some Lovin' Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47411090 | Play | Royal Garden Blues - Remastered | 00:00 Tools | |
1570544 | Play | Let`s agree to disagree | 00:00 Tools | |
1570533 | Play | There`s only one man (that satisfies me) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411089 | Play | Miss Jenny's Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
86824494 | Play | Kansas City Man Blues - 78rpm Version | 00:00 Tools | |
1570537 | Play | I`m free, single, disengaged, looking for someone to love | 00:00 Tools | |
1570547 | Play | A wearin` away the blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570551 | Play | Weepin` | 00:00 Tools | |
1570591 | Play | Wish That I Could But I Can't Forgive You | 00:00 Tools | |
47411104 | Play | There's Only One Man - That Satisfies Me | 00:00 Tools | |
47411088 | Play | 103. MAMMIE SMITH - Crazy Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570598 | Play | Crazy Blues - 1920 | 00:00 Tools | |
1570599 | Play | Mama Whip! Mama Spank! (If Her Daddy Don't Come Home) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411093 | Play | One Perfect Moment | 00:00 Tools | |
47411091 | Play | Goin' Crazy With The Blues - Mamie Smith | 00:00 Tools | |
86824490 | Play | Lovin' Sam | 00:00 Tools | |
47411092 | Play | Crazy Blues - Original | 00:00 Tools | |
1570590 | Play | Goin' Crazy with the Blues - Mamie Smith, Johnson, J.C. | 00:00 Tools | |
1570546 | Play | Jenny's Ball - Mamie Smith, Reed, Jimmy [1] | 00:00 Tools | |
1570569 | Play | It's Right Here For You (If You Don't Get It, 'Tain't No Fault Of Mine) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570540 | Play | Goin' Crazy With the Blues (1926) | 00:00 Tools | |
1570602 | Play | A-Wearin' Away Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
1570536 | Play | Goin' Crazy with the Blues 1926 | 00:00 Tools | |
47411096 | Play | Shakespeare : Twelfth Night - Part 2 | 00:00 Tools | |
47411103 | Play | You've Got to See Mama Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mama At All) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411094 | Play | Thoes Longing For You Blues (Instrumental) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411097 | Play | Shakespeare : Twelfth Night - Part 3 | 00:00 Tools | |
47411098 | Play | Ave Maria | 00:00 Tools | |
47411099 | Play | Decatur Street Blues (instrumental) 14-2-1922 | 00:00 Tools | |
47411100 | Play | Can't Fight | 00:00 Tools | |
1570595 | Play | What Have You Done to Make Me Feel This Way - Mamie Smith, Johnson, J.C. | 00:00 Tools | |
1570606 | Play | The Lure of the South - Mamie Smith, Razof, A. | 00:00 Tools | |
1570559 | Play | Mamie Smith / Jenny's Ball | 00:00 Tools | |
47411101 | Play | Mamie Smith And Her Jazz Hounds / Crazy Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
86824493 | Play | Frankie Blues (21 Feb 1921) | 00:00 Tools | |
86824491 | Play | Lovin' Sam From Alabam (6 Nov 1920) | 00:00 Tools | |
47411105 | Play | What Have I Done - | 00:00 Tools | |
88923214 | Play | My Sportin' Man [Album Version] | 00:00 Tools | |
88923215 | Play | Don't Care Blue | 00:00 Tools | |
86824492 | Play | Sax - O - Phoney Blues | 00:00 Tools | |
47411106 | Play | I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None | 00:00 Tools | |
47411107 | Play | Menu | 00:00 Tools | |
86824495 | Play | I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O'This Jelly Roll | 00:00 Tools |
Mamie Smith (née Robinson) (May 26, 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress, who appeared in several films late in her career. As a vaudeville singer she performed a number of styles including jazz and blues. She entered blues history by being the first African American artist to make vocal blues recordings in 1920. Willie "The Lion" Smith (not her husband) explained the background to that recording in his (ghosted) autobiography, Music on My Mind. Mamie Robinson was born probably in Cincinnati, Ohio, although no records of her birth exist. When she was ten years old, she found work touring with a white act called the Four Dancing Mitchells. As a teenager, she danced in Salem Tutt Whitney's Smart Set. In 1913, she left the Tutt Brothers to sing in clubs in Harlem and married a waiter named William "Smitty" Smith. On August 10, 1920, in New York City, Smith recorded a set of songs all written by the African American songwriter, Perry Bradford, including "Crazy Blues" and "It's Right Here For You (If You Don't Get It, 'Tain't No Fault of Mine)", on Okeh Records. It was the first recording of vocal blues by an African American artist and the record became a best seller, selling a million copies in less than a year. To the surprise of record companies, large numbers of the record were purchased by African Americans, and there was a sharp increase in the popularity of race records. Because of the historical significance of "Crazy Blues", it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1994, and in 2005, it was selected for permanent preservation in the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Although other African Americans had been recorded earlier, such as George W. Johnson in the 1890s, they were African American artists performing music which had a substantial following with European-American audiences. The success of Smith's record prompted record companies to seek to record other female blues singers and started the era of what is now known as classic female blues. It also opened up the music industry to recordings by, and for, African Americans in other genres. Smith continued to make a series of popular recordings for Okeh throughout the 1920s. She also made some records for Victor. She toured the United States and Europe with her band "Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds" as part of "Mamie Smith's Struttin' Along Review". She was billed as "The Queen of the Blues". This billing of Mamie Smith was soon one-upped by Bessie Smith, who called herself "The Empress of the Blues." Mamie Smith appeared in an early sound film, Jail House Blues, in 1929. She retired from recording and performing in 1931. She returned to performing in 1939 to appear in the motion picture Paradise in Harlem produced by her husband Jack Goldberg. She appeared in further films, including Mystery in Swing, Sunday Sinners (1940), Stolen Paradise (1941), Murder on Lenox Avenue (1941), and Because I Love You (1943). She died in 1946, in New York. Mamie Smith was cited by Connee Boswell of The Boswell Sisters as a major influence on Connee's singing style. The Boswell Sisters not only bought and imitated her recordings, but were taken regularly by their parents to the Lyric Theater, New Orleans' Black vaudeville house, to see her and other touring Black artists on the only day of the week that Whites were allowed to attend. When you hear Connee, you can hear Mamie's influence. The remarkable thing is that later, Connee was cited by Ella Fitzgerald as Ella's only influence on her vocal style. This really illustrates the mixing of cultures that was such a part of the development of American popular music through the new media of the day, records and radio, as well as live performance. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.