or iTunes Price: $0.99 Genre: Blues Released: Sep 23, 1997 Customer Ratings (15 Ratings)
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St. Louis Blues (78rpm Version) – Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong & The Louis Armstrong Orchestra
View More By Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong & The Louis Armstrong Orchestra BiographyBorn: April 16, 1894 in Chattanooga, TNGenre: Blues Years Active: '20s, '30s The first major blues and jazz singer on record and one of the most powerful of all time, Bessie Smith rightly earned the title of "The Empress of the Blues." Even on her first records in 1923, her passionate voice overcame the primitive recording quality of the day and still communicates easily to today's listeners (which is not true of any other singer from that early period). At a time when the blues...
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