* Bessie Smith's version made the top 20 in 1927.

* Wesley Wilson ( 1893 – 1958 ), a blues and jazz musician, who wrote " Take Me for a Buggy Ride " and " Gimme a Pigfoot ( And a Bottle of Beer )", which continue to be ranked among Bessie Smith's most popular recordings.

The song uses Bessie Smith's " St. Louis Blues " by repeatedly playing the verse, " My man's got a heart like a rock cast in the sea.

For a time he was a member of Bessie Smith's Traveling Revue in the 1920s.

One of the first mentions of the area is in the opening lines of Bessie Smith's " Atlanta Blues " which documents its importance as an entertainment district:

Although he could only be tried for the murder of Bessie Williams in accordance with English law, the prosecution used the deaths of the other two to establish the pattern of Smith's crimes ; this was allowed by Mr Justice Scrutton despite the protests of Smith's counsel, Sir Edward Marshall Hall.

He was able to secure many important jazz records including the 1931 Joe Venuti-Eddie Lang all star session ( from ARC ), Bessie Smith's final session ( from OKeh ), a number of Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Miff Mole sides ( also from OKeh ).

This came in the 1920s, when classic female blues singers like Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Mamie Smith grew very popular ; the first hit of this field was Mamie Smith's " Crazy Blues ".

The song has been recorded by many artists, including The Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Johnnie Ray, Bee Gees, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, George Formby, Al Jolson, Liberace, Billy Murray, Liza Minnelli, Sid Phillips, Bessie Smith and Julie Andrews.

Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called St. Louis Blues ( 1929 ) featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song.

Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).

Their folk song collecting trip to the Southern states lasted from July to November 1959 and resulted in many hours of recordings, featuring performers such as Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, Wade Ward, Charlie Higgins and Bessie Jones and culminated in the discovery of Mississippi Fred McDowell.

* California, Sweet Homeland of Mine — In 1921, Lynden Ellsworth Behymer ( 1862-1947 ), impresario, and Bessie Bartlett Frankel ( Mrs. Cecil Frankel ) ( 1884-1959 ), donated a sum of money to the California Federation of Music Clubs to hold a contest for lyrics to a state song " of real value.

Lomax and Collins made a folk song collecting trip in the Southern states which lasted from July to November 1959 and resulted in many hours of recordings, featuring performers such as Almeda Riddle, Hobart Smith, and Bessie Jones and culminated in the discovery of Mississippi Fred McDowell.

The song became a big hit for Columbia, with Bessie Smith as the vocalist.

O ' Connor's story title was taken from the blues song, " A Good Man Is Hard to Find ", written by Eddie Green and popularized by the singer Bessie Smith in 1927.

* " What Cheer ' Ria " w. Will Herbert m. Bessie Bellwood

He won a Bessie Award for Best Choreography for the theatrical production of So What Happens Now, a play dedicated to Buck4, a deceased Rock Steady Crew member.

", Kingman says, " they were comfortable together ... Jack had made it clear to Bessie that he did not love her, but that he liked her enough to make a successful marriage.

", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra in 1933 and released on Vocalion, " Reefer Man " for Cab Calloway in 1932, " Dynamite Rag ", " Meet Me at No Special Place ", recorded by Nat King Cole, " Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes ", " Te-na-na ( From New Orleans )", " Beale Street Mama ", recorded by Bessie Smith and Cab Calloway, and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )".

Robinson also wrote the blues classic " St. Louis Gal ", which was recorded by Bessie Smith.

When asked his name, he replies first " Bessie Bibermann ", then " Cole Lardner ", then " Scott Trumbo ".

In 1925, along with fellow composer Henry Troy, he wrote " Gin House Blues ", recorded by Bessie Smith and Nina Simone amongst others.

He also composed the blues classic " St. Louis Gal ", which was recorded by Bessie Smith.

Jimmie Rodgers, the " first true country star ", was known as the " Blue Yodeler ", and most of his songs used blues-based chord progressions, although with very different instrumentation and sound from the recordings of his black contemporaries like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Bessie Smith.

Reginald Tasker hints and suggests at the idea of nature taking effect when he quotes that " some people are just born evil ", when discussing Bessie Denker with Christine.

As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.

World History of the Dance, translated by Bessie Schönberg.

*" I Never Knew I Could Do a Thing Like That " sung by Bessie Love

Thus the Bessie Bunter series of English boarding-school stories, initially written by the prolific Charles Hamilton under the name Hilda Richards, was taken on by other authors who continued to use the same pen-name.

" Aggravatin ' Papa " was composed with lyricist Roy Turk and Addie Britt and was recorded by Alberta Hunter in 1923 with Fletcher Henderson's Dance Orchestra and also by Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Florence Mills, Lucille Hegamin, and Pearl Bailey.

She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Former studio employees named by Warner included Alvah Bessie, Howard Koch, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Robert Rossen, Dalton Trumbo, Clifford Odets, and Irwin Shaw.

His work, The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named " one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 " by the New York Daily News, " Best Solo Show " by Florida's Broward / Palm Beach New Times, and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ).

An elderly Bessie Rischbieth famously protested against the project by standing in the shallows in front of the bulldozers for a whole day in 1957.

* A History of Deaf Smith County, featuring Pioneer Families, published 1964 by Bessie Smith, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

* Maru, a novel by Bessie Head

He also produced and participated in early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Virginia Liston, Irene Scruggs, and many others.

He was carried and brought successfully to term by a surrogate mother from another more common species, in this case a domestic cow named Bessie.

Armstrong soon moved to Chicago, worked with Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith and Clarence Williams and eventually began working as a band leader in 1925, his work setting the stage for the development of swing and the jazz variations to come after.