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Bessie Smith, legendary blues singer from the 1920s and 1930s, is buried at Mount Lawn Cemetery, located in Sharon Hill.
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While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.
She remembers that her father was such a fan of Bessie Smith, " he once rode 50 miles on horseback just to see her perform live.
" ( Wills is quoted as saying, " I rode horeseback from the place between the rivers to Childress to see Bessie Smith ... She was about the greatest thing I had ever heard.
Girl in a Red Dress is thought to may be Bessie Smith, for whom he drew many times when she was recording and performing.
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.
Blues singers Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Gladys Bentley sang about affairs with women to visitors such as Tallulah Bankhead, Beatrice Lillie, and the soon-to-be-named Joan Crawford.
While in Memphis, Hurt recalled seeing " many, many blues singers ... Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and lots, lots more.
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Many of the finest jazz singers, including Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rushing, and Dinah Washington, have avoided scat entirely.
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Bessie and blues
Robinson also wrote the blues classic " St. Louis Gal ", which was recorded by Bessie Smith.
* 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.
Here, as in A Child of Our Time, Tippett turns to the blues for spiritual and emotional solace, and in his writing for solo soprano achieved perhaps his most successful and moving tribute to Bessie Smith, an artist he had long admired.
Around this time, Rainey met Bessie Smith, a young blues singer who was also making a name for herself.
The work also includes tunes first made notable by such blues luminaries as Billie Holiday and Bessie Smith ; Tom Waits wrote the title track.
Blues became a part of American popular music in the 1920s, when classic female blues singers like Bessie Smith grew popular.
He also composed the blues classic " St. Louis Gal ", which was recorded by Bessie Smith.
In big city blues women dominated the musical landscape ; i. e. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday.
Blues music was relatively well known to British Jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie Woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.
Like Mamie Smith, Hegamin sang in a lighter, more pop-tune influenced style than the rougher rural-style blues singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith who became more popular a few years later.
The music critic and sexologist Ernest Borneman stated that Bogan, along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, was in " the big three of the blues ".
Charlie Patton, Bessie Smith, Barbecue Bob, and many other blues musicians wrote songs about the flood.
His singing style, particularly for the blues, was strongly influenced by his idol, Bessie Smith.
Me and Bessie is a musical revue about the life and career of blues singer Bessie Smith.
In and Around Town, a weekly critical guide for entertainment in New York, included a capsule review for Me and Bessie that read, " The raw fervor of Linda Hopkins's blues singing is all that matters here, and it's enough.
* Bessie Jackson, American blues singer
He played in circuses and minstrel shows and backing such blues singers as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ida Cox.
* Bessie Smith ( 1894 – 1937 ), blues singer
Among the top female blues vocalists of her era, Wallace ranked with Ma Rainey, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, and Bessie Smith.
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