St. Louis Blues (78rpm Version) – Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong & The Louis Armstrong Orchestra

September 23rd, 1997

iTunes Price: $0.99

Genre: Blues

Released: Sep 23, 1997

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Essentials

Louis Armstrong

1930s

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St. Louis Blues (78rpm Version) – Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong & The Louis Armstrong Orchestra

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	St. Louis Blues (78rpm Version)	Essential Bessie Smith	3:09	$0.99

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Biography

Born: April 16, 1894 in Chattanooga, TN
Genre: 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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