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List Of Classic Female Blues Singers
The following is a list of classic female blues singers. A * Mozelle Alderson * Ora Alexander B * Mildred Bailey * Blue Lu Barker * Gladys Bentley * Esther Bigeou * Lucille Bogan * Ada Brown * Bessie Brown * Eliza Brown * Kitty Brown C * Alice Carter * Alice Leslie Carter * Martha Copeland * Ida Cox * Katie Crippen D * Madlyn Davis * Mattie Dorsey E * Bernice Edwards F * Ethel Finnie * Miss FrankieBogdanov, Woodstra, Erlewine 2003, p. 655. G * Cleo Gibson * Lillian Glinn * Lillian Goodner * Ida Goodson * Fannie May Goosby * Coot Grant * Helen Gross H * Marion Harris * Lucille HegaminStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 7. * Edmonia HendersonStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 91. * Katherine Henderson * Rosa Henderson * Edna Hicks * Bertha "Chippie" Hill * Mattie HiteStewart-Baxter 1970, p. 94. * Rosetta Howard * Helen Humes * Alberta Hunter I * Bertha Idaho J * Edith North Johnson * Lil Johnson * Mary Johnson * Merline Johnson * Maggie Jones L * Virg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Female Blues
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s. An amalgam of traditional folk blues and urban theater music, the style is also known as vaudeville blues. Classic blues were performed by female singers accompanied by pianists or small jazz ensembles and were the first blues to be recorded. Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and the other singers in this genre were instrumental in spreading the popularity of the blues. History Origin Blues, a type of black folk music originating in the American South, were mainly in the form of work songs until about 1900.Fabre and Feith 2001, p. 100. Gertrude “Ma” Rainey (1886–1939), known as "The Mother of the Blues”, is credited as the first to perform the blues on stage as popular entertainment when she began incorporating blues into her act of show songs and comedy around 1902. Rainey had heard a woman singing about the man she had lost, learned the song, and began using it as her closing number, calli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Carter (blues Singer)
Alice Leslie Carter was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the early 1920s. Her best-known tracks are "Decatur Street Blues" and "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues". She was a contemporary of the better-known recording artists Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music. She is not to be confused with Alice Carter, another blues singer, who recorded four songs in 1923. Career Carter recorded eleven sides in 1921, with musical accompaniment led by James P. Johnson on piano. She recorded at a time when record labels were keen to sign anyone capable of singing a blues song, such was the market demand. Some of these performers were less than capable, but Carter's work showed her strong vocal abilities. Her output included the first vocalised recording of the W. C. Handy and Tim Brymn song "Aunt Hagar's Children Blues." On January 20, 1922, Carter compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ida Goodson
Ida Goodson (November 23, 1909 – January 5, 2000) was an American classic female blues and jazz singer and pianist. Biography Goodson was born in Pensacola, Florida, the youngest of seven sisters, six of whom survived to adulthood. Her father and mother both played the piano. Her father was a deacon at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola. All of the daughters in her family received musical training, with the sole intention that they would perform in church. Goodson noted that the blues were banned in her house. However, Ida and her sisters Mabel, Della, Sadie, Edna, and Wilhelmina (better known as Billie Pierce) all subsequently had careers in blues or jazz. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band often had one of the Goodson sisters playing keyboards. Ida played the piano accompanying silent films and at dances. The Florida Folk Archive released a recording made at the Florida Folk Festival in 1980, containing a duet between Ida and Sadie. Ida received a Florida Folk Herita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Goodner
Lillian Goodner ( Paige; 1896–1994) was an American blues singer who performed in the classic female blues style popular during the 1920s. She was billed as "Sister Lillian: Queen of the Sepias". Biography She was born in Montgomery, Alabama and grew up in Chicago, Illinois.Bankert 2004. Her abilities as a vocalist were recognized early. She entered and won amateur contests before embarking on a professional career, in which she toured the country with her childhood friend, Mae Crowder, in an act billed as the Creole Sisters. She was in the cast of the revue ''Put and Take'', which opened in New York in 1921 and subsequently toured.Peterson, Bernard L. (1993). ''A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works by, About, or Involving African Americans''. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. p. 282. . In 1923–24, Goodner recorded six sides for Ajax Records in New York City. Some of these recordings are notable because they reveal a contradic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Glinn
Lillian Glinn (May 10, 1902 – July 22, 1978) was an American classic female blues and country blues singer and songwriter. She spent most of her career in black vaudeville. Among her popular recordings were "Black Man Blues," "Doggin' Me Blues" and "Atlanta Blues." The blues historian Paul Oliver commented that there were a number of female blues singers who "deserve far greater recognition than they have had", and one of those he cited was Glinn. Biography Glinn was born in Hillsboro, Texas, and later moved to Dallas. She was first noticed singing spirituals in church by Hattie Burleson, who also went on to become a performer. Under Burleson's guidance, Glinn became successful in vaudeville and by 1927 was signed to a recording contract with Columbia. Glinn took part in six recording sessions, in New Orleans, Atlanta and Dallas, from 1927 to 1929. She recorded a total of twenty-two tracks. Her specialty was slow blues ballads utilizing her rich and heavy contralto voice. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleo Gibson
Cleo Gibson was a classic female blues singer active in the 1920s. Her full name was Cleosephus Gibson. She recorded two tracks for Okeh Records, "I’ve Got Ford Movements In My Hips" and "Nothing But Blues". Much surrounding her life is a mystery, but her recordings are a notable example of American blues music. Career Gibson was originally one of a pair of vaudeville performers known as Gibson and Gibson. She reportedly had a great vocal resemblance to another blues singer, Bessie Smith Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the " Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s. Inducted into the Rock and ..., which may have been part of the reason she was given a recording date. She recorded two tracks for Okeh Records in Atlanta in March 1929, "I’ve Got Ford Movements In My Hips" and "Nothing But Blues". The first is significant as an early example ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Frankie
Miss Frankie was an American classic female blues singer. She recorded eight sides in 1926 and 1927. Speculation still persists as to the real identity of the recording artist. Nothing is known of her life outside of the recording studio. Career The first four songs known to have been recorded, billed as by Miss Frankie, were "I Need a Good Man Bad", "I Can't Be Worried Long", recorded in December 1926; plus "You Can't Guess How Good It Is ('Till You Try It for Yourself)", and "Those Creeping Sneaking Blues", which had been recorded in May that year. It has been suggested that "I Need a Good Man Bad" and "I Can't Be Worried Long", are two tracks that the pianist Eubie Blake probably played accompaniment on. "I Need a Good Man Bad" b/w "I Can't Be Worried Long" was issued in 1927 on the Boston-based Grey Gull Records (7021). It is this output that is referred to in the publication, ''All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues''. They were all included on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Finnie
Ethel V. Finnie (January 7, 1898 – May 1, 1981) was an American classic female blues singer. Her most notable recording is "You're Gonna Wake Up Some Morning, but Your Papa Will Be Gone". Information about her life outside music is sketchy. Life Finnie was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the second child and only daughter of Noble Armond Finnie, a butler, and Mary "Mamie" Anderson Finnie, a housewife. She had an older brother, Noble Finnie, Jr. Finnie was a graduate of New Orleans University (later incorporated into Dillard University) and was employed as a schoolteacher at the McDonogh School No. 6. Finnie married the pianist and composer Porter Grainger on September 25, 1923, in Stamford, Connecticut, with whom she performed throughout the northeastern United States, appearing at various venues and performing on radio programs, as documented in the pages of the African-American press of the period. It seems that after the birth of their daughter, Portia Lee Grainger, Finnie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernice Edwards
Bernice Edwards (c. 1907 – February 26, 1969) was an American classic female blues singer, pianist and songwriter. She recorded a total of 21 tracks between 1926 and 1935. Unusually for a female blues performer at the time, Edwards composed some of her songs. Details of her life outside the recording studio are sketchy. Life and career Edwards was probably born in Katy, Texas, and raised in Houston. Although Edwards was not directly related to them, she grew up with a musical family, which included Beulah Belle, George, Hociel and Hersal Thomas. During her time with them she learned to play the piano. In 1923, she relocated along with George and Hersal Thomas to Chicago, Illinois. Five years later, at two separate recording sessions in February and November 1928, Edwards recorded twelve songs for Paramount Records, which included "Moaning Blues". This title may have led to her being sometimes billed as "Moanin' Bernice (Edwards)". She accompanied herself while singing the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mattie Dorsey
Mattie Dorsey was an American classic female blues and country blues singer. She recorded four sides for Paramount Records in mid-1927, and had a career in vaudeville in the 1910s and 1920s. Little is known of her life outside of the entertainment business. Biography No details appear to exist regarding her early life. It has been recorded that Mattie Dorsey had been active in black vaudeville since 1910, perhaps earlier. There is some evidence that Dorsey was originally part of the Whitman Sisters act, although she left them in 1910. She retained the Whitman surname for publicity purposes for several more years. In 1919, Pinetop Smith appeared alongside "Mattie Dorsey's Big Four" at a show in Memphis, Tennessee. Another then stalwart of the black entertainment scene was the pianist Troy C(alvin) Snapp. He was an early accompanist of Ma Rainey. From 1926 to 1929, he led the Whitman Sisters Musical Comedy Road Show. He also backed Dorsey on her four sides recorded in 1927. Thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madlyn Davis
Madlyn Davis was an American classic female blues singer, active as a recording artist in the late 1920s. Among her best-known tracks are "Kokola Blues" and "It's Red Hot". She was a contemporary of better-known recording artists, such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Mozelle Alderson, Victoria Spivey, Sippie Wallace, and Bertha "Chippie" Hill. Little is known of her life outside music. Career Davis made ten recordings in Chicago for Paramount Records. Her first session took place in June 1927. With accompaniment from the Red Hot Shakers, who likely included Cassino Simpson on piano, Davis recorded "Worried Down with the Blues" and "Climbing Mountain Blues." She recorded "Hurry Sundown Blues" and "Landlady's Footsteps" in September of that year, followed by another two songs in November. Her backing trio now included Richard M. Jones, and "Kokola Blues" laid part of the foundations for the more famous song "Sweet Home Chicago." The refrain of "Kokola Blues" includes the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Crippen
Catherine "Katie" Crippen (November 17, 1895 – November 25, 1929), also billed as Little Katie Crippen or Ella White, was an American entertainer and singer. Career Crippen was born in Philadelphia to an African-American family. She performed at Edmond's Cellar in New York City about 1920.Harris 1994, p. 137. In 1921, she recorded four sides for Black Swan Records in the classic female blues style under her name and one under the pseudonym of Ella White, accompanied by Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra.Allen 1973, pp. 18, 576. She toured in 1922–23 as the star of a revue, "Liza and Her Shuffling Sextet", which included Fats Waller. She subsequently formed a revue, "Katie Crippen and Her Kids", in which she was accompanied by a teenaged Count Basie. She was managed by her husband and musician Lou Henry."Allen" 1973, p. 576 In the later 1920s she appeared in revues at the Lafayette Theater in New York City and toured the RKO theater circuit with Dewey Brown as Crippen & Brown. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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