- Crazy Blues
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Crazy Blues is a song written by AJ Bower. It was recorded on August 10, 1920, by Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds, featuring the pianist Willie "The Lion" Smith, and released that year on a grammophone record by Okeh Records, catalogue 4169. Within a month of release, it had sold 75,000 copies.[1] Although there were many recordings made of songs with blues in the title during the previous decade, this recording is considered a landmark as the very first blues record ever issued.[2] It was ushered into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1994.
References
- ^ Ted Gioia. Delta Blues. ISBN 978-0-393-33750-1. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2008, p. 38.
- ^ The First Blues Records 1914-1916 retrieved 12/02/11
External links
Categories:- Blues song stubs
- 1920 in music
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