
Marion Harris - Paradise Blues (1916) Victor Military Band - Joe Turner Blues (1916) Prince's Band - Hesitating Blues (1915) Nora Bayes - Homesickness Blues (1915) All blues scholars and writers have ID'd the first true blues record : "Crazy Blues", by Mamie Smith, recorded in 1920. Every story of the recorded blues starts with this song. But we tend to forget that songs were recorded with the word "blues" in the title before 1920. [...]
Broken Blossoms: 1919IWW headquarters after Palmer raid, NYC, 15 November 1919.Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto: 2nd Movement.Al Bernard with the Kansas Jazz Boys, Bluin' the Blues.Wilbur Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra, Kansas City Blues.All Star Trio, Shimmee Town.Louisiana Five, Clarinet Squawk.Nora Bayes, Just Like a Gypsy.Art Hickman's Orchestra, Rose Room.Art Hickman's Orchestra, On the Streets of
More than you might think Joe Bonamassa - Tea For One Rory Gallagher - Too Much Alcohol Jorma Kaukonen - Prohibition Blues (formerly of Jefferson Airplane) Nora Bayes - Prohibition Blues. Singing in the 1st World War
The Troglodyte World: 1916French woman working at munitions factory, ca. 1915-1916Nora Bayes, Homesickness Blues.Marion Harris, Paradise Blues.The Versatile Four, Circus Day In Dixie.Ciro's Club Coon Orchestra, I Can Dance With Everybody Except My Wife.Tristan Tzara, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck, L'Amiral Cherche Une Maison à Louer.I see men arising and walking forward and I go forward
The Suffragette That Knew Jiu-Jitsu: 1910 Sophie Tucker, That Lovin' Rag. Stella Mayhew, That Beautiful Rag. Nora Bayes, Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? Ada Jones, Before I Go and Marry I Will Have a Talk With You. And now I will hazard a second assertion, which is more disreputable perhaps, to the effect that on or about December 1910 human character changed. I am not saying that one went out,
Modern Songsters: Bert Williams Columbia Orchestra, I Thought I Was a Winner, or, I Don't Know, You Ain't So Warm. Silas Leachman, The Fortune Telling Man. Bert Williams and George Walker, My Little Zulu Babe. Bert Williams, Nobody. Bert Williams, Let It Alone. Bert Williams, Play That Barbershop Chord. Nora Bayes, You Can't Get Away From It. Bert Williams, You Can't Get Away From It. Bert