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Nobody's blues but mine
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- Creator
- Bessie Smith
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia, [1972]
- ℗1972
- Physical Details
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- 2 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, monophonic ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm03138599
- Credits
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- Blue songs; Bessie Smith, vocals ; with various instrumentalists including Louis Armstrong, Fletcher Henderson, Joe Smith, James P. Johnson, Coleman Hawkins, and others ; additional vocals by Clara Smith
- Columbia: G 31093 (additional nos. on discs: C 31094--C 31095).
- With piano or instrumental ensemble.
- "This is the fifth and final two-record set, representing Bessie Smith's recorded legacy of 159 selections."
- Historical notes by Chris Albertson, with discographical and personnel information, on container.
- Recorded between 1925 and 1927 in New York.
- disc 1: Careless love blues / W.C. Handy ; J.C. Holmes blues / G. Horsley ; I ain't goin' to play no second fiddle / P. Bradford ; He's gone blues / B. Smith ; Nobody's blues but mine / C. Williams ; I ain't got nobody / R. Graham ; S. Williams ; My man blues / New Gulf Coast blues / Florida bound blues / At the Christmas ball / F.W. Longshaw ; I've been mistreated and I don't like it / Red Mountain blues / H. Troy ; Golden rule blues ; Lonesome desert blues / Them "has been" blues / W.E. Skidmore ; M. Walker ; Squeeze me / C. Williams ; T. Waller --
- disc 2: What's the matter now? / C. Williams ; S. Williams ; I want ev'ry bit of it / Jazzbo Brown from Memphis town / G. Brooks ; The gin house blues / H. Troy ; F. Henderson ; Money blues / D. Kapp ; G. Coleman ; H. Eller ; Baby doll / B. Smith ; Hard driving papa / Lost your head blues / Hard time blues / Honey man blues / One and two blues / Young woman's blues ; Preachin' the blues ; Back water blues / After you've gone / T. Layton ; H. Creamer ; Alexander's ragtime band / I. Berlin