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...
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such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. In the last several decades, blues music has developed...
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more a vaudeville performer than a blues artist, was the first African American to record a blues song, in 1920; her second record, "Crazy Blues", sold...
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Vaudeville (/ˈvɔːd(ə)vɪl, ˈvoʊ-/; French: [vodvil]) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century...
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professional blues singers was Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, who claimed to have coined the term blues. Classic female urban or vaudeville blues singers were...
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Trouble in Mind (song) (category Blues songs)
"Trouble in Mind" is a vaudeville blues-style song written by jazz pianist Richard M. Jones. Singer Thelma La Vizzo with Jones on piano first recorded...
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Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (category Blues songs)
You're Down and Out" is a blues standard written by pianist Jimmie Cox in 1923 and originally performed in a Vaudeville-blues style in the aftermath of...
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in vaudeville and medicine shows and was associated with Beale Street, the main entertainment area in Memphis. W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues",...
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Ma Rainey (category American vaudeville performers)
an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville and the authentic...
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Black Vaudeville is a term that specifically describes Vaudeville-era African American entertainers and the milieus of dance, music, and theatrical performances...
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New York City. Arto was one of the first labels to issue releases of vaudeville blues musicians. It also issued Lucille Hegamin and the Original Memphis...
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Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s...
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C. W. Stoneking (category Australian blues guitarists)
is an Australian blues singer-songwriter, guitarist and banjo player. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009 Jungle Blues won Best Blues and Roots Album; he...
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Screaming (music) (section Blues)
in blues music.[citation needed] In 1928, he performed the song "Jesus Is Coming Soon" with a soft screaming style.[citation needed] Vaudeville blues singer...
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Ida Cox (category Classic female blues singers)
singer and vaudeville performer, best known for her blues performances and recordings. She was billed as "The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues". Cox was born...
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Jailhouse Blues (1929) is a short musical film released by Columbia Pictures. It features Mamie Smith, who was a top star in Black Vaudeville and a recording...
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Hokum (redirect from Hokum blues)
ballads, vaudeville blues, country blues, proto-jive. Some commentators have argued that hokum "city style" was a degradation of the folk blues. Blues and...
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Mamie Smith (category American vaudeville performers)
American singer. As a vaudeville singer, she performed in multiple styles, including jazz and blues. In 1920, she entered blues history as the first African-American...
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Jungle Blues is the fourth album by Australian Blues musician C. W. Stoneking. At the ARIA Music Awards of 2009, he was nominated for Best Blues and Roots...
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partial list of vaudeville performers. Inclusion on this list indicates that the subject appeared at least once on the North American vaudeville stage during...
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Jug band (category Blues music genres)
and Dixieland Jug Blowers were also among the first to record. The vaudeville-blues singer Sara Martin and "The Blue Yodeler", Jimmie Rodgers, both employed...
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The Vaudeville Years of Fleetwood Mac 1968 to 1970 (or just The Vaudeville Years) is an album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1998...
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performed vaudeville blues for the Theatre Owners Booking Association. Backwards Sam Firk (September 18, 1943 – October 11, 2007). Country blues singer,...
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studied at Benedict College, Columbia before leaving in her teens to join a vaudeville troupe based in Chicago, organized by Billy King. She was a featured singer...
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Paramount Records (category Blues record labels)
and record artists for its blues and jazz offerings. Paramount's race record series was launched in 1922 with vaudeville blues songs by Lucille Hegamin...
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interpreted blues songs that are seen as standing the test of time. Blues standards come from different eras and styles, such as ragtime-vaudeville, Delta...
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Baby Franklin Seals (redirect from Baby Seals Blues)
American vaudeville performer, songwriter and pianist, whose successful 1912 song "Baby Seals' Blues" was one of the first published blues compositions...
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Vaudeville in the Philippines, more commonly referred in the Filipino vernacular as bodabil, was a popular genre of entertainment in the Philippines from...
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partial list of vaudeville performers. Inclusion on this list indicates that the subject appeared at least once on the North American vaudeville stage during...
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country, experienced a similar change in listening habits as a result of vaudeville blues recordings in the early 1920s, and the Moten Orchestra capitalized...
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