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    Biography

    Though technically not a blues performer, Mamie Smith notched her place in American music as the first black female singer to record a vocal blues. That record was "Crazy Blues" (recorded August 10, 1920), which sold a million copies in its first six months and made record labels aware of the huge potential market for "race records"; thus paving the way for Bessie Smith (no relation) and other ...more
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  • Fare Thee Honey Blues
  • My Mammy's Blues
  • Mean Daddy Blues
  • Crazy Blues
  • That Thing Called Love
  • Keep a Song in Your Soul
  • Goin' Crazy with the Blues (Take 1)
  • Don't Care Blues
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