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"Crazy Blues" is a song, renamed from the originally titled "Harlem Blues" song of 1918, written by Perry Bradford. [1] Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds recorded it on August 10, 1920, [ 2 ] which was released that year by Okeh Records (4169-A).
Mamie Smith at AllMusic; Mamie Smith Blues Online Biography with photos; Mamie Smith on RedHotJazz.com with .ram files of her early recordings; Mamie Smith and the Birth of the Blues Market, NPR.org; accessed May 10, 2018. on YouTube "Crazy Blues" (reworked later as "Harlem Blues").
While in New York City, Bradford convinced Frederick W. Hager, of Okeh Records, to record Mamie Smith and became her musical director. [3] [6] Smith starred in Bradford's show Made in Harlem (1918). Bradford was also responsible for Smith being the first African-American blues singer to appear on record (singing his "Crazy Blues") in 1920. [4] [7]
Other classic blues singers who recorded extensively until the end of the 1920s were Ida Cox, Clara Smith, Sara Martin and Victoria Spivey and her cousin Sippie Wallace. Spivey, inspired by a Mamie Smith performance to become a blues singer, achieved overnight success in 1926, when Okeh released her first recording, her original "Black Snake ...
Here's how Mamie Smith paved the way for Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Beyoncé and more of your favorite Black female recording artists. 'She's the first Black superstar': The forgotten ...
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Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
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