The Complete Recordings, Volume 1

~ Release by Bessie Smith (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Annotation

Packaging: cardboard outer box with 2 individual jewel cases plus booklet.
Individual discs are labeled CK 47307 and CK 47308 in addition to the set catalog number C2K 47091.

Annotation last modified on 2019-07-01 02:22 UTC.

Tracklist

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▼CD 1
#TitleArtistRatingLength
1Down Hearted Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-02-15)
piano:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (on 1923-02-15)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-02-15, on 1923-02-16)
recording of:
Down Hearted Blues (on 1923-02-15)
lyricist:
Alberta Hunter (in 1922)
composer:
Lovie Austin (in 1922)
Bessie Smith43:29
2Gulf Coast Blues
piano:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (on 1923-02-16)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-02-16)
recording of:
The Gulf Coast Blues
lyricist and composer:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (in 1923)
Bessie Smith43:07
3Aggravatin' Papa
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-11)
recording of:
Aggravatin' Papa (Don't You Try to Two-Time Me) (on 1923-04-11)
composer:
J. Russel Robinson and Roy Turk
Bessie Smith & Her Down Home Trio43:19
4Beale Street Mama
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-11)
recording of:
Beale Street Mama (on 1923-04-11)
composer:
J. Russel Robinson and Roy Turk
Bessie Smith & Her Down Home Trio53:38
5Baby Won't You Please Come Home
piano:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (on 1923-04-11)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-11)
recording of:
Baby Won’t You Please Come Home (on 1923-04-11)
writer:
Charles Warfield and Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader)
publisher:
Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin), Universal‐MCA Music Publishing (US) and Universal/MCA Music Ltd. (not for release label use!)
Bessie Smith42:59
6Oh Daddy Blues
piano:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (on 1923-04-11)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-11)
Bessie Smith43:08
7'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-04-26)
piano:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (on 1923-04-26)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-26)
recording of:
T’ain’t Nobody’s Bizness If I Do (on 1923-04-26)
lyricist:
Porter Grainger
composer:
Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins
publisher:
MCA Music (not for release label use! this is a music publisher, ASCAP-affiliated) and MCA Music Publishing (renamed since c. 1996 as Universal Music Publishing Group)
part of:
American Splendor
Bessie Smith43:29
8Keeps on A-Rainin' (Papa, He Can't Make No Time)
piano:
Clarence Williams (composer / pianist /bandleader) (on 1923-04-26)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-26)
recording of:
Keeps On a‐Rainin’ (on 1923-04-26)
writer:
Max Kortlander and Spencer Williams (US jazz composer, pianist & singer)
Bessie Smith53:10
9Mama's Got the Blues
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-04-28)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-28)
Bessie Smith42:59
10Outside of That
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-04-28)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-04-28)
Bessie Smith43:30
11Bleeding Hearted Blues
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-06-14)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-06-14)
recording of:
Bleeding Hearted Blues (on 1923-04-28)
lyricist and composer:
Lovie Austin
Bessie Smith53:09
12Lady Luck Blues
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-06-14)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-06-14)
Bessie Smith43:10
13Yodling Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-06-14)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-06-14)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-06-14)
Bessie Smith43:14
14Midnight Blues
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-06-15)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-06-15)
Bessie Smith43:20
15If You Don't, I Know Who Will
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-06-21)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-06-21)
Bessie Smith43:38
16Nobody in Town Can Bake a Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-06-22)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-06-22)
Bessie Smith43:34
17Jail-House Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-09-21)
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1923-09-21)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-09-21)
Bessie Smith43:16
18St. Louis Gal
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-09-24)
piano:
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active in the 1920s w/ Bessie Smith, if you're not sure choose the other jazz pianist) and Irving Johns (on 1923-09-24)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-09-24)
recording of:
St. Louis Gal (on 1923-09-24)
writer:
J. Russel Robinson
Bessie Smith43:30
19Sam Jones Blues
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1923-09-24)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-09-24)
Bessie Smith42:47
▼CD 2
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1Graveyard Dream Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-09-26)
piano:
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active in the 1920s w/ Bessie Smith, if you're not sure choose the other jazz pianist) (on 1923-09-26)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-09-26)
Bessie Smith52:47
2Cemetery Blues
piano:
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active in the 1920s w/ Bessie Smith, if you're not sure choose the other jazz pianist) (on 1923-09-26)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-09-26)
Bessie Smith43:32
3Far Away Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-10-04)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-10-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-10-04) and Clara Smith (on 1923-10-04)
Bessie Smith and Clara Smith43:03
4I'm Going Back to My Used to Be
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1923-10-04)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-10-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-10-04) and Clara Smith (on 1923-10-04)
Bessie Smith and Clara Smith42:56
5Whoa, Tillie, Take Your Time
clarinet:
George Baquet (on 1923-10-15)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-10-15)
Bessie Smith43:13
6My Sweetie Went Away
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-10-15)
recording of:
My Sweetie Went Away (on 1923-10-15)
lyricist:
Roy Turk
composer:
Lou Handman
Bessie Smith43:14
7Any Woman's Blues
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-10-16)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-10-16)
Bessie Smith43:28
8Chicago Bound Blues
clarinet:
Don Redman (on 1923-12-04)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-12-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-12-04)
Bessie Smith43:19
9Mistreating Daddy
clarinet:
Don Redman (on 1923-12-04)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1923-12-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1923-12-04)
Bessie Smith43:20
10Frosty Morning Blues
guitar:
Harry Reser (1920s banjo player and bandleader) (on 1924-01-08)
piano:
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active in the 1920s w/ Bessie Smith, if you're not sure choose the other jazz pianist) (on 1924-01-08)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-01-08)
Bessie Smith43:16
11Haunted House Blues
clarinet:
Don Redman (on 1924-01-09)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1924-01-09)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-01-09)
Bessie Smith33:32
12Eavesdropper's Blues
clarinet:
Don Redman (on 1924-01-09)
piano:
Fletcher Henderson (on 1924-01-09)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-01-09)
Bessie Smith53:13
13Easy Come, Easy Go Blues
guitar:
Harry Reser (1920s banjo player and bandleader) (on 1924-01-10)
piano:
Jimmy Jones (jazz pianist, active in the 1920s w/ Bessie Smith, if you're not sure choose the other jazz pianist) (on 1924-01-10)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-01-10)
recording of:
Easy Come Easy Go Blues (on 1924-01-10)
writer:
Eddie Brown (US composer, songwriter, lyricist related to Bessie Smith) and Willie Jackson (US blues/jazz singer)
Bessie Smith43:11
14Sorrowful Blues
guitar:
John Griffin (early jazz) (on 1924-04-04)
violin:
Robert Robbins (on 1924-04-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-04-04)
Bessie Smith43:20
15Pinchbacks - Take 'em Away
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1924-04-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-04-04)
Bessie Smith43:17
16Rocking Chair Blues
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1924-04-04)
violin:
Robert Robbins (on 1924-04-04)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-04-04)
Bessie Smith43:17
17Ticket Agent, Ease Your Window Down
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1924-04-05)
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1924-04-05)
violin:
Robert Robbins (on 1924-04-05)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-04-05)
Bessie Smith43:21
18Boweavil Blues
recorded in:
New York, New York, United States (on 1924-04-07)
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1924-04-07)
violin:
Robert Robbins (on 1924-04-07)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-04-07)
Bessie Smith42:54
19Hateful Blues
piano:
Irving Johns (on 1924-04-08)
violin:
Robert Robbins (on 1924-04-08)
vocals:
Bessie Smith (Tennessee blues singer) (on 1924-04-08)
Bessie Smith43:09