Mamie Smith

AArkansas blues
BDown Home blues

Label: Okeh
Catalogue number: 4446
Genre: Jazz
Format: 78rpm shellac disc, 10 inch unless noted
Reference: #7838

Mamie Smith, the first black singer to record a blues vocal commercially in 1920, cut "Arkansas Blues" and "Down Home Blues" for Okeh in the early 1920s, part of the pioneering race-record catalogue she helped launch.

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BJazzbo Ball

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