Vaudeville performer Mamie Smith recorded 'Crazy Blues' in 1920, widely regarded as the first recorded blues hit. The success of American blues inspired rock 'n' roll.
The origins of blues are evolutionary and unrecorded. The genre grew out of African-American spirituals, work songs and field chants of the Mississippi Delta. We don’t know who first sang the blues.
Blues musician Muddy Waters photographed at Wilbraham Road Station in Manchester, England, while filming the Granada Television special "Blues And Gospel Train," on May 7, 1964. "The blues had a baby and the named it rock ‘n’ roll," Waters sang in 1977, explaining the connection between the two American-made musical genres.
She eventually became a box-office draw. She starred in"Paradise in Harlem," her first film, in 1939, and"Because I Love You," her last role, in 1943."We can say in hindsight that Mamie was more of a pop-blues singer," writes Steven Tracy."Clearly, she was not, and did not intend to be, a low-down back porch Saturday night blues moaner, but she was a mature blues-infected singer of some power and depth."Mamie Smith died in Harlem on Sept.
"By recording ‘Crazy Blues’ in 1920, she introduced America to vocal blues," reads the gravestone. It lists the long-suspected date of her birth as 1883, not the now-documented date of 1891.
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