#GreatWomenOfRock Bessie Smith: She began performing in the early 20th century, toured with Ma Rainey and had a string of hits in the 1920’s and 30’s. Known as the Empress of Blues, her influence stretches thru the ages. #BessieSmith #RockHonorRoll photo Carl Van Vechten 3/31
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Bessie Smith:
🎵 'Tain't Nobody's Bizness If I Do
#BessieSmith
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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
#BreakingKindSongs ♫
Songs for March Days 1-10
8. #InternationalWomensDay: Celebrates women or has 'she' or 'her' in the title or lyrics. #IWD2026
Put It Right Here (Or Keep It Out There) · #BessieSmith
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#SOD
#SongoftheDay
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
1926 - Bessie Smith - Frolic Theatre - Birmingham (Alabama)
1926 - Bessie Smith - Frolic Theatre - Birmingham (Alabama)
#jazz #blues #BessieSmith
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#BlackHistoryMonth2026: Bessie Smith, a queer singer, actress, and member of the Harlem Renaissance, nicknamed the Empress of the Blues.
#art #portrait #bessiesmith #blues #blackhistory
#MusicChallenge
#WrongDisneySong
20. Ratatouille
Bessie Smith – Kitchen Man
The Essential Bessie Smith (1997)
#MusicSky #Blues #BessieSmith
1924 - Bessie Smith - Clara Smith Club - New York
1924 - Bessie Smith - Clara Smith Club - New York
#jazz #BessieSmith jazzsky
#Bisexual #MaRainey, #BessieSmith, & #BillieHoliday sang hymns to women’s sexual & financial freedom. Smith sang this in “Young Woman’s Blues”:
“No time to marry, no time to settle down
I’m a young woman and ain’t done runnin’ ‘round.”
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The Mother of American Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aPOi3HJHU
#BlackMusicHistory #OnThisDay #BessieSmith #DownHeartedBlues #Empress
Bessie Smith, known as the “Empress of the Blues,” was one of the most powerful voices of the 20th century.
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🎙️ On This Day in Black Music History – February 16, 1923 🎙️
Today we celebrate a groundbreaking moment in American music: Bessie Smith recorded her first sides for Columbia Records, including the iconic song Down Hearted Blues.
#BlackMusicHistory #OnThisDay #BessieSmith #DownHeartedBlues
#OTD #TDIH #February16, 1923: #AfricanAmerican #BluesSinger #BessieSmith makes her first recording, the first "hit" recording: #DownHeartedBlues, which sells a historic 780,000 copies in the first six months. #Blues #ClassicBlues #Jazz #JazzSky #MusicSky
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ON THIS DAY IN JAZZ AGE MUSIC!
FEBRUARY 16TH...
Gulf Coast Blues
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On a Two of Clubs playing card, Bessie Smith shown from the shoulders up, head tilted upwards. Shiny blue 'sun' rays point outward surrounding her face. Behind her is an abstract blue and red background of peeling paint.
Bessie Smith was an American singer born in 1894. She became known as The Empress of Blues, and was the most popular blues singer of the 1930s, until her untimely death via car accident in 1937.
#art #collage #blues #bessiesmith #blackhistory
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early
Bessie Smith:
🎵 Need a Little Sugar in My Bowl
#BessieSmith
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▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:
#bessiesmith, the first Black American music superstar. Her “Downhearted Blues” sold 780,000 copies in 1923. #blackhistorymonth
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Bessie Smith:
🎵 Down Hearted Blues
#BBCRadio3 #BessieSmith
▶️ Track on #Spotify:
Released as a single B-side (with Preachin' The Blues) by Bessie Smith (1927)
#nowplaying #songshare #bessiesmith #1927music #musicsky 🎧🎵
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Listened to Bessie Smith’s “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out.” She knows how I feel.
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#MutualAid #HelpSky #BIPOCMA 💕💸 #BlackSky #BessieSmith #Blueswomen #AfricanAmericanMusic #Music #Blues #BluesMusic #Sinners #Boston #MentalHealth
Remembering Janis Lyn Joplin on her birthday: January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970. #JanisJoplin #BigBrothereandtheHoldingCo #DickCavett #PortArthur #Woodstock #BessieSmith woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/01/19/j...
Today's "oldie but goodie" is "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by Bessie Smith, 1929. Smith was nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues".
#NobodyKnowsYouWhenYou'reDownAndOut #BessieSmith #music #oldiebutgoodie #1920s
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Happy birthday to #OliverPlatt, who played gadfly Carl Van Vechten in Bessie! #BessieSmith. Biopic: A Podcast Story talked about Bessie in Episode 7. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
#nature #climate #environment #fakehistory #music #genetics #science #thecon #history #reich #empire #power #information #lenin #britain #lizzie #religion #jesus #knowledge #davinci #bronte #ellafitz #marainey #bessiesmith #raphael
The Matrix - the Da Vinci Code of Arts.
The code explained
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Bessie Smith:
🎵 Gimme a Pigfoot
#BBCRadio3 #BessieSmith
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Track on #Spotify:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #JazzRecordRequests
Bessie Smith:
🎵 At the Christmas Ball
#BBCRadio3 #BessieSmith
(There are still 4 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Track on #Spotify:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Bessie Smith:
🎵 At the Christmas Ball
#BBCRadio3 #BessieSmith
(There are still 5 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Track on #Spotify:
Three times three, you meet me at the cemetery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCL_-pK_nGY
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#bessiesmith #blues #jazz #music #tennesee
#nowplaying: The Collection by Bessie Smith (1989)
#dinocds #besteveralbums #bessiesmith #1989music #albums #musicsky 🎧🎵
